Biografia

The Making of a Sailor or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger

Frederick Pease Harlow · 1928 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Salem, Marine Research Society, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of The Making of a Sailor, with illustrations. A first American edition.The Making of a Sailor or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger is written by Frederick Pease Harlow. The volume is a deta...

The Burtons: A Family Record

Alonzo J. Burton · 1898 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.90 | ¥59,068)

Brooklyn, N.Y. Edward Peithman, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A charming family record of the Burton family, charting their English origins in the seventeenth century and their American ancestors, privately compiled by Alonzo J. Burton, a Brooklyn based descendant. The author of...

Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson

Thomas Sadler · 1869 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1869. First edition. Cloth. A first edition complete three volume set of Henry Crabb Robinson's interesting dairies. A complete three volume set, in the first edition. Henry Crabb Robinson was an English lawyer and remembered as a diarist. He a...

Departures

E. L. Grant Watson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

London, Pleiades Books Limited , 1948. First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition of this autobiographical sketch of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, with decorations by John O'Connor. Autobiographical sketch of the life and work of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, author and b...

Who Only England Know

John Pudney · 1943 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Pudney's autobiographical account of a war-time journey in the scarce dust wrapper. First edition of Who Only England Know by John Pudney in the original publisher's cloth bindi...

The Life of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

Reginald Heber · 1824 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London , James Duncan, 1824. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume set of The Life of The Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, in the first edition. A complete two volume set. First edition copies. The Life of The Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor was written by Reginald Heber and gives...

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney

Thomas Zouch · 1808 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

York, Thomas Wilson & Son, 1808. Leather. A complete biography of the life and works of Sir Philip Sidney. With portrait frontispiece. The life and works of Sir Philip Sidney, an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures...

Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne

Philip Bliss · 1869 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London , John Russell Smith , 1869. Cloth. A complete three volume set of Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne. Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne, comprises of extracts from his diaries collected with a few notes by Philip Bliss. Complete in thr...

Memoirs and Correspondence of Coventry Patmore

Basil Champneys · 1900 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, George Bell & Sons, 1900. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon biography of Victorian poet Coventry Patmore by Basil Champneys. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to Volume I, dated 1916. I...

Sir Richard Whittington: Lord Mayor of London

Walter Besant; James Rice · 1894 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.40 | ¥39,027)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1894. Leather. A beautiful new edition of this biography of Richard Whittington in full tree calf prize binding. A biography of Sir Richard Whittington, English merchant and politician of the late medieval period who served as Lord Mayor of London, mem...

Vassili Verestchagin Painter Soldier Traveller Autobiographical Sketches

Vasili Verestchagin; F. H. Peters (trans.) · 1887 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.14 | ¥146,615)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1887 . Cloth. The uncommon first English translation of this autobiography by the Russian artist Vasili Verestchagin. First English edition of Vassili Verestchagin Painter Soldier Traveller Autobiographical Sketches in the original publisher&apos...

Extraordinary Men: Their Boyhood and Early Life

William Russell · 1853 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London , George Routledge and Sons , 1853. Leather. A bright leather bound copy of this interesting volume of biographies. A new edition which has been revised and augmented of Extraordinary Men: Their Boyhood and Early Life. This volume contains biographies of extraordinary ...

Carlyle&Apos;S First Love: Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman an Account of Her Life, Ancestry and Homes, Her Family and Friends

Raymond Clare Archibald · 1910 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1910. First edition. Leather. An illustrated first edition copy of this biography of Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman, the first love of Thomas Carlyle. The first edition of this work in a full morocco binding, with marbled paste downs, endpa...

Conservative Science of Nations, (Preliminary Instalment,) Being the First Complete Narrative of Somerville&Apos;S Diligent Life in the Service of Public Safety in Britain

Alexander Somerville · 1860 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Montreal, John Lovell, 1860. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alexander Somerville's entertaining autobiography about his early life in England, between 1811 and 1857. The first edition of this autobiography by Alexander Somerville, a British Radical journalist ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Elsa D'Esterre-Keeling · 1902 · Rooke Books

£134.00 (€160.62 | $177.02 | ¥28,268)

London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co. 1902. First edition. Fine Binding. A fascinating biographical work of 18th century portrait artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, handsomely bound in full calf prize binding and awarded to T.C. Eden, brother of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. An inte...

The Life of William Harvey

Geoffrey Keynes · 1966 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition copy of this medical biography of renowned physician William Henry, with illustrations. A first edition copy of this biography of William Harvey. William Harvey was an English physician w...

Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford, to Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany. Now First Published from the Originals in the Possession of the Earl of Waldegrave.

Horace Walpole; Lord Dover (ed.) · 1833 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, three volume set of letters by the English writer and politician, Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann. The first edition and first publication of the original letters. Uniformly rebound in full cloth binding...

A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Washington Irving · 1828 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.78 | $1,182.35 | ¥188,806)

London, John Murray, 1828. First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound four volume set of this fictionalised account of the life of Christopher Columbus. The first edition of the work. Complete in four volumes, with a folding map to volumes one and two. Half titles present to a...

Tales My Father Taught Me: An Evocation of Extravagant Episodes

Osbert Sitwell · 1962 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Hutchinson of London, 1962 . First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition of this collection of reminiscences by Osbert Sitwell, complete with striking dust wrapper. First edition of Osbert Sitwell's reminiscences with more details into incidents mentioned in his sw...

Vita Di Vittorio Alfieri Da Asti

Vittorio Alfieri · 1822 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Firenze , Leonardo Ciardetti, 1822. Leather. Posthumous autobiography by celebrated Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri da Asti, in the original Italian. This autobiography constitutes Vittorio Alfieri's most notable prose work. Originally published posthumously in 1806 (f...