Biografia

Memoirs of the Peers of England During the Reign of James the First

Egerton Brydges · 1802 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.88 | ¥18,984)

London , John White, 1802. First edition. Hardback. A fascinating look into society and its notable characters, during the reign of James I. First edition. The title page states volume one, although there was only one volume ever published. Featuring three plates, two of which...

Journal of the Hon. John Erskine of Carnock 1683-1687

John Erskine; Rev. Walter Macleod · 1894 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Edinburgh, University Press, 1894. First edition. Cloth. An attractive, scarce first edition of this journal of the Hon. John Erskine. Edited from the original Manuscript with Introduction and Notes, by the Rev. Walter Macleod. There is a portrait of the Hon. John Erskine oppo...

Recollections and Reminiscences

Lord Hawke (Martin Hawke) · 1924 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Williams & Norgate Ltd. 1924. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Lord Hawke's Recollections and Reminiscences. With seventeen plates throughout. Blind-stamped cover design. Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke of Towton (1860 – 1938), generally known as Lor...

Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson

Hesther Lynch Piozzi · 1786 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

London, T. Cadell, 1786. Leather. A collection of anecdotes concerning Samuel Johnson, in very attractive leather binding. From the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Dealing primarily with the last twenty years of his life, t...

Memoires Du Chancelier Prince Du Bulow

Henri Bloch et Paul Roques · 1930 · Rooke Books

£92.99 (€111.46 | $122.85 | ¥19,617)

Paris, Librarie Plon, 1930-1931. Cloth. The memoirs of Chancelier Prince du Bulow This set contains volumes two, three and four only. Volumes two and three contain sixteen illustrated plates each, with the third volume containing 20 illustrated plates. Prince Bernhard Heinrich...

Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R. S.

William Bray [ed.] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

London, Henry Colburn, 1818. First edition. Leather. The smart first edition of John Evelyn's memoirs, offering an illustrated wealth of reference on 17th-century life. First edition. Complete in two volumes; second volume in two parts.  In full contemporary calf. Reback...

Biographies of the Well-Connected

Frederick Brown; Joanna Richardson; Jean Lacouture; Christine Sutherland; Sylvia Kahan; Stephen Klaidman; Jean Findlay · 1969 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London; London; Paris; London; Rochester, New York; New York; London, Longmans; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Éditions du Seuil; John Murray; University of Rochester Press; Nan A. Talese; Chatto and Win, 1969-2014. First edition. Cloth. London; London; Paris; London; Rochester, Ne...

A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Washington Irving · 1828 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, John Murray, 1828. First edition. Leather. The first two volumes of Washington Irving's fictional biography account of Christopher Columbus, complete with both folding maps. The first edition of the first two volumes from this four-volume work.Uniformly bound in h...

North

Louis-Ferdinand Celine · 1972 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, The Bodley Head , 1972. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first UK edition of this powerful semi-autobiographical novel, based on Louis-Ferdinand Celine's escape from France to Denmark in the Second World War. First UK edition. With the publisher's original...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, D.D. The First President of King&Apos;S College, in New York. Containing Many Interesting Anecdotes; a General View of the State of Religion and Learning in Connecticut During the Former Part of the Last Century; and an Account of the Institution and Rise of Yale College, Connecticut; and of King&Apos;S (Now Columbia) College, New York

Thomas Bradbury Chandler · 1824 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, C. and J. Rivington, 1824. First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound and very scarce first UK edition of this biography on US clergyman and educator, Samuel Johnson. A very scarce first UK edition of this work. In a handsome half tree calf binding, with marbled paper...

The Romany Rye Wild Wales the Bible in Spain the Zincali Lavengro

George Borrow · 1900 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.79 | ¥78,054)

London, John Murray, 1900-1902. Leather. A lovely 5 volume matching set of Borrow's popular works, illustrated, and bound in green half morocco. A very smart matching set, bound in half green morocco and patterned pictorial boards.An uncommon example of a complete 5 volum...

Hogarth&Apos;S London: Pictures of the Manners of the Eighteenth Century

Henry B. Wheatley · 1909 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Constable And Company Ltd. 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the publisher"s original gilt decorated cloth, with many black and white illustrations. The first edition in the publisher"s original gilt decorated cloth. With many black and white illustrati...

The Book of Wonderful Characters Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in All Ages and Countries

Henry Wilson; James Caulfield · 1869 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London , Reeves and Turner, [1869]. Cloth. A very scarce and wonderful collection of biographies of characters chosen due to their remarkability and eccentricity, with 59 full page engravings. A very scarce publishing of the work.In full red cloth with the original boards, reb...

Memorials of the Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer, M.A.

Rev. Robert Sinker, B.D. · 1888 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Cambridge , Deighton, Bell and Co. 1888. First edition. Cloth. A detailed recollection of the life of Scottish missionary and Arabic scholar Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer, with a frontispiece, map and plate. The first edition of the work. In publisher's original red c...

Life and Letters of Dean Church

Dean Church; Mary C. Church [Ed.] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1895. Leather. The second edition of this scarce biographical work edited by Mary Church on her father, English churchman Richard William Church, in half vellum with patterned paper-covered boards.  The second edition of this scarce biographical work...

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Dissenting Master

Mark Rutherford [William Hale White] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Trubner and Co. 1881. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon first edition of this fictious autobiography credited under William Hale White's two pseudonyms. First edition. Rebacked with the original back strip and printed label laid down. Preserved in modern cloth...

A Village to Grow in: An Autobiography

Anne Taylor Furno · 1998 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Dexter, Privately Printed, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of this very scarce autobiography from Welsh writer Anne Taylor Furno. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, with a message that reads: "To John, Time has no pow...

Architect, Designer and Romantic Socialist

C. R. Ashbee · 1985 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

New Haven , Yale University Press, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this biography on pioneering architect and designer, Charles Robert Ashbee. Signed dedication by the author to the front free endpaper. First edition.With the original unclipped dust wrap...

My Chinese Note Book

Lady Susan Townley · 1904 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Methuen & Co, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Lady Susan Townley's account of her life in late 19th century China, illustrated with folding maps and photographic plates. The very scarce first edition, first impression of this work.Ill...

Mishima: A Vision of the Void

Marguerite Yourcenar · 1986 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

Henley on Thames , Aidan Ellis , 1986. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first English edition of Marguerite Yourcenar's study of Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima. The very scarce first English translation of this work. With the original clipped dust wrapper, with revi...