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Hold Hard! Hounds, Please!; Bells of the Chase; a Fox-Hunter&Apos;S Anthology; Hunting, Showing and "Chasing: With Chapters on Hunter Trials and Breaking and Making a Hunter Colt

Yoi-Over"; Peter Lewis; Sam Marsh · 1924 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, H. F. and G. Witherby; Hutchinson and Co; Lovat Dickson Limited; Jarrolds , 1924-1938. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing set of four first editions revolving around hunting, including its history, the management of hounds and memoirs from a huntsman. Four first edition ...

David Livingstone: Missionary and Discoverer

Rev. Jabez Marrat · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, T. Woolmer, c1880. Cloth. A scarce copy of this work on the life of Scottish pioneer Christian missionary David Livingstone, with illustrations. Scarce work. With a frontispiece, twelve plates, and two full-page images. Collated complete. The life and work of David Liv...

Sixty Years of an Agitator&Apos;S Life

George Jacob Holyoake · 1900 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Cloth. A pleasing two-volume set containing the autobiography of English secularist and newspaper editor, George Holyoake. The fourth impression of this work. Complete in two volumes. In the very smart original cloth binding.With a frontispiece ...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts & the Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford

Horace Walpole · 1840 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, Richard Bentley, 1840-1866. Leather. A smart five volume set of the collected letters of English writer Horace Walpole, with one volume from another set of his letters. Six volumes, mixed set. Five volumes of a six volume set and one volume of a nine volume set. Each v...

The Works of Mr. Congreve

William Congreve · 1788 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, W. Lowndes, 1788 . Leather. A new edition of this collection of the works of William Congreve, a playwright and poet known for his Restoration literature. Complete in two volumes. A new edition. Bound in full diced calf, rebacked, with the boards restored and spine lai...

Ssu-Ma Ch&Apos;Ien: Grand Historian of China

Burton Watson · 1958 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

New York , Columbia University Press , 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightful history on the origins and contributions of Chinese historical theory, with keen focus on the works of Ssu-ma Ch'ien. A review copy of the first edition. With the orig...

The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939

Freya Stark · 1953 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, John Murray, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by Freya Stark, recounting of her travels in South Arabia between 1933-39. First edition. Illustrated with forty plates containing a series of photographs taken by the author herse...

Charles Dickens and His Family: A Sympathetic Study

W. H. Bowen · 1956 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Cambridge, Privately printed by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1956. Cloth. A smart copy of this uncommon work delving into the family and medical history of Charles Dickens. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. From ...

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

J. Addington Symonds [Trans] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

New York, Walter J. Black Inc, 1927. Leather. The one volume, translated edition of the autobiography of the talented sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, bound in quarter calf. The 'one volume' edition. Bound in quarter calf with cloth to the boards. This work features the...

Henry Irving: A Record of Twenty Years at the Lyceum

Percy Fitzgerald · 1893 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1893. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Fitzgerald's interesting biography on the theatre actor Henry Irving. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. This biography on Henry Irving was written by author, critic and a...

The Life and Work of the Rev. E.J. Peck Among the Eskimos

Arthur Lewis · 1908 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. Cloth. The third edition of this biography on the life of missionary Edmund Peck, an illustrated work by Arthur Lewis. The third edition of this work.An insightful biography on the life and work of Edmund James Peck.Peck was an Anglican missio...

The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn; Elizabeth Bisland [ed] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this collection of letters written by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his life in Japan. The first trade edition. Also published in a limited edition in the same year. Illustrated with a monochr...

The Late John Burgess, Member of the Society of Painters in Water Colour

Rosario Aspa · 1879 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Leamington, Courier" Steam Printing Works, 1879. Paperback. A very scarce biographical pamphlet on the life and art of John Burgess. A very scarce brief biographical sketch on the life and work of John Burgess, a member of the Burgess dynasty of painters.Burgess was a talented...

A Memoir of Felix Neff

William Stephen Gilly · 1840 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, J. G. F. & J. Rivington, 1840. Leather. A smart fifth edition of this book on the life of pastor Felix Neff. Fifth edition. With a folding map to the front of the text to illustrate his pastoral charge. The life of Felix Neff, a Swiss Protestant divine and philanthropi...

A Little Learning

Evelyn Waugh · 1964 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of Evelyn Waugh's autobiography focusing on his early life. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, with an uncommon wraparound band.The first volume of Evel...

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845-1846

Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1898 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. Leather. Two volumes of works featuring the correspondences between poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, bound in crushed half morocco. Two volumes. Complete in two. Bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the...

Ten Works on the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo

Various · 1969 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London; Barnsley, Various, 1969-2016. First edition. Cloth. Ten historical studies of the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo by various historians and biographers. Ten works in the publisher's original cloth bindings. All volumes are in the original u...

As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning

Laurie Lee · 1969 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Laurie Lee's sequel to the famous memoir "Cider with Rosie." First edition, first impression. Illustrated throughout. The sequel to award-winning poet Laurie Lee's acclaimed autobiographical ...

The Journal of a Disappointed Man

W. N. P. Barbellion [Bruce Frederick Cummings]; H. G. Wells [intro.] · 1919 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1919. First edition. Cloth. An early impression of this collection of the journal entries of Bruce Frederick Cummings, giving an insight into life with multiple sclerosis. The first edition, fourth impression of this work in the publisher's origin...

Conundrum

Jan Morris · 1974 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London , Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by Jan Morris on her ten year transition from man to women, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the origina...