Biografia

Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825) Life of John Sterling (1951) Two Biographies

Thomas Carlyle · 1857 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1857. Leather. A smart copy of these biographies of Friedrich Schiller and John Sterling, written by Thomas Carlyle. Dated from the British Library. The autobiographies of German poet, playwright, historian, philosopher, and physician, Friedrich Schille...

Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign 1809-1815

Lieut.-Col. Tomkinson; James Tomkinson [ED] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

New York, Swan Sonnenschein & Co , 1895. Cloth. An illustrated second edition of this autobiographical work by Lieut.-Col. Tomkinson. The second edition of the work.With a frontispiece, 5 folding maps and 2 plates.Collated complete. This work autobiographical work was written ...

Summoned by Bells

John Betjeman · 1960 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, John Murray, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of personal and intimate poetry from Betjeman, illustrated throughout. First edition. Illustrated throughout. Written in blank verse, this collection of poetry is an autobiography de...

Spencer Farm with Some Account of Its Owners

G. L. Way; Rev. Lewis Way · 1845 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.90 | ¥59,068)

Sudbury, George Williams Fulcher, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A scarce First Edition of letters from G. L. Way and his son the Rev. Lewis Way, signed by the Reverend. This is a very scarce First Edition of the work, signed by one of the authors, the Reverend Lewis Way. This wo...

Memoirs of the Count de Grammont

Count Anthony Hamilton; Horace Walpole [translator] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition copy of this illustrated memoir of Count de Grammont, translated into English. Limited to one thousand copies for Great Britain, of which this is number seventy-four. Illustrated with eight tipped-in plates o...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

WacÃÂ-‚aw Borowy · 1929 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Krakow, Krakowskiej SpóÃÂ-‚ki Wydawniczej, 1929. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce biography of the notable English author G. K. Chesterton in the original Polish. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Illustrated...

Letters Written by Mr. Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith · 1884 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Philobiblon Society , 1884. Paperback. A very scarce collection of letters written by Mr. Sydney Smith. Very scarce. Dated from the British Library. A collection of letters written to individuals such as: the Honourable Miss Fox, Miss Vernon, and Lord and Lady Holland....

William Callow R.W. S. , F.R. G.S. An Autobiography

William Callow; H. M. Cundall · 1908 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this autobiography of William Callow with illustrations of his work throughout. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, twenty-two colour plates and eight black-and-white plates. An auto...

&Apos;Sir,&Apos; Said Dr. Johnson- Some Sayings

Samuel Johnson; H. C. Biron · 1911 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London , Duckworth & Co, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Signed by the editor, a first edition copy of this collection of sayings by Samuel Johnson. A first edition copy. Signed by the editor to the reverse of the front free endpaper. This volume contains a selection of sayings ...

The French Journals of Mrs. Thrale and Doctor Johnson

Moses Tyson; Henry Guppy · 1932 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.25 | ¥18,564)

Manchester, The Manchester University Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this interesting collection of journals from Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. This work contains Mrs Hester Thrale's journal of her visit to France in 1775 in the company of ...

William Makepeace Thackeray a Biography

Lewis Melville · 1910 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London , John Lane The Bodley Head , 1910 . Cloth. A smart, illustrated two volume biography of writer William Makepeace Thackeray. Complete in two volumes. A later edition with the first edition published in 1899. This is a biography of the British novelist and illustrator ...

Letters of John Pinney

John Pinney; Geoffrey F. Nuttall [ Editor]; Hester Pinney [Foreword] · 1939 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Oxford University Press, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the collected letters of John Pinney, found in the original dust wrapper. A first edition of the Puritan teacher's letters, found in the price-clipped dust wrapper. By gathering the documents ...

Memoires de Beaumarchais

Pierre Beaumarchais · 1877 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, 1877-80. Cloth. The delightful memoirs of Pierre Beaumarchais, providing a detailed insight into French history of the eighteenth century. Complete in five volumes.In the original French.The memoirs of Pierre Beaumarchais.Beaumarchais was a Frenc...

Clemenceau

Georges Lecomte · 1918 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)

Paris, Charpentier, 1918. Leather. A French biography of former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau. Detailed Sixth Thousand. Georges Lecomte was a French novelist and playwright who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies. This work is a biography of Georg...

Memoir of Jane Austen

James Edward Austen-Leigh · 1963 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Oxford , Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963. Cloth. A later printing of James Austen-Leigh's biography of his aunt Jane Austen. Reprinted lithographically from the original 1926 edition. First published in this edition in 1951. With front wrap and part of spine of the ve...

The Robert Louis Stevenson Originals

E. Blantyre Simpson · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, T. N. Foulis, 1912. First edition. Cloth. An first edition of this illustrated biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. A first edition copy of this interesting biography of Victorian author Robert Louis Stevenson. With thirty one plates, including one folding plate, colla...

The Story of My Heart

Richard Jefferies · 1912 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Duckworth & Co. 1912. Cloth. The nineteenth century nature writer poetically describes his experiences in this illustrated volume. In this poetic outpouring by Richard Jefferies, the nineteenth century nature writer expressively describes his experiences with the natur...

The Autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk, 1722-1805

Alexander Carlyle; John Hill Burton [ed.] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, T. N. Foulis, 1910. Cloth. A new edition of this autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle, illustrated with numerous portraits. A new edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Loosely inserted are two newspaper articles; one concerning the publ...

Among Friends

Samuel McChord Crothers · 1910 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of the first edition of Samuel McChord Crothers's collection of essays. First edition of Among Friends by Samuel McChord Crothers in the original publisher's cloth binding...

Mussolini His Part in My Downfall

Spike Milligan · 1978 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.04 | ¥16,455)

London, Michael Joseph, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of the fourth volume of Spike Milligan's war memoir, an account of his time in Italy during World War Two. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Spike Milli...