Biografia

A Life on the Left

J. E. Mortimer · 1998 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Lewes, The Book Guild Ltd. 1998. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce signed first edition of this political autobiography by J. E. Mortimer. J. E. Mortimer was a British trade unionist and a Labour Party general secretary during the 1980s. In a black cloth binding in original ...

The Banker&Apos;S Life

George S Moore · 1987 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York, W W Norton, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of 'The Banker's Life' by George S Moore. An autobiographical account of the Moore from his origins in Missouri through working in banking during the depression of the 1940s. In original dustwrapp...

Letters from Longstock

Geoffrey Snagge · 1968 · Rooke Books

£43.99 (€52.73 | $58.11 | ¥9,280)

London, Pelham Books, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Geoffrey Snagge's Letters from Longstock. Bound in paper covered boards with gilt lettering and unclipped dustwrapper. With foreward by Miss Read. Illustrated by Bernard Knight. Signed by the auth...

Memories of John Galsworthy

M E Reynolds · 1936 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.43 | ¥9,491)

London, Robert Hale and Company, 1936. Leather. The third impression of this personal biography of Galsworthy. It is illustrated with tissue guarded frontispiece and further tissue guarded plates throughout. Paper vellum spine with gilt titles and green cloth boards. "Although...

Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner

Philip Doddridge · 1778 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, R. Thomlinson, J. Jackson, A. Newton, W. Stanton, and J. Dursley, 1778. Leather. A scarce copy of this biographical work by Philip Doddridge. Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) was an English nonconformist leader, educator and writer. This work is a biography of Colonel Jame...

Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second

Anthony Hamilton; Count Grammont; Sir Walter Scott · 1846 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, Henry Bohn, 1846. Leather. An historical work on the court of Charles the Second. Lacking title page and frontispiece. This work is Bohn's 'Extra Volume' as the publisher doubted 'the propriety of including Count Grammont's Memoirs in his &apos...

A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age

S. C. Hall · 0 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.43 | ¥9,491)

London, J.S Virtue and Co, c1890. Leather. A selection of biographical monographs and intimate reminiscences of over 120 writers, artists and actors, Full calf leather prize binding with attractive gilt tooling to spine. Illustrated with many lovely black and white in text ill...

Essays in a Series of Letters

John Foster · 1833 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.88 | ¥18,984)

London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1833. Leather. A later edition of John Foster's personal and religious essays unusual in a fine decorative binding. On a man's writing memoirs of himself. On decision of character. On the application of the epithet romantic. On some of th...

Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A. With Personal Reminiscences

Mrs. Bray · 1851 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)

London, John Murray, 1851. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition of the beautifully illustrated biography of artist Thomas Stothard. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration. With the bookplate for S. F. Widdrington to the front pastedown. Thomas...

The Lives of Dr John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr Richard Hooker; Mr George Herbert; and Dr Robert Sanderson

Isaac Walton · 1796 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.42 | $561.45 | ¥89,657)

York, J. Robson et al, 1796. Leather. A first edition of this collection of biographies by Isaac Walton. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates. Including biographies of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr Robert Sanderson. It was...

Sir Henry Raeburn

James Greig · 1911 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, The Connoisseur, 1911. Leather. An illustrated work on the Scottish painter Sir Henry Raeburn. A biographical work on prolific portrait painter Sir Henry Raeburn. Illustrated throughout with numerous examples of his work. Rebound in a lovely half calf binding. The imag...

A Biographical Memoir of the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and Saxe Coburg Illustrated with Recollections, Personal Anecdotes, and Traits of Character, Not Generally Known, from the Most Authentic Sources

Anonymous · 1818 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.27 | ¥92,821)

London, John Booth et al, 1818. Leather. A biography of the daughter of George IV, who died at the age of 21. A biography of the daughter of George IV, who died at the age of 21. Fourth edition. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, a vignette title page, one folding scen...

British Public Characters of 1798

Anonymous · 1798 · Rooke Books

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

London, R Phillips, 1798. Leather. A scarce collection of biographical sketches of seventy-one British public figures with a fold-out frontiepiece with thirty portraits. First edition. Missed by Cowie, this is the earliest appearance of a Nelson biographical reference. "In eve...

George Morland and the Evolution from Him of Some Later Painters

John Trivett Nettleship · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Seeley and Co. Limited , 1898. Leather. A fascinating biography exploring the life of George Morland, an English painter of animals and rustic scenes. Beautifully illustrated with many of Morland's works. His chief characteristic was that he painted the life that ...

Biographies by Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay · 1875 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1875. Leather. The biographies of the historian, essayist, and poet Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay (1800–1859). "Written in the last year of his life, this work contains five biographical essays, on Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, John...

Sir Frederic Leighton Bart, P.R. A: An Illustrated Chronicle

Ernest Rhys · 1895 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, George Bell and Sons , 1895. Leather. An in-depth study of the life and works of Frederic Leighton. With a frontispiece and numerous further photogravure plates featuring examples of Leighton's work, many with captioned tissue-guards. Includes a prefatory essay by...

A Memoir of Felix Neff, Pastor of the High Alps

William Stephen Gilly · 1833 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.88 | ¥18,984)

London, J & F Rivington et al. 1833. Leather. A nineteenth-century religious biography by the Anglican clergyman William Stephen Gilly. Second Edition. 'And of his labours among the French protestants of Dauphine, a remnant of the primitive Christians of Gaul&apos. Featur...

Kate Coventry an Autobiography

Kate Coventry, Henry Whyte Melville (Ed) · 1891 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London , Longmans, Green and Co, 1891. Leather. A copy of 'Kate Coventry; An Autobiography' edited by George John Whyte-Melville (1821–1878) was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet. A New Edition. In a half morocco binding with marbled boards. Exter...

School-Days of Eminent Men

John Timbs · 0 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Lockwood and Co, c1870. Leather. A copy of 'School-Days of Eminent Men: or, early lives of celebrated british authors, philosophers, and poets, inventors and discoverers, divines, heroes, statesmen and legislators; with sketches of the progress of education in Eng...

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine Von Gravenitz

Marie Hay · 1906 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1906. First edition. Leather. A fascinating semi-fictional account of the life of Wilhelmine Von Gravenitz. First edition. Wilhelmine von Gravenitz (1684–1744) was a German noble, the favourite and royal mistress of Duke Eberhard Ludwi...