Biografia

Random Recollections of the Midland Circuit

Robert Walton · 1869 · Rooke Books

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

London, Chiswick Press, 1869-73. First edition. Leather. A scare two volume set of Robert Walton's Random Recollections. First editions. The first series was published in 1869 and achieved such success that a second series was issued in 1873. In attractive bindings by J A...

Les Femmes D&Apos;Artistes

Alphonse Daudet · 1889 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Paris , Alphonse Lemerre, 1889. Leather. A French collection of short biographies of female artists. Bound by Dray of Cambridge. Possibly with the signature of Ezra Pound, an expatriate American poet and critic. In a quarter morocco binding. Externally, sound, though with some...

Memoirs de Madame de Motteville, Pour Sevir a L&Apos;Histoire D&Apos;Anne D&Apos;Autriche. In Five Volumes

Francoise Bertaut de Motteville · 1822 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.27 | ¥92,821)

Paris, Colnet Libraire, 1822. Leather. A scarce set of de Motteville's history of Queen Anne of Austria. Complete in five volumes. Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c.1621 – 1689), French memoir writer, was the daughter of Pierre Bertaut, a gentleman of the king's c...

Les Memoires de Joseph Fouche

Jospeh Fouche · 1957 · Rooke Books

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

Paris, Les amis de l'histoire, 1957. Hardback. A very smart copy of this memoir written by Joseph Fouche. A memoir by Joseph Fouche (1759-1820), Minister of Police and a French Statesman under Napoleon the First. His title is often translated as The Duke of Otranto.Illust...

Alexander L Kielland Og Hans Samtid

Gerhard Gran · 1922 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Stavanger, Dreyers Forlag, 1922. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this biography of Alexander Kielland. The first edition of this biography of Alexander Kielland. With four coloured plates and a coloured frontispiece. Gerhard Gran was a Norwegian literary historian...

Du Dandysme Et de Georges Brummell

J.Barbey j'Aurevilly · 1879 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1879. Leather. A biography of Georges Brummell in which the author defends the dandy lifestyle. A biography of Georges Brummell in which the author defends the dandy lifestyle. With an engraved frontispiece. Third Edition. First published in 1845, this...

Les Historiettes de Tallemant Des Reaux

Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux · 1854 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.61 | ¥121,300)

Paris, J. Techener, 1854. Leather. A beautiful set of the Historiettes by Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux. A beautiful set of the Historiettes by Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux. Complete in nine volumes. Third Edition. Entirely reviewed from the original manuscript, arranged in a new o...

Paul Deroulede Et la Mort de Paul Deroulede in Two Volumes

Jerome et Jean Tharaud · 1914 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, 1914. Paperback. A set of books on the Life and Death of Paul Deroulede. By Jerome and Jean Tharaud. Complete in two volumes. Paul Deroulede (2 September 1846 ? 30 January 1914) was a French author and politician. In paper bindings in cardboard wraps ...

Memoires de Voltaire Suivis de Mlanges Divers Et Prcds de "Voltaire Dmiurge" Par Paul Souday

Voltaire · 1927 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Paris, Emile Hazan, 1927. Leather. The memoir of the popular eighteenth century French writer and philosopher, Voltaire. In French. The memoirs of French philosopher Franois-Marie Arouet, better known by his pseudonym Voltaire. Paul Souday (born in Le Havre Aug. 20, 1869 and d...

Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the Two First Legislative Assemblies of France

Etienne Dumont · 1832 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Edward Bull, 1832. Leather. The carefully revised second edition of Dumont's highly interesting personal account of French revolutionary, Comte de Mirabeau. Direct from the library at Newton Hall, the 18th century country house and estate in Northumberland, with a...

Cornelii Nepotis Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae

Michael Maittaire · 1806 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, et al, 1806. Leather. An early nineteenth century edition of Maittaire's biography of Cornelius Nepos, in a full calf binding. A biography about the Roman biographer Cornelius Nepos. In Latin. Michael Maittaire, (1668 - 1747), was a F...

Seven Scarce Biographical Pamphlets

Various · 1650 · Rooke Books

£2,250.00 (€2,696.94 | $2,972.39 | ¥474,653)

Various, Various, 1650-1713. First edition. Leather. A collection of seven scarce seventeenth and eighteenth-century pamphlets detailing the life, works, letters, deeds and crimes of various men of merit and dishonour. Includes: 1650-London-John Stafford: An Exact Narration of...

The Witticisms, Anecdotes, Jests, and Sayings of Dr. Samuel Johnson

J. Merry · 1791 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.27 | ¥253,148)

London, Printed for the Editor, 1791 . Leather. A scarce copy of this work by J. Merry on Dr. Samuel Johnson. Rare and sought after - the lighter side of the famous man. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a ...

The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence

Horace Twiss · 1844 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.08 | ¥55,904)

London, John Murray, 1844. First edition. Leather. A handsome first edition of this illustrated biography of British barrister and politician, Lord Chancellor Eldon. First edition. Complete in three volumes. Uniformly bound in signed full straight-grain morocco, with "White 2...

Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928-1933

Freya Stark · 1951 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, John Murray, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition copy of the second work in Freya Stark's illustrated autobiographical travel quartet. The first edition of the work.In the publisher's original green cloth binding. In the original unclipped...

Collection of Modern French Works

Multiple authors · 1977 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Paris, Various, 1977-2014. Cloth. A very good collection of eleven interesting modern French works, many biographical or journalistic.  A collection of twelve interesting modern French works, many biographical or journalistic, covering the lives and careers of figures such as...

D.H. Lawrence Biographies

John Worthen; Geoffrey Trease; Stephen Potter · 1930 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London; Cambridge, Macmillan; Jonathan Cape; Cambridge University Press, 1930-1991. First edition. Cloth. A smart three volume set of biographies on English modernist novelist D.H. Lawrence. A three volume set.All the first editions of the works.In the original cloth bindings....

Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeanette Arctic Expedition

Raymond Lee Newcomb; Rev. W. L. Gage [intro.] · 1883 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1883 . Leather. An early example of this illustrated account of the ill-fated expedition to the North Pole undertaken by the Jeannette, and of the survivors of its wreck. An early edition of this work, which was first published the ...

Time Past

Marie Scheikevitch; Francoise Delisle [trans.] · 1936 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1936. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first English edition of this title, illustrated throughout with monochrome photographic plates. A very scarce title, seen here in its first English language edition.Bound in original green cloth, with...

The Life of Thomas Chatterton

John Dix · 1837 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co. 1837 . First edition. Leather. Lovely half-morocco first edition of John Dix's notable biography on the tragic life of English poet Thomas Chatterton. First edition.In red half-morocco binding with marbled boards. Binder's stamp of A. P...