Biografia

The Life of John Sterling

Thomas Carlyle · 1871 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London , Chapman and Hall , 1871. Leather. A biography of the Scottish author John Sterling, bound in lovely full calf. A lovely leather bound copy of this biography of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle. Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher who has ...

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

Izaak Walton · 1805 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1805. Cloth. A complete two volume set of Izaak Walton's fascinating short biographies. A complete two volume set of Izaak Walton's Lives, including the biographies of 1805 Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. Geo...

A Collection of Letters of Thackeray 1847-1855

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1887 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.83 | ¥14,345)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition collection of letters of William Makepeace Thackeray. First edition. This edition is limited to 500 copies, of which this is no. 256. Highly illustrated throughout. Includes portrait frontisp...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Moore · 1825 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Leather. The second edition of Thomas Moore's touching and insightful biography on the satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The second edition.Complete in two volumes.An enlightening and sympathetic memoir on the ...

The Life of Laurence Sterne

Percy Fitzgerald · 1896 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Downey and Co. 1896. Fine Binding. A handsomely bound biographical work on noted eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne, complete in two volumes. An interesting biographical work on Laurence Sterne, an eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish writer most well-kn...

A Twice Crowned Queen Anne of Brittany

Constance, Countess De La Warr · 1906 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London , Eveleigh Nash , 1906. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition account of the life of Anne of Brittany. A first edition volume. This volume gives a fascinating account of the life of Anne of Brittany, who was reigning Duchess of Brittany from 1488 until her ...

A Little Learning the First Volume of an Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh · 1964 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Great Britain, Chapman & Hall, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the first volume from Evelyn Waugh's autobiography with illustrations. First edition of A Little Learning The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh in the original publisher's...

Private Correspondence of William Cowper with Several of His Most Intimate Friends

William Cowper · 1824 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

London , Henry Colburn , 1824. First edition. Leather. Two lovely leather bound, first edition copies of the letters of poet William Cowper. A complete two volume set of the Private Correspondence of William Cowper With Several of His Most Intimate Friends. This collection of ...

The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh; Michael Davie · 1976 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition copy of The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh. A first edition copy of the dairies of Evelyn Waugh. Waugh kept a diary almost continuously from the age of seven until a year before his death in 19...

Hortus Inclusus: Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston

John Ruskin · 1887 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Sunnyside, George Allen, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this collection of letters from John Ruskin to the sister ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston. Correspondence of John Ruskin with the ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston, appreciative of the beauty and peac...

William Weston: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan

William Weston; Philip Caraman [trans] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1955. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful first edition of this uncommon biography of William Weston by Philip Caraman. First English translation of this autobiography of William Weston, Jesuit missionary priest in the Elizabethan era, known for b...

Reminiscences of the Burmese War in 1824-5-6

Capt. F. B. Doveton [Frederick Brickdale Doveton] · 1852 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.35 | $2,576.07 | ¥411,366)

London & Taunton, Allen & Co, 1852 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this illustrated biographical account of the Burmese War. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four further tinted lithographs, each retaining their original tissue guard. Collated, comp...

Lord Randolph Churchill

Winston Spencer Churchill · 1906 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.14 | ¥146,615)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, only printing of this biography of Lord Randolph Churchill by his son Winston Churchill. The first edition, only printing of this biography in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with armorial d...

W.O. Simpson Methodist Minister and Missionary

Rev. Samuel Wray; Rev. Robert Stephenson; Rev. Joseph Bush · 1886 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London , T. Woolmer, 1886. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of the life and work of W. O. Simpson. A first edition copy of this work. This volume describes the early life, life in the home work and missionary life of W. O. Simpson a Methodist Minister and Miss...

Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden

Peter Willis · 2002 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Elysium Press Publishers, 2002 . Cloth. The revised edition of this biography of Charles Bridgeman, the eighteen century English garden designer, illustrated with plates. The revised edition of Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden by Peter Wi...

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the Most Indomitable of Lovers; the Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part the Confession of the New, Married Couple

Jacques Casanova de Seingalt; Aphra Behn; John Harvey · 1922 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, The Navarre Society Limited , 1922. Cloth. Three, delightful, limited edition, works published for The Navarre Society, uniformly bound in the original cloth with gilt detail. Limited editions, printed upon laid paper of fine quality. Uniformly bound in the original fu...

Irish Memoires

Martin Ross; E. OE. Somerville · 1918 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

New York , Longmans, Green and Co. 1918. Leather. A lovely leather bound copy of this nostalgic work, with illustrations throughout. A fourth impression copy. Irish Memoires is a nostalgic autobiographical work describing Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin's (Ma...

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English without Expurgation

Jean Jacques Rousseau · 1904 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.89 | ¥24,893)

Not Stated, Privately Printed , 1904. Cloth. English translation of Jean Jacques Rousseau's controversial autobiography in two volumes. English translation. An autobiographical work by Jean Jacques Rousseau originally published in 1782-9 in four volumes. This covers up to...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

George Otto Trevelyan · 1878 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Longmans Green, and Co. 1878. Leather. Biography of Lord Macaulay by his nephew in two volumes, in bright uniform calf bindings. A study of the life and work of Thomas Babington Macaulay, British historian and well known Whig politician. His famous prose work The Histo...

Letters of Captain Engelbert

Englebert Lutyens; Sir Lees Knowles · 1915 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London , John Lane, The Bodley Head , 1915. First edition. Cloth. A first edition fascinating collection of letters from the Orderly Officer to Napoleon, with illustrations. A first edition copy of this work of letters of Captain Engelbert who fought during the Peninsular War ...