Biografia

Great Morning Being the Third Volume of Left Hand Right Hand

Osbert Sitwell · 1948 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1948. Hardback. A volume from the autobiographical series by Osbert Sitwell. This is the third volume from his four volume autobiography. Illustrated with many photographs of Sitwell's life and family. This is the first reprint of this work, repr...

Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers. To Which Is Added Porsoniana.

Samuel Rogers · 1856 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Lonson, Edward Moxon, 1856. Leather. An attractive copy of the table talk of Samuel Rogers A collection of anecdotes of famous people of the day collected by Samuel Rogers. Samuel Rogers was an English poet who was celebrated and popular in his lifetime. He is best remembered ...

Touching the Void

Joe Simpson · 1988 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Simpson's incredible survival story after a mountaineering injury, illustrated, and with the original dust wrapper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, in lovely condition, with t...

The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone Admiral of the Fleet in Two Volumes

Admiral Sir R. H. Bacon · 1929 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1929. Cloth. An insightful naval biography, across a complete pair of volumes, illustrated, with occasional folding plates. A first edition copy, of the reprint, dated December 1929. A fascinating account of the life of Admiral of the Flee...

The Ascent of Everest

John Hunt [Brigadier Sir John Hunt] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Sir John Hunt's account of the successful Everest expedition, illustrated and with dust wrapper. A smart copy of the first edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth, with the original ...

Italian Yesterdays

Mrs. Hugh Fraser [Mary Crawford Fraser] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1914. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition collection of retellings of Italian history, mythology, and legacy, illustrated throughout. An uncommon copy of this first edition. Bound in publisher's original purple cloth.  Decorated wit...

The Poetical Works of John Langhorne

John Langhorne [pref. J.T. Langhorne] · 1804 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, J. Mawman, 1804. Leather. A scarce collection of a rural poet praised for his sentimental portraits of the English countryside, complete in two volumes. The Poetical Works of John Langhorne, a scarce and complete collection of the rural poet, with a prefixed memoir of ...

Explorer, Linguist and Ethnologist: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Published Works of Alphonse Louis Pinart, with Notes on His Life

Ross Parmenter; Carl Schaefer Dentzel · 1966 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.36 | ¥16,666)

Los Angeles, California, Southwest Museum, 1966 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this pleasing bibliography of the published works of Alphonse Louis Pinart. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a tipped-in inscription and signatu...

(1981) Diary; (1983) Hugh Casson&Apos;S London; (1988) Hugh Casson&Apos;S Oxford: A College Companion.

Hugh Casson · 1981 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London; Basingstoke; Melbourne; Oxford, Macmillan London Limited; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; Phaidon, 1981-1988. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing collection of three highly illustrated first editions from the former president of the Royal Academy, in their original dust wrappers. ...

William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life

S. Schoenbaum · 1975 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press; The Scolar Press, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detailled biographical account of Shakespeare's life and works, illustrated with a wide array of facsimile plates and encased in the original dust wrapper. First edition....

Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield, with Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His Writings

Anna Seward · 1804 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, J. Johnson, 1804. Leather. The first edition of the biography and memoirs of Erasmus Darwin, the leading Midlands enlightenment thinker, written by The Swan of Lichfield. The first edition of the Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfi...

Under the Syrian Sun: The Lebanon, Baalbek, Galilee, and Judea

A. C. Inchbold · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. A pair of beautifully colour illustrated first edition travelogues. A complete pair of first editions. Bound in original blue cloth, and decorated with gilt motif to front boards. By English romantic novelist and travel writ...

Oscar Wilde: Three Time Tried

Christopher S. Millard, [Oscar Wilde] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.36 | ¥16,666)

London, The Ferrestone Press, 1912. Cloth. The scarce and first complete account of Wilde's three trials surrounding his homosexuality, inspired by his famous letter DeProfundis. Oscar Wilde: Three Time Tried, the scarce and first complete account of the famous three tria...

Turner&Apos;S Liber Studiorum, a Description and a Catalogue

W. G. Rawlinson · 1878 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1878 . First edition. Hardback. A signed first edition of W. G. Rawlinson's comprehensive catalogue of J. M. W. Turner's 'Liber Studiorum', the celebrated series of landscape prints he issued between 1807 and 1819. A scarce first edi...

Nelson&Apos;S Wife the First Biography of Frances Herbert, Viscountess Nelson

E. M. Keate · 1939 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney, Cassell and Company Ltd. 1939. First edition. Cloth. A scarce and illustrated copy of this first and only edition biography following wife of Nelson Frances Herbert. A scarce first edition of the first biography of the estranged wife of Hora...

Correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Carrier

E. H. Carrier [trans.]; Jean-Baptiste Carrier · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London; New York, John Lane; The Bodley Head; John Lance Company, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and scarce first edition collection of translated letters by war criminal Jean-Baptiste Carrier. An uncommon first edition. This volume features the collected and transla...

8 Vols the Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere

William Shakespeare; Charles Knight [Ed.] · 1839 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.46 | ¥209,902)

London, Charles Knight and Co. [1839-1843]. Leather. Charles Knight"s ambitious pictorial Shakespeare, complete in eight volumes, richly illustrated with engravings and bound in a handsome half vellum binding by Webb. Uniformly bound in a handsome half vellum binding with marb...

The Works of James Barry, Esq. Historical Painter; Formerly Professor of Painting at the Royal-Academy; Member of the Clementine Academy at Bologna, &C.

James Barry · 1809 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, T. Cadell and W. Davies , 1809. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound two-volume anthology of the written works of eminent Royal Academy painter, James Barry. First and only edition of this uncommon collection, comprising the letters, lectures and essays of Irish pai...

The Word Detective: A Life in Words from Serendipity to Selfie

John Simpson · 2016 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Little Brown and Company, 2016. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of an intriguing memoir and digest into language, written by a Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. The signed first edition of The Word Detective: A Life in Words from Serendipity...

Old Sports and Sportsmen or, the Willey Country with Sketches of Squire Forester and His Whipper-in Tom Moody

John Randall · 1873 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Virtue & Co. 1873 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this illustrated account of the sportsmen of the Willey country, most specifically Squire Forester. The uncommon first edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding.  A work by Joh...