Biografia

Le Bon Berger Ou le Vray Rãƒâ©Gime Et Gouvernement Des Bergers Et Bergãƒâ¨Res

Jehan le Brie · 1879 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1879. Leather. A charming Paris edition of an intriguing medieval treatise on shepherding, bound in half morocco with blue marble boards. A charming edition of Le Bon Berger ou Le Vray Régime et Gouvernement des Bergers et Bergères, (The Good Shepherd ...

Recollections of a Clairvoyant Society

Anonymous [Frederick S.] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Eveleigh Nash, 1911. Cloth. A fascinating autobiographical account of a French psychic medium who rose to performing readings on nineteenth century nobility. The second edition of Recollections of a Society Clairvoyant, an autobiographical tell-all account of a psychic...

Napoleon III. From the Popular Caricatures of the Last Thirty Years

James M. Haswell · 1873 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, John Camden Hotten, [1873]. Cloth. A fascinating, biographical volume on Napoleon and his public reception through caricature, profusely illustrated with over sixty plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Profusely illustrated with a lovely colour fronti...

My Uncle Silas

H. E. Bates · 1939 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Bates" beloved collection of semi-autobiographical rural tales, following the enigmatic Uncle Silas, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. In the publisher"s original green cloth binding.Comp...

The Little Red Hen; Memories of Childhood

Michael Foreman · 1999 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Andersen Press; Pavilion, 1999-2000. First edition. Hardback. A smart two volume set of signed first editions of prolific children's book creator Michael Foreman's works, illustrated in colour throughout. A two volume set.Both volumes signed by the author Mic...

The Life of John Mytton

Nimrod [Charles James Apperley] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1877. Leather. The fourth revised edition of a celebrated biography on the English gentleman known as 'Mad Jack', written with both truth and love from a friend. The fourth revised edition of The Life of John Mytton, the famous biog...

The Letters of Charles Lamb with a Sketch of His Life Poetical Works of Charles Lamb the Poetical Works of Charles Lamb

Thomas Noon Talfourd; Charles Lamb · 1841 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Edward Moxon, 1841; 1840. First edition. Leather. A very scarce copy of the letters and poetical works of Charles Lamb bound together, in half morocco and marbled boards. A very scarce example of these 3 volumes bound as one.Rebacked in half morocco, with original spin...

Mr. Charles King of England Cromwell a Character Study

John Drinkwater · 1929 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, 1929; [1927] (Dated from author&apos. Cloth. London: Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, 1929; [1927] (Dated from author's ink inscription). Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". None. A very smart, very scarce signed pair of biographies of his...

Meredith

Siegfried Sassoon · 1948 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. Lovely biography of George Meredith from prominent war poet Siegfried Sassoon. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Featuring a frontispiece portrait of George Mer...

The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb Volume I 1796-1801 the Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb Volume II 1801-1809 the Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb Volume III 1809-1817

Charles Lamb; Mary Anne Lamb; Edwin W. Marrs, Jr. [ed.] · 1975 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Ithaca; London, Cornell University Press, 1975; 1976; 1978. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition set compiling the letters of writers and siblings Charles and Mary Anne Lamb, illustrated throughout. A set of very smart first editions, which collect the letters of Charl...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1910 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1910-1911. Cloth. A charming and complete two volume set of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the most praised biographies in English literature. James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, the famous b...

The Coast of Incense, Autobiography 1933-1939

Freya Stark · 1953 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, John Murray, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. The smart first edition of Stark"s Arabian memoirs, charting her desert travels along the fabled frankincense coast in the years before war, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original gr...

What Am I Doing Here & Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin; Nicholas Shakespeare · 1989 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Jonathan Cape; The Harvill Press, 1989-1999 . Cloth. A fascinating two volume set of works related to the travel writer Bruce Chatwin and his life, including a signed copy. A two volume set.In the original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Bruce C...

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726: Volume I; the Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726: Volume II;

Humpfrey Wanley; C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright · 1966 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, The Bibliographical Society, 1966. First edition. Cloth. Very smart complete set of the diary of important librarian and scholar Humfrey Wanley, the first Bibliographical Society edition. First edition of the Bibliographical Society printing.Complete in two volumes.In ...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Including Boswell&Apos;S Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson&Apos;S Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

James Boswell; Edited by George Birkbeck · 1887 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Oxford , At The Clarendon Press, 1887. Cloth. A complete set of James Boswell's biography of the illustrious man of letters, Dr Samuel Johnson. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Also containing Boswell's Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a J...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell · 1835 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, John Murray, 1835. Cloth. An early nineteenth century John Murray's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Complete in Ten Volumes. Volumes IX and X are the two volumes of Johnsoniana. With additional engraved title page and frontispiece in each volume. To whi...

Memoirs of John Evelyn Esq with Correspondence

William Bray · 1827 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London , Henry Colburn, 1827. Leather. The diaries of the other great British 17th century diarist, and rival to Pepys, John Evelyn. Like Pepys, these diaries illuminate the social life, manners, and politics of the day. They provide a first hand account of the experience of k...

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell

James Boswell · 1952 · Rooke Books

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

London , Clarendon Press, 1952-1957. Vellum. Five volumes of the Yale Editions of the private papers of James Boswell, all de luxe limited editions, from the Selbourne collection. The volumes present are: Boswell in Holland; Boswell on the Grand Tour, Germany and Switzerland; ...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. In Seven Volumes

John Gibson Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Edinburgh and London, Robert Cadell and John Murray and Whittaker and Co, 1837-1838. First edition. Cloth. The fascinating and definitive biography of Sir Walter Scott, edited by his friend and son in law. First Edition. Complete in seven volumes. With a frontispiece and foldi...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell · 1831 · Rooke Books

£299.99 (€359.58 | $396.31 | ¥63,285)

London, John Murray, 1831. Cloth. A bright set of The Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell, edited by John Wilson Croker. 5 Volumes, complete. With a Hedges & Smith bookseller's label on the front board of volume 1. On Croker"s edition of Boswell"s Life of Johnson, it is com...