Biografia

Danger Is Their Business

Marjorie Ward; Edward Ward · 1955 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Cassell and Company, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A selection of writings on several men that live dangerous lives. First edition. With original unclipped dustwrapper. This work is based on BBC radio interviews with several men. These are Texan oil fire-fighter Myron Ki...

Petrus Borel: The Lycanthrope His Life and Times

Enid Starkie · 1954 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this biography of Petrus Borel. Signed by the author on the day of publication. Petrus Borel was a French writer of the Romantic movement and is credited as foreshadowing surrealism, though he was n...

Robert Dick Baker of Thurso Geologist and Botanist

Samuel Smiles · 1905 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, John Murray, 1905. Leather. A interesting biography of Scottish geologist and botanist Robert Dick, by Samuel Smiles. Originally published in 1878. Contains a frontispiece portrait of Dick and several illustrations, both plates and vignettes, by Paul Rajon. Written by ...

Memoirs of Charley Crofts Containing Numerous Highly Entertaining Anecdotes

Charley Crofts · 1829 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

Cork, Edwards and Savage, 1829 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this humorous memoir from Charley Crofts. Rare Cork imprint of this Irish Character. First Edition. In a half-morocco binding. Externally, smart, though with some marks. Internally, firmly bou...

Grammont

Anthony Hamilton · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Arthur L Humphreys, 1906. Leather. Hamilton's memoirs of Count Grammont, in a fine binding. Philibert, comte de Gramont (1621 – 1707) was a French nobleman. Anthony Hamilton (1646 – 1720) was an Irish classical author who wrote in French. The Mémoires du comte ...

Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Author of the Sylva. In Two Volumes

William Bray · 1819 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. Leather. A rich wealth of information about the goings-on of the seventeenth century, from the perspective of a gardener and diarist. Second Edition. The whole now published from the first MSS. 'Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705...

Butleriana

Samuel Butler · 1932 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1932. Leather. A limited edition collection of Butler's autobiographical essays. Number 632 of 800 copies printed by Fanfare Press. Featuring eight plates, including a frontispiece. Contains seven autobiographical and other essays - a selection of ...

Letters Conversations and Recollections of S.T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1836 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London , Edward Moxon, 1836. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of letters, conversations and recollections by S T Coleridge. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Complete in two volumes. With a forgery of a...

Pages from the Diary of an Oxford Lady 1843 - 1862

Margaret Juene Gifford · 1932 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London , The Shakespeare Head Press , 1932. Cloth. A beautiful and intimate look into the private diary of Margaret Dyne Jeune The diary was edited and arranged by Margaret Jeune's grandaughter Margaret Juene Gifford, in order to preserve them as a record for her descenda...

Jean de la Fontaine

Frank Hamel · 1621 · Rooke Books

£14.99 (€17.97 | $19.80 | ¥3,162)

London , Stanley Paul and Co. c1920. Cloth. A biography of Jean de la Fontaine by Frank Hamel. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait of Jean de la Fontaine to frontispiece and sixteen other illustrations. Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695) was the most famous French fabulist...

Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke

Samuel Drew · 1817 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London , Thomas Cordeux , 1817. First edition. Hardback. A detailed account on Thomas Coke's various travels and extraordinary missionary exertions, in England, Ireland, America, and the West-Indies. First edition. With an account of his death, on the 3d of May, 1814, whi...

The Life and Labours of George Washington Walker

James & Charles Taylor Backhouse · 1862 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London , A W Bennett, 1862. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this biography of the Quaker missionary, written in part by his missionary partner James Backhouse. In his missionary works he undertook detailed investigations into the plight of aborigines and convicts. The...

Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: Being, Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson

Various · 1836 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,710)

London , John Murray, 1836. Cloth. A study of the anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson. Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, mora...

Life of Vice-Admiral Edmund, Lord Lyons

Captain S. Eardley-Wilmot · 1898 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A biography of Edmund Lyons,1st Baron Lyrons and famous naval commander during the Crimean War. First edition. With numerous tissue-guarded plates throughout. Armorial bookplate of 'Foley' to the ...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

John Wilson Croker · 1848 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , John Murray, 1848. Cloth. James Boswell's seminal biography of Samuel Johnson, edited by John Wilson Croker. In 1831 Croker published a new edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson including the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, which was vindictively attacked ...

Eighty-Eight Not out: A Record of Happy Memories

Harold Hartley · 1939 · Rooke Books

£97.00 (€116.27 | $128.14 | ¥20,463)

London , Frederick Muller Ltd. 1939. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this autobiography by Harold Hartley. An important figure of Victorian business and industry, Hartley was also a noted bibliophile and art collector. Contains a preface from The Viscount Co...

Letters of Junius Stat Nominis Umbra

Unamed · 1820 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington et al. 1820. Cloth. Junius is the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letter to the Public Advertiser between January 1769 and January 1772. The author's identity is still not known and is still the cause for considerable liter...

Siberia and Northwestern America 1788-1792 the Journal of Carl Heinrich Merck, Naturalist with the Russian Scientific Expedition Led by Captains Joseph Billings and Gavriil Sarychev

Fritz Jaensch (Trans) · 1980 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

Ontario, The Limestone Press, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of Carl Heinrich Merck's journal. First edition. Scarce. Translated into English by Fritz Jaensch. In fine condition. Carl Heinrich Merck (1761-1799) was a German doctor, naturalist and explorer. This...

A Keeper of the Robes

F. Frankfort Moore · 1910 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,915)

London , Hodder & Stroughton, 1910. Cloth. A biography of Francis Burney, the English novelist, diarist, and playwright, who was appointed by Queen Charlotte as 'Keeper of the Robes&apos. The work focuses on the period in her life in which she came through her connections...

Henry Fielding a Memoir

G. M. Godden · 1910 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 1910. Cloth. A biography of the author Henry Fielding Including newly discovered letters and records with illustrations from contemporary prints. In a cloth binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed and bumped, but otherwise smart. Internally, g...