Biografia

The Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody "Buffalo Bill

Helen Cody Wetmore · 1903 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, The Partington Advertising Company, 1903. Cloth. A smart new edition of this illustrated biography of American soldier, bison hunter, and showman, "Buffalo Bill". New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. The biography of one of th...

Anna Kingsford, Her Life, Letters, Diary, and Work

Edward Maitland · 1896 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

London, George Redway, 1896. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this touching and insightful biography on the life and work of Anna Kingsford, an illustrated publisher's presentation copy. The scarce first edition of this work.'With the Publisher'...

The Works of George Meredith & Letters of George Meredith

George Meredith · 1909 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.01 | ¥200,409)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1909-1912. Cloth. A full set of the works of English novelist and poet, George Meredith, with a two volume set of his letters. Total of twenty-nine volumes. Written by George Meredith, an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was...

The Life of Samuel Johnson L.L. D.

James Boswell · 1901 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.27 | ¥92,821)

London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1901. Leather. A smartly bound illustrated edition of this well-known biography of English writer Samuel Johnson. Complete in three volumes. The first Railton edition. Volume one is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, six photogravure portrait plat...

The Letters of Horace Walpole Fourth Earl of Orford

Horace Walpole; Peter Cunningham · 1891 · Rooke Books

£2,750.00 (€3,296.26 | $3,632.92 | ¥580,131)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. Leather. An illustrated limited edition collection of the letters of Horace Walpole, totalling over two thousands letters written during his lifetime. A limited edition, limited to one hundred copies, of which this is numbered ninety.Comp...

A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916

Mark VII [Max Plowman] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD. 1927 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this memoir from poet and pacifist, Max Plowman, written under the pseudonym of Mark VII. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with red motif to the front cover. L...

Biographical Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, and Architects

John Gould · 1839 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, George Routledge, 1839. Cloth. A smart copy of this new edition of the biographical dictionary of artists, in two volumes. Complete in two volumes. New edition. A biographical dictionary of artists from the earliest ages to the contemporary time, with original anecdote...

Pilgrim&Apos;S Way: An Essay in Recollection

John Buchan [Lord Tweedsmuir] · 1940 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this anecdotal autobiography of the Scottish novelist, historian and politician John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth bin...

Pioneer Life and Frontier Adventures

Dewitt C. Peters · 1888 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, [1888] . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first UK edition of Dewitt C. Peters's account of the life of frontiersman Kit Carson. Previously published in Boston, this is the very scarce first UK edition of this work, in a charming picto...

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

Izaak Walton · 1825 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Major, 1825. Leather. A beautifully bound edition of Izaak Walton's 'Lives', sumptuously bound by Riviere and Son, complete with detailed plates throughout. The first John Major edition.In a striking morocco binding by Riviere and Son.Illustrated wi...

Voyage to Buenos Ayres, Performed in the Years 1817 and 1818, by Order of the American Government

H. M. Brackenridge [Henry Marie Brackenridge] · 1820 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.90 | ¥59,068)

London, Sir Richard Phillips, 1820 . First edition. Leather. The first edition thus of H. M. Brackenridge's account of his early nineteenth century South American travels. The first edition thus; containing extracts from Brackenridge's earlier two volume work, '...

The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age

W. Y. Sellar · 1877 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Oxford, Clarendon Press , 1877. First edition. Leather. The first edition of W. Y. Sellar's educational work, bound in a handsome full calf prize binding. The first edition of the work. This educational work expands on previous works of W. Y Sellar and other scholars. It ...

Letters of Walter Savage Landor: Private and Public

Stephen Wheeler · 1899 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London , Duckworth and Co , 1899. First edition. Leather. Collection of writer Walter Savage Landor's private and public letters. First edition of the letters of Walter Savage Landor edited by Stephen Wheeler. These letters give a glimpse into Landor's life and the w...

The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A. F. Depot between August and December 1922

352087 A/C Ross, a.k.a. T. E. Lawrence · 1955 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force. First edition. When, in 1922, T. E. Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John H...

The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson; Anna Laetitia Barbauld · 1804 · Rooke Books

£580.00 (€695.21 | $766.22 | ¥122,355)

London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the correspondence of Samuel Richardson in six uniform volumes. The first edition of this work. In six volumes. Correspondence of important English writer and printer of the eighteenth cen...

The Letters of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson; Bruce Redford [editor] · 1992 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992-1994. First edition. Cloth. A complete set of the Hyde Edition collection of letters from Samuel Johnson in his life, with illustrations. Complete in five volumes. First thus. Hyde edition. Considered the most scholarly edition of these letters to...

The Letters of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb; Alfred Ainger · 1888 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1888-1891. Cloth. A complete two volume set of letters of Charles Lamb. Volume one is a second edition reprint published in 1888 and volume two is a third edition reprint published in 1891. Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet and antiquarian ...

Nothing Venture, Nothing Win

Edmund Hillary · 1975 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London , Hodder & Stoughton , 1975. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this impressive autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers, with illustrations. A first edition copy.Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist who was one of...

The Life and Art of Allan Ramsay

Alastair Smart · 1952 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

London , Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. A fascinating account of the life and art of Scottish painter Allan Ramsay. A first edition copy. Allan Ramsay was a prominent Scottish portrait painter. This work was the first book to be written on the artist w...

Une Femme Du Monde Au Xviiith Siecle Dernieres Annees de Madame D&Apos;Epinay Son Salon Et Ses Amis

Lucien Perey and Gaston Maugras · 1884 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

Paris, Calmann Levy , 1884. Cloth. An interesting collection of letters and memoirs from the final years of French woman of fashion Madame D'Epinay. A fifth edition copy. In the original French.Louise D'Epinary was a French writer and woman of fashion who had many f...