Biografia

Correspondance de Madame Gourdan Dite la Petite Comtesse

Octave Uzanne · 1883 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Brussels, Henry Kistemaeckers, 1883 . Leather. A new edition copy in French of Correspondance de Madame Gourdan. A new edition. In the original French. Limited to 777 copies. With the original paper wraps bound to the front and rear of the volume.This volume contains the co...

Louis XIV Memoires Pour Les Annees 1661 Et 1666

Jean Lognon · 1923 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Paris , Editions Boassard, 1923. Hardback. A limited edition copy of this collection of memoirs of Louis XIV. A limited edition copy. With this being number 1875. With a frontispiece of King Louis XIV was also known as Louis the Great and was King of France from 1643 until hi...

Lettres D&Apos;Eugenie de Guerin

Eugenie De Guerin; G. S. Trebutien · 1867 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)

Paris, Didier, 1867. Leather. The poetical correspondences of Eugénie de Guérin are gathered in this leather bound volume. G. S. Trebutien edits the letters of Eugénie de Guérin in this leather bound volume. Published in French. In a quarter calf binding over patterned boa...

Lamartine

Rene Doumic · 1924 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Paris, Librairie Hachette , 1924. Leather. A fourth edition copy of this biography of Lamartine. A fourth edition copy. From the series Les Grand Ecrivains Francais, or Great French writers, this volume is a biography of Alphonse de Lamartine. Alphonse de Lamartine was a Fre...

Christophe Colomb Vu Par Un Marin

J. B. Charcot; Paul Chack · 1928 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated biography of Christopher Columbus, written in the original French. The first edition of this work in a half cloth binding. Illustrated with 26 black-and-white plates and numerous in-...

Memoires Du General General Bon de Marbot

Marcellin Marbot · 0 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.84 | ¥31,433)

Paris, Plon-Nourrit, c1900. Cloth. Three cloth bound copies of the memoirs of General Marbot. In the original French. Complete in three volumes, being the 46th edition.Marcellin Marbot was a French General famous for his memoirs which depict the Napoleonic age of warfare. The...

Svundne Dage; Glade Aar

Axel Henriques · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Copenhagen, Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk , 1929-30. Leather. The very scarce first two volumes of Axel Henrique's autobiography in smart uniform bindings. A very scarce work, rarely seen in commerce. In two volumes of three, complete in itself.Memoirs of Axel Henriques&...

Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay

Frederick A. Pottle · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1938. Paperback. The scarce proof copy of Frederick A. Pottle's biographical account of Boswell's relationship with Mary Bryant. The scarce proof copy of Frederick A Pottle's study of the relationship between James Boswell and Mar...

Dean Swift and His Writings

Gerald P. Moriarty · 1893 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Seeley & Co. Limited, 1893. Cloth. A very smart limited edition copy of this biography of Dean Swift with details of his works. Limited edition. Only one hundred and fifty copies are printed, this copy in number 15. Illustrated with frontispiece and eight plates. Colla...

An Abridgment of Lord Coke&Apos;S Commentaries Upon Littleton: Being a Brief Explanation of the Grounds of the Common Law

Lord Coke; Edward Coke; Humphrey Davenport · 1685 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

London, Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns, 1685. Leather. A very scarce abridgment of Lord Edward Coke's important treatise on British law, complete with two portrait plates. A very scarce abridgment of Coke's important work, abridged and edited by Humphrey Davenport....

Praeterita Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life

John Ruskin · 1900 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.40 | ¥79,109)

London, George Allen, 1900. Vellum. The second edition of John Ruskin's remarkable autobiographical work in three beautiful vellum bound volumes. A remarkable work by John Ruskin, complete in three volumes. A highly personal, selective, and eloquent account of parts of hi...

Laura Knight

Janet Dunbar · 1975 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Collins, 1975. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce biography of Laura Knight by Janet Dunbar enclosed in its original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A scarce copy. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Bio...

The Martian a Novel

George du Maurier · 1898 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Harper & Brothers, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated work by George du Maurier. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and forty-eight images by the author. Collated complete. A a largely autobiographical novel describing the life of...

The Life and Opinions of Thomas Preston, Patriot and Shoemaker; Containing Much That Is Curious, Much That Is Useful, More That Is True, and a Great Deal More, (Perhaps,) Than Is Expected!

Thomas Preston · 1817 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

London, Printed for the Author by A. Seale, 1817 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of the autobiography of nineteenth century shoemaker Thomas Preston. The first edition of this very scarce work. Preston was a radical, and part of the organising committee ...

Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra

Junius · 1799 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Printed for T. Bensley , 1799. Leather. Illustrated edition of the letters from Junius in two volumes. Complete in two volumes. ESTC T11034 Junius was the pseudonym of a polemicist known for contributing a series of letters to the Public Advertiser in the eighteenth c...

A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh · 1964 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this autobiography of Evelyn Waugh with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated complete. Written by Evelyn Waugh, an English writer of novels, biographies ...

The Man in the Making; the Years of Peril; the Savour of the Navy

Arthur Bryant · 1933 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1933-1938. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Arthur Bryant's rigorous biography of diarist Samuel Pepys A rigorous biography of 16th century diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys. With maps to the endpapers of The Man i...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson

James Boswell; Mowbray Morris [intro] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1914. Leather. A Globe Edition of Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, in a very smart half calf binding with the gilt crest of Marlborough College to the front board. The sixth reprint of the Globe Edition of this work in a half calf binding, ...

Side-Lights on English Society: Sketches from Life, Social & Satirical

E. C. Grenville Murray · 1885 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London , Vizetelly & Co. 1885. Cloth. A richly illustrated commentary on late Victorian society by H. C. Grenville. A fifth edition copy of this work.Side-Lights On English Society: Sketches from Life, Social & Satirical is a commentary on society that is richly illustrated th...

The Life of Samuel Johnson Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell; Alexander Napier · 1884 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London , George Bell and Sons , 1884. Leather. Six volumes of The Life of Samuel Johnson Together With a Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides and Johnsoniana. Six volumes of The Life of Samuel Johnson Together With a Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides, being new edition with notes...