Biografia

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

Edmund Lodge · 1835 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.34 | $640.71 | ¥102,314)

London, Harding and Lepard , 1835. Leather. Edmund Lodge's copiously illustrated biographical series, offering portraits and memoirs of illustrious figures of Great Britain. Complete in twelve volumes, bound into six. In a handsome full signed morocco by Bickers & Son, w...

2 Vols Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets

Samuel Johnson · 1779 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Printed by J. Nichols for C. Bathurst; J. Buckland; W. Strahan; Et al. 1779. First edition. Leather. Two volumes of the first edition of Johnson"s Lives of the Poets in its original Prefaces form, including the substantial and influential Life of Milton, ina smart full...

Ismail the Maligned Khedive

Pierre Crabites · 1933 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. 1933. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition biography of Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt from 1863-1879. A very scarce first edition reflecting on the life and reign of Isma'il Pasha, called 'Ismail the Magnifi...

2 Vols Sailing Through China; Patagonia Revisited

Paul Theroux; Bruce Chatwin · 1983 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Michael Russell; Jonathan Cape, 1983-1992. Cloth. A smart illustrated pair of Theroux travel narratives, including the first trade edition of Sailing Through China, with artwork by Patrick Procktor and Kyffin William, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers....

Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Chiefly of the Last and Two Preceding Centuries

William Seward · 1804 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1804. Leather. A scarce collection of historical biographies by William Seward With a frontispiece to each volume and 13 additional plates of portraits, sheet music and fascimiles. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady ...

Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments, Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality

Mr. Addison · 1794 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, Printed for the Author, 1794. Leather. Four volumes of this varied collection of biographical anecdotes, poetry, essays, and more. Four volumes of this varied collection of biographical anecdotes, poetry, essays, and more. Written under the pseudonym of, 'Mr. Addi...

The Life of Samuel Johnson Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During Which He Flourished

James Boswell · 1811 · Rooke Books

£259.99 (€311.63 | $343.46 | ¥54,847)

London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1811. Cloth. Boswell's first-hand account of Samuel Johnson's life is often considered one of the greatest biographies written in English. Four hardbound volumes in blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, two fold-outs ...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Volumes I - IV

James Boswell, Esq; Alexander Napier, M.A · 1884 · Rooke Books

£199.99 (€239.72 | $264.20 | ¥42,189)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1884. Cloth. A four volume set of The Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell, edited by Alexander Napier. 4 Volumes, complete. Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784, was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions ...

The Second Mrs Hardy

Robert Gittings; Jo Manton · 1979 · Rooke Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London, Heinemann, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A copy of Gittings and Manton's biography of Thomas Hardy's second wife, Florence Emily Dugdale. Not content to allow Florence to languish in history as merely the young wife who helped out the ageing Hardy, the work aim...

Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart

Alex Danchev · 1998 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.22 | ¥7,381)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this first biographical work on the remarkable life of Basil Liddell Hart. First edition. Featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper depicting Basil Liddell Hart, taken from the portrait by Hein Hec...

Deep Romantic Chasm Diaries, 1979-198

James Lees-Milne · 2000 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, John Murray, 2000. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of James Lees-Milne's 'Deep Romantic Chasm&apos. A social observer and biographer, James Lees-Milne's diaries show the development of the author throughout the formative years of establis...

The Unknown Conan Doyle Essays on Photography

John Michael Gibson; Richard Lancelyn Green · 1982 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating compilation of Conan Doyle's little-known essays on photography. "These essays..show Doyle to be a first-rate reporter, an expert practitioner of emerging art of dry-plate photography, an adventurous trav...

Lester: The Official Biography

Dick Francis · 1986 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.01 | ¥5,272)

London, Michael Joseph, 1986. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Dick Francis' biography of jockey, Lester Piggott. Illustrated with monochrome photographs throughout. In a black cloth binding with original clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper is sm...

The Haunted Man a Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe

Philip Lindsay · 1953 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Hutchinson, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography of Poe from Philip Lindsay. Including a photographic frontispiece of Poe. In a blue cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, though with some slight edgewear. Dustw...

The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange

Edited by Ralph S. Walker · 1966 · Rooke Books

£71.99 (€86.29 | $95.10 | ¥15,187)

London, Heinemann, 1966. Cloth. Bound in blue cloth, with a dustjacket. James Boswell (1740-1795) was a prolific diarist and writer, best known for his association with Samuel Johnson, which lead to him becoming Johnson's most famous biographer. John Johnston was one of B...

Life of Frank Buckland

George C. Bompas · 1896 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1896. Leather. A detailed biography of Frank Buckland, written by his brother in law. A new edition Francis Trevelyan Buckland 1826 – 1880 was an English surgeon, zoologist, popular author and natural historian. In full calf binding. Externally, sma...

Memoirs of the Duke of Orleans During the Minority of Louis XV

Philippe II, Duke of Orleans · 1740 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, J Robinson, 1740. Leather. A very scarce copy of this memoir by Phillipe II, Duke of Orleans. The work starts with a preface to the 'The Memoirs and Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Charles, Late Earl of Halifax' seemingly misbound, which is follow...

Caresses... Ou Les Memoires Intimes de Jacqueline de R...

Countess Jacqueline · 1933 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

Paris, Editions du Couvre-Feu, 1933. Leather. A bright, clean, limited edition of the French book Caresses.. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering. Limited edition, No. 319 of 500. The memoirs of Countess Jacqueline, born and bred into the aristocracy of 18th-Century Franc...

Biographical Memoirs of the Late Revd Joseph Warton, D.D. Master of St. Mary Winton College; Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral; and Rector of the Parishes of Wickham and Upham, Hants: To Which Are Added, a Selection of His Works; and a Literary Correspondence between Eminent Persons, Reserved by Him for Publication. Volume I

Rev. John Wooll · 1806 · Rooke Books

£169.99 (€203.76 | $224.57 | ¥35,861)

London, Printed by Luke Hansard for T. Candell and W. Davies, 1806. First edition. Leather. The first edition of these biographical memoirs. Volume I of this work where no further volumes were published. A half brown leather hardback with gilt lettering on the spine. This is t...

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself

Edward Gibbon; John Baker Holroyd · 1796 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Lord Sheffield's account of the life and works of this eighteenth-century English historian. 'Illustrated from his Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narrative, b...