Biografia

A Gentleman Volunteer: The Letters of George Hennell from the Peninsular War 1812-1813

Michael Glover · 1979 · Rooke Books

£770.00 (€922.95 | $1,017.22 | ¥162,437)

London, Heinemann, 1979. First edition. Leather. A limited edition and signed copy of this work tracing the letters of a Napoleonic war officer, in a beautiful Zaehnsdorf binding. First Edition. The half title has been signed by Michael Glover and Sir Anthony Read who wrote th...

Men of Might Studies of Great Characters

A C Benson; H F W Tatham · 1911 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Edward Arnold, 1911. Leather. A collection of biographical essays on many notable male figures. In a prize binding for 'The Old Ride Branksome Park Bournemouth' by Relfe Brothers. Binder's stamp to the rear endpaper. Written and compiled by Cambridge sch...

Letters of John Richard Green

John Richard Green; Edited by Leslie Stephen · 1901 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1901. Leather. A smartly-bound edition of the correspondences of John Richard Green. With a photogravure frontispiece. Bound by M. Sotheran (binder's ink stamp to front free-endpaper). In a half-morocco binding. Externally, smart, with just a few...

Memories in Two Volumes.

Lord Redesdale · 1912 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

New York, E.P.Dutton and Company , 1912. First edition. Leather. A first edition autobiographical exploration of the life, and influential figures surrounding Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale. Illustrated throughout including photographic plates, sketches ...

Recollections of Mirabeau and of the Two First Legislative Assemblies of France

Etienne Dumont · 1832 · Rooke Books

£174.00 (€208.56 | $229.86 | ¥36,706)

London , Edward Bull, 1832. Leather. The second edition, carefully revised, of Dumont's biographical work on his friend, Mirabeau, with an interesting provanence of Lady Exmouth, with a dated 1833 copperplate ink signature to the front blank. With twelve facsimiles of Dum...

Le Livre de Mon Ami

Anatole France · 1896 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1896. Cloth. The third edition of this moving memoir by Anatole France. The third edition of this work.In the original French.A book of memoirs by Anatole France, recounting his own childhood through the guise of a literary double, Pierre Noziere.By Anatol...

Pages Choisies Des Grands Ecrivains

Francoise-Rene de Chateaubriand · 1905 · Rooke Books

£71.99 (€86.29 | $95.10 | ¥15,187)

Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1905. Leather. A biography of this French writer, politician and historian, who is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. The sixth edition. Part of the 'Pages Choisies des Grands Ecrivains' (or 'Selected Pages...

Memoires Pour Servir a L&Apos;Histoire de Mon Temps Volumes I, II, III and IV.

M. Guizot · 1858 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1858. Leather. The interesting memoirs of Francois Guizot, a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848. Second Edition. Volumes I, II, III and IV of eight volumes. Illustrated bookplates of Feodorovna to front pastedowns. Fra...

La Lisette de Beranger: Souvenirs Intimes

Thales Bernard · 1864 · Rooke Books

£71.99 (€86.29 | $95.10 | ¥15,187)

Paris, Bachelin Deflorenne, 1864. Leather. A first edition of this biography of Judith Frere, the companion of the songwriter Jean de Beranger. Featuring an engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Staal. The original paper wraps have been bound in. In French. In a half calf bindi...

Fridtiof Nansen

Fritz Wartenweiler · 1932 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

Erlenbach-ZuÃÂOeˆrich, Rotapfel-Verlag, 1932. Cloth. A biography of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen by Swiss writer Fritz Wartenweiler. Illustrated with many monochrome photographs. Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian arctic explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian. H...

Montalembert D&Apos;Apres Son Journal Et Sa Correspondance

R. P. Lecanuet · 1902 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Paris, Poussielgue, 1902-05. Leather. A collection of the letters and journals of the controversial Comte Charles Forbes Ren de Montalembert, French publicist and historian. Complete in three volume. He took great interest in the debuts of the Liberal empire, while trying to p...

Biography and Letters of Arthur Ransom

Hugh Brogan; Arthur Ransome · 1984 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1984-1997. Cloth. A very smart two volume set of works by Hugh Brogan on the life and letters of Arthur Ransome. A two volume set of works on Arthur Ransome.In the original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.The first editions. Arth...

The Letters of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, and Diana Cooper

Nancy Mitford; Evelyn Waugh; Diana Cooper; Charlotte Mosely [ed.]; Artemis Cooper [ed.] · 1991 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1991-1996. Cloth. A fantastic three volume set of illustrated first edition collections of letters from the notable figures Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, and Diana Cooper. A three volume set.In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the ori...

John Betjeman: Letters

John Betjeman; Candida Lycett Green · 1994 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Methuen, 1994-1995. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition complete set of this illustrated collection of letters from the poet, writer, and broadcaster Sir John Betjeman. A scarce complete two volume set.The first editions.Including Volume One: 1926 to 1951, a...

Patrick O&Apos;Brian

Nikolai Tolstoy; Dean King; John B. Hattendorf; Anne Chotzinoff Grossman; Lisa Grossman Thomas; Patrick O'Brian · 1996 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

New York; London, W.W. Norton & Company; Henry Holt and Company; William Collins, 1996-2019. Cloth. A very smart three volume set of works on the subject of Patrick O'Brian and his Aubrey-Maturin novels. A set of three volumes.Each on the subject of Patrick O'Brian a...

The Great Acceptance the Life Story of F.N. Charrington

Guy Thorne · 1913 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London; New York; Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Cloth. An uncommon, illustrated biography of influential Evangelical philanthropist and reformer Frederick Nicholas Charrington. An uncommon title recounting the extraordinary life of Frederick Nicholas Charrington, who re...

The Life of the Venerable Hugh Bourne

William Antliff · 1872 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.76 | ¥32,698)

London, George Lamb, 1872 . First edition. Leather. A nice copy of the first edition of this scarce and beautifully bound biographical piece on Hugh Bourne (1772-1852), the co-founder of the Primitive Methodist movement, in full crushed morocco with ornate gilt decoration to b...

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope Efq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden

Philip Dormer Stanhope · 1774 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope; Printed for J. Dodsley, 1774. Leather. A fascinating four volume set of letters by the 4th Earl of Chesterfield to his son, in full calf. A lovely four volume set of this collection of letters from Philip Dormer Stanhope to his son, together with...

Antonio Allegri Da Correggio

Dr. Julius Meyer; Mrs Charles Heaton [ed.] · 1876 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1876. Cloth. A lovely and uncommon title on the artistic legacy of Correggio, richly illustrated and decorated. An uncommon title reflecting on the artistic accomplishments of Italian Renaissance painter Antonio Allegri da Correggio.Bound in original ...

Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice: A Record

Cecil Spring Rice; Stephen Gwynn [ed.] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1929. Cloth. A complete two volume set of illustrated letters and friendships of British diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice. A scarce complete two volume set of works, featuring the letters and friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice.Edited by Stephen Gwyn...