Biografia

A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Lady Holland; Mrs. Austin · 1855 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.15 | ¥14,556)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1855. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume first edition of the memoir of the popular writer and cleric, Sydney Smith. Complete in two volumes. First edition. The memoirs of Sydney Smith, an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric. Be...

A Collection of Works on Sir Winston Churchill

Various · 1949 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London; Boston, Odhams Press Ltd.; John Murray; Hallmark; Eyre & Spottiswoode and Collins; Constable; Macmillan; B. T. Batsford; Heinemann; Litt, 1949-2015. First edition. Cloth. London; Boston: Odhams Press Ltd.; John Murray; Hallmark; Eyre & Spottiswoode and Collins; Constab...

William Morris

Holbrook Jackson · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Jonathan Cape LTD, 1926. Cloth. An uncommon monograph on the great William Morris, by Holbrook Jackson, his presentation copy of his brother. An uncommon work.Author's presentation copy to his brother, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, "J. C. Jackson, ...

The Life of William Wilberforce

Robert Isaac Wilberforce; Samuel Wilberforce · 1838 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Murray, 1838. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Robert Isaac and Samuel Wilberforce's five volume biography on the life of their father William Wilberforce, covering his life and efforts to abolish slavery, with a bookplate and signature from William...

Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke

James Prior · 1839 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, H. and E. Sheffield, 1839. Cloth. A third edition of this autobiography of Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke. Third edition. With a portrait frontispiece and a facsimile of Burke's handwriting with autograph. Collated complete. A biography of Edmund Burke, an Ang...

Forty-One Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief

Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar · 1898 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898. Cloth. A smart new edition of this autobiographical work from Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts during his time in India. New edition in one volume. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-three plates, eight of which are folding...

Shades on Eton

Percy Lubbock · 1929 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this commentary on Eton from English man of letters Percy Lubbock, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of ...

The Life of Joseph Wolf

A. H. Palmer · 1895 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this enlightening biography on the life and natural history art of Joseph Wolf, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A contemplative biography on the life and work of th...

The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb; Percy Fitzgerald · 1876 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, E. Moxon and Co, 1876. Leather. A set of the collected writings and biography on Charles Lamb, including his best known works. Complete in six volumes.A biographical account of the life, letters, and writings of Charles Lamb.Illustrated with a frontispiece to Volume I....

Letters from Italy and Switzerland; Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1883 to 1847

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy [ed.]; Lady Wallace [trans.] · 1862 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1862-1863. First edition. Leather. Two volumes offering the letters of German composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, uniformly bound in half calf. Comprising two first English editions of Felix Mendelssohn's letters, tra...

In the King&Apos;S German Legion: Memoirs of Baron Ompteda, Colonel in the King&Apos;S German Legion During the Napoleonic Wars

Baron Ompteda · 1894 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, H. Grevel and Co. 1894. Cloth. An uncommon autobiography, comprising the memoirs of German army officer Baron Ompteda. The second edition of this work. In the publisher's original burgundy cloth. Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von Ompteda served in the Hanoverian a...

Rufus Isaacs: First Marquess of Reading

Stanley Jackson; Gerald Isaacs · 1936 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, Cassell and Company; Hutchinson and Co, 1936-1942. First edition. Leather. A finely bound pair of first edition biographical works on Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading. A pair of first edition biographies on Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, also known as the ...

The Life of Lord Russell of Killowen

R. Barry O'Brien · 1901 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1901. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this biography of Irish statesman Charles Arthur Russell. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three facsimile plates. Collated complete. A detailed biography of Charles Ar...

Judgement Reserved: The Reminiscences of the Right Honourable Sir Henry Slesser

Sir Henry Slesser · 1941 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1941. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this illustrated collection of reminiscences from English barrister Sir Herman Henry Slesser. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated complete. T...

Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Morland

John Hassell · 1806 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, James Cundee; Albion Press, 1806. First edition. Leather. The first edition of John Hassel's beautifully engraved biography of painter George Morland, published only two years after his death. The first edition.John Hassell's illustrated biography of his fell...

Die Familie Mendelssohn 1729-1847: Nach Briefen Und Tagebuchern

S. Hensel · 1908 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Berlin, B. Behr , 1908. Cloth. A smart set offering the history of the Mendelssohn family, including letters and diaries. Fifteenth edition. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This work explores members of the Mendelssohn lineage from 1729...

Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R. S. To Which Is Subjoined the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne

John Evelyn; William Bray [ed.] · 1850 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London , Henry Colburn and Co. 1850-1852. Leather. A complete new edition of John Evelyn's correspondence, uniformly bound in half calf. A new edition, complete in four volumes.Uniformly bound in half tan calf, with marbled boards.Containing the English writer's diar...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. 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 · 1822 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, T. Cadell; F. C. and J. Rivington et al , 1822. Leather. A complete ninth edition set of James Boswell's authoritative biography of Samuel Johnson, bound in half calf. The ninth edition, revised and augmented. Complete in four volumes. Uniformly bound in half cal...

Winston S. Churchill

Randolph S. Churchill · 1966 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, William Heinemann , 1966-1971. First edition. Cloth. The first three volume of this definitive Winston Churchill biography, including a signed copy of the first volume by his son, Randolph Churchill. Volume I signed by Randolph Churchill to the half title. A set of th...

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Various; Ernest Rhys [ed.] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd , 1908-1919. Cloth. A pleasing set of seven volumes from Ernest Rhys' 'Everyman's Library' series of classics. Comprising seven volumes from the 'Everyman's Library' series, edited by Welsh-English writer Ernes...