Biografia

Forty-Niners

Archer Butler Hulbert · 1931 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of the life of pioneers on the California Trail by Archer Butler Hulbert, illustrated and in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth w...

Southern and Western Texas Guide for 1878

James L. Rock; W. I. Smith · 1878 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

St. Louis, A. H. Granger Publisher, 1878. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical illustrated guide on Texas by James L. Rock and W. I. Smith. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacks the folding map. With a frontispiece portrait a...

Alex Dunsmuir&Apos;S Dilemma

James Audain · 1964 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Victoria, Sunnylane Publishing Company, 1964. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this history of the life of Alex Dunsmuir, known as the coal king of San Francisco, signed by the author. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, wit...

Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq. , R.A.

Wilkie Collins · 1848 · Rooke Books

£1,650.00 (€1,977.76 | $2,179.75 | ¥348,079)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Londmans, 1848. First edition. Leather. The first published work of important Victorian author Wilkie Collins, a touching biography on his father, painter William Collins. The first edition of this scarce work.Smartly bound in a half crushed ...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1892 · Rooke Books

£4,950.00 (€5,933.27 | $6,539.25 | ¥1,044,237)

London, Chatto & Windus; Heinemann; Cassell et al, 1892-1901 . Leather. An exceptionally beautiful thirty volume set of the works of Scottish novelist and writer Robert Louis Stevenson, in sumptuous half crushed morocco bindings. Very rare in an vibrant blue morocco.Present in...

Gerald: A Portrait

Daphne du Maurier · 1934 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, second impression of Daphne du Maurier's biography of her father, uncommon in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, second impression of this work, published in the same month as the first, ...

Margaret Beavan of Liverpool: Her Character and Work

Ivy A. Ireland · 1938 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons Ltd. 1938. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce biography of the first female Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Margaret Beavan. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the very scarce...

Words on Wellington the Duke- Waterloo-the Ball

Sir William Fraser · 1900 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, John C Nimmo, 1900. Cloth. An illustrated copy of this biographical work on the Duke of Wellington by Sir William Fraser. In the publisher's original cloth with gilt crest to the front board.Originally published in 1889. With a frontispiece, vignettes and 11 plate...

A Victorian Boyhood; an Edwardian Youth; Georgian Afternoon; I Forgot to Tell You

L. E. Jones · 1959 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Macmillan; Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959-65. Cloth. L. E. Jones's complete autobiographical work in four volumes, enclosed unclipped dust wrapper. In four volumes. Including first edition of 'Georgian Afternoon' and 'I Forgot to Tell You;' Later prin...

An Address Presented to Norman Hepburn Baynes with a Bibliography of His Writings

1942 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford, Privately Printed at the University Press, 1942. First edition. Paperback. A privately printed bibliography on the works of historian Norman H. Baynes, including a charming letter from Baynes to fellow scholar Francis Ernest Hutchinson. The first edition of this privat...

Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany

Horace Walpole; Lord Dover [ed] · 1833 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Hardback. The letters of Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann in three sumptuous uniform leather bound copies. First edition of theletters of Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann,British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany. Complete in three v...

The Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone

George Barnett Smith · 1881 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

Glasgow, James Campbell & Co. c1900. Cloth. A complete set of this insightful biography of William Ewart Gladstone, with illustrations throughout. Six volumes. The biography of William Ewart Gladstone, a British statesman and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of ...

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini

Robert H. Hobart Cust · 1910 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1910. Cloth. The author's own copy of this translated biography of Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, with the author's signature to each volume. Two volumes. With author's own bookplate to the front pastedown, signed by the author...

Frederick James Furnivall: A Volume of Personal Record

Frederick James Funivall; et al · 1911 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Henry Frowde , 1911. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this scarce volume dedicated to the life and work of Frederick James Furnivall, the first edition. the scarce first edition. Featuring a varied collection dedicated to the life and work of Frederick James Furn...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell; John Wilson Croker · 1860 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.76 | ¥32,698)

London, John Murray, 1860. Leather. A new edition of Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson by John Wilson Croker. A new edition of Scottish biographer James Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson, often described as one of the greatest English bi...

The Correspondence of James Boswell

James Boswell; Ralph S. Walker [ed] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London , Heinemann, 1966-1986 . First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes of Boswell's Papers. Two volumes from the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, with volume one and four. James Boswell was a Scottish biographer, diarist and lawyer who...

Letters of James Boswell to the Rev W.J. Temple

James Boswell; Thomas Seccombe · 1908 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London , Sidgwick & Jackson, 1908 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of the correspondence of biographer James Boswell to W. J. Temple. A first edition copy.James Boswell was a Scottish biographer, diarist and lawyer who is best known for his biography of his f...

Arminius Vambery His Life and Adventures Written by Himself

Arminius Vambery · 1892 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London , T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 . Leather. An illustrated copy of Arminius Vambery's autobiography. Missing the title page but this volume is Arminius Vambery His Life and Adventures Written By Himself, with an introductory chapter Dedicated to the Boys of England, dated 1...

Johnson&Apos;S England an Account of the Life and Manners of His Age

A. S. Turberville · 1952 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952. Cloth. Two volumes on the England of Samuel Johnson's time, with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. A reprint copy. These two volumes describe the England that Dr. Johnson knew, its habits, clothes, culture and amusements from the per...

The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Tour in Wales, Correspondence with Mrs Thrale, &C

James Boswell; J Wilson Croker; John Wright · 1859 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Henry G Bohn, 1859. Cloth. James Boswell's famous biography of Samuel Johnson in ten volumes, featuring illustrations and valuable additions. Complete in ten volumes. Celebrated work of Scottish biographer James Boswell, often described as one of the greatest Engl...