Biografia

Buckinghamshire: A Short History, with Genealogies and Current Biographies

John Grant · 1911 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London , London & Provincial Publishing Co, 1911. First edition. Vellum. A comprehensive history and biography of the county of Buckinghamshire. A first edition copy of this comprehensive work, Buckinghamshire: A Short History, with Genealogies and Current Biographies, by John...

The Life of Raymond Chandler

Frank MacShane · 1976 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1976. First edition. Hardback. A handsome first edition copy of this biographical exploration into the life and works of Raymond Chandler. A first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the unclipped dust wrapper designed by Craig ...

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir

Hallam Tennyson · 1897 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1897. Cloth. Second impression of Hallam Tennyson's affectionate memoir of his father Lord Tennyson, complete in two volumes. Second impression of this work printed in the same year and month as the first. A sweeping biography of famous English p...

The Life and Work of Charles Henry Von Bogatzky

Rev. John Kelly · 1889 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1889. Leather. A scarce 19th century biographical sketch of Charles Henry Von Bogatzky and his work, 'The Golden Treasury', signed by the author and presented to his wife. A fascinating biographical sketch of the life and career o...

Fridtjof Nansen: Explorer - Scientist - Humanitarian

Per Vogt · 1961 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Oslo , Dreyers Vorlag , 1961. First edition. Leather. A beautiful first English language edition of Per Vogt's biography of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, adorned with beautiful illustrations and complete with unclipped dust wrapper. First English language edition of...

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini

John Addington Symonds [trans.] · 1901 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1901. Cloth. Fifth edition of Benvenuto Cellini's biographical work, translated to the English by John Addington Symonds. A detailed account of the life of Florentine artist Benvenuto Cellini: his career, love, passions, hate, and delights. Some ...

Paul Philip Barraud: A Study of a Fine Chronometer Maker

Cedric Jagger · 1968 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, The Antiquarian Horological Society, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A scarce work on the life of watchmaker Paul Philip Barraud, published on behalf of the Antiquarian Horological Society, with numerous illustrated plates. First Ed, Scarce.Presented in the very scarce unc...

Stop-Time

Frank Conroy · 1967 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York, The Viking Press, 1967. First edition. Cloth. Second impression of this remarkable memoir by American author Frank Conroy, a smart copy complete with unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, second impression of this work, published in the same year as the first. An ac...

The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence

D. E. Williams · 1831 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this two volume biography of this immensely popular Regency era portrait artist, a scarce work. The scarce two volume first edition biography of leading Regency era portrait artist S...

Examples of San Bernardino of Siena

Ada Harrison; Bernardino of Siena · 1926 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Gerald Howe, 1926. First edition. Vellum. A lovely limited edition copy on the life of Bernardino of Siena, containing moral lessons attributed to him, bound in vellum and signed by artist Robert Austin with numerous illustrated engravings. First Limited Edition, being...

Memories and Thoughts: Men-Books-Cities-Art

Frederic Harrison · 1906 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. First edition of Frederic Harrison's autobiographical work, sharing memories and impressions of life experiences. First edition of this work. English author Frederic Harrison shares personal memories and thoughts colle...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoirs of His Life

Charles Kingsley; Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley (ed.) · 1880 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.48 | ¥54,849)

London, C. Kegan Paul and Co. 1880. Fine Binding. A handsomely bound copy of this collection of letters and memoirs of renowned Victorian author Charles Kingsley, illustrated throughout. A collection of letters and memoirs, including copious biographical information, from reno...

The Golden Age

Kenneth Grahame · 1915 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1915. Cloth. A bright first edition of Kenneth Graham's celebrated childhood reminiscences to feature colourful illustrations by R. J. Enraght-Moony. The first edition thus embellished with nineteen lovely full page coloured plates by R....

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Together with Boswell&Apos;S Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson&Apos;S Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

James Boswell; Samuel Johnson; George Birkbeck Hill [ed.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

Oxford , At the Clarendon Press , 1934-50. Cloth. The acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, complete with six bright volumes in five. A collection complete in three volumes of this work by Scottish biographer James Boswell, often described as one of the great...

Una Amazone Sous le Premier Empire

Henri Lachize · 1902 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Paris, Charles Carrington, 1902. First edition. Leather. The original biography of Isa Saint-Elme by Henri Lachize, the first edition in French with illustrations by Charles Thevenin. Biography of Ida Saint-Elme by Henri Lachize, the first edition limited to five hundred copie...

Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor

Simon Fenwick · 2017 · Rooke Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.27 | ¥6,751)

London, Macmillan, 2017. First edition. Cloth. A bright first impression of this biography of English photographer Joan Leigh Fermor, wife of Major Paddy Leigh. The first edition, first impression of this work. A biographical sketch of the life and work of Joan Leigh Fermor, t...

William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries

Thomas Archer; Alfred Thomas Story · 1898 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, The Gresham Publishing Co, 1898-99. Cloth. A smart, complete set of this illustrated work on the social and political career of former British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, in Talwyn Morris binding. A fascinating and comprehensive account of the life and pol...

Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito

General Fleischmann · 1881 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. Cloth. A smart copy of this comprehensive memoir of French statesmen and scholar, André François Miot de Mélito, a scarce work. A very detailed and comprehensive memoir of eighteenth and nineteenth century French stat...

Art Principles in Practice

Henry Rankin Poore · 1930 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London and New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of Rankin Poore's work on art theory, illustrated throughout and complete with the original dust wrapper. This work completes a trio of books on art theory by Rankin Poore, t...

Reminiscences of the Late Thomas Assheton Smith, or the Pursuits of an English Country Gentleman

Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot · 1860 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, John Murray, 1860. Leather. A beautifully bound, second edition of Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot's memoir of the sportsman and politician Thomas Assheton Smith. Second edition, bound in full-calf.Illustrations include a frontispiece, a vignette illustration to the ti...