Biografia

Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society

Samuel Smiles · 1877 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, John Murray, 1877. Leather. The early fifth edition of Smile's biography on a Scottish naturalist who dedicated his life to science at monetary expense, bound in full red morocco. The early fifth edition of Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of ...

Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist, Written by Himself. Containing a Variety of Information Respecting the Arts, and the History of the Sixteenth Century

Benvenuto Cellini; Thomas Roscoe [transl.] · 1823 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Henry Colburn and Co. 1823. Vellum. A vellum-bound third edition of Thomas Roscoe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's memoirs. Third edition of Thomas Roscoe's English edition. Complete sets of this translation are uncommon.Complete in two volumes. Un...

Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron, Noted During a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822

Lord Byron; Thomas Medwin · 1824 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Paris , A. and W. Galignani, 1824. Leather. A scarce early edition of Lord Byron's recorded conversations at Pisa, a posthumous publication which sparked controversy. A very scarce A. and W. Galignani edition (Paris), published the same year as the L. Baurdry Paris editio...

Marshal of the Soviet Union: Reminiscences and Reflections

G. Zhukov; Vic Schneierson [trans.] · 1985 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1985. Cloth. The first English edition of this illustrated collection of distinguished Soviet military leader George Zhukov's reminiscences and reflections, in the original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Complete in two volum...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

[Thomas De Quincey] · 1823 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.90 | ¥179,313)

London, Taylor and Hessey, 1823 . Leather. A second edition copy of this influential autobiographical account of addiction by Thomas De Quincey. The second edition, originally published in 1821.In a half brown calf binding, with marbled boards.The work is an autobiographical ...

The Diary of a Soldier of Fortune

Stanley Portal Hyatt · 1910 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, T. Werner Laurie, 1910. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon autobiography written by an English explorer and hunter who helped open trade routes in Rhodesia, reminiscent of a character from a Hemingway novel. The Diary of a Soldier of Fortune, the uncommon autobiography ...

Orientations

Ronald Storrs · 1937 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1937 . Cloth. A smart reprint of the illustrated memoir of British Foreign Office official Ronald Storrs, with a folding map and plates. A reprint, first published in the same year.In the publisher's original black cloth binding.Illustr...

Literary Biographies of Classic Modern Authors

Robin Maugham; Matthew J. Bruccoli; Anthony Burgess; Veronica Maclean; Alexander Waugh; Selina Hastings; Stefan Buczacki; Artemis Cooper; Barbara Cooke; Cristen Jaynes Hemingway; William Palmer · 1978 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.69 | ¥56,958)

Various, Various, 1978-2021. First edition. Cloth. Eleven first editions of smart literary biographies of classic modern authors including D.H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway, including two signed works. Eleven first editions of literary biographies from classic authors of the ...

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Edmund de Waal · 2010 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.08 | ¥55,904)

London, Chatto & Windus, 2010 . First edition. Hardback. A very smart signed first edition, first impression copy of this family memoir by artist Edmund de Waal. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In publisher's original hardback bi...

The Memoirs of Frank Mccourt

Frank McCourt · 1996 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Harper Collins; Flamingo; Fourth Estate, 1996-2005. Cloth. A very smart three volume set of first edition moving memoirs by writer and teacher Frank McCourt. A three volume set.The first editions, first impressions.In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In th...

W.N. Mcmillan&Apos;S Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia & British East Africa

B. H. Jessen · 1906 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.14 | ¥146,615)

London, Marchant Singer & Co, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout, this is the uncommon first edition of B. H. Jessen's description of big game hunting in Africa The uncommon first edition of this work.Illustrated with a large folding map in a pocket to th...

John Constable&Apos;S Correspondence

[ed. by R.B. Beckett] · 1965 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1965-1967. Cloth. Two volumes of correspondence from the esteemed Romantic landscape painter John Constable, offering valuable insight into his mind and that of an ambitious artist. Two volumes of John Constable's Correspondence, Volume I...

John Rylands Library of Letters and Correspondence

Various [inc. Margaret Spence; William Fredeman; George P. Landow] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Manchester, John Rylands Library, 1955-1983. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce set of eighteen works on literary criticism, including on John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, within the renowned John Rylands Library at Manchester University. A scarce set of eighteen articles from the...

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (First Time 1839; Final 1869); 1873 History of Friedrich II. Of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great.

Thomas Carlyle · 1872 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.27 | ¥92,821)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1872-1873 . Leather. A substantial prize-bound collection of works by Thomas Carlyle, comprising his seven-volume essays and ten-volume history of Frederick the Great, complete with maps and rebacked in calf. Bound in a full tree calf prize binding fo...

The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper. In Four Volumes

William Harvey · 1803 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

Chicester , J. Johnson, 1803-1806. Cloth. An early edition and complete set of Harvey's famous biography of Cowper. Complete in three volumes, with a supplementary fourth volume: 'supplementary pages to the Life of Cowper, containing the additions made to that work, ...

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone

John Morley · 1911 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1911. Leather. A biographical work on this British politician. With a frontispiece to every volume. William Ewart Gladstone was a British liberal and earlier conservative politician. His career lasted over sixty years and he served as the British Prim...

A Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors

Horatio Walpole · 1806 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, John Scott, 1806. Cloth. A catalogue of the works of noble and royal authors of Britain, including Elizabeth I, James II, Anne Boleyn and many more. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and forty-nine engraved portraits (collated: complete). Written by the fourth Ea...

Fanfare for Elizabeth

Edith Sitwell · 1946 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Edith Sitwell's novel of the childhood of Elizabeth I with four black and white illustrations and in original unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (1887 - 1964) was a British poet an...

Poets and Statesmen Their Homes and Haunts in the Neighbourhood of Eton and Windsor

William Dowling · 1856 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, E P Williams, 1856-7. Leather. An interesting collection of biographies of several notable figures. These biographies are linked by the subjects' dwellings in Eton and Windsor. Illustrated throughout with nineteen engravings, all with tissue-guards. All other edit...

William Caxton, the First English Printer a Biography

Charles Knight · 1877 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, William Clowes & Sons, 1877. Leather. A copy of Charles Knight's biographical work on the diplomat, William Caxton. New edition. With an engraved frontispiece and a number of engraved vignette illustrations. William Caxton (c. 1415 – c. March 1492) was an English ...