Biografia

The State Letters of Henry Earl Clarendon Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and His Lordship&Apos;S Diary for the Years 1687, 1688, 1689 and 1690 Vol. 1 and 2

Henry Earl of Clarendon · 1765 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.29 | $693.56 | ¥110,752)

Oxford; Dublin, Clarendon Press, 1765. Leather. A scarce complete two volume set of letters and diary entries from the Henry Hyde, the second Earl of Clarendon. Scarce. Letters include correspondence to King James II, the Lord Treasurer, Lord Sunderland and the Bishop of Downe...

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54

Edward Abbott Parry · 1903 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Sherratt and Hughes, 1903. Leather. A finely bound copy of Dorothy Osborne's letters to Sir William Temple. Illustrated, with three plates. In a Hatchards of London binding with gilt stamped detailing to the spine. Edited by English judge and dramatist Edward Abbo...

Grain or Chaff? the Autobiography of a Police Magistrate

Alfred Chicele Plowden · 1903 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.88 | ¥18,984)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1903. Leather. An autobiography of police magistrate Alfred Chichele Plowden In a Morrell binding (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free-endpaper). With frontispiece of the author. In a half-calf binding. Externally, generally smart, though wit...

Lives of Eminent Persons

Various · 1833 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1833. Leather. A selection of biographies on several eminent people. Published as a part of the 'Library of Useful Knowledge' by the superintendence of the 'Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge&apos. Illustrated, with severa...

Memoirs of Count Grammont

Count Anthony Hamilton · 1876 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1876. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of this noted memoir. With a biographical sketch and notes by Sir Walter Scott. Philibert Count de Gramont (Grammont) was a French nobleman best remembered now through this memoir, written by his brother-in-law ...

Personal Remembrances of Frederick Pollock Second Baronet Sometime Queen&Apos;S Remembrancer

Frederick Pollock · 1887 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1887. Cloth. A scarce two-volume set of the memoirs of Frederick Pollock, 2nd Baronet. Pollock's memoirs paint a detailed picture of both the machinations of the contemporary judicial system and the social life of the English gentry. Sir William...

Some Memoirs

Edmund Gosse · 1929 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London , Cobden-Sanderson, 1929. Cloth. A scarce volume detailing some memoirs of the famous writer, presented by the author himself. With an inscription to 'Maj. H.D. Marshall with the kind wishes of his friend the author.' Sir Edmund William Gosse was an English po...

The Correspondence of David Scott Director and Chairman of the East India Company Relating to Indian Affairs 1787-1805

C. H. Philips · 1951 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)

London , Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1951. Cloth. A collection of the letters of the former director of the East India company, David Scott. With a frontispiece of Scott. Volume I of two volumes (1787-1799). In a blue cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally,...

Meredith

Siegfried Sassoon · 1948 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London , Constable , 1948. First edition. Cloth. An insightful biography into the life and work of George Meredith. First edition. Featuring a frontispiece of a sketch of George Meredith. In original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine. Externally, sound, aside from...

Memoirs of Baron Hyde de Neuville. In Two Volumes

Frances Jackson · 1914 · Rooke Books

£42.99 (€51.53 | $56.79 | ¥9,069)

London , Sands and Co. 1914. First edition. Cloth. A scarce set of the memoirs of the exiled French politician, Jean-Guillaume. First Edition. Both volumes feature tissue-guarded frontispieces. Contains 24 illustrated plates. 'Translated and abridged by Frances Jackson&ap...

Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic

James Douglas · 1904 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this biography of Theodore Watts-Dunton. Although often remembered as a friend of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he he rescued from crippling alcoholism, Watts-Dunton was a highly respecte...

Turgot

Leon Say · 1888 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London , George Routledge, 1888. Cloth. An insightful biographical account on the life and works of Turgot, Translated from the original French by Gustave Masson. Featuring a frontispiece of Turgot. Part of the Great French Writers Series. In original cloth binding with gilt l...

Robert Louis Stevenson Man and Writer a Critical Biography

J. A. Steuart · 1850 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. c1924. First edition. Cloth. A two volume in one first edition of Steuart's Robert Louis Stevenson: Man and Writer. A comprehensive biography of Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), known for Treasure Island, Kid...

A Memoir of James Brown

George Stillman Hillard · 1856 · Rooke Books

£25.99 (€31.15 | $34.33 | ¥5,483)

Boston , Privately Printed, 1856. Cloth. An edition of A Memoir of James Brown by Thomas Stillman Hillard. With obituary notices and tributes of respect from public bodies. There is an engraved portrait of James Brown to the verso of title-page. From the Preface: "The late Jam...

People I Have Met

E.C. Grenville-Murray · 0 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London , Vizetelly and Co, c1884. Cloth. A attractive edition of Eustace Clare Grenville-Murray's People I Have Met. With fifty-four engravings throughout, including plates, the volume paints a vivid picture of the journalist's life in Victorian London, with humourou...

The Life of William Harvey

Geoffrey Keynes · 1966 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1966. Cloth. A biography of the life of William Harvey by Geoffrey Keynes. With numerous black and white illustrations. "In this book Sir Geoffrey Keynes attempts to place Harvey in his proper setting with a fully documented account of his relation...

Men of Might: Studies of Great Characters

A.C Benson; H.F.W Tatham · 1909 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Edward Arnold, 1909. Leather. A collection of biographies by Cambridge Scholars A.C Benson and H.F.W Tatham. Written and compiled by Cambridge scholars A C Benson and H W F Tatham, this work was written as an educational tool for young boys aged 15-18. Containing biogr...

Katherina Und Die Russische Seele.

Mary Lavater-Sloman · 1941 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

Zurich , Morgarten-Verlag, 1941. Leather. An illustrated life story of Catherine II of Russia from 1729-1796. Includes illustrated portrait plates of leaders from Zar Alexei Michailowitsch to Grissfurst Alexander Pawlowitsch as well as illustrations of maps throughout. Contain...

Arnold Bocklin

Heinrich Alfred Scmid · 1919 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

Munich, F. Bruckmann, 1919. Cloth. A German language volume examining the life and work of Arnold Bocklin. A German language volume examining the life and work of Arnold Bocklin. A Swiss symbolist painter, Bocklin's legacy is somwhat curious in that he was subsequently se...

The Adventures of the Caliph Haroun Alraschid

[Anne Manning] · 1855 · Rooke Books

£94.00 (€112.67 | $124.18 | ¥19,830)

London, Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. 1855. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon account of the life and reign of Harun al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. First edition.In the publisher's blind-stamped cloth binding.An uncommon narrative of Harun al-Ra...