Poesia

Samlede Romaner Og Fortaellinger

Carsten Hauch · 1873 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

Kjøbenhavn, C. A. Reitzel, 1873-1874. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this scarce set containing the novels and short stories of Danish writer Johannes Carsten Hauch. The Romances and short stories of Danish writer Carsten Hauch are gathered in these seven leather ...

Poãƒâ©Sies de Francois Coppãƒâ©E 1864-1879

Francois Coppée · 1879 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1879. Leather. An attractive copy of poetry composed by the nineteenth century writer François Coppée. Published in French, with a frontispiece. A lovely copy of poetry written by the French writer François Edouard Joachim Coppée. Published in Fren...

Poesie Del Magnifico Lorenzo de Medici E Di Altri Suoi Amici E Contemporanei

Lorenzo de' Medici; Angiolo Poliziano; Bernardo, Luca, and Luigi Pulci · 1801 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Londra, L. Nardini, and A. Dulau e co, 1801. Leather. A lovely copy of this scarce edition of the poetry of Lorenzo de Medici, and his friends and contemporaries. In the original Italian.A scarce 1801 edition of Medici's work, with two volumes bound in one.Known as '...

Just Passing Through

Philip Roberts · 1969 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Quebec, The Ladysmith Press, 1969. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A signed, limited edition copy of this poetry collection by Philip Roberts. Limited edition, ten copies of this work were numbered and signed with this being number five. Signed by the author to the editions...

Y Fodrwy Aur; Sef Gweithiau Awdurol Alltud Glyn Maelor

Glyn Maelor · 1868 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Cwmavon, D. Griffiths, 1868 . Leather. A collection of Welsh language poems and literature, in its second edition. In the original Welsh. A second edition copy. Y Fodrwy Aur; sef Gweithiau Awdurol Alltud Glyn Maelor, or The Golden ring, being works of Glyn Maelor's Exil...

IL Mattino IL Mezzogiorno E la Sera

[Giuseppe Parini] · 1793 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Roma, Giuseppe Nave, 1793. Leather. The collected edition of Giuseppe Parini's ironic poem in three parts. Giuseppe Parini's poem consisting of ironic instructions to a young nobleman as to the best method of spending his days. I was published in the three parts incl...

The "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo: " History of the War between France and Prussia in Verse

'A Nephew of the Late Sir John Hutton Cooper' · 1871 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, William Smith, 1871. Paperback. The third edition of this verse scarce pamphlet outlining the history of the Franco-Prussian War in verse. The third edition of this work. A very scarce pamphlet, rarely seen in commerce and found institutionally in five libraries only i...

La Chastelaine de Vergi: Poeme Du XIII Siecle

Andre Mary · 1920 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Chez l'Imprimeur Leon Pinchon, 1920. Fine Binding. A limited edition of this collection of French poems from the thirteenth century, adorned with wood engraving by Roubille. Anthology of French poems from the thirteenth century, with versions in modern French by An...

Poesies de Malherbe

Francois de Malherbe · 1815 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Paris, P. Didot L'Aine, 1815 . Leather. A smart early nineteenth century edition of the poetry of Francois de Malherbe. In the original French.A lovely edition of the works of the French poet, critic and translator, who was active in the late sixteenth and early seventeen...

Light and Shade

Maida Stanier · 1953 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Abingdon-on-Thames, The Abbey Press, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this collection of poetry with the author's presentation slip. First edition. Scarce work. With author's presentation slip, inscription reads: With Christmas Greetings A collec...

IL Morgante Maggiore

Luigi Pulci · 1794 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,210)

Venezia [Venice], Nella Stamperia Palese, 1794. Leather. A four-volume set of Luigi Pulci's famous romantic epic poem Morgante, also referred to as Il Morgante Maggiore, in paper vellum bindings. A four volume set in paper vellum bindings, with decorative gilt to the spin...

Debita Flacco: Echoes of Ode and Epode

E. H. Pember · 1891 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Privately printed, 1891. First edition. Leather. A limited edition of this collection of poems, inscribed by the author to the Earl of Strafford. No. 51 of 250 limited edition copies of this work in a quarter calf binding. Inscribed by the author to the first blank pag...

The Lousiad an Heroic-Comic Poem Canto I

Peter Pindar · 1786 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Dublin, William Porter, 1786 . Disbound. A sixth edition copy of this heroic-comic poem by Peter Pindar. Sixth edition copy. This contains the first canto of the comic-heroic poem Lousiad written by Peter Pindar, or John Wolcot. John Wolcot was an English satirist who uses th...

L&Apos;Homme de Champs, Ou Les Georgique Francoises

Jaques Delille · 1800 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Strasbourg, Levrault, 1800 . First edition. Leather. A first French translation of the Georgics by Jacques Delille, with a frontispiece. A first edition of this French translation of Virgil's Georgics.Jacques Delille came to national prominence with this translation of th...

Poems of James Montgomery

James Montgomery; Robert Aris Willmott [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860. Cloth. An illustrated collection of poetry by James Montgomery. Edited by the nineteenth century cleric and author Robert Aris Willmott, this collection of poetry by James Montgomery is accompanied by illustrations by Birket Foster ...

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

William Barnes · 1863 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, John Russell Smith, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition copy of the third collection of poems in the Dorset dialect by William Barnes, celebrating rural life. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplates to the fro...

The Epping Hunt

Thomas Hood · 1829 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, George Tilt, 1829. First edition. Leather. A very smart first edition of this hunting poem by Thomas Wood, illustrated by George Cruikshank. First edition. Illustrated with six engravings on wood, with tissue guards for plates. Collated complete. An exciting poem about...

Poems

Rupert Brooke · 1959 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , The Folio Society, 1959. Leather. A lovely copy of Poems by Rupert Brooke. A fourth impression copy. A lovely volume of poems by Rupert Brooke with illustrations by Buckland-Wright. Some of the poems that appear in this volume include Second Best, Day That I Have Lov...

The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem

Sir Walter Scott · 1812 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. Leather. A leather bound copy of The Lay of the Last Minstel, A Poem by Walter Scott. A thirteenth edition copy of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, A Poem by Walter Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel is a narrative poem in s...

In Memoriam

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1880 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co, 1880. Vellum. A vellum-bound pocket sized edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's sentimental poem 'In Memoriam.' A requiem for the death of Lord Tennyson's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, poet in his own right who tragical...