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The States-Men and Favourites of England Since the Reformation

[David Lloyd] · 1665 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

London, Samuel Speed, 1665. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of David Lloyd's collection of biographies on eminent historic English individuals, bound in full calf. The very scarce first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece. Collated, ...

2 Vols the Poems of Robert Bloomfield

Robert Bloomfield · 1814 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, ; Longman; Hurst; Rees; Orme and Co.; B. and R. Crosby and Co,; Darton: Harvey and Darton; Walker; Edwards and Reynolds; and G. 1814 . First edition. Leather. London: ; Longman; Hurst; Rees; Orme and Co.; B. and R. Crosby and Co,; Darton: Harvey and Darton; Walker; Edw...

The Queen&Apos;S Wake: A Legendary Poem

James Hogg · 1842 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson, 1842 . Cloth. An 1847 edition of James Hogg"s best-known bardic cycle The Queen"s Wake, a Romantic tribute to Scottish legend, reissued by Thomas Nelson. In the publisher's original red cloth binding.This copy features an illustrated title page a...

The Life of Dr. George Bull; Some Important Points of Primitive Christianity

George Bull; Robert Nelson · 1816 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

Oxford, W. Baxter for J. Parker, 1816. Leather. A handsome collection of works by and about English theologian George Bull, the Bishop of St. David's. Three uniformly bound volumes, rebacked and in full calf.The first of these volumes is a 'new edition' of Rober...

A Collection of Novels by John Buchan

John Buchan · 1930 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,835)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930-1936. First edition. Cloth. Five uniformly bound first edition novels from Scottish writer John Buchan. Five volumes. First edition. Written by John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Union...

Le Roi Des Montagnes

Edmond About · 1872 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1872 . Vellum. A scarce edition of this satirical adventure novel by French writer Edmond François Valentin concerning brigands and corruption in 18th century Athens. Elegantly rebound in paper vellum wrapped cloth with gilt decoration.First ...

Reynard the Fox: After the German Version of Goethe

Thomas James Arnold · 1860 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

London, Trubner and Co, 1860. Cloth. A decoratively bound translation of Goethe's 1793 poem of Reynard the Fox, with illustrations. The first edition of this translation with these illustrations. In the publisher's original gilt-decorated cloth binding. From Johann...

Pearson&Apos;S Magazine Volumes I, II, III, V, and IX

1896 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.51 | $1,453.26 | ¥231,993)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. 1896-1900. Cloth. Five volumes of this monthly periodical specialising in speculative literature, with illustrations throughout. Five volumes, being volumes I, II, III, V, and IX only. Illustrated throughout. Pearson's Magazine was a monthl...

Phaedri Fabulae Et Publii Syrii Sententiae

Phaedrus; Syrus Publilius · 1729 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

Parisiis [Paris], Ex Typographia Regia , 1729. Leather. A beautifully bound, miniature edition of the fables of Phaedrus and Publilius Syrus, written in Latin, bound in a stunning full crushed morocco. Bound in full morocco with gilt dentelles. Housed in a custom cloth clamshe...

Les Fables de Phãƒâ¨Dre En Vers Franãƒâ§Ois. Avec Une ãƒâ‰Dition Latine a Cote, & Des Notes.

Phedre; M. Denise [Ed.] · 1708 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

Paris , Jacques Estienne , 1708 . Leather. An exceptionally scarce French translation of fables from one of the earliest Roman fabulists, Gaius Julius Phaedrus, bound in a striking quarter morocco by Eric Sweet. Vanishingly scarce work, with no known copies held institutionall...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop · 1921 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, J. Coker; G. H. Harrap, 1921-32. Cloth. Two copies of Edwin Noble's boldly illustrated edition of Aesop's fables, one being the first Noble edition, and both featuring Noble's fantastic colour plates and housed in a clamshell box. Two Edwin Noble illustr...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables and Fables de la Fontaine

Aesop; Jean de La Fontaine; Werner Thuswaldner; Marie Angel · 1981 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, North-South Books; Neugebauer Press Publishing Ltd, 1981-1994. First edition. Cloth. A lovely illustrated set comprising the fables of Fontaine and Aesop, complete with the original dust wrappers and slipcase. The first UK editions of these works. 'Fontaine' ...

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop; Val Biro · 2001 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Award Publications Limited, 2001-2004. First edition. Paperback. Ten very smart volumes of fables attributed to Aesop, retold and illustrated by Hungarian children's author Val Biro. Ten volumes. Illustrated throughout. A collection of the fables attributed to Aes...

The Fables of Aesop and Others

Aesop; Gerald Gottlieb · 1857 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.34 | ¥63,271)

London; New York, W. Kent & Co; Chatto and Windus; The Viking Press; Bracken Books, 1857-1986. First edition. Leather. London; New York: W. Kent & Co; Chatto and Windus; The Viking Press; Bracken Books, 1857-1986. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed/Near Fine. 10.5" by 8....

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop · 1912 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,342)

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1912. First edition. Cloth. An edition de luxe of Charles Folkard's colourfully illustrated Aesop, signed by the publishers, A. & C. Black. An edition de luxe of two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered one hundred and seven, p...

The Fables of Aesop: Selected, Told Anew and Their History Traced

Aesop; Joseph Jacobs · 1894 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.08 | ¥125,487)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce large paper limited edition of Joseph Jacob's reworking on Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by Richard Heighway. A very scarce large paper first edition, limited to one-hundred unnumbered copi...

Romance and Reality, Essays and Studies

Holbrook Jackson · 1911 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1911. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce series of essays by Holbrook Jackson, from his library with his bookplate. The first edition of this scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, with his bookplate...

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1952 · Rooke Books

£3,850.00 (€4,614.79 | $5,086.41 | ¥811,976)

New York, Random House, 1952. First edition. Cloth. The sought after first edition, first printing of Ralph Ellison's monumental award winning novel, his first and only work to be published during his lifetime. The first edition, first printing as stated to the edition pa...

Moortown

Ted Hughes · 1979 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Faber and Faber, 1979. First edition. Paperback. A smart first softcover edition of this poetry diary from English writer Ted Hughes. First edition. With the original errata slip. A poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm. Ted Hughes married Caro...

A Search for a Secret

G. A. Henty · 1911 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

London, Gall and Inglis, [1911]. Cloth. The second edition of the debut novel of G. A. Henty, an exciting novel of adventure, intrigue, and mystery. The second edition, and the first to be complete in one volume.This was the debut novel of G. A. Henty, first published in 1867....