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Theatre Complet de J. Racine

Jean Racine · 1858 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Paris, Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, 1858. Leather. The complete plays of the major seventeenth century French dramatist Jean Racine. Featuring a tissue guarded portrait frontispiece of Racine.Jean Racine was a popular French dramatist, primarily a tragedian, renowned for ...

Scenes Et Comedies

Octave Feuillet · 1891 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1891. Leather. A late nineteenth century collection of plays by Feuillet in a decorative binding. Includes Le Village, Le Cheveu Blanc, Dalila, L'Ermitage, L'Urne, and La Fee. Octave Feuillet (1821-1890), was a French novelist and dramatist.In th...

Fables de la Fontaine

Jean de la Fontaine · 1906 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris, Librairie Illustree Jules Tallandier, 1906. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of the fables of La Fontaine. A beautifully illustrated edition of the fables of La Fontaine. Volume two of original four. With seventy fables printed in French and illustrated by Benja...

Le Diable Boiteux

Le Sage · 1747 · Rooke Books

£95.99 (€115.06 | $126.82 | ¥20,251)

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1747. Leather. A mid-eighteenth century Amsterdam edition of Le Sage's famous novel, The Devil on Two Sticks. Complete in Two Volumes. Two Volumes bound as One. In the original French. With thirteen illustrations. In a full calf binding. Externa...

Jean-Christophe: L&Apos;Aube

Romain Rolland · 1904 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

Paris, Paul Ollendorff, c1909. Cloth. The first part of the early twentieth-century novel which won Rolland the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eleventh Edition. Jean-Christophe (1904?1912) is a novel in ten volumes by Romain Rolland, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Lite...

La Princesse Lointaine and L&Apos;Aiglon

Edmond Rostand · 1900 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Paris, Charpentier and Fasquelle, 1900. Cloth. Two French plays by Rostand, performed in Paris in 1900, starring Sarah Bernhardt. In French. La Princesse Lointaine 'shown for the first time in Paris, April 5, 1895 in the Theatre de la Renaissance. L'Aiglon 'show...

Mathilde; Our, Memoires Tires de L&Apos;Histoire Des Croisades

Madame (Sophie) Cottin · 1809 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Colburn, 1809. Leather. Engaging and moving fictionalised account of the crusades, focusing on the desires and anxieties of that era. Interesting crested bookplates of Frankland to front pastedowns. Volumes I, II and III of a four volume set. Sophie Cottin (22 March 17...

Les Croix de Bois

Roland Dorgeles · 1928 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Paris, A La Cite des Livres, 1928. Paperback. Scarce limited edition copy of Roland Dorgeles's significant First World War novel. In French. One of 500 numbered copies, this being number 342. Roland Dorgeles (1885 in Amiens, Somme – 1973), was a French novelist and a mem...

Le Petit Roi

Stella Blandy · 0 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London, Bibliotheque d'Education et de Recreation, c1877. Cloth. A scarce decorative and beautifully illustrated later nineteenth century French novel. Featuring numerous illustrations by Emile Bayard, including a tissue guarded frontispiece. With a publisher's catal...

Le Passe Plus Qu&Apos;Imparfait

Aldo Guetta · 1986 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

Paris, Aldo Guetta, 1986. Cloth. A very scarce collection of monetary pastiches by Aldo Guetta, the former director of the Paris International Monetary Fund office. With an inscription to title page, presumably by the author. In English and French In a half cloth binding with ...

Conseils a Ma Fille Avec Six Nouvelles Figures

J-N Bouilly · 1834 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Brurelles , A H Wahlen, 1834. Leather. The first volume of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's novel A Ma Fille. With an illustrated frontispiece and an additional two plates. Jean-Nicolas Bouilly was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer. Some of Bouilly's work...

Contes Et Nouvelles En Vers

J. de la Fontaine · 1621 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

Paris, Delarue, Libraire-Editeur, c1910. Leather. A copy of 'Contes et Nouvelles en Vers&apos. Written by J. de la Fontaine (July 1621 – April 1695), the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all f...

Menagerie Intime

Theophile Gautier · 1869 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1869. Leather. 5" by 7" Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 1811 – October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic. Includes a bookplate from the private library of one 'Arkadius Gunsbourg&apos...

Les Academiciens

Saint Evremont (Saint Evremond) · 1879 · Rooke Books

£47.99 (€57.52 | $63.40 | ¥10,124)

Paris, Charavay Freres, 1879. Paperback. A French comic play in three acts concerning Richelieu's creation of the French Academy. Featuring a hand coloured tissue guarded frontispiece, and a frontispiece to the play. With a preface by Robert de Bonnieres, and notes to the...

Memoires Du Duc de Saint-Simon Table Alphabetique

Paul Guerin · 1881 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

Paris , Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1881. Leather. An index volume to accompany the memoirs of Saint-Simon. In French. Louis de Rouvroy (16 January 1675 – 2 March 1755) commonly known as Saint-Simon, was a French soldier, diplomatist and writer of memoirs. The dukedom-peerage g...

L&Apos;Ane Mort

Jules Janin · 1842 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Paris , Ernest Bourdin, 1842. Unbound. The beautifully illustrated edition of L'Ane Mort, with engraved plates and illustrations by Tony Johannot, in a decorative binding. Illustrated by Tony Johannot. With 12 plates, collated complete. With numerous in-text illustrations...

Tri Legendy O Krucifixu

Julius Zeyer · 1925 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Nakladem , Ceske Graficke Unie, 1925. Leather. An extremely scarce work comprising of religiously themed short stories all linked to Jesus Christ. Written in Czech. Featuring three beautiful illustrated plates. Appears complete. As the title suggests, the common element linkin...

Oeuvres de Racine in Five Volumes

Jean Racine · 1813 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)

Paris, De L'Imprimerie de P. Didot L'Aine, 1813. Leather. A collection of the Works of Jean Racine. Complete in five volumes. In the original French. With a Frontispiece to volume I. From the Collection of the Best Works in the French Language Printed on fine paper. ...

Four Collections of Stories by F.W. Hacklander. Krieg Und Frieden, Der Augenblick Des Glucks, Der Tannhauser, and Das Soldatenleben IM Frieden.

Friedrich Wilhelm Hacklander · 1889 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

Stuttgart , C. Krabbe, c1885-1889. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated collected stories by Friedrich Wilhelm Hacklander in original illustrated cloth bindings. In German. Friedrich Wilhelm Hacklander, 1816 – 1877, was a successful German author. His writing is lively, adventurous...

Fables Choisies Mises En Vers

Jean de La Fontaine · 1727 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.20 | $792.68 | ¥126,581)

Amsterdam, Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1727-8. Leather. A collection of Jean de la Fontaine's 'Fables', illustrated throughout, in the original French. Parts III, IV and V of Jean de La Fontaine's famous Fables. In the original French. Illustrated throughout, ...