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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1820 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

London, Arch. Constable and Co. 1820. Leather. A finely bound set of the poetry of Sir Walter Scott, being the first collected edition of the works. The first collected edition of his works. Complete in twelve volumes. With a frontispiece portrait to volume one after Raeburn.Sir…

Familiar Letters from Italy, to a Friend in England

Peter Beckford · 1805 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Printed and sold by J Easton, 1805. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Peter Beckford's collected familiar letters from Italy in two uniform leather bound volumes. The first edition of this work, in two volumes. Bound without half titles. Peter Beckford&a…

The Wayfaring Tree

B.B. [Denys Watkins Pitchford] · 1945 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Hollis & Carter Ltd. 1945. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this semi-autobiographical work from Denys Watkins Pitchford, complete with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, eleven full-page images and many in-text sketches. Collated comple…

Beeton&Apos;S Annual; a Book for the Young

Various · 1866 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1866. Cloth. A smart illustrated annual for children, containing a variety of exciting stories, including one by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The fourth edition.A charming Victorian annual for children, containing a variety of stories by eminent authors T…

The Wind and the Rain: An Easter Book for 1962

Neville Braybrooke · 1962 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Secker & Warbung , 1962. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Neville Braybrooke's revival of the literary quarterly 'The Wind and the Rain.' The first edition of this work. An 'Ester Book' containing pieces from 'The Wind and the…

The English Illustrated Magazine

Various · 1884 · Rooke Books

£770.00 (€922.97 | $1,017.28 | ¥162,446)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1884-96. First edition. Cloth. A scarce group of fourteen volumes from 'The English Illustrated Magazine&apos. Fourteen volumes from 'The English Illustrated Magazine', the first edition. Scarcely seen in larger sets. In the original publ…

All of a Piece: New Essays

E. V. Lucas · 1937 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of essays from humorist E. V. Lucas, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. With illustrated frontispiece. A collection of essays including: Oil&apos…

Germany, from the Baltic to the Adriatic; or, Prussia, Austria, and Venetia with Reference to the Late War

Captain Spencer [William Spencer Beaumont] · 1867 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1867. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of William Spencer Beaumont's scarce history of Prussia, Austria, and Venetia, with reference to the Austro-Prussian War. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's origin…

Life and Works of William Blake

Alexander Gilchrist · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,875.00 (€2,247.48 | $2,477.14 | ¥395,567)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1880 . Leather. A beautifully bound copy of the preferable second edition of Alexander Gilchrist's richly illustrated biography of William Blake. The two volume second edition of this work. First published in 1863, this second edition is expanded, …

Racing Illustrated, Volume III. No 53, Wednesday, July 1st, 1896 - No 79, Wednesday, December 30th, 1896

1896 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.76 | ¥67,510)

London, Hudson & Kearns; Published at the Offices of "The Sportsman, 1896 . Leather. The third volume of this fascinating and richly illustrated Victorian era periodical about horse racing. Volume III of this periodical, consisting of twenty-six issues, from No. 53, Wednesday, J…

Manuale Dei Medicamenti Galenici E Chimici

Giuseppe Orosi · 1867 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Firenze, Eugenio e F. Cammelli Librai-Editori, 1867. First edition. Leather. A very scarce Italian dictionary of medicine, compiled by the chemist Giuseppe Orosi. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original Italian.An extensive Italian medical treatise, a brillian…

The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain

William Beattie · 1842 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, George Virtue, 1842 . Leather. A richly illustrated two volume edition of Beattie and Bartlett's study of the coastline of England, illustrated throughout. First published in the late 1830's by William Finden, this 1842 edition is continued by W.H. Bartlett and…

Visions of the Western Railways

R.E.A. Townsend [Richard Edward Austin Townsend] · 1838 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Samuel Bagster [Printed for Private Circulation], 1838 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce privately circulated volume of poetry by Richard Edward Austin Townsend. A lovely copy of this very scarce privately published collection of poems, dedi…

British Floral Decoration

R. Forester Felton · 1910 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London , Adam & Charles Black , 1910. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work on flowers and decoration, with colour plates. An interesting work on floral art, table decoration and the floral decoration of the home. With details on the rose, carnations, orchis sw…

Egils Saga, Skalla-Grimssonar; Laxdãƒâ¦la Saga; Eyrbyggja Saga

Sigurder Nordal; Einar Sveinsseon · 1933 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Rekjavik, Hið Islenzka Fornritafelag, 1933-1935 . Paperback. These uncommon volumes contain three Icelandic and Norwegian Sagas. Published in Icelandic. Three uncommon volumes of Icelandic and Norwegian sagas from the Islenzk Fornrit series. Published in Icelandic. With two pla…

The Primitive Church and Reunion: Papers Reprinted from the &Apos;Contemporary Review&Apos;

W. Sanday · 1913 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1913. Leather. A first edition copy of this collection of papers printed from the 'Contemporary Review' on the Primitive Church and Christian Reunion. The first edition of this uncommon work in a quarter calf binding. William Sanday (18…

Nursery Rhymes and Tales: Their Origin and History

Henry Bett · 1924 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, Methuen & Co. 1924. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce study of the origin and history of nursery rhymes and tales, with the very scarce dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original …

An English Garner

Various; Thomas Seccombe [ed.] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Westminster, Archibald Constable and Co. 1903-1904. Cloth. An eleven volume collection of tracts, poems, essays and histories from the Tudor, Stuart and Elizabethan eras, part of a complete set of twelve. An eleven-volume work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Two …

Through the Jungle Very Softly a Quest for Wild Animals in the Far East

Richard and Clara Winston · 1963 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London , Hodder & Stoughton , 1963. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated account of explorations for animals in the Jungle, from the library of Desmond Morris. A first edition in English, translated from the original German of Ludwig Koch-Isenburg by Richard and Clare Winston. …

Together We Wandered

C. J. Lambert · 1953 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London , Chatto & Winduss, 1953. First edition. Cloth. An amusing collection of travelling tales, in the first edition and in the original dust wrapper from the library of Desmond Morris. A first edition copy. A rich travel volume that takes the reader from Sussex to the Bahama…