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2vols in 1 Responsio Ad Librum Inscriptum, Triplici Nodo, Triplex Cuneus; Apologia Roberti S.R. E. Cardinalis Bellarmini
Robert Bellarmine · 1610 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)
Cologne [Colonia Agrippina], Johann Kinckius; Stephan Hemmerden, 1610 . Cloth. A scarce pairing of Bellarmine's major Catholic responses to James I in the explosive Jacobean controversy over the Oath of Allegiance. Rebound in modern brown cloth, endpapers renewed. Two clo…
Poems
George Sims · 1944 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, The Fortune Press, 1944 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this collection of poetry from the English antiquarian bookseller and author, George Sims, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue clo…
A Little Boy Lost
W.H. Hudson · 1905 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Duckworth & Co. 1905 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this charmingly illustrated novel exploring the complexities of childhood. The first edition. In the publisher's original beige cloth binding. With a frontispiece, twelve plates, and in tex…
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
Joseph Addison · 1718 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
Hague, Henry Scheurleer, 1718 . Leather. An attractive example of the very scarce first Hague edition of Addison's account of his travels in Italy, illustrated with folding engraved plates. The very scarce first Hague published edition of this work, first published in 1705.…
Tours in Wales
Thomas Pennant · 1810 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, Wilkie and Robinson; J. Nunn; White and Cochrane et al, 1810 . First edition. Leather. The three volume first edition of Thomas Pennant's beautifully illustrated account of his late 18th century travels in Wales, with numerous plates, the majority of which are foldi…
The Cobham Journals. Abstracts and Summaries of Meteorological and Phenological Observations
Miss Caroline Molesworth; Eleanor A. Ormerod · 1880 · Rooke Books
£1,750.00 (€2,097.65 | $2,311.99 | ¥369,196)
London, Edward Stanford, 1880 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional example of the scarce first edition of Eleanor A. Ormerod's publication of Caroline Molesworth's pioneering phenological observations. An important work from two significant Victorian-era female scien…
According to the Evidence; the Painswick Line
Henry Cecil · 1954 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Chapman & Hall; Michael Joseph, 1954-1958 . Cloth. Two thrilling and entertaining novels about the British legal system from barrister and judge Henry Cecil, in the original dust wrappers. Two entertaining novels from Henry Cecil, a British barrister, judge, and a writer…
The Correlation of the Lower Chalk of South-East England
William James Kennedy · 1969 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Not Stated, Not Stated, 1969 . Cloth. A very scarce academic resource on the Weald from prominent geologist William Kennedy. Very scarce. Smartly bound in green cloth. Featuring a number of full-page graphs, followed by eight plates, numbered fifteen to twenty-two (bound out of …
Broad Grins; Eccentricities for Edinburgh
George Colman the Younger · 1839 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, H. G. Bohn, 1839. Leather. Two humorous collections of verse by the witty British dramatist, bound in one attractive quarter calf volume. The eighth edition of Broad Grins, with New Additional Tales in Verse, and the first edition of Eccentricities for Edinburgh, with Ne…
Cobett&Apos;S Manchester Lectures, in Support of His Fourteen Reform Propositions: Which Lectures Were Delivered in the Minor Theatre, in That Town, on the Six Last Days of the Year 1831
[William Cobett] · 1832 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)
London, at No.11 Bolt-Court, Fleet Street, 1832. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of the Manchester lecture series, delivered by political reformer, William Cobett. The scarce first edition series of lectures, delivered by William Cobbett between 26th and 31st Dece…
Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes
Various · 1940 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this early Mervyn Peake illustrated nursery-rhyme collection, retaining the original pictorial covers within a later cloth binding. Rebound in a later cloth binding, with the original pictorial front…
Shapes & Sounds
Mervyn Peake · 1941 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of Mervyn Peake's first collected volume of poetry, one of 1,000 copies issued, preserved in the striking original unclipped dust wrapper. In the  publisher's original quarter cloth binding w…
Rhymes without Reason
Mervyn Peake · 1944 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944 . First edition. Cloth. A desirable first edition of Peake's eccentric of nonsense verse, illustrated with sixteen colour illustrations by Peake, and complete with the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original…
The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret
Susanna Centlivre · 1736 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, W. Feales, 1736 . Leather. A smartly rebound copy of the third edition of Susanna Centlivre"s popular comedy of secrecy, jealousy and resistance to patriarchal authority. Rebound in a modern quarter morocco binding with cloth boards, endpapers renewed. The third edition,…
Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After
Geoffrey Grigson [ed.] · 1949 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Phoenix House Limited, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A smart 'first cheap edition' of this collection of mid twentieth-century poetry by a number of acclaimed authors, compiled by Geoffrey Grigson. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue cloth…
Volumes from the Fundacion Para la Conmemoracion Del Bicentenario Del Natalicio Y El Sesquicentenario de la Muerte Del General Francisco de Paula Santander
Francisco de Paula Santander; Horacio Rodriguez Plata [ed.]; Juan Camilo Rodriguez [ed.]; Alvaro Lozano Esquivel · 1988 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
Bogota, Biblioteca de la Presidencia de la Republica Administracion Virgilio Barco, 1988-1990. First edition. Hardback. A smart seven volume set on Colombia's national hero, Francisco de Paula Santander, including letters, writings, diaries, and a biography. A seven volume …
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Lady Luxborough, to William Shenstone
Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough · 1775 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
London, J. Dodsley, 1775 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of these posthumously published private correspondences from Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough to her personal friend, William Shenstone. A collection of letters from Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, an Engli…
The Contemporaries of Burns, and the More Recent Poets of Ayrshire
James Paterson [ed.]; Isobel Pagan; James Fisher; Janet Little; John Ramsay et al · 1840 · Rooke Books
£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)
Edinburgh, Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder, 1840 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this delightful poetry anthology or works by contemporaries of Burns and those from his region of Scotland, edited by James Paterson. A scarce first edition. Illustrated with a front…
The Poetical Works of John Scott Esq.
John Scott · 1782 · Rooke Books
£330.00 (€395.56 | $435.98 | ¥69,620)
London, J. Buckland, 1782 . First edition. Leather. A handsome example of the charmingly illustrated first edition of the collected verse of Quaker poet John Scott, rebound in quarter morocco. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, …
Ninfa Revisited
Kathleen Raine · 1968 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, Enitharmon Press, 1968. First edition. Paperback. A signed limited edition of this uncommon poetry work, together with the original wraparound band. First edition. No. 244 of a limited edition of 325 copies. In the publisher's original soft covers with the original …