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The Original Bath Guide: Historical and Descriptive
1881 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
Bath, William Lewis, 1881. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this early edition of The Original Bath Guide with a folding map. Early edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with twelve views across three plates and a folding map. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive complete…
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillante
M. Le Sage [Alain-Rene Lesage] · 1771 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)
Paris , Chez Les Libraires Associes , 1771 . Leather. A new edition of Alain-Rene Lesage's highly popular picaresque novel, richly illustrated with plates, complete in four volumes. A new edition. Bound in a full mottled calf. Written in the original French. Complete, with …
Memoires Et Oeuvres de Madame de Staal, Ecrits Par Elle-Meme.
Madame de Staal [Marguerite de Launay] · 1767 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)
Londres [Paris], Chez Rozet, 1767 . Leather. A very scarce new edition of the works and autobiography of Marguerite de Launay, Barronne de Staal, the first three volumes out of a four volume set. The Nouvelle Edition. First published in 1755.Bound in full calf. A collection of …
The Riviera: Pen and Pencil Sketches from Cannes to Genoa
The Dean of Canterbury [Henry Alford] · 1870 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)
London, Bell & Daldy, 1870 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the Dean of Canterbury's beautifully illustrated guide to the Riviera. The first edition of this work from English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer, Henry Alfo…
Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture
John Pope-Hennessy · 1963 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)
London, Phaidon, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. The complete three volume first edition of John Pope-Hennessy's wonderfully impressive guide to Italian sculpture in the Baroque and High Renaissance periods. The first edition, first impression of these three volumes, in the pu…
Histoire de Toto le Minet
Beatrix Potter; M. A. James [trans.] · 1960 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)
London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1960 . Hardback. A lovely French language edition of Beatrix Potter's beloved children's work, 'The Tale of Tom Kitten&apos. A French language edition, translated by M. A. James.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.…
The Arts and Artists, or Anecdotes and Relics of the Schools of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
James Elmes · 1825 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)
London, John Knight & Henry Lacey, 1825 . First edition. Hardback. Volumes II and III of a three volume first edition from James Elmes, regarding painting, sculpture and architecture through the centuries. The first edition of this work.Volumes II and III only of a three volume …
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
Frances Trollope · 1840 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
London, Henry Colburn, 1840 . First edition. Leather. A smart copy of the first single volume edition of Frances Trollope's novel about nineteenth century child labour, illustrated throughout. The first single volume edition of Frances Trollope's 'damning expose o…
Kirkby Overblow and District
Harry Speight · 1903 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
London, Elliot Stock, 1903 . First edition. Leather. A large paper copy of the first edition of Harry Speight's detailed account of this Yorkshire region. A large paper copy of this work.The first edition of Harry Speight's 'Record of the History, Antiquities, Fol…
Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children
Kate Greenaway · 1878 · Rooke Books
£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,690)
London, George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue of Kate Greenaway's beautifully colour illustrated collection of rhymes for children. The first edition, second issue. With the 'End of Contents' to pp. 14 and the illus…
Islamic Architecture and Its Decoration A.D. 800-1500
Oleg Graber · 1967 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)
London, Faber and Faber, 1967. Cloth. A collection of photographs by Derek Hill depicting the beauty if ancient Islamic architecture, in the original dust wrapper. The second edition, with twelve new colour photographs and eighty-five in black and white. First published in 1964.…
History of Lyncombe and Widcombe, with Personal Recollections of the Parish in the Thirties
William Tyte · 1898 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
Bath , Bath Chronicle" and "Bath Pictorial" Offices , 1898. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce local history of two Bath districts, Lyncombe and Widcombe, with illustrations. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work. In the original green cloth binding. A cha…
The Tulip
Anna Pavord · 1999 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
London, Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A lavishly illustrated history of the humble tulip and its dominating presence across our history. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper and original cloth binding.An extrao…
The Letters Pf Rudyard Kipling: Volume 1: 1872-89; Volume 2: 1890-1899
Thomas Pinney [ed.] · 1990 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
London, Macmillan, 1990. First edition. Cloth. The first two volumes from this series comprising the selected letters of Rudyard Kipling, both in excellent condition. The first edition. Containing Volume 1 and Volume 2 out of the six-volume series containing the letters of jour…
The Great Centuries of Painting: Byzantine Painting
Andre Grabar · 1953 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)
New York, Skira Inc. Publishers , 1953. First edition. Cloth. An art history work from Andre Grabar devoted to Byzantine mosaics and paintings, richly illustrated throughout with tipped-in coloured plates. The first US edition of this work. With the publisher's original cl…
Our National Cathedrals (the Richest Architectural Heritage of the British Nation)
1887 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)
London, Ward, Lock and Co, 1887-1889. First edition. Leather. A lavishly illustrated three-volume set detailing the history and architecture of English cathedrals, with colour plates. First edition. Complete in three volumes. Uniformly bound in half morocco with cloth boards.A …
Friendship&Apos;S Garland: Being the Conversations, Letters, and Opinions of the Late Arminius Baron Von Thunder-Ten-Tronckh
Matthew Arnold · 1871 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1871. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this satirical work from English writer and cultural critic Matthew Arnold. First edition. A collection of the fictionalised correspondence of a Prussian, Arminius, Baron von ThunderâÂÂtenâÂÂTronckh…
The Complete Stalky & Co.
Rudyard Kipling · 1929 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of school stories from English writer Rudyard Kipling. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A novel about adolesce…
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1885 · Rooke Books
£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,803)
London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1916. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated edition of this popular children's novel. Illustrated throughout with twenty-six in-text drawings. A popular Victorian story for children, originally written as a serial in 'St. Nicholas Magazine in…
Poetical Miscellanies
Richard Steele; Various · 1714 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)
London, Jacob Tonson, 1714. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this anthology of poems collected by Richard Steele, including pieces by Alexander Pope. The first edition, with the date misprinted to the title as 'MDDCXIV&apos.An anthology of poetical miscellany, c…