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Four Comedy Plays by Sir Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele · 1730 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)
London, Linton, Tonson, Draper; Tonson; Lintot, 1730-1751. Leather. Five mid eighteenth century editions of humorous plays by Sir Richard Steele, bound together in a single volume. Four plays by Sir Richard Steele, the Irish writer, playwright, and politician who co-founded the …
Sermons and Sermons Principally Designed to Illustrated and to Enforce Christian Morality
Rev. Thomas Gisborne · 1811 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)
London , T. Cadell and W. Davies , 1811-1814. Leather. A collection of three volumes of Sermons by Thomas Gisborne. A three volume set of Sermons by Thomas Gisborne, including two volumes of Sermons and one volume of Sermons Principally Designed to Illustrated and to Enforce Chr…
Leading Events in the History of the Port of Bristol
W. N. Reid; W. E. Hicks · 1877 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)
Bristol, W. C. Hemmons, 1877. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Leading Events in the History of the Port of Bristol, with a folding map. A first edition copy. Leading Events in the History of the Port of Bristol is a fascinating focused history of Bristol as a key p…
Novels by Len Deighton
Len Deighton · 1970 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
London , Hutchinson; Jonathan Cape, 1970-1989. First edition. Cloth. Four first edition copies of novels by Len Deighton. Four novels by Len Deighton. Len Deighton is a British author who is best known for his spy books. This collection includes his works XPD, Spy Line, London …
Maiwa&Apos;S Revenge
H. Rider Haggard · 1891 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.93 | ¥24,254)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1891. Cloth. The first illustrated edition of this short adventure novel by H Rider Haggard. The first illustrated edition of this work. A short novel concerned with the hunter Allan Quatermain on a hunting expedition to rescue a captured English…
Eleven Works Collector&Apos;S Reference Set of English History
Various · 1979 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)
London; New York, Various, 1979-2019 . First edition. Cloth. A fine set of first edition English history works in the original dust wrappers. Eleven first edition works of English history in the original publisher's cloth bindings and unclipped dust wrappers. In fine condi…
Small Country Houses of to-Day
Sir Lawrence Weaver · 1922 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)
London, Country Life Limited, 1922. Cloth. Volumes I and II of this illustrated study of English country houses. Volumes I and II only. Second edition. Illustrated throughout with volume I containing 265 and volume II containing 297 photographs and plans. A study of English coun…
The Old Coaching Days in Yorkshire
Tom Bradley · 1889 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)
Leeds, The Yorkshire Post, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated volume on stage-coach travel in Yorkshire. Published by the Yorkshire weekly post, this illustrated first edition provides a delightful record of old Yorkshire coaching days. Stagecoach tr…
A Dictionary of Birds
Alfred Newton; Hans Gadow · 1896 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this nineteenth century dictionary of birds compiled by ornithologist Alfred Newton. A first edition of Alfred Newton's illustrated dictionary of birds. The English zoologist and ornithologist he…
Puck of Pook&Apos;S Hill
Rudyard Kipling · 1906 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1906. First edition. Cloth. Rudyard Kipling's anthology of historical fantasy tales, the illustrated first impression. The first edition, first impression of this work. With four leaves of advertisements to rear, dated 15.08.06 as called for.A Rudy…
Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures
Various · 1941 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)
London, Collins, 1941-48. First edition. Hardback. A group of thirty-five volumes from Collins's sought-after 'Britain in Pictures' series, with numerous illustrations in colour. A desirable addition to any collector's library, thirty-five volumes from the hi…
Fifteenth Century English Books: A Bibliography of Books and Documents Printed in England and of Books for the English Market Printed Abroad
E. Gordon Duff · 1964 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)
London, Oxford University Press, 1964. Cloth. A reprint of this bibliography of books and documents printed in England, with information on those printed for the English market abroad. Facsimile edition. First printed in 1917, now reprinted photographically in 1964. Bibliography…
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens · 1870 · Rooke Books
£1,175.00 (€1,408.41 | $1,552.35 | ¥247,811)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1870. First edition. Paperback. The final uncompleted work of Charles Dickens, here in the original six serialised parts. Complete in the six original parts.The first issue of Part VI, with the 'eighteenpence' slip pasted over the original on sh…
The Library of Edward Gibbon: A Catalogue of His Books
Geoffrey Keynes · 1950 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
London, The Bibliographical Society, 1950. Cloth. A second impression of this uncommon catalogue of the library of Edward Gibbon, who wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The second impression of this uncommon work in a quarter cloth binding. Most copie…
Bumpy Flight
Alec Lumsden · 1936 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)
London, The Popular Library, [1936]. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this exciting action novel, in the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work. Undated, dated from copies held at the British Library. In the scarce original picto…
Crewe Train
Rose Macaulay · 1926 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)
London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1926. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition, first impression of this satire from noted author Rose Macaulay. The first edition, first impression, with no further impressions stated. Very scarce, particularly in the first impression…
The Last Galley
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1911 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)
London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories, by noted detective fiction author, Arthur Conan Doyle. The first edition. One of only six thousand copies. Green & Gibson A35. With a colour frontispiece by N. C. Wy…
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty&Apos;S Government
James Richardson · 1853 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥115,997)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1853 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of British explorer James Richardson's evangelical mission to central Africa in the early 1850s. Richardson's work discusses the wildlife, climate, people, customs and politics of Central…
The Private Life of Lewis XV. In Which Are Contained the Principal Events, Remarkable Occurrences, and Anecdotes of His Reign.
Barthelemy Mouffle d'Angerville; J. O. Justamond [trans.] · 1781 · Rooke Books
£1,295.00 (€1,552.25 | $1,710.88 | ¥273,119)
London, Charles Dilly, 1781. First edition. Leather. The scarce first English language edition of Mouffle d'Angerville's chronologically arranged account of the life of Louis XV. The first English language edition of this work, translated from Barthelemy Mouffle d&apos…
A Collection of the Public General Statutes
1799 · Rooke Books
£700.00 (€839.05 | $924.80 | ¥147,632)
London, George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1799-1849 . First edition. Leather. Eleven scarce volumes spanning fifty years from the early nineteenth century of publications of sessions in Parliament. Eleven volumes of Collection of the Public General Statutes ranging fifty year…