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William Makepeace Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59. First edition. Leather. The first impression of Thackeray's important historical novel, complete with the original Thackeray plates. The first edition, first impression of this work. Issue points as follows; 'actresses' on page 2…

The Invasion of the Crimea

Alexander William Kinglake · 1863 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€929.10 | $1,024.06 | ¥163,548)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1863-87. Leather. A complete set of Alexander William Kinglake's magnum opus, 'The Invasion of the Crimea', all early editions, complete with illustrations and folding plates. Complete in eight volumes. Handsomely…

Observations Upon the Cities of London and Rome

Sir William Petty · 1687 · Rooke Books

£7,500.00 (€8,991.24 | $9,910.21 | ¥1,582,722)

London, Henry Mortlake; J. Lloyd, 1687 . First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce first edition of English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher Sir William Petty's discussion of population and statistics in London and Rome, proclaiming London to be greater …

A Register of the Members of St Mary Magdalen College,Oxford From The Foundation of the College (New Series Vol 1 - 8)

William Duncan Macray · 1894 · Richard Thornton Books

£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)

Henry Frowde Eight Volume Set From Vol 1 1894 to Vol 7 1910,Volume 8 are the indexes.All books in uniform maroon coloured cloth with bright gilt title lettering to spines.Nice clean set with a couple of bookplates to the front pastedowns of an odd volume.Very light wear to spine…

Letter to Sir Henry Halford, Bart. M. D. President of the Board of Health, &c. &c. &c. on the tendency of the proposed regulations for cholera: with observations as to the nature of the disease, and the course to be followed immediately on its appearance in a family.

BELL (George Hamilton) · 1831 · Forest Books

£32.25 (€38.66 | $42.61 | ¥6,806)

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1831. First edition, 16pp., disbound.

The Works of Shakespear

William Shakespeare; Sir Thomas Hamner · 1770 · Rooke Books

£4,950.00 (€5,934.22 | $6,540.74 | ¥1,044,596)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1770-1771. Leather. A beautifully illustrated set of William Shakespeare's works. Noted for the beautiful engravings which were created by Gravelot after Hayman under supervision of the editor. An miportant and scarce six volume set of Shakespeare&a…

Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, Published by the Society of Antiquities of London, Vol. XLIV (44) 1873

Thomas William Snagge, Earl Stanhope, Thomas Lewin, William Henry Black, John Gough Nichols, etc. · 1873 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Society of Antiquaries of London; Printed by J Nichols, London, 1873. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Red half-leather with black spine-labels and gilt lettering and decoration, leather is rubbed at edges and spine-ends. Clean marbled end-papers, ma…

An Essay on the New Species of Writing founded by Mr. Fielding (1751). Fielding (1751). Introduction by Alan D McKillop.[Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

ANON · 1962 · Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA, 1962. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 95. This facsimile is a high-quality …

A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art

Pearson, Richard, James C. Dobbins, William H. McCullough, Martin COllcutt, Marius B. Jansen and Michael Knight, William Jay Rathbun and Henry Trubner · 1987 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Seattle, Washington / San Francisco, California , Seattle Art Museum / Chronicle Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. As fine and readable a survey of Japanese art history and art culture as one can find to that date. Many, many score fine full-color…

The Patriot's Progress

Bullock, Pte John and Williamson, Henry · 1930 · Clarendon Books P.B.F.A.

£7.95 (€9.53 | $10.50 | ¥1,678)

Geoffrey Bles Red cloth covers in tidy condition, a little marked in places, endpapers a littlr browned, first edition First Edition No Jacket London Good Kermode, William 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

The Haunt of Time.

Chapin, Henry, introduction by Josephine Jacobsen, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Dublin, NH, William L. Bauhan, publisher, (1982). 2nd ptg. G PB. Chapin's work has directness, wit & much hard-earned wisdom, an indisputable sense of true poetic sensibility. Sl edge wear.

Sayings & Doings. No. 1- No. 6. First Edition of the Etchings. Complete

Heath, Henry (1801-1858), Caricaturist · 1831 · Wittenborn Art Books

$700.00 (€635.09 | £529.76 | ¥111,794)

[London: Charles Tilt, circa 1831]. 24 handcoloured etchings. printed on 6 leaves each 27 x 36.3cm. Printed on heavy rag paper, 4 images per sheet... OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 28046383..British Museum: Biography... Draughtsman, etcher of political caricatures and lithogra…

The Greville Memoirs (Second Part and Third Part). A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1852; in Three Volumes. A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860; in Two Volumes

Greville, Charles; Reeve, Henry, ed · 1887 · Kaaterskill Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1887. First editions. Cloth. 8vo. Greville (1794-1865) was clerk of the Privy Council. This is "an invaluable and very lively historical record." The first part (3 volumes) covers the reigns of King George IV and King William IV. Matthews p.184. C…

The Works of Shakspere (Shakspeare). Division 5. Virtue Imperial edition

Shakespeare, William; Knight, Charles [ed.] · 0 · Barter Books Ltd

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

Worn condition. Cover rubbed and binding loosening. Content in overall good condition London Virtue & Co Imperial Edition 380mm x 280mm (15" x 11"). 200pp + plates. 4 b/w steel plates. This volume contains: King Henry VIII; Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Cymberline.

My First Voyage to Southern Seas, a Book for Boys

W.H.G. Kingston · 1869 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1869 . Cloth. A lovely early edition of W. H. G. Kingston's thrilling adventure novel for young boys, illustrated throughout. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous vignette illustrations.First published in 1860, this is a charming work by …

The White King; or, Charles the First, and the Men and Women, Life and Manners, Literature and Art of England in the First Half of the 17th Century

W. H. Davenport Adams · 1889 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, George Redway, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A scarce two-volume set of W. H. Davenport Adams' biography of King Charles I, popularly known as the White King, The first edition of this scarce two-volume work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictori…

Brains & Bravery and Hazard and Heroism

G. A. Henty; Guy Boothby; L. T. Meade [Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith]; J. Arthur Barry; Katherine Tynan; H. A. Bryden; Louis Tracy; Hardold Blindloss; Edwin Lester Arnold; Lt.-Col. A. F. Mockler-Ferryman · 1903 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1903-04. First edition. Cloth. Two very smart, first edition short story anthologies, illustrated by Arthur Rackham and William H. C. Groome. Two first editions. Bound in the original publisher's red and green pictorial variant bindings.  …

The Treasury of History: Consisting of a Series of Separate Histories of the Principal States and Kingdoms in the World

Samuel Maunder · 1844 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. Cloth. The charming second edition of Samuel Maunder's popular Treasury of History, a general world history that focuses on the reigns of rulers and kings. The second edition of The Treasury of History, Consisting of a Seri…

The Friend [with] Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit [with] Aids to Reflection [with] Essays on his Own Times [with] Notes on English Divines [with] Notes Theological Political and Miscellaneous. SPLENDID COLLECTION OF THE POET'S POSTHUMOUS WORKS IN PERIOD BINDING

COLERIDGE Samuel Taylor · 1837 · Island Books

£2,460.00 (€2,949.13 | $3,250.55 | ¥519,133)

William Pickering [with] Edward Moxon, 1837-1853. Together 12 vols., sm. 8vo. and 16mo.; elegantly and uniformly bound in nineteenth-century half dark blue crushed morocco, marbled boards ruled in gilt, backs with five raised bands, second and third compartments lettered and rul…

Popular and Polite Art in the Age of Hogarth and Fielding

Paulson, Ronald · 1979 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Color-illus. dj with white lettering on black spine. Mylar cover.xvi + 285 pp. with 33 bw illus. Volume 10 in the University of Notre Dame Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language an…