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Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Ecrits Par Lui-Meme
Jacques Casanova De Seingalt · 1871 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
Bruxelles, J Rozez, 1871. Leather. The intriguing memoirs of Italian adventurer and author Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, the original French edition complete in eight volumes. The intriguing memoirs of Italian adventurer and author Giacomo Girolamo Casanova. No collation available,…
Champions Du Monde
Paul Morand · 1930 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1930. Leather. A fine copy of Morand's Champions du Monde. With a dedication by the author. A copy of Morand's Champions du Monde. With a dedication by the author. Paul Morand (1888 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas were…
L&Apos;Histoire Comique de Francion
Charles Sorel · 1925 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
Paris, Jean Fort, 1925. Leather. An illustrated French novel that translates as 'The History Of Comic Francion' described as one of the first and most important comic stories. An illustrated French novel that translates as 'The History Of Comic Francion' desc…
Le Chant D&Apos;Ilse
L. Gautier Vignal · 1930 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1930. Leather. An attractive copy of this work by L. Gautier Vignal. An attractive copy of this work by L. Gautier Vignal. Signed by the author to the half title. Ex libris William Tyrell. Tyrrell served in the Foreign Office from 1889 to 1928. He was privat…
Les Arts Mãâ©Connus
Emile Soldi · 1881 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1881. Leather. A beautiful second edition of anthropological exhibition pieces in the Trocadero Museum. With four-hundred illustrations. Housed in the Trocadero Palace in Paris, the Museum Ethnographique des Missions Scientifiques was founded in 1878. The l…
Le Passe Plus Qu&Apos;Imparfait
Aldo Guetta · 1986 · Rooke Books
£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)
Paris, Aldo Guetta, 1986. Cloth. A very scarce collection of monetary pastiches by Aldo Guetta, the former director of the Paris International Monetary Fund office. With an inscription to title page, presumably by the author. In English and French In a half cloth binding with ma…
The Generall Historie of the Turkes
Richard Knolles · 1610 · Rooke Books
£6,900.00 (€8,271.94 | $9,117.39 | ¥1,456,104)
London, Adam Islip, 1610. Leather. The second edition of this major work in English of Ottoman history, enlarged from the first edition, and rather more sought after and valuable than the first as a result. Though lacking a couple of leaves, the author's text is complete, a…
Trending Into Maine
Kenneth Roberts · 1938 · Rooke Books
£2,200.00 (€2,637.43 | $2,907.00 | ¥464,265)
Boston, Little, Brown, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lovely historical travelogue. Illustrated throughout, with plates by N.C Wyeth. Loosely inserted is the extremely scarce extra suite of plates (all fourteen) in their original envelope. Lacking original…
Miscellaneous Correspondence in Prose and Verse
Benjamin Martin · 1755 · Rooke Books
£1,820.00 (€2,181.87 | $2,404.88 | ¥384,074)
London, Not Stated, c1764 . Leather. A scarce copy of Benjamin Martin's Miscellaneous Correspondence. Bound in calf with gilt lettering. Scarce. With fifteen plates in volume one and eighteen in volume two, including five folding plates. Volume I & II only of three. Part of…
The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence
Horace Twiss · 1844 · Rooke Books
£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)
London, John Murray, 1844. First edition. Leather. A handsome first edition of this illustrated biography of British barrister and politician, Lord Chancellor Eldon. First edition. Complete in three volumes. Uniformly bound in signed full straight-grain morocco, with "White 24 …
Around the Fireside, Being Homely Sketches in Prose and Verse
Rev. T. M'William [McWilliam] · 1927 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
Aberdeen, D. Wyllie & Son, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely example of the scarce first edition of this illustrated poetry collection. A presentation copy, with a signed letter from the author. A signed presentation copy of the scarce first edition of this poetry collection…
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850 · Rooke Books
£680.00 (€815.21 | $898.53 | ¥143,500)
London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound first edition of Charles Dickens's celebrated Victorian bildungsroman, with illustrations throughout from Phiz. The first edition in book form of this work.A mixed issue, with the following first is…
Poems on Several Occasions with Some Other Compositions
Nathaniel Evans · 1772 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
Philadelphia, Printed by John Dunlap, 1772. First edition. Leather. The first and only edition of the works of early American poet, Nathaniel Evans. The first edition of Nathaniel Evan's only work. Bound in contemporary full speckled calf. Bound with the half title page &a…
Poems
Romilly John · 1931 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)
London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1931. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of these scarce poems from Romilly John, the son of important Welsh painter Augustus John. Signed presentation inscription from the author to the front free endpaper, "With love to Katie".The first edition…
Le Thãâ©ãâ¢Tre Des Ombres Chinoises. Nouveau Sãâ©Raphin Des Enfants: Recueil de Jolies Piãâ¨Ces Amusantes Et Faciles ãâ Monter, Illustrãâ©Es de Gravures Reprãâ©Sentant Les Principales Scãâ¨Nes.
Guignollet · 1871 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
Paris, Le Bailly, [1871]. First edition. Paperback. A charming illustrated French collection of shadow-puppet plays for children, demonstrating the rising interest in Chinese shadow theatre and domestic performance. In the publisher's original paper wraps.Undated. Dated her…
Pere Goriot: Scenes from Parisian Life
Honore de Balzac · 1887 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1887. Leather. A handsome limited edition of Balzac"s Père Goriot, the great Parisian novel of ambition, sacrifice, and social climbing, bound in a half morocco binding by Geo. Winstanley. Bound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper boa…
Jane Austen
E.J Sheppard; J.B.E. Turner; Susannah Fullerton [ed.]; Anne Harbers [ed.]; Frederick Bussby; Deirdre le Faye; John Hubback; et. al · 1952 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)
London; Bath; Australia; Winchester; Bristol; , Longmans; James Brodie Ltd.; Wellington Lane Press; The Friends of Winchester Cathedral; The Jane Austen Society; John Hubback; , 1952-2007. Cloth. London; Bath; Australia; Winchester; Bristol; : Longmans; James Brodie Ltd.; Wellin…
The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse; a New Version of an Old Story Arranged As a Play for Mummers
Thomas Hardy · 1923 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this this play for amateurs in one act by Thomas Hardy. A one-act play by Thomas Hardy, one of the only two pieces of drama written by this author.The first edition.In the original green clot…
Rain: A Volume of Poems
Jean Kenward · 1946 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, W. H. Allen & Co, 1946 . First edition. Paperback. Signed by the author, this is a bright example of the very scarce first edition of Jean Kenwards' illustrated poetry collection. A very scarce first edition, first impression, flat signed by the author to a front bl…
Selected Bab Ballads
W. S. Gilbert; Hesketh Pearson [Intro.]; Philip James [A Note on the Illustrator] · 1955 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
Oxford, Allen Lane/University Press, 1955 . First edition. Cloth. A beautiful limited edition of W. S. Gilbert's delightful 'Bab Ballads', with a handwritten letter from Hilary Jenkinson to Philip James, contesting James's interpretations of Gilbert's il…