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Rossetti and His Circle

Max Beerbohm · 1922 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of Max Beerbohm's humorous caricaturist series concerning the life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his peers. First edition. Illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece and twenty-two colour …

Rare Vanishing & Lost British Birds

W. H. Hudson; Linda Gardiner · 1923 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1923. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this ornithological study of British birds by Linda Gardiner, adorned with charming coloured plates. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-five coloured plates. Collated complete. A detailed and…

Essays Classical

F. W. H. Myers · 1904 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1904. Leather. A smartly bound collection of essays from British classicist, Frederic W. H. Myers. One of two volumes of essays from Myers, entitled Essays, Classical and Modern. A collection of essays on the classical writings, with chapters on: the Gr…

Darnley, or, the Field of the Cloth of Gold

G. P. R. James · 1849 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, Richard Bentley, 1849. Leather. A pocket-sized edition of James' historical novel. George Payne Rainsford James (1799-1860) was a writer of novels and histories, serving as British Historiographer Royal for King William IV. His most famous work was 'Richelieu: …

Edward the Peacemaker the Story of His Life

W H Wilkins · 1911 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Hutchinson and Co, 1911. First edition. Leather. A beautifully illustrated biography and history of Edward VII and his place in the British monarchy. The first edition of this work, being both volumes I and II. Two volumes bound as one. Eleven coloured plates to volume I…

Through a Dartmoor Window & a Dartmoor Window Again

Beatrice Chase · 1918 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London , Longmans, Green and Co, 1918. Cloth. A two volume set of Beatrice Chase's dramatic novels set in the moorland of South Devon. Illustrated frontispieces of the building of a home and a portrait of Mr. Bluejacket. Beatrice Chase was the pen name for a British writer,…

Trivia

John Gay; W.H. Williams · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Daniel O'Connor, 1922 . Cloth. Decorative facsimile edition of John Gay's significant poem on 18th-century London. In publisher's original cream decorative binding.With a frontispiece, 15 monochrome plates, a facsimile of the original title page, and illus…

The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton; Rev. H. C. Beeching [editor] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1900. Vellum. A smartly bound copy of this anthology of the poetical works of English poet John Milton. An anthology of the poetical works of John Milton, an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant best known for his 1667 epic poem Para…

The Allen Press Bibliography MCMLXXXI Produced by Hand with Artwork Sample Pages from Previous Editions

Lewis Allen; Dorothy Allen · 1985 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)

San Francisco , The Book Club of California , 1985. Cloth. A very smart facsimile edition of the original Allen Press Bibliography, limited to seven hundred and fifty copies. Facsimile edition. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies. Illustrated throughout with ten sample pag…

Shakespeare and His Friends

1838 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London , Henry Colburn , 1838. First edition. Leather. A very scarce collection of Robert F. Williams' three part novel. The first edition, complete in three volumes. The first edition of this novel by Robert Folkestone Williams, complete in three volumes. A very scarce cop…

The History of Modern Painting

Richard Muther · 1895 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, Henry & Co. 1895-6. First edition. Leather. A striking three volume study of modern painting by Richard Muther in uniform beautiful Hatchards bindings. A monumental history of modern art by Richard Muther, complete in three large paper volumes. The first edition in the E…

The New England Quarterly a Historical Review of New England Life and Letters

Various · 1990 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Boston, The New England Quarterly Inc. 1990-1991. Paperback. A selection of three works from 'The New England Quarterly&apos. These works are from September 1990, June 1991 and September 1991. All contain scholarly articles on the history and life of New England settlers an…

Essays of Francis Bacon / the Essayes or Counsels, CIVILL and Morall of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban

BACON, FRANCIS · 1901 · Bluebird Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1901. Leather. A compact leatherbound edition presenting a collection of 58 essays (and a fragment of a 59th) on fundamental aspects of human life by the English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). The essays focus on basics s…

Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray comprising a political and humorous history of the latter part of the reign of George the Third

WRIGHT, T., EVANS, R.H., · 1851 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€402.50 ($443.64 | £335.74 | ¥70,852)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1851, xv+496 pages, original attractive half leather binding marbled boards, gilt edges, gilt lettering and ornaments on spine, bookplates of Mary Kenny (1944- Irish writer) and Ifor Glyn Jones. James Gillray (13 August 1756-1 June 1815) was a British cari…

Imago Mundi. A Review of Early Cartography. Volume 6 [1949].

BAGROW, LEO [ED.]. · 1949 · Antiquariaat Schot

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,225)

Stockholm, Kartografiska Sällskapet. 1949. Original publisher's sewn cream paperback, black lettering spine & frontcover, 4to: [ij], 110pp., 11 articles, 12 shorter articles, richly illustrated [several folding maps in facsimile], chronicle, reviews, bibliography, list & referen…

Rear-Admiral Sir Colin Keppel; Commodore H.M. 's Yachts. Issue 2105. (Rare Colour Half-Tone Gravure. )

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) · 1909 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London: Vanity Fair, 1909. Original colour half-tone gravure. 38 x 26 cm (15 x 10 inches). Good. Losses on top margin and wear on right edge, not affecting image. Published in Vanity Fair, 3 March 1909. Hentschel-Colourtype, London (half-tone gravure). Rare. Admiral Sir Colin Ri…

Mr Wh Smith Mp; Newspapers. Issue No. 175. (Original Lithograph. )

Cecioni (Cecioni, Adriano 1838-1886) (Lith.) · 1872 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

London: Vanity Fair, 1872. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of letterpress description. Very Good. Minor spots of foxing in bottom and right margins, not affecting image. Published in Vanity Fair, 9 March 1872. William Henry Smith, FRS (24 Jun…

Havelock Ellis in Appreciation

Joseph Ishill · 1929 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

A$1,320.00 (€811.39 | $894.32 | £676.81 | ¥142,828)

The Oriole Press Berkeley Heights First Edition Near Fine Condition Very Good Inscribed by Author 21cm x 16cm. xlvi, 300 pages, 15 plates. Original quarter cloth, papered boards, paper label, original glassine jacket. Havelock Ellis in Appreciation by Elie Faure, Bertrand Russel…

Essays on Museums and other subjects related to Natural History

Flower, W.H. · 1898 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

MacMillan & Co London xv, 394, [2]-ads, . . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, lightly rubbed, spine worn and darkened. Name erased from top of free endpaper, resulting in some small perforations. Publisher's presentation copy, blind-stamped 'Specimen' to front board, and 'Presentation copy'…

A Manual of Scientific Enquiry; Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her Majesty's Navy, and Travellers in General

Herschel, John F.W.; Main, M.A. (Eds) · 1871 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

John Murray London xvi, 392, 1 folding map, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, some wear/chipping to head of spine, split to top of front joint, shelf label removed from spine. From an institutional library with book-plate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mine…