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Memoirs of Count Grammont

Anthony Hamilton; Sir Walter Scott (Editor) · 1889 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, John C Nimmo, 1889. Cloth. A limited edition copy of this biographical work exploring the life and times of the French nobleman Philibert, Count de Gramont. Limited edition, number 159 of 780 copies printed for England and America. Written by his brother-in-law Antoine H…

Le Menage Des Champs Et de la Ville; Ou Nouveau Cuisinier Franãƒâ§Ois, Accommodãƒâ© Au Goãƒâ»T Du Tems

[Louis Liger] · 1739 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Paris, Christ. David, 1739. Leather. A wonderful, new edition of this early eighteenth-century universal guide to rural and urban French cookery; originally published in 1710 by agronomist and naturalist, Louis Liger. A newly anonymised edition of this French cookery book, first…

Die Welt Ist Schon

Albert Renger-Patzsch · 1928 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Munchen [Munich], Kurt Wolff, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important volume of photography from Albert Renger-Patzsch, a copy inscribed from Sigmund von Weech to Ambrose Heal. In the original German.The first edition of this influential photobook by Ger…

A First Poetry Book; a Second Poetry Book Part II; a Third Poetry Book

Various; M. A. Woods [ed.] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1892-1896. Cloth. A set of three poetical collections intended for use in schools, compiled by Clifton High School's first head. A trio of school poetry books compiled by M. A. Woods, the first head of Clifton High School in Bristol, England. Unif…

Lectures on Church-Buildings: With Some Practical Remarks on Bells and Clocks

Edmund Beckett Denison · 1856 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Bell and Daldy, 1856. Cloth. A second edition copy of Lectures on Church-Buildings: With Some Practical Remarks on Bells and Clocks, with illustrations. A second edition copy. Lectures on Church-Buildings: With Some Practical Remarks on Bells and Clocks, includes lectu…

Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Complete in Two Volumes]

Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) · 19001910 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

Paris Alphonse Lemerre, Éditeur (23-33, Passagge Choiseul, 23-33) Oeuvres de Gustave Flaubert pp. 252; 278. Sextodecimo (16mo.), measuring 6.75" x 3.75". Bound in sumptuous full crushed morocco with titles stamped in gilt on spines. Five raised bands to spines, six compartments,…

Reminiscences of a Huntsman

Grantley F. Berkeley · 1897 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London and New York, Edward Arnold, 1897. Hardback. A charming account of a life spent hunting from a controversial British MP, illustrated throughout and featuring colour plates of hunting scenes. A fascinating collection of anecdotes about a life spent hunting from British pol…

More Nonsense

Edward Lear · 1897 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Frederick Warne, 1897. Cloth. A charming copy of Edward Lear's profusely illustrated, humorous work 'More Nonsense&apos. Profusely illustrated by Lear throughout. Collated, complete. 'More Nonsense' follows Lear's 1846 'A Book of Nonsense&ap…

English Odes

Edmund W Gosse · 1881 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, C Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this critical work by Edmund Gosse, featuring the poetry of numerous celebrated English poets. First Edition. In a signed J Ramage and Co Binding. This anthology consists of a variety of poetry from se…

Disegni Di Maestri Fiorentini Del Rinascimento in Firenze

Bernard Berenson · 1945 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Turin, Edizioni Radio Italiana, 1945. First edition. Paperback. A smart, first limited edition of facsimile plates showcasing Florentine Renaissance drawings by renowned masters, including Leonardo da Vinci. In the publisher's original pictorial stiff card wraps.This copy i…

By Right of Conquest

G A Henty · 1832 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Blackie and Son , c1894. First edition. Cloth. Early edition of G A Henty's historical novel in the original binding. Reprint of the first edition, undated with alterations to title-page imprint and address as necessary. Dated c1894 without the Edinburgh address, wh…

Letters of Karl Marx

Padover, Saul K. (Ed. & Intro.) · 1983 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Prentice-Hall, Inc. First Edition, First Printing pp. xi, 576. 8vo. Publisher's dark-green cloth over boards, silver lettering to the spine, Marx's signature in facsimile blind-stamped to the front board. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illus…

Positive Parenting Strategies

SPRAGUE, MAXINE · 1987 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£70.14 (€84.09 | $92.68 | ¥14,802)

The Learning Center Press. 1987. (ISBN: 0969166518). Paperback. Paperback spiral bound in good condition. 1987 The Learning Center Press Canada. Birth - Preschool. Practical advice and child tested ideas for raising competent, caring and creative children. Owners inscription on …

Tom Brown at Oxford

Thomas Hughes · 1872 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1872. Leather. A presentation copy of this interesting work of fiction about university life in the nineteenth century, handsomely bound in full calf by Macmillan & Co. A signed copy, in a full calf binding by Macmillan & Co, with their binder's stam…

English Social History

G.M. Trevelyan · 1945 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1945. First edition. Fine Binding. The first edition, third impression of this illustrated social history of England by G.M. Trevelyan, handsomely bound in half calf by Morrell. A fascinating work of the social history of England by G.M. Trevelya…

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.

BLAIR (Hugh): · 1789 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Colles, Moncreiff, Gilbert, Walker, Exshaw, White and Byrne. 1789. 2 volumes. 8vo, 201 x 122 mms., pp. vi [vii - viii Contents], 384; [iv], 382 [383 - 408 Index], contemporary calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments with basket ornament, red and …

Guy Mannering

Sir Walter Scott · 1815 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Archibald Constable and Co, 1815. Leather. The second edition of this popular historical fiction novel, by Walter Scott, published only one month after the first edition. The second edition, first issue, …

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae Ad Optimorum Exemplarium Siden Recensitae

Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] · 1701 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

Cambridge, Jacobi Tonson, 1701 . Leather. An eighteenth century edition of the theatrical comedies of Publius Terentius Afer in Latin. An eighteenth century edition of Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae Ad Optimorum Exemplarium Siden Recensitae.A collection of the theatrical comedie…

China - Covens & Mortier, 1695

Blaeu-- Joan · 1695 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,450.00 ($1,598.20 | £1,209.51 | ¥255,242)

“Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio” [The Chinese Empire newly described]. Copper engraving published by Johannes Covens and Pieter Mortier around 1695. Verso: blank. Coloured by a later hand. Size: 46 x 59 cm. This great map of the Chinese Empire was based on the compilation of th…

British Porcelain: An Illustrated Guide

Godden, Geoffrey A. · 1980 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included Barrie & Jenkins Ltd English text; Hardcover (with dustjacket); 451 pages with black and white and some colour illustrations; 19.8 x 25.5 cm; 1.389 Kg; Dust jacket wrapped in a permanent adhesive cover. Some wear marks on the dust jacket, namely ye…