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Katherine Hepburn: A Stylish Life

RYAN JOAL · 1999 · Round Table Books, LLC

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 0312246498. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0312246498. Katharine Hepburn: A Stylish Life, brimful of photographs, anecdotes, and on-screen memories, follows Hepburn's amazing seven-decade film and stage career. From earl…

Etymologicum Teutonicae Linguae Sive Dictionarium

Cornelii Kiliani; Cornelis Kiliaan · 1599 · Rooke Books

£2,995.00 (€3,590.50 | $3,957.48 | ¥632,034)

Antverpiae, Officina Plantiniana; Joannem Moretum, 1599. Vellum. A scarce copy of Cornelis Kiliaan's magnum opus, an important Dutch-Latin dictionary which was the first of its kind ever published. The third and most important edition of this scarce work.First published in …

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. The first edition, first impression of Charles Dickens' renowned novel set in his classic dreary setting, illustrated by Phiz with all plates present. The first edition of this work, being bound from the parts, with …

Monatliche Neueroffnete Anmerckungen Uber Alle Theile Der Artzney-Kunst Zusammen Gebrachy IM Jahr 1679

Nicolas de Blegny · 1679 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

Hamburg, Gottfried Schultzens Kosten, 1679-1682. Vellum. A very smart copy of this scarce German translation of Nicolas de Blegny's notable medical journal. Frequently regarded as the first French medical journal. First thus, the first edition of Johann Lange's transla…

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving · 1905 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London; New York, William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1905. Cloth. The second impression of Rackham"s landmark illustrated edition of Washington Irving"s Rip Van Winkle, issued with its suite of fifty-one charming tipped-in colour plates. In the publisher's original g…

Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects

Jeremy Collier · 1709 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, D. Brown; George Strahan; W. B. for S. Keeble, 1709-22. First edition. Leather. A mixed edition uniformly bound set of Jeremy Collier's popular 'Essays', the third volume here being the first edition. Complete in three volumes.Jeremy Collier's 'E…

Causeries Du Lundi, Volumes VII to XIII, & Table

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve · 1857 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Paris, Garnier Freres, 1857. Leather. A series of informal essays by Sainte-Beuve, the most powerful literary critic of 19th century France. Classically educated, and a graduate of the University of Paris, he made his way into journalism. He was thus drawn into a circle of Rom…

South America - John Thomson, 1817

Thomson-- John · 1814 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€375.00 ($413.33 | £312.80 | ¥66,011)

“South America”, copper engraving made in 1814 by J. Moffat in Edinburgh, published as part of John Thomson’s New General Atlas of 1817. Original hand colouring. Size: 61 × 52 cm. This interesting map of South America depicts the entire continent, from the Caribbean Sea to Tier…

Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate &C.

C. J. Richardson [Charles James Richardson] · 1841 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Tho. McLean, 1841-1848 . First edition. Leather. The complete four volume set of C. J. Richardson's beautifully illustrated study of Old English houses, and their contents. Illustrated with four tinted lithographed title-pages, and with twenty-four lithographs to fi…

Lettres de Mme de Maintenon, Precedees de Sa Vie Augmentees de Notes Historiques, Et de Notices Biographiques Sur Plusieurs Personnages Celebres Du Siecle de Louis XIV.

Francoise d'Aubigne Maintenon · 1815 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

Paris, Tardieu Denesle, 1815. Leather. Three volumes of Francoise d'Aubigne's letters. The Marquise de Maintenon was King Louis XIV's second wife. The second edition of these letters. Frontispiece of Maintenon to volume I. Being volumes I II and III only of this f…

Seneca&Apos;S Morals by Way of Abstract

Seneca; Roger L'Estrange · 1682 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.95 | $1,182.62 | ¥188,871)

London, Tho. Newcomb; Joanna Brome, 1682. Leather. The second edition of Roger L'Estrange's translation of Seneca's insightful moral essays, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The scarce second edition of Roger L'Estrange's translation, first publ…

Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer

Waters; [William Russell] · 1859 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London, W. Kent & Co; J. & C. Brown & Co, c1857-60. First edition. Leather. A lovely set of the first and second series of William Russell's collection of short stories about detectives in Victorian England, a gripping series. The first and second series of 'Recollecti…

Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire

Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] · 1785 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

Paris, De l'Impremerie de la Societe Litteraire Typographique, 1785. Leather. Forty three leather bound volumes from the Complete Works of Voltaire. 43 volumes from the complete works of Voltaire. Published in French. The present collection of the French philosopher's …

Fishing: Salmon and Trout Shooting: Moor and Marsh Shooting: Field and Covert

Various · 1885 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1885-1889. Cloth. Three volumes on fishing and shooting from the Badminton Library, with numerous illustrations and a variety of contributors. Three volumes from the Badminton Library series in the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindin…

Poems by William Cowper

FORE-EDGE PAINTING; TAYLOR & HESSEY, binders; COWPER, William · 1811 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$950.00 (€861.91 | £718.96 | ¥151,721)

London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co. 1811. Bound by Taylor and Hessey With an Early Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Painting [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. TAYLOR & HESSEY, binder. COWPER, William. Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In two volumes. A New Edition. London: Pr…

A History of British Fishes (Two Volumes)

Yarrell,William (Third Edition Edited By Sir John Richardson) · 1859 · Richard Thornton Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

John Van Vorst Third Edition two Volume Set in Very Good Full Brown Leather Victorian Bindings.There are red and black moroccan title labels to the 2nd and 4th Compartments to spine.Five Raised bands.Inner gilt dentelles and with gilt lined borders to both volumes.Some wear note…

[Rare 18th C. Manuscript Bond Signed] Fifty Thousand Dollars Jail Bond for Augustus C. Van Horne

Van Horne, Augustus C.; Speyer, John; Rivington, Susan; Morris, James · 1799 · Kaaterskill Books

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

New York, 1799. 1 sheet. 10 x 16 inches. All manuscript [not partially printed] bond dated February 1, 1799, signed by August C. Van Horne and John Speyer, to which as been added the name of Susan Rivington, in the amount of $50,000. With seals after each of the names. "Know all…

Diary of a Visit to England in 1775, by an Irishman

Thomas Campbell; Samuel Raymond · 1854 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

Sydney, Waugh and Cox, 1854. First edition. Cloth. The extremely scarce first edition of these travel diaries by Thomas Campbell, documenting his 1775 trip to England. Not seen at auction since 2010. The first edition of this work. Thomas Campbell was an Irish Protestant clergym…

A General Collection of Treatys Declarations of War, Manifestos and Other Publick Papers Relating to Peace and War

Various · 1732 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.95 | $1,182.62 | ¥188,871)

London, J J and P Knapton et al. 1732. Leather. A selection of English treaties from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in four volumes. The second edition of this fascinating and scarce work. With treaties such as 'The Treaty of Munster 1648', 'the Peace B…

Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal

Zerah Colburn; W. H. Maw; J. Dredge · 1866 · Rooke Books

£2,250.00 (€2,697.37 | $2,973.06 | ¥474,817)

London, Office for Advertisments and Publications, 1866-1870 . First edition. Cloth. Twenty-five volumes of the periodical 'Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal', richly illustrated throughout and highly informative. Present here are twenty-five volumes from the …