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Mr Poincare Memorialiste (Sa Psychologie)
Gaston Gros · 1930 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)
Paris, Bibliotheque du Lettre; Editions Baudiniere, 1930. First edition. Leather. A very rare signed copy of this complimentary profile of Raymond Poincare, the President of France from 1913-1920. Number 23, being one of thirty copies numbered 13 to 42 on Arches laid paper. Si…
La Vie Interieure: L&Apos;Ennui de Bouddha
Gaston Riou · 1914 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)
Paris, Bernard Grasset, Editeur, 1914. First edition. Leather. A delightful signed presentation copy of the scarce first edition of 'l'ennui de Bouddha', an exploration of Buddhism by Gaston Riou. A superior first edition of this essay by Gaston Riou, with a signe…
Ellen Et Jean
Gaston Riou · 1923 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)
Paris, Bernard Grasset, Editeur, 1923. First edition. Leather. One of sixty copies on Lafuma pure-rag vellum of this uncommon French novel from Gaston Riou. In a full signed Gruel binding. This copy no. 41, being one of sixty copies on Lafuma pure-rag vellum. In full signed crus…
Westminster Abbey
Mrs. A. Murray Smith · 1904 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A scarce limited edition copy of this ode to Westminster, colour illustrated, and signed by the publisher. A copy of the scarce De Lu limited edition. Signed by the publisher to the edition page. One of 250 De Luxe copi…
The Man from Kilsheelan
A.E. Coppard · 1930 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)
London, William Jackson, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The signed limited edition of an Irish folktale written by A.E. Coppard, a respected short story writer known for his empathy. The limited edition of The Man from Kilsheelan, a folktale set in Ireland, written and signed by En…
Flora of Cornwall: Being an Account of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Found in the County of Cornwall Including the Scilly Isles
F. Hamilton Davey · 1978 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)
Wakefield, EP Publishing, 1978. Cloth. The publisher's complimentary copy of Davey's comprehensive catalogue on Cornish Flowers, including a letter, publisher's signature, and two additional plates. The publisher's complimentary copy of Flora of Cornwall: Bei…
The London Year: A Book of Many Moods
H. V. Morton · 1926 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)
London, Methuen & Co. 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a travel guide touring the reader through a year in London, including visits to the Chelsea Flower Show and a Christmas market at Covent Garden. The first edition of The London Year: A Book of Many Moods, wri…
Le Menage Des Champs Et de la Ville; Ou Nouveau Cuisinier Franãâ§Ois, Accommodãâ© Au Goãâ»T Du Tems
[Louis Liger] · 1739 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)
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…
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards: A Tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1899 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1899 . First edition. Leather. In a handsome signed full calf bindings from Bickers & Son, this is the first edition of Algernon Charles Swinburne's tragic drama about the Queen of the Lombards. The first edition. Charles Swinburne's final comp…
A Short History of the Mainwaring Family
R. Mainwaring Finley · 1890 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)
London, Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, 1890 . First edition. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of R. Mainwaring Finley's genealogical study of the Cheshire Mainwaring family. A vanishingly scarce privately printed first edition. Inscribe…
An Account of the Offley Family
G. C. Bower; H. W. F. Harwood · 1904 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)
Exeter, Wm. Pollard, 1904 . Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Bower and Harwood's very scarce study of the Offley family, based upon a work written anonymously in the days of James I. A signed presentation copy, inscribed 'May Waksmall from the authors 1904' to…
Turner&Apos;S Liber Studiorum, a Description and a Catalogue
W. G. Rawlinson · 1878 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)
London, Macmillan & Co, 1878 . First edition. Hardback. A signed first edition of W. G. Rawlinson's comprehensive catalogue of J. M. W. Turner's 'Liber Studiorum', the celebrated series of landscape prints he issued between 1807 and 1819. A scarce first editi…
(1905) the Church Plate of Pembrokeshire; (1907) the Church Plate of Carmarthenshire; (1910) the Church Plate of Radnorshire; (1912) the Church Plate of Breconshire; (1914) the Church Plate of Cardiganshire; (1921) the Church Plate of Gowerland; (1928) the Church Plate of Oxfordshire.
Rev. John Thomas Evans · 1905 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)
Stow-on-the-Wold, James H. Alden, 1905-28. Cloth. A pleasing collection of seven extensively illustrated works on the church plate of England and Wales, Collection comprised of: (1905) The Church Plate of Pembrokeshire; (1907) The Church Plate of Carmarthenshire; (1910) The Chur…
Sebastian Melmoth and the Soul of Man
[Oscar Wilde] · 1904 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)
London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1904. First edition. Leather. A first edition collection of essays and lines of verse, bound in three quarter green morocco. A collection of lines of verse and sayings, published under the psuedonym of Oscar Wilde which he used following release from…
Hunting Poems
G. J. Whyte-Melville · 1911 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)
Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1911. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this excellent collection of verse by Scottish novelist and poet, George Whyte-Melville. A first edition of this poetry work. Rebound in a signed, full morocco binding by Craftsmen Binders …
A Guide to Tong Church, Shropshire, with Photographs, Drawings, and Plans
George Griffiths · 1885 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)
Oswestry , Woodall & Co. 1885 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Griffiths"s illustrated guide to Tong Church, presented by the author to Viscountess Newport. In a contemporary full calf binding, bound by Woodall & Co. First edition. The work was substantially enlarg…
Philip the King
John Masefield · 1927 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1927 . Cloth. A wonderful signed, limited edition verse drama from John Masefield, signed by Masefield and the illustrator Laurence Irving. No. 152 of 360 copies produced, and signed by both the author and the illustrator. Illustrated with twelve t…
Bethold Wolpe: A Retrospective Survey
Berthold Wolpe · 1980 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)
London, Victoria & Albert Museum and Faber & Faber, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this retrospective of the work of book designer and illustrator Berthold Wolpe, inscribed by Wolpe himself and illustrated throughout. A signed presentation copy of th…
Weston-Under-Lyziard: Notes, Parochial and Otherwise; the Cottager&Apos;S Penny Almanack
1880 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880-1884. Leather. A Sammelband of very rare Christian almanacks - 'The Cottager's Penny Almanack' and 'Weston-under-Lyziard&apos. Comprising four issues of The Cottager's Penny Almanack and five issue…
A Visit to Bashan and Argob
Major Algernon Heber-Percy · 1895 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)
London, The Religious Tract Society, 1895 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this uncommon travel guide, in which a British aristocrat and politician describes his visit to the Middle East in the late 19th century. An uncommon first edition, inscribed 'from y…