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A Circumstantial Report of the Evidence and Proceedings Upon the Charges Preferred Against His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the Capacity of Commander in Chief in the Month of February 1809 and March 1809
G L Wardle · 1809 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, James Cundee, 1809. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this report which instigated a great Georgian scandal whilst the British were at war with France. This inquiry was pursued by Mr Wardle, who served as a soldier in Sir William Watkins Wynn's Ancient Br…
Quinctilian&Apos;S Institutes of Eloquence: Or, the Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity
Quinctilian; W. Guthrie · 1805 · Rooke Books
£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)
London, R. Dutton, 1805. Cloth. A two volume set of Quintilian's interesting works of advice on public speaking, translated into English by W. Guthrie, rather uncommon Complete in two volumes. Quintilian was a Roman rhetorician, who set up a public school of rhetoric, and d…
Working Drawings & Designs in Architecture and Building; with Essays on Various Subjects, Richly Illustrated with Woodcuts.
Edward S Eyland; Francis Lightbody; Robert Scott Burn · 1863 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)
Edinburgh; London, A Fullarton & Co. 1863-1868. Leather. A large volume of Architectural drawing and designs, profusely illustrated throughout with numerous plates. Featuring a series of essays by Edward S Eyland, Francis Lightbody, and Robert Scott Burn, who was also the Genera…
Officers and Gentlemen
Evelyn Waugh · 1955 · Rooke Books
£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A First Edition Waugh's second novel in the 'Sword of Honor' Trilogy', 'Officers and Gentlemen' This is the second novel in Waugh's 'Sword of Honor' series. With the unclipped dustwr…
The Virginians a Tale of the Last Century
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books
£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)
London, Bradbury and Evans, 1858-9. First edition. Fine Binding. An early edition of this famous historical novel. Illustrated, with numerous plates and woodcuts across both volumes. First edition in book form. Prior to this edition the work was issued in 24 monthly parts. First…
6vols in 5 Systãâ¨Me Des Connaissances Chimiques
Antoine François, Comte de Fourcroy · 1800 · Rooke Books
£1,850.00 (€2,217.52 | $2,444.11 | ¥390,293)
Paris, Baudouin, 1800-1801. First edition. Leather. The first edition, in the desirable quarto issue, of Fourcroy"s monumental synthesis of 18th century chemistry and its applications. In a contemporary quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. First edition, quarto issu…
Pharos the Egyptian
Guy Boothby · 1899 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, Ward, Lock & Co. 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Boothby"s luridly inventive Egyptian Gothic novel, in which an ancient sorcerer unleashes a supernatural plague upon Europe, illustrated with twelve plates after John Bacon. In the publisher's origina…
An Essay on Musical Expression
Charles Avison · 1753 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, C. Davis, 1753 . Leather. Illustrated with folding plates of musical notes, this is the uncommon second edition of Charles Avison's influential work of music criticism. The second edition of this work. Illustrated with four folding musical plates. Collated, complete…
The Life of James Mcneill Whistler; the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James Mcneill Whistler
E.R. and J. Pennell; The International Society of Sculpters, Painters & Gravers · 1905 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
Philadelphia; London, J. B. Lippincott Company; William Heinemann, 1905-1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of E.R. and J. Pennell's illustrated biography of the life of James McNeill Whistler, present alongside the first edition of the catalogue for the 1905 memo…
Gog and Magog: The Giants in Guildhall; Their Real and Legendary History
F.W. Fairholt [Frederick William Fairholt] · 1859 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, John Camden Hotten, 1859. Cloth. The first edition of an intriguing history into the mythologies of particular giants exhibited across towns and cities, with a colour frontispiece. The first edition of Gog and Magog: The Giants in Guildhall; Their Real and Legendary Hist…
The Works of Rabelais
François Rabelais; translated by Urquhart and Motteux · 1903 · Rooke Books
£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)
London, Gibbings and Company, 1903. Cloth. An illustrated set of Rabelais novels with a black and white plate to frontispiece of each volume and numerous illustrations throughout. In three volumes complete. The museum edition with a decorative half title. François Rabelais (c.1…
Collected Works of Mrs. Henry Wood in Four Volumes
Mrs. Henry Wood · 1897 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)
London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1897. Cloth. A four volumes set of the novels of Mrs. Henry Wood A collection of four novels by Mrs. Henry Wood. The set consists of Mildred Arkell, The Master of Greylands, George Canterbury's Will and Lord Oakburn's Daughters. Ellen W…
Selected Catalogues of Sothebys and Co.
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge · 1911 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)
London, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1911-1917. Paperback. A selection of catalogues by Sothebys and Co. All related to the library of Henry Huth Volumes are: Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts, First Portion (1911) Catalogue of the Hu…
The History of a Crime
Victor Hugo · 1878 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London , Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A scarce four volume set of Vicor Hugo's essay The History of a Crime, the first two volumes of which are the second UK edition, whereas the third and fourth (added as a further, initially unpla…
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott
John Gibson Lockhart · 1901 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Cloth. Eight volumes of Lockhart's influential biography of Sir Walter Scott. Large-paper edition, of which six hundred copies were printed - this is the publisher's copy, and is not numbered. This biography has…
Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
Charles Kingsley · 1855 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
Cambridge, Macmillan & Co. 1855. Cloth. The uncommon second edition of one of Kingsley's most popular novels. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Complete in Three Volumes. This particular copy comes from the Worcester Public Library, Reference Department, with a libra…
A Kind of Loving
Stan Barstow · 1960 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, Michael Joseph, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Stan Barstow's premiere, and best known novel. With original unclipped dustwrapper. A Kind of Loving was an extremely popular work and the first of a trilogy of works by Barstow about the character Vic…
The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India
Laurence Hope · 1919 · Rooke Books
£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)
London, William Heinemann, 1919. Leather. A later edition of The Garden of Kama by Laurence Hope. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Bound by Hatchards, with a bookbinders ink stamp to the front pastedown. Adela Florence Nicolson, 1865 Â 1904, was an Engl…
The Smuggler a Tale Volumes I & III Only
John Banim · 1831 · Rooke Books
£189.99 (€227.73 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)
London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Leather. First edition of John Banim's The Smuggler. Bound in half roan leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering and decoration. First edition. Volumes I and III only. John Banim (1798 - 184…
A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith with a Selection from His Letters Edited by Mrs Austin
Lady Holland; Mrs Austin · 1854 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)
[London], Printed for Private Circulation, 1854. Leather. An affectionate memoir of wit, writer and cleric Sydney Smith. This work is the extremely scarce privately circulated copy of the memoir 1854, which was first published in 1855. Undated, dated using Copac. Printed by John…