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Edgar Wallace Collection
Edgar Wallace · 1875 · Rooke Books
£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)
London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, c1929. First edition. Cloth. A collection of fictional works from Edgar Wallace, uniformly bound in their original publishers' bindings. Five volumes, including; 'The Duke in the Suburbs', 'The Daffodil Mystery', &apos…
The House of Gair
Eric Linklater · 1953 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Eric Linklater. With the original, unclipped dustwrapper. This novel follows Linklater's Laxdale Hall and is set in the mid twentieth century. According to the description on the front fly…
Garibaldi and the Thousand
George Macaulay Trevelyan · 1912 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1912. Leather. A biographical work on Italian general and politician, by George Macaulay Trevelyan. Garibaldi is remembered for his attempted re-uniting of Italy. This work is the first of three titles by George Macaulay Trevelyan on Garibaldi. Wh…
Excursions in the County of Essex Comprising a Brief Historical and Topographical Delineation of Every Town and Village
Thomas Kitson Cromwell · 1819 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this illustrated travel and topographical guide to Essex. The second volume only. Lacking volume I. First edition of this volume. Illustrated throughout. Lacking 'Remains of La…
Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Sermons
John Abernethy · 1751 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, R Griffiths, 1751. First edition. Leather. The first collected edition of the scarce tracts and sermons, 'occasionally published', of the Presbyterian minister John Abernethy. By the 'author of The Discourses on the Being and Perfections of God&apos. John …
Le Faubourg S Germain, le Faubourg S Honore, la Noblesse de Province
Horace de Viel-Castel · 1837 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)
Paris, Librairie de Charles Gosselin, Chez Ladvocat, 1837-1842. Leather. A very smart, uniformly bound seven volume set of the novels of Horace de Viel Castel. A seven volume set of the novels of Horace de Viel Castel. Three series of novels, comprising seven novels in total, un…
Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions.
John Evelyn · 1664 · Rooke Books
£5,000.00 (€5,993.29 | $6,605.70 | ¥1,054,845)
London, John Martyn and James Allestry, 1664. First edition. Leather. An uncommon first edition of this important work on Forestry. Sylva was first presented in 1662 as a paper to the Royal Society and then published in book form in 1664. It is recognised as one of the most infl…
The Chronicles of Don Q.
[Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard]; Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard · 1904 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, Chapman and Hall, Ld. 1904. First edition. Cloth. A superior first edition of these rogue adventure stories - Hesketh-Prichard's very scarce first collection featuring Don Q, a Robin Hood-inspired Spaniard. An excellent first edition of this very scarce title. The f…
From the Eastern Sea
Yone Noguchi · 1903 · Rooke Books
£2,850.00 (€3,416.18 | $3,765.25 | ¥601,262)
London , The Unicorn , 1903. First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce first edition with autograph inscriptions by Yone Noguchi, including a dated presentation to Elkin Mathews and a loosely inserted signed photographic portrait, an evocative early modernist poetry collecti…
The Modern Cook: Containing Instructions for Preparing and Ordering Public Entertainments for the Tables of Princes, Ambassadors, Noblemen, and Magistrates
Mr. Vincent La Chapelle · 1744 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)
London, Thomas Osborne , 1744. Leather. The third edition of Vincent La Chapelle's influential culinary work. Third edition.Rebacked in full calf, with the original spine laid down. Lacking endpapers.Adorned with six folding copper plates to the rear. Collated, complete. T…
The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems
William Butler Yeats · 1935 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
New York , The Macmillan Company , 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this play from celebrated Irish dramatist and post, W. B. Yeats, with the previous owner's scholarly notes. First edition. In the original quarter cloth, with paper boards. 'The King …
Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen; with Anecdotes Descriptive of Their Manners and Customs.
John D. Hunter · 1824 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. Leather. The third edition of John D. Hunter"s autobiographical captivity narrative, offering a vivid early nineteenth-century perspective on Native American life west of the Mississippi. Bound in a contemporary half ca…
1877 East Cheshire: Past and Present; or a History of the Hundred of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester
J.P. Earwaker · 1877 · Rooke Books
£269.00 (€322.44 | $355.39 | ¥56,751)
London, Printed For The Author, 1877. First edition. Cloth. The two volume first edition of J. P. Earwaker's impressively detailed and richly illustrated study of the history of Cheshire. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes.English antiquary John Parsons…
Holy Living and Dying
Jeremy Taylor · 1843 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
Philadelphia, Thomas Wardle, 1843. Leather. A very scarce abridged edition of Jeremy Taylor's notable guide to both Holy Living and Holy Dying, including a preface of the cleric's life. A very scarce edition of Holy Living and Dying; With Prayers: Containing the Comple…
Vanishing Craft: British Coastal Types in the Last Days of Sail
Frank G.G. Carr · 1934 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Country Life Ltd. 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Vanishing Craft, a swan song to the sail boats that were leaving commercial use in the 1930s. The first edition of Vanishing Craft: British Coastal Types in the Last Days of Sail, written by British sailo…
A History of British Birds
Rev. F. C. Morris · 1903 · Rooke Books
£770.00 (€922.97 | $1,017.28 | ¥162,446)
London, John C. Nimmo, 1903 . Cloth. Illustrated throughout with hand coloured plates, this is the complete six volume fifth edition of Rev. F. O. Morris's celebrated study of birds. The fifth edition of this work, complete in six volumes, and uniformly bound in the publish…
A Field-Marshal&Apos;S Memoirs: From the Diary, Correspondence, and Reminiscences of Alfred, Count Von Waldersee
Alfred, Count Von Waldersee; Frederic Whyte [translator] · 1924 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, Hutchinson & Co. 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this memoir from German Field Marshal, Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig Graf von Waldersee, translated into English. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The memoirs of Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig Graf …
The Monk: A Romance
Matthew Gregory Lewis · 1913 · Rooke Books
£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)
London, Gibbings & Company , 1913. Cloth. - An illustrated 1913 edition of one of literature's most celebrated Gothic horror novels, originally published in 1796, here complete in three volumes. In the publisher's original burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering to …
The Life of William Warburton, D.D. , Lord Bishop of Gloucester from 1760 to 1779: With Remarks on His Works
John Selby Watson; William Warburton · 1863 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1863 . First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition biography of William Warburton the controversial Bishop of Gloucester, smartly bound in full calf by S. Hogg. Bound in a full calf binding. First edition.Illustrated with a portr…
The English in the West Indies or the Bow of Ulysses
James Anthony Froude · 1888 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1888. Cloth. A new edition of this controversial West Indies travelogue from James Anthony Froude, published the year before John Jacob Thomas' powerful rebuttal. A new edition of this work. In the original cloth binding, with gilt illustra…