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Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheriden
Thomas Moroe · 1825 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Cloth. The third edition of Thomas Moore's biography on the popular Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, illustrated with a folding plate. The third edition of this work. Complete in three volumes. Richard S…
The Babees Book, Aristotle&Apos;S a B C, Urbanitatis, Stans Peur Ad Mensam, the Lytille Childrens Lytil Boke, the Bokes of Nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde&Apos;S Boke of Keruynge, the Booke of Demeanor, the Boke of Curtasye, Seager&Apos;S Schoole of Vertue, &C. &C. With Some French & Latin Poems on Like Subjects, and Some Forewords on Education in Early England
Frederick J. Furnivall · 1868 · Rooke Books
£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,303)
London, The Early English Text Society, 1868. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this educational work on manners and meals provided through Early English, French, and Latin poetry, edited by Frederick Furnivall. The first edition of this work. A collection of Early En…
The Crown of Wild Olive. Four Lectures on Industry and War. Sesame and Lilies
John Ruskin · 1904 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)
London, George Allen, 1904-06. Vellum. A smartly bound two volume collection of interesting essays by the influential John Ruskin. Complete in two volumes. In a full vellum binding, signed by Bumpus. 'The Crown of Wild Olive' is a collection of four lectures by Ruskin,…
Cassier&Apos;S Magazine Engineering Illustrated Volume X May, 1896- October, 1896 Vol X. September, 1896. No. 5. Vol X. October, 1896. No. 6.
Various · 1896 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, The Cassier Magazine Company, 1896. Cloth. A rebound copy of two issue of the 'Cassier's Magazine', copiously illustrated throughout. 'Cassier's Magazine' was an engineering magazine, published by Cassier Magazine Company, that ran from 1891…
Sketches of Scarbro&Apos;, Drawn from Nature
None · 1881 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)
London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1881. Cloth. A scarce copy of this charming collection of late nineteenth century illustrations of Scarborough. This work is a charming collection of illustrations by John Dinsdale, showing life in Scarborough in the late nineteenth century. Some …
Charles O&Apos;Malley, the Irish Dragoon
Charles Lever · 1841 · Rooke Books
£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)
Dublin, William Curry, Jun and Company, 1841. First edition. Leather. The first edition thus of this Charles Lever novel, full of pranks and escapades, featuring the original illustrations by Phiz. The first edition. Two volumes bound in one. Collated, complete. Charles Lever st…
The Excursion
William Wordsworth · 1844 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
London, Edward Moxon, 1844. Cloth. A thirty-year anniversary edition of Wordsworth's abstract philosophical poem, published a year after he became Poet Laureate. A new edition of The Excursion, the acclaimed philosophical poem, written by celebrated Romantic poet William Wo…
Shapes and Sounds
Mervyn Peake [pref. Maeve Gilmore] · 1974 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, Village Press, 1974. Paperback. A posthumous edition of Mervyn Peake's poetical anthology written while writing the first drafts of his Gormenghast series, signed with a new preface by his wife Maeve Gilmore A posthumous edition of Shapes and Sounds, the wartime ant…
Le Beguin de Go
J. A. Coulangheon · 1904 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
Paris , Societe du Mercure de France, 1904 . Hardback. The very scarce first edition of Coulangheon"s final collection of fin-de-siecle fiction, published only days before his early death, and accompanied by an autograph letter signed by the author. Bound in later colourful pape…
An Exile from London
Col. Richard Henry Savage · 1897 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1897. Hardback. The first UK edition of Savage"s Anglo-American mining adventure, preserved in its original pictorial yellowback binding. In the publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, a smart example of the Victorian…
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
Sir Walter Scott · 1890 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1890-94. First edition. Cloth. The complete first edition of Walter Scott's journal, compiled from the original manuscripts and illustrated, including with a folding map of Abbotsford. First edition. Â Complete in two volumes. Â In the publisher&…
La Guerre de 1914: Documents Sur Ses Origines
None Stated [Albert Bonnard, ed.] · 1914 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
Geneve, Imprimerie du Journal de Genève, 1914. First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound, very scarce collection of early speeches of WWI, from Swiss publication Journal de Genève. Signed by the editor. Signed by the author Albert Bonnard to Volume I, with a handwritten dedi…
The Letters of Simpkin the Second, Poetic Recorder, of All the Proceedings of the Trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. In Westminster Hall.
[Ralph Broome] · 1789 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, John Stockdale, 1789. First edition. Leather. A fascinating first edition of this epistolary account of the trial of impeached governor-general of the Bengal Presidency, Warren Hastings. The first edition, ESTC T117044. Published anonymously, authored by satirical pamp…
The Works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, Kt.
Sir Philip Sidney · 1724 · Rooke Books
£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.76 | ¥67,510)
London, E. Taylor; A. Bettesworth; et al. 1724-1725. Leather. London: E. Taylor; A. Bettesworth; et al. 1724-1725. Leather. Very Good. [6], 419; [2], 401-881; [10], 32, 184, [8] pp. None. The three-volume collected edition of Sir Philip Sidney"s major prose and poetry, including…
Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll · 1931 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1931. Cloth. The miniature edition of the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, with John Tenniel's original illustrations, featuring Humpty-Dumpty and Tweedle Dum and Dee. The miniature edition of Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There, th…
The Sisters; or, the History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, Illustrated to a False Friend
Rev. Dr. Dodd · 1798 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, C. Cooke , 1798. Leather. A charming calf-bound Cooke's edition of Rev. William Dodd's moral tale, a reflection of the 18th-century "conduct novel". Cooke's edition. Two volumes in one. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. In a contemp…
Augerii Gislenii Busbequii Omina Quae Extant
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq · 1740 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
Basel, Jo. Brandmulleri, 1740. Leather. A fascinating, combined edition of epistles by Flemish diplomat, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. A new, octavo edition of epistles by sixteenth-century Flemish diplomat, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. Bound in calf, with gilt tooled detailing to t…
The Crescent and the Cross or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel
Eliot Warburton · 1848 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Henry Colburn, 1848. Cloth. A pleasing copy of the two-volume seventh edition of Eliot Warburton's travels in North Africa and the Middle East. The two-volume, seventh edition of Eliot Warburton's The Crescent and the Cross, first published in 1844. In the pub…
Alone in Berlin and a Small Circus
Hans Fallada · 2008 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Penguin, 2008-2012. Cloth. Two charming editions of two novels written by Hans Fallada, often considered to be the greatest writer in modern German literature, one of which was a surprise bestseller in the UK and America. Two very smart editions of Alone in Berlin, and A…
John le Carre: The Night Manager & the Constant Gardener
John Le Carre [David Cornwell] · 1993 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1993-2001. First edition. Cloth. A very smart two volume set of first edition novels by Irish-British author John le Carre. Two volumes.The first editions. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.David…