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Paley&Apos;S Works; Consisting of Evidences of Christianity, Moral and Political Philosophy, Natural Theology, and Horae Paulinae

William Paley · 1840 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Charles Daly, 1840 . Leather. A fascinating early edition of four theological works from William Paley, bound together in contemporary half calf. Early edition. Bound in contemporary red half calf. With the bookplate and signature of Peter J Southgate, author of a number…

The Court-Secret: A Melancholy Truth

[George Lyttelton] · 1741 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, T. Cooper, 1741. First edition. Disbound. A scarce first edition of this intriguing anti-Walpole Oriental satire, attributed to George Lyttelton. Disbound.  First edition. Published anonymously as the work of "an Adept in the Oriental Tongues" and attributed to George Ly…

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility, and the Public Collections of the Country with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

Edmund Lodge, Esq. F.S.A · 1756 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London , The London Printing and Publishing Company, c1869. Cloth. An elaborate work, being an illustrated collection of portraits with biographical and historical memoirs written by Edmund Lodge. With two-hundred and forty black and white engravings with decorative borders, eng…

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries

Henry Hallam · 1855 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

London, John Murray, 1855. Cloth. A uniformly bound set of Henry Hallam's survey of European literature. Hallam (9 July 1777 – 21 January 1859) was an English historian and the father of the prematurely deceased Arthur Henry Hallam, about whom Tennyson's 'In Memo…

Quiller Meridian

Adam Hall; Elleston Trevor · 1993 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Headline, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first English edition of 'Elleston Trevor's Cold War thriller, seventeenth in the Quiller series. With illustrated dustwrapper designed by David Bull. The Quiller series focuses on a solitary, highly capable spy …

Reflections on Dr. Fleetwood&Apos;S Essay Upon Miracles: Shewing the Absurdity, Falshood, and Danger of His Notions.

John Gilbert · 1706 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Roberts, 1706. Leather. A table-thumping defence of the importance and mystery of divine grace in miracles; levelled as a defence against more empirical attempts to qualify them. John Gilbert was born c1658 and educated at Oxford. Following a published criticism of Catho…

The Way of the World an Unexpurgated Edition Including an Original Signed Etching

William Congreve; Malcolm C Salaman · 1928 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, The Haymarket Press, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition print of William Congreve's famous play 'The Way of The World&apos. With a signed engraved frontispiece by A R Middleton Todd. Todd was a painter and etcher of figure subjects and portraits. He was a member of…

Early Poems and Stories

W. B. Yeats · 1925 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.40 | ¥79,109)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this W. B. Yeats anthology comprising his early poems and stories, with the unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.A classic collection of W. B.…

The Parian Chronicle, or the Chronicle of the Arundelian Marbles; with a Dissertation Concerning Its Authenticity

Joseph Robertson · 1788 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, J. Walter, 1788 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Joseph Robertson's translation and analysis of an ancient Greek inscription dating from around 264–263 BCE. A very scarce first edition.Joseph Robertson translates the inscription, which is fo…

Fables from the Usborne First Reading Series

Mairi Mackinnon; Susanna Davidson · 2006 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Usborne Publishing Ltd , 2006-2007. First edition. Hardback. A lovely collection of six children's fables from the publisher's 'First Reading' series, presented neatly in chemise and slipcase. First editions. Offering six of Aesop's fables, reto…

Aesop Redivivus

Aesop; Mary Boyle · 1890 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Field & Tuer, 1890. Leather. A scarce volume reimagining Aesop's classic fables through a Victorian lens, richly illustrated with woodcuts and penned by Mary Louisa Boyle, close friend of Dickens and Tennyson. Rebound in half calf with red cloth boards.This is a sca…

Everychild: A Book of Verses for Children

Holbrook Jackson, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling · 1905 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

Leeds, J. W. Bean & Son, [1905]. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce anthology of verse for children, collected from the works of the most eminent poets, and inscribed by Holbrook Jackson's brother. The first edition, the paperback variant.A very scarce work.Inscribed b…

Aegypten in Bild Un Wort Dargestellt Von Unseren Ersten Kuãƒâoeã‚âˆNstlern, Zweiter Band

Georg Ebers · 1837 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

Stuttgart; Leipzig, Eduard Hallberger, c1880. Cloth. A beautifully bound copy of the second volume of Georg Ebers' exploration of Egypt in words and pictures, with the very scarce dust wrapper. The second edition of volume two of a two-volume work. Bound in the original qua…

Twelve Letters and a Bibliographical Essay from Leonard Clark

Leonard Clark · 1954 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Charlottesville, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1954-1968. Paperback. A bibliographical work by Leonard Clark on the writings of Walter de la Mare, alongside twelve signed letters from Clark. Leonard Clark was an English poet, writer, editor, and educator…

Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

H. G. Wells · 1928 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, Ernest Benn, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of H. G. Wells' story surrounding a shipwreck on Rampole Island, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth with the highly pictorial dus…

Lost Civilizations: Three Adventure Novels by H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard · 1953 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York, Dover Publications, 1953 . Cloth. An excellent copy of this trio of H. Rider Haggard adventure novels, bound as one, comprised of 'Montezuma's Daughter', 'Eric Brighteyes' and 'Cleopatra&apos. First thus, being the first time these three n…

Rãƒâ©Pertoire Du Thãƒâ©Atre de Madame: Le Mariage de Raison; la Lune de Miel; le Mal Du Pays; le Diplomate; le Plus Beau Jour; la Quarantaine

Eugène Scribe; Antoine-François Varner; Germain Delavigne; et al. · 1827 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Paris, Baudouin Frères et Pollet, 1827-1828. Leather. Two volumes from the series 'Répertoire du Théatre de Madame', containing works by Eugène Scribe and many other playwrights. Two volumes in uniform half calf bindings with marbled boards. Eugène Scribe (1791-18…

The Uganda Protectorate

Sir Harry Johnston · 1902 · Rooke Books

£985.00 (€1,180.66 | $1,301.24 | ¥207,793)

London, Hutchinson, 1902 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Sir Harry H. Johnston's two volume study of the history and people of Uganda. To the recto of each frontispiece is the presentation inscription 'E. Irby From H. J.&apos.…

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera

Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro]; Carolus Ruaeus [Charles de la Rue] · 1735 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Londini, J.J. & P. Knapton, R. Knaplock et al. 1735 . Leather. A beautifully illustrated Latin edition of the collected works of ancient Roman poet Virgil. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, fourteen engraved plates, and a folding map. Collated, complete.The collected wo…

The Peerage of England; Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of That Kingdom

Arthur Collins · 1768 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

London, H. Woodfall, J. Beecroft et al, 1768. Leather. The complete seven volume fourth edition of Arthur Collins's genealogical history of England, illustrated with a wealth of engraved plates. Antiquarian Arthur Collins examines the history and lineage of the peerage fami…