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The People of the Abyss
Jack London · 1903 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)
London, Isbister and Company , 1903 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of American author Jack London's first-hand account of the weeks he spent living in the East End of London in 1902. The first UK edition, published the same year as the US. Scarce work. Bound…
The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Graham Balfour · 1901 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
London, Methuen and Co, 1901. First edition. Leather. A mixed edition set of this touching biography on the life of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written by his cousin. Volume I is the first edition, Volume II is the second edition.Complete in two volumes. Bound by Ha…
Three Thriller Book Club Novels
Georgette Heyer; John Creasey; Manning Coles · 1952 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, The Thriller Book Club, 1952. Cloth. An intriguing set of three gripping and tense thrillers, published by the Thriller Book Club. Three volumes published by the 'Thriller Book Club', each being an exciting and gripping thriller by leading novelists.Each volume…
Through the Dark Continent, or the Source of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean
Henry M. Stanley · 1899 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
London, George Newnes, 1899. Leather. Henry M. Stanley's thrilling account of travel through Africa in the late 1800s, illustrated throughout. With two volumes bound in one. Henry Morton Stanley's account of his expedition through Africa between 1874 and 1877. First pu…
The Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew Lang · 1894 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1894. First edition. Cloth. Andrew Lang's fourth colourful volume in his popular fairy book series, a first edition copy complete with the original H. J. Ford illustrations. The first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-one plate…
The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Rudolph Erich Raspe · 1877 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)
London, William Tegg & Co, 1877. Leather. A colourfully illustrated edition of this entertaining novel by Rudolph Erich Raspe, illustrated by George Cruikshank. Illustrated with forty-two engravings and woodcuts across a hand-coloured frontispiece, two hand-coloured folding plat…
Graphic Pictures, More Graphic Pictures, Gleanings from the Graphic, Last Graphic Pictures
Randolph Caldecott · 1883 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1883-1889 . First edition. Cloth. A vibrant collection of four first edition picture books by the British illustrator Randolph Caldecott. The first editions of four charmingly illustrated picture books from popular Victorian era artist and illu…
Catalogue of a Loan Collection of the Works of Randolph Caldecott, Exhibited at the Brasenose Club, Manchester, March, 1888
1888 · Rooke Books
£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)
Manchester, The Brasenose Club; John Heywood, 1888. First edition. Leather. A very scarce catalogue of an 1888 exhibition of the Works of Randolph Caldecott, hosted by the Manchester Brasenose Club. The first edition of this very scarce work.Printed for private circulation.Bound…
A History of English Furniture: The Age of Oak, the Age of Walnut, the Age of Mahogany, & the Age of Satinwood
Percy MacQuoid · 1904 · Rooke Books
£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)
London, Lawrence & Bullen Ltd. 1904-1908. First edition. Leather. A smart four volume collection of these works on English furniture through the years, with colour plates. Complete in four volumes. First edition. Written by Percy MacQuoid, a British theatrical designer and colle…
Poems
Charles Kingsley · 1892 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1892. Leather. A leather bound collection of poetry by Charles Kingsley. This work is in smart, green half morocco binding, with gilt tooling to the spine, with marbled boards and endpapers. This is the second impression of the second edition of the wor…
Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future
Evelyn Waugh · 1953 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Evelyn Waugh's satire, set in a dystopian future, from the library of the son of Joyce Gill, his life-long friend. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with…
The Works of William Hogarth
Rev. John Trusler; J. Hogarth; J. Nichols · 0 · Rooke Books
£89.00 (€106.70 | $117.60 | ¥18,782)
London, E. T. Brain & Co, c1833. Leather. A lavishly illustrated collection of the works of William Hogarth, containing over one-hundred of his original detailed engravings. Complete in two volumes.A beautiful study on the works of William Hogarth, with an introductory essay by …
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
James Boswell; John Wilson Croker [ed] · 1831 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, John Murray, 1831. Leather. A new edition of Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson in five uniform volumes edited by John Wilson Croker. A new edition of Scottish biographer James Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson, often described as o…
The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second; a Series of Portraits, Illustrating the Diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon, and Other Contemporary Writers. With Memoirs Biographical and Critical.
Mrs. Jameson; Anna Brownell Murphy · 1833 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)
London, Henry Colburn; Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this richly illustrated study on the beautiful women who were at the court of King Charles II, including some of his mistresses. The first edition.A striking series of portraits showing th…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides
James Boswell · 1835 · Rooke Books
£975.00 (€1,168.86 | $1,288.33 | ¥205,754)
London, John Murray , 1835. Vellum. A striking vellum bound set of Boswell's famous biography of Samuel Johnson, featuring illustrations and valuable additions. Complete in ten volumes. Celebrated work of Scottish biographer James Boswell, often described as one of the grea…
Histoire Du Mon Temps. Memoires Du Chancelier Pasquier
Chancelier Pasquier [Ãtienne-Denis] · 1893 · Rooke Books
£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)
Paris, E. Plon; Nourrit, 1893-1895. First edition. Leather. In this leather bound memoir, the French statesmen Ãtienne-Denis Pasquier provides offers a biographical account of the revolutionary period in France. This memoir by Ãtienne-Denis Pasquier provides insight into the F…
Scandianensis de Rara Medicatione Vulnerum Seu de Vulneribus Raro Tractandis, Liber Secundus in Quo Nova Traditur Methodus
Caesaris Magati [Cesare Magati] · 1733 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)
Leipzig and Amstedam, Joh. P. Schmidt , 1733 . Hardback. The second book only of this very scarce two book edition of Cesare Magati's influential treatise on wound dressing. In the original Latin.First published in 1616, this is the second book only of this very scarce eigh…
The Life of Erasmus
[John Jortin] · 1758 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
London, J. Whiston and B. White, 1758. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Jortin's brilliant biography on the life of Dutch philosopher Erasmus. The first edition.Volume I only, complete in itself, an additional volume on Erasmus' works published later in …
The History of Charles the Vth Emperor and King of Spain, the Great Hero of the House of Austria
D. F. Prudencio de Sandoval; John Stevens · 1703 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)
London, R. Smith, 1703. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition in English of Prudencio de Sandoval's important history of Emperor Charles V, a sought after work illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The very scarce first edition of this work in English.ESTC…
Eleven Volumes of Drawings and Verses by Simon Drew
Simon Drew · 1987 · Rooke Books
£470.00 (€563.45 | $621.04 | ¥99,184)
Suffolk, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987-2009. First edition. Hardback. Eleven first and early edition works by Simon Drew, all signed by the author. Eleven works by Simon Drew, an English illustrator and cartoonist. He is best known for his quirky captions, and animal illus…