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The Compleat Angler, or, the Contemplative Man&Apos;S Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing, Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers
Izaak Walton · 1931 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)
London, George G. Harrap & Co LTD, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first Rackham illustrated edition of one of the most popular sporting works ever published, Izaak Walton's fishing treatise. The first edition thus of this work, being the first edition illustrated by Arthur…
Trevisa&Apos;S Dialogus Inter Militem Et Clericum; Richard Fitzralph&Apos;S Sermon: &Apos;Defensio Curatorum&Apos;; Methodius: &Apos;Ye Bygynnyg of Ye World and Ye Ende of Worldes&Apos;
John Trevisa; Richard FitzRalph · 1925 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)
London, Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1925. Cloth. Three fascinating and very scarce early English texts by authors who had a huge influence on the development of Christianity. A first edition copy of this collection of early English texts, in a cloth library bindin…
Works of W.W. Jacobs
W. W. Jacobs · 1901 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
London, Methuem; Hodder & Stoughton; Hurst & Blackett; Harpers , 1901-11. First edition. Cloth. A group of eleven collections of short story anthologies by W. W. Jacobs, including some first editions. Eleven volumes of the anthologies of short stories by W. W. Jacobs, English au…
Poltergeist over England Three Centuries of Mischievous Ghosts
Harry Price · 1945 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)
London, Country Life LTD, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition study by Harry Price, an in-depth exploration of poltergeists, discussing five-hundred known cases of poltergeists, complete with plates. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original …
The Life and Times of Louis the Fourteenth
G. P. R. James · 1839 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)
London, Richard Bentley, 1839. Cloth. A comprehensive biography of the Sun King, Louis the Fourteenth, unusual in a complete four volume set. A four volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with Louis the Fourteenth's coat-of-arms gilt stamped to the fron…
Praeterita. Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life
John Ruskin · 1900 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)
London, George Allen, 1900. Leather. A nice Hatchard's bound second edition of John Ruksin's personal autobiography, an interesting work about the eminent Victorian. The second edition.Complete in three volumes.Bound by Hatchards. Illustrated with a frontispiece to ea…
Hearing Secret Harmonies: A Novel
Anthony Powell · 1975 · Rooke Books
£52.00 (€62.34 | $68.71 | ¥10,974)
London, Heinemann, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the final book in Powell's roman-fleuve series, 'A Dance to the Music of Time', in the publisher's original dust wrapper. First Edition. In the original price-clipped dust wrapper. This …
Sylvan , Ein Jahrbuch Fur Forstmãâ¤Nner, Jager Und Jagdfreunde
C. P. Laurop; V. F. Fischer · 1815 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)
Not Stated, Marburg and Cassel, 1815. First edition. Leather. A nice little copy of 'Sylvan', an annual German publication containing a range of biographies, essays, and other literary criticism about hunting, bound in quarter-morocco with hand-coloured plates. Very sc…
Gloires Et Souvenirs Militaires
Charles Bigot · 1898 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
Paris, Librairie Hatchette et Cie, 1898. Leather. A beautifully illustrated historical work containing information on a range of French military figures, written by Charles Bigot with numerous colour plates. Quatrieme Edition.Bound in quarter-morocco on cloth boards. Illustrati…
Story of the Jena Campaign 1806
Lieut.-Col. H. M. E. Brunker · 1913 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)
London, Forster Groom & Co. LTD, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and concise history of the Napoleon Bonaparte's Jena Campaign, in which he defeated Prussia, with ten folding maps to rear of text. First and only edition, very scarce. Illustration includes ten fol…
Twelve Charts of the Tidal Streams on the West Coast of Scotland
F. Howard Collins · 1894 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)
London, J. D. Potter, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A first edition oceanography text comprised of twelve admiralty charts showing the tidal streams on the West Coast of Scotland. The first and only edition. Twelve admiralty charts for the tidal streams on the West Coast of Scotla…
Winston S. Churchill, Volume I, Youth 1874-1900, Including Companion Volumes Part 1 and Part 2
Randolph S. Churchill · 1966 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London, Heinemann, 1966-67. First edition. Cloth. A near fine, first edition copy of Volume I of Randolph S. Churchill's celebrated biography of Winston S. Churchill, including Part 1 and Part 2 Companion Volumes. Presenting a near fine copy of Volume I of Randolph S. Churc…
Oeuvres de Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant · 1924 · Rooke Books
£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1924-30. Cloth. Twenty-four volumes of the work of Guy de Maupassant in the original French, in smart uniform cloth bindings. Guy de Maupassant was a nineteenth century French author, mainly known for his many short stories as well as a representative o…
Oliver Cromwell
Samuel Rawson Gardiner · 1899 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)
London, Goupil & Co. 1899. First edition. Paperback. A smart, first edition copy of this comprehensive biographical work on Oliver Cromwell. A presentation copy from the limited edition printing of 350 copies on Japanese vellum. An important and comprehensive biography of Englis…
An Appeal to the Public on the Conduct of David Evans, Esq. Late Mayor and John Noble and James Harvey, Esqrs. Aldermen of Bristol
C.H. Walker · 1807 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
Bristol, George Routh, 1807. Paperback. A very scarce nineteenth-century pamphlet on the misconduct of David Evans, Esq. former mayor of Bristol, written by Bristol-based solicitor, C.H. Walker. The second edition of this work. Published in 1807, this is a very scarce pamphlet …
The Bitter Lake
Lawrence P. Bachmann · 1969 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, Collins, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this scarce first edition novel by film producer Lawrence Bachmann, inscribed to American author Paul Gallico and his wife Virginia. The first edition of this novel by Lawrence Paul Bachmann, American film producer wh…
Perspective of Nudes
Bill Brandt; Chapman Mortimer [introduction]; Lawrence Durrell [preface] · 1961 · Rooke Books
£2,250.00 (€2,697.37 | $2,973.06 | ¥474,817)
London, The Bodley Head, 1961. First edition. Hardback. A signed first edition of this important publication of nude images from British photographer Bill Brandt. The first edition, first impression of this important work from British photographer and photojournalist Bill Brandt…
Ned Garth; or, Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade
William Henry Giles Kingston · 1878 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , 1878. First edition. Cloth. A children's adventure novel about the slave trade, from the descendant of an abolitionist who himself owned a plantation. A scarce work, here published 'under the direction of the Committe…
The Poetical Works of Edward Young, the Poetical Works of James Thomson and Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
James Thomson; Edward Young; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Lewis Filmore (trans.) · 1700 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
Not Stated, Not Stated, c1880. Leather. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust bound together with the poetical works of Edward Young and James Thomson. Three volumes bound together in a half calf binding with cloth covered boards and decorative gilt detailing. All three works …
The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton
Mrs. Russell Barrington · 1906 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)
London, George Allen, 1906. Vellum. A limited edition of this expansive biography of Sir Frederic Leighton, a British painter and sculptor, presented by the author to novelist Marie Corelli. Written by Emilie Barrington (1841-1933), a British biographer and novelist, author of w…