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The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

Rev. John Fleetwood · 1811 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Burslem, John Tregortha, 1811 . Leather. Illustrated throughout with impressive engraved plates, this is Rev. John Fleetwood's popular account of the lives of Jesus Christ and his apostles. An early nineteenth-century example of Rev. John Fleetwood's famous book on the…

Wolfert&Apos;S Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected

Washington Irving · 1855 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

New York, G. P. Putnam & Co. 1855. First edition. Leather. The first edition, third printing of this Irving anthology, bound in full crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, with lovely gilt dentelles. First edition, third printing. Publisher's address in the title imprint is chan…

With the British Legion: A Story of the Carlist Wars

G. A. Henty · 1903 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Blackie and Son, Limited , 1903. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling historical novel set during the Carlist Wars, from war correspondent and prolific novelist G. A. Henty. The first edition. As stated in Peter Newbolt's Bibliography (106.1…

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophyã‚â (1931 Standard Edition) Cashel Byron&Apos;S Profession (1932 Standard Edition) Heartbreak House (1933 Standard Edition Reprint) in Good King Charles&Apos;S Golden Days (1939 First Illustrated Edition) Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav (1950 First Collective Edition)

George Bernard Shaw · 1931 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1931-1950. Cloth. A very pleasing set of selected works by George Bernard Shaw in the publisher's original cloth. A set of selected works by George Bernard Shaw in the publisher's original cloth.This set contains: Man and Superman: A…

The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais Doctor in Pysick. Containing Five Books of the Lives. Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and Response of the Bottle. Hereunto Are Annexed the Navigations Unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: As Likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle All Done by Mr. Francis Rabelais.

Francis Rabelais · 1921 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Privately Printed for The Navarre Society Limited, 1921. Cloth. A complete set of the works of French satirist Francis Rabelais, with an array of unique illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Complete in two volumes. Privately Printed for The Navarre Society. Volume one is …

The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks

David A. Embury · 1953 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

London, Faber and Faber, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of the uncommon first UK edition, first impression of this witty and opinionated book about cocktails from American mixologist David A. Embury. First UK edition, first impression. First published in the US in 1948…

Incendiary; the Other Hand; Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

Chris Cleave · 2005 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Chatto and Windus; Sceptre, 2005-2016. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing selection of signed first impression novels by Chris Cleaves, including a limited edition of his debut 'Incendiary&apos. Signed by the author to the title pages. The first editions, first …

Relations and Observations, Historical and Politick, Upon the Parliament Begun Anno Dom. 1640

Clement Walker · 1648 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.30 | $1,651.33 | ¥263,696)

[London], Not Stated, 1648. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of Clement Walker's important political study of the Interregnum, complete with a folding plate. The first edition.A scarce work.Illustrated with one folding plate.Register runs as: A-Y4, Z2, a-b4,…

Les Fables de Phãƒâ¨Dre En Vers Franãƒâ§Ois. Avec Une ãƒâ‰Dition Latine a Cote, & Des Notes.

Phedre; M. Denise [Ed.] · 1708 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

Paris , Jacques Estienne , 1708 . Leather. An exceptionally scarce French translation of fables from one of the earliest Roman fabulists, Gaius Julius Phaedrus, bound in a striking quarter morocco by Eric Sweet. Vanishingly scarce work, with no known copies held institutionally.…

Aesop&Apos;S Fables and Fables de la Fontaine

Aesop; Jean de La Fontaine; Werner Thuswaldner; Marie Angel · 1981 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, North-South Books; Neugebauer Press Publishing Ltd, 1981-1994. First edition. Cloth. A lovely illustrated set comprising the fables of Fontaine and Aesop, complete with the original dust wrappers and slipcase. The first UK editions of these works. 'Fontaine' in…

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop; Val Biro · 2001 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Award Publications Limited, 2001-2004. First edition. Paperback. Ten very smart volumes of fables attributed to Aesop, retold and illustrated by Hungarian children's author Val Biro. Ten volumes. Illustrated throughout. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop…

The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton

Robert Willis; John Willis Clark [ed] · 1886 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1886. First edition. Cloth. The complete four volume first edition set of Robert Willis' important posthumous work on the architectural history of the renowned Universities of Cambridge and Eton, including the volume of plans. The firs…

The Sea: Its History & Romance

Frank C. Bowen · 1924 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd. 1924-1926. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated four volume set on the sea from researcher Frank Charles Bowen. Complete in four volumes. First edition. Volumes one and two are illustrated with a colour frontispiec…

Millbrook: The True Story of the Early Years of the Psychedelic Revolution

Art Kleps; Arthur Kleps · 1975 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.30 | $1,651.33 | ¥263,696)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1975. First edition. Unbound. The true first edition of Arthur Kleps' first hand account of Millbrook, home of Timothy Leary's psychedelic research, a scarce work on 1960s counter-culture. The scarce true first edition, later published in book f…

Guy Mannering

Sir Walter Scott · 1815 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Edinburgh, James Ballantyne and Co; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Archibald Constable and Co, 1815. Leather. The second edition of this popular historical fiction novel, by Walter Scott, published only one month after the first edition. The second edition, first issue, …

A Collection from the Sexton Blake Library

Desmond Reid; George Sydney; Richard Williams; Arthur Kent; Martin Thomas · 1961 · Rooke Books

£108.00 (€129.45 | $142.67 | ¥22,783)

London, Sexton Blake Library, 1961-1963. Paperback. Seven smartly presented copies from the Sexton Blake Library tales collection. Seven volumes. This set includes: Hunt the Lady, 1961. Library No. 490. Written by Desmond Reid, a House Name used by at least thirty authors for Se…

Sporting Wildfowl of the British Isles: Studies in Words and Pictures

Brian P. Martin · 1999 · Rooke Books

£3,500.00 (€4,195.24 | $4,623.71 | ¥738,349)

Holt, Norfolk, Fine Sporting Interests Ltd, 1999 . First edition. Leather. A sumptuous study of the wildfowl of the British Isles, one of only twelve review copies, sent to sporting and countryside author John Humphreys. Signed by the author and illustrator. A very scarce limite…

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Complete in One Volume

Robert Southey · 1853 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1853. Leather. The 1853 edition of the Robert Southey's poetic works, complete in one volume, with a frontispiece and a title vignette page. 1853 'New Edition&apos. Bound in half-morocco on cloth boards.Illustrations include a …

East Africa

Elspeth Huxley · 1941 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins, 1941. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition travel work on East Africa, in a striking binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe made for Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. The first edition of this work.A charming concise trave…

The Battaile of Agincourt

Michael Drayton; Michaell Drayton · 1627 · Rooke Books

£4,200.00 (€5,034.29 | $5,548.46 | ¥886,019)

London, William Lee, 1627. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of Michael Drayton's epic poem 'The Battaile of Agincourt&apos. An important poem, here with several other works by Drayton. This work is the only contemporary reference to Shakespeare aside…