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The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant, Esq. By Himself.

Thomas Pennant · 1793 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, Benjamin and John White, 1793 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this uncommon autobiographical survey by Welsh naturalist and aniquary, Thomas Pennant, complete with four plates, including the scarce hand coloured folding plate of 'The Church Militant&a…

A Collection of Novels and Romances by Compton Mackenzie

Compton Mackenzie · 1926 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited; Chatto & Windus, 1926-1952. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of five volumes from Scottish novelist Compton Mackenzie. Five volumes. First edition. Written by Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, a Scottish writer of fiction, biograp…

May Fair. In Four Cantos.

[George Croly] · 1827 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, William H. Ainsworth , 1827 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce epic poem 'May Fair', attributed to George Croly, with a signed letter tipped-in from the publisher and fellow author, William Ainsworth. The first edition. Bound in a quarter …

Japan and China: Their History, Arts and Literature

Captain F. Brinkley · 1903 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1903-1904. Cloth. An attractive limited Library Edition of Captain F. Brinkley's historical, artistic and literary study of Japan and China, with colour plates. The library edition of this series, being a limited edition of 500 copies for the U…

The Exile of Erin

Mrs. Plunkett; Miss Gunning; Elizabeth Plunkett; Elizabeth Gunning · 1808 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, B. Crosby and Co, 1808. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce early nineteenth-century novel by Elizabeth Gunning, or Mrs. Plunkett, complete in three volumes. The first edition of this very scarce work.Complete in three volumes.Half-titles presen…

Mr. Sponge&Apos;S Sporting Tour

Robert Smith Surtees · 1867 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, c1870. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated edition of one of Surtees' popular sporting novels. "Mr Sponge"s Sporting Tour" follows the adventures of a grocer who becomes the Master of Fox Hounds, a comical social commentary of sporting life in th…

Mr Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India Doctor Claudius: A True Story Zoroaster with the Immortals the Three Fates Saracinesca ã‚â– Eighth Edition Greifenstein Marion Darche: A Story without Comment Pietro Ghisleri

Francis Marion Crawford · 1889 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1889. Leather. A uniformly bound set of novels by American writer Francis Marion Crawford. A uniformly bound set of works by Francis Marion Crawford.Nine volumes bound in half calf with marble paper covered boards.This set comprises:Mr Isaacs: A Tale o…

The White Crown and Other Stories

Herbert Dickinson Ward · 1894 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce anthology of tales by American author, Herbert Dickinson Ward. The first edition of this scace work.Signed by the author to a 'Bryn Mawr Book Fair' bookplate to …

A Collection of Novels by Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley · 1905 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1905-1910. Leather. Five smartly bound volumes of works from English social reformer and novelist, Charles Kingsley. Five volumes. Reprints. Written by Charles Kingsley, a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, so…

The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain; the Bible in Spain or, the Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonments of an Englishman

George Borrow · 1907 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, John Murray, 1907-1930. Cloth. Bright copies of George Borrow's two works on Spain and the Romani people. Two works by George Borrow in the publisher's original cloth bindings.Ink inscriptions to the front free end paper of The Bible in Spain.Illustrated with n…

Eccentric Travellers

John Keay · 1982 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, John Murray; British Broadcasting Corporation, 1982 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of John Keay's biographical study of the lives of prominent explorers, with a loosely inserted letter discussing the publishing rights of his work. The first edition, …

Horse Under Water

Len Deighton · 1963 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A well presented first edition of the spy novel succeeding Len Deighton's The Ipcress File. This is a first edition of the work, in smart red cloth binding with a decorative stamp motif to the front board and gilt to the sp…

White Hunter Black Heart

Peter Viertel · 1954 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, W. H. Allen , 1954. First edition. Cloth. A well-presented first edition of this exciting novel set in London and Africa. This is a first UK edition of the work in original unclipped dust wrapper. The novel was first published in New York the previous year. Peter Viertel…

Portrait of a Spy: The Story of Mata Hari

E. Temple Thurston · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, The Readers Library Publishing Company LTD, [1938]. Cloth. A thrilling work of fiction depicting the notorious exotic dancer and spy, Mata Hari, set during the First World War. This work is an early edition, in original publisher's cloth binding with original unclip…

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell; John Wilson Croker · 1860 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)

London, John Murray, 1860. Leather. A new edition of Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson by John Wilson Croker. A new edition of Scottish biographer James Boswell's celebrated biography of Samuel Johnson, often described as one of the greatest English biog…

The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Tour in Wales, Correspondence with Mrs Thrale, &C

James Boswell; J Wilson Croker; John Wright · 1859 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, Henry G Bohn, 1859. Cloth. James Boswell's famous biography of Samuel Johnson in ten volumes, featuring illustrations and valuable additions. Complete in ten volumes. Celebrated work of Scottish biographer James Boswell, often described as one of the greatest Englis…

Tableaux Topographiques, Pittoresques, Physiques, Historiques, Moraux, Politiques, Litteraires, de la Suisse

Beat Fidele Antoine Jean Dominique de La Tour-Chatillon de Zurlauben, Le Baron de Zurlauben · 1780 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Paris, L'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1780 . Leather. The first volume only of the Baron de Zurlauben's impressive five volume artistic study of Swiss history, bound without plates. In the original French. The first volume only of the first edition of a five volume work, bo…

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae Ad Optimorum Exemplarium Siden Recensitae

Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] · 1701 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

Cambridge, Jacobi Tonson, 1701 . Leather. An eighteenth century edition of the theatrical comedies of Publius Terentius Afer in Latin. An eighteenth century edition of Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae Ad Optimorum Exemplarium Siden Recensitae.A collection of the theatrical comedie…

The Works of Sir William Jones

Sir William Jones · 1807 · Rooke Books

£2,400.00 (€2,877.20 | $3,171.27 | ¥506,471)

London, John Stockdale, 1807. Leather. A complete thirteen volume set of the works of British philologist, Sir William Jones. Thirteen volumes. The works of Sir William Jones, a British philologist, orientalist, puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in …

The Rosy Crucifixion: Plexus and Nexus

Henry Miller · 1963 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963-1964. First edition. Cloth. Smart first edition copies of volume two and three from Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical series The Rosy Crucifixion. First edition copies of two volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings; P…