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Les Fables de Phedre Affranchy D&Apos;Auguste

Phedre [Phaedrus] · 1664 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Paris , Claude Thiboust , 1664 . Leather. A strikingly bound, seventeenth-century edition of this collection of fables from early Roman fabulist, Phaedrus, written in French and Latin. Seventh edition.Vanishingly scarce work, in any early edition. Beautifully bound in half crush…

Aesop&Apos;S Fables in Rhyme for Little Philosophers

John Martin; Aesop · 1924 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

New York, John Martin's Book House, 1924. Cloth. A charming copy of Aesop's classic fables, accompanied by striking illustrations by George Leonard Carlson. In the publisher's original illustrated cloth binding.With 91 pages of wood engraved illustrations and deco…

Some of Aesop&Apos;S Fables with Modern Instances

Aesop; Alfred Caldecott · 1887 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1887 . Leather. A beautiful edition of Aesop's fables, delightfully illustrated in colour by Randolph Caldecott, and in a vibrant quarter morocco binding by Eric Sweet. This edition was first published in 1883.With vignette colour illustrations throu…

Lectures on Architecture

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc; Benjamin Bucknall [trans] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877-81 . First edition. Leather. A collection of essays on architecture from the influential French architect Eugene Viollet-Le-Duc, translated into English and bound in quarter crushed morocco, illustrated heavily throughout …

The Spitfire, a Tale of the Sea

Captain Chamier [Frederick Chamier] · 1840 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Henry Colburn, 1840 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of popular nineteenth century novelist Frederick Chamier's nautical tale, which expertly combines authenticity with melodrama. The very scarce first edition, complete in three volumes. A secon…

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens · 1865 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1865 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens's popular novel, in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. The first edition of this work, first issue. Complete in two volumes, in th…

The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis

George Lyttelton; Rupert Hart-Davis · 1978 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, John Murray, 1978-1982. First edition. Cloth. Four smart first edition volumes of this set containing the correspondence between the Hon. George William Lyttelton and Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis. Four volumes of a six volume set. First edition. With a frontispiece to v…

Passage of Arms

Eric Ambler · 1959 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Heinemann, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. Brian Aldiss's copy of Eric Ambler's thrilling espionage novel set in the Malaysian jungle, Singapore, and Indonesia. The first edition, first impression.In the original dust wrapper, price clipped.The novel concerns the …

The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf C. Slatin; Major F. R. Wingate [trans.] · 1869 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, William Tegg, 1869 . Cloth. An illustrated edition of this entertaining novel by Rudolph Erich Raspe, illustrated throughout with plates by George Cruikshank. 'The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen' is an entertaining novel following the ama…

A Collection of Noddy Stories

Enid Blyton · 1949 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1949-1959. First edition. Hardback. A smart collection of Noddy stories from popular English children's author Enid Blyton, with illustrations throughout. Six volumes. First edition. No. 1, 3, 8, 9, 10, and 18 of the Noddy Library. Il…

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.21 | $779.47 | ¥124,472)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1857 . First edition. Leather. A smart example of the first issue of Charles Dickens's social novel about a young woman who is born in a debtors prison. The first edition, first issue of this work.With the first issue points 'William' for…

The Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1890 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890 . Cloth. The third edition of the first of Andrew Lang's influential 'Fairy Books', with this blue volume containing the tales of many eminent folklorists. The third edition of this work, published the year after the first.Ill…

Word of Honour

Sapper" [H. C. McNeile] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, c1932. Cloth. A collection of short stories by British author Herman Cyril McNeile, under the pseudonym 'Sapper&apos. This work is an early edition of this collection, in original publisher's red cloth binding with unclipped dust wrapper. …

The Bookman Illustrated History of English Literature

Thomas Seccombe; W. Robertson Nicoll · 1906 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. Cloth. An interesting historical of survey of English literature, from the invention of the printing press to the early twentieth century. With fifty one plates across two volumes Across two volumes, Thomas Seccombe offers a historical of surv…

Headlong Hall. Nightmare Abbey. Maid Marian. Crotchet Castle.

Thomas Love Peacock · 1837 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Richard Bentley, 1837. Leather. Four of Thomas Love Peacock's popular and widely read novels, including his Gothic and Romantic works. Four popular novels by Thomas Love Peacock issued in one volume.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and engraved title page.This volum…

Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb; Alfred Ainger · 1888 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1888-89. Leather. A uniformly bound set of the works of Charles Lamb, including Alfred Aigner's brilliant biography on Lamb. In five volumes.A collection of the works of Charles Lamb, alongside Alfred Aigner's insightful biography on Lamb, for…

The Water Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1920 · Rooke Books

£43.00 (€51.54 | $56.81 | ¥9,072)

London and Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, c1920. Cloth. A very scarce edition of The Water Babies, a popular Victorian children's novel. Circa 1920 edition in original publisher's green cloth binding of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. This edition is unillu…

A New Dictionary of the English Language

Charles Richardson · 1844 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, William Pickering, 1844. Leather. A scarce leather-bound copy of Charles Richardson's 'New Dictionary of the English Language', bound in a half-calf binding on marbled boards. Scarce Second Edition. Two volumes in one, bound in a later half-calf binding wi…

Galerie Mythologique: Recueil de Monuments

A. L. Millin · 1811 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Paris, Soyer, 1811. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume set by Aubin-Louis Millin which combines art history with archaeological works, with illustrated plates that make up half of the text. First edition, complete two volume set. Illustrations include almost two-hundred…

Every Man His Own Farrier; or, the Whole Art of Farriery Laid Open. Containing a Distinct and Accurate View of the Causes, Symptoms, and Most Approved Methods of Cure, for Every Disease to Which the Horse Is Liable

Francis Clater · 1812 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, B. Crosby and Co, 1812. Hardback. Francis Clater's popular and well respected guide to the art of farriery, an essential work for the science that has remained the standard work on the subject. This work is an informative guide into the art of farriery, alongside in…