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Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

D. H. Lawrence · 1925 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition limited edition copy of this collection of essays by D.H.Lawrence. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Number 394 …

Poetry and Prose for the Midsummer Feast at Cannwood House

Seamus Heaney; Polly Devlin [ed.] · 2002 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

Oldham, Incline Press, 2002 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this limited edition work by Seamus Heaney and his family, inscribed to publisher Carmen Callil, and with a loosely inserted signed photograph of the Heaney family. A signed association copy of thi…

Fac-Silime Reprint the Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

George Herbert · 1882 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, T. Fisher Unwin , 1882. Vellum. A facsimile reprint of the third edition of this seventeenth century collection of poems by George Herbert, from the library of Francis Paget. A facsimile edition of the third edition of The Temple by George Herbert, the first edition was …

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Charles Kingsley · 1819 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Paris and New York, Raphael Tuck & Sons, c1917. Cloth. A lovely illustrated edition of this important piece of children's fiction, with a pictorial cover and colour plates by Mabel Lucie Attwell. 'The Water-Babies' was originally written as part-satire to …

Tales of My Landlord Old Mortality and the Black Dwarf

[Jedediah Cleishbotham] Walter Scott · 1819 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co, 1819. Paperback. A uniformly bound set of sixth edition Walter Scott's Old Mortality and The Black Dwarf, considered to be the best of Scott's novels. Written under Scott's pseudonym Jedediah Cleishbotham, described as school…

Idea Medicinae Veterum. [the Idea of Ancient Medicine. ] First Edition

van Beverwijk , Johan (1594-1647) · 1637 · Wittenborn Art Books

$400.00 (€362.92 | £302.77 | ¥63,875)

Lugd Batav (Leiden): Officina Elzeviriorum (Elzevier), 1637. Octavo in small duodecimo format, 9.5 x 15.4 cm.; (7)-390-(10) pp. title page in red and black with the Elzeviers' tree typographic mark and motto, woodcut bands and initials, index at the end. Full tinted vellum, inse…

Nieuw - The Daily Telegraph. Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries

Twiston Davies, David · 2009 · De Boekentuin Alkmaar

€24.90 ($27.44 | £20.77 | ¥4,383)

Frontline Books, Nieuw - harde kaft, met omslag, 2009, 298 blz., met index, Samenvatting For this new collection, David Twiston-Davies has selected the most fascinating Imperial and Commonwealth obituaries published in The Daily Telegraph over the last twenty years. Many senior …

Piero Di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence

Hirschauer, Gretchen A. and Dennis Geronimus et al. · 2015 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$135.00 (€122.48 | £102.18 | ¥21,558)

Washington, National Gallery of Art / Galleria Degli Uffizi / Lund Humphries, 2015. Paperback. Colorfully illustrated wraps with white lettering and French flaps; viii, 248 pp.; richly illustrated in brilliant color. "Born in 1462, an auspicious time for hopeful young painters i…

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Cambridge Edition

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL · 1910 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, N.D.. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. Circa 1910. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The maroon cloth has some light edge wear …

Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of Portraits, Books, Manuscripts, Letters and Other Things, Belonging to or Connected with John Clare (1893) John Clare: Collector of Ballads by Margaret Grainger (1964) 1793-1864 John Clare Centenary Commemoration Programme (1964) Clare: The Critical Heritage by Mark Storey [Ed. ] (1973) the Poetry of John Clare: A Critical Introduction by Mark Storey (1974) John Clare Society Journal No 1 and 2 (1982-1983)

John Clare et. al. · 1893 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Midnag Publications; Macmillan; Routledge & Kegan Paul, et. al. 1893-1983. Brochure/Pamphlet. A pleasing collection of seven works by or about English poet John Clare.  A collection of seven works by or about English poet John Clare. This set contains:Catalogue of the …

Rare Poetry 1672 | Alle de gedichten van I. Westerbaen, 's-Gravenhage Johannes Tongerloo 1672, [32]+652+207+[12]+832 pp. Two volumes, including ode Ockenburg The Hague.

Westerbaen, Jacob (1599-1670) · 1599 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€545.00 ($600.69 | £454.67 | ¥95,922)

<strong>Rare poetry collection of the 17th century poet Jacob Westerbaen, including his portrait and the folding illustration of Westerbaen's estate Ockenburg in The Hague. One of the first poets that extensively describes the surrounding of his estate and the old wive tale's th…

A Selection from the Harleian Miscellany of Tracts, Which Principally Regard the English History; of Which Many Are Referred to by Hume.

Samuel Johnson [ed.]; William Oldys [ed.] · 1793 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, C. and G. Kearsley, 1793. Cloth. The first abridged edition of this fascinating and collection of religious and political tracts, edited by Dr Johnson and William Oldys. First abridged edition of this collection of the material taken from the library of Robert Harley, 1s…

Markham&Apos;S Maister-Peece Containing All Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-Leech, Touching the Curing of All Diseases in Horses

Gervase Markham · 1651 · Rooke Books

£2,100.00 (€2,517.18 | $2,774.39 | ¥443,035)

London, William Wilson, 1651. Leather. A very scarce seventeenth-century copy of this work on equestrian care from Gervase Markham. Illustrated with two full-page illustrations, decorative head-and-tail pieces, and two marginal diagrams. Seventh edition, according to Copac. Unfo…

Her Words : An Anthology of Poetry about the Great Goddess by Muten, Burleigh

MUTEN, BURLEIGH [ED] · 1999 · Kalamos Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Boston, Shambhala Publications. 1999, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 1570624739) Hardcover. Book, "Her Words" celebrates the return of the Great Goddess to the hearts and minds of women (and men) during the late twentieth century. The 140 poems chosen for this anthology span the ages, f…

The ROMAN QUARRY And Other Sequences Edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague.

Jones, David [1895 - 1974]. Grisewood, Harman & Hague, René - Editors · 1981 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$49.50 (€44.91 | £37.47 | ¥7,905)

London: Agenda Editions, 1981. 1st edition thus. White glossy paper covers printed in red & black. xxviii, 282, [2] pp. Illustrated with facsimiles. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8" Jones "was an English painter and modernist poet.. both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden put his poetry among the …

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (Modern Library Isbn Series)

DONNE, JOHN · 1977 · Bluebird Books

$21.50 (€19.51 | £16.27 | ¥3,433)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1977-80]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394604407. A Modern Library edition presenting the entirety of the poetry and selected prose writings of the English poet and cleric John Donne (1572-1631). Edited, and with an introduction by Charles M.…

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (Modern Library #12. 3)

DONNE, JOHN · 1967 · Bluebird Books

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1967]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting the entirety of the poetry and selected prose writings of the English poet and cleric John Donne (1572-1631). Edited, and with an introduction by Charles M. Coffin. In green and…

Monsieur Bossu"S Treatise of the Epick Poem: Containing Many Curious Reflexions, Very Useful and Necessary for the Right Understanding and Judging of the Excellencies of Homer and Virgil.

Rene Le Bossu; W. J. [Trans.] · 1695 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

London, Tho. Bennet, 1695 . Leather. The very scarce first English edition of Le Bossu"s influential study of epic poetry, in a contemporary panelled calf binding. In a contemporary full panelled calf binding.  First English edition.  The first English translation of Rene Le B…

The Works of George Eliot Cabinet Edition Twelve Volumes

George Eliot · 1878 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.36 | $634.15 | ¥101,265)

London , William Blackwood, 1878. Cloth. Twelve volumes of the Cabinet Edition of George Eliot&apos;s Works. Twelve of the 24 volumes. In uniformly bound straight grain morocco MacLehose, Glasgow bindings. The following volumes are present: I. Romola I II. Romola II III. Silas M…

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

J. G. Lockhart · 1848 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.30 | $693.60 | ¥110,759)

Edinburgh & London, Robert Cadell; Houlston & Stoneman, 1848. Leather. A beautiful ten volume biography of Sir Walter Scott, written by J. G. Lockhart and bound in contemporary leather. This was an acclaimed biography, written by the author&apos;s son-in-law and first published …