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Peintures Decoratives Du Grand Foyer de L&Apos;Opera
Paul Baudry; E. About · 1876 · Rooke Books
£875.00 (€1,048.98 | $1,156.19 | ¥184,651)
Paris, Goupil & Cie, 1876. Leather. A very scarce and beautiful look at the ceiling paintings at the Paris Opera, the Palais Garnier, written by the painter of the ceiling, Paul Baudry. Illustrated throughout. Last seen at auction in 1993. In the original French. A very scarce w…
A Treatise on Indigence
Patrick Colquhoun · 1806 · Rooke Books
£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)
London, Printed for J. Hatchard, 1806. Leather. A very scarce first edition copy of Patrick Colquhoun's fascinating work on the poverty and pauperism, in which he notably drew a line of distinction between poverty and 'indigence&apos. Patrick Colquhoun was a Scottish m…
A History of English Furniture the Age of Oak the Age of Mahogany
Percy Macquoid · 1904 · Rooke Books
£99.00 (€118.68 | $130.81 | ¥20,892)
London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd, 1904-1906 . First edition. Cloth. Two first edition volumes from Percy Macquoid's monumental and prolific history of English furniture, the first major survey of the subject which is an authoritative work to this day. Percy Thomas MacQuoid …
The Song of Hiawatha the Courtship of Miles Standish Tales of a Wayside Inn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1855 · Rooke Books
£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)
London, David Bogue; W. Kent & Co; Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1855-64. First edition. Leather. Three of Henry Longfellow's most popular poems, here bound smartly together in a half calf binding, two of the poems being first editions. Three volumes in one. 'The So…
The Rural Economy of Yorkshire; the Midland Counties; the West of England
Mr. Marshall [William Marshall] · 1788 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London, T. Cadell; G. Nicol, 1788-1796 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful collection of five volumes of Mr. Marshall's influential county agricultural surveys, including the first editions of his surveys of Yorkshire and the West of England. A collection of five volumes …
The Life and Adventures of Thomas Coryate
Michael Strachan · 1962 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Oxford University Press, 1962. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of a biography on the obscure yet fascinating Jacobean traveller Thomas Coryate, including a signed letter from Strachan. The signed first edition of The Life and Adventures of Thomas Coryate, …
(1921) Mary Stuart; (1922) Preludes 1921-1922; (1932) Napoleon: The Hundred Days by Benito Mussolini and Giovacchino Forzano; (1935) Abraham Lincoln.
John Drinkwater; Benito Mussolini; Giovacchino Forzano · 1921 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1921-1935. First edition. Cloth. Author's own copies of these four historical plays by prominent poet and playwright John Drinkwater, each clad in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Handsome collection of four historical plays by prominent…
Memoirs of Maximilien de Bethune Duke of Sully Prime Minister of Henry the Great to Which Is Annexed the Trial of Francis Ravaillac for the Murder of Henry the Great
Maximilien de Bethune · 1812 · Rooke Books
£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)
Lackington, Allen & Co et al. 1812. Leather. The memoirs to the assistant of King Henry IV of France. With a frontispiece to volume I. Complete in five volumes, this is a 'New Edition' of this work. Translated into English from the original French. Maximilien de Bethun…
Essays on the Sources of the Pleasures Received from Literary Compositions
William Greenfield · 1813 · Rooke Books
£640.00 (€767.25 | $845.67 | ¥135,059)
London, Longman, Hurst et al. 1813. Leather. A scarce early edition of this literary criticism. The second edition of William Greenfield's scarce essays of his university lectures on emotional responses to literature. In a decorative binding, and direct from the library at …
Don Juan: Cantos I. To V.
Lord Byron · 1822 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)
London, W. Benbow; Sudbury [printers], 1822 [1824]. Paperback. An uncommon Benbow pirated edition of Cantos I-V of Lord Byron's 'Don Juan&apos. A personalised copy from the library of Arts and Crafts architect Norman Jewson. A later state of this early pirated edition …
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice; the Corsair, a Tale
Lord Byron · 1814 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, John Murray, 1814-1821 . First edition. Leather. A fantastic volume gathering together the first editions of two works from Lord Byron, 'Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice', and 'The Corsair&apos. The first work is the 1821 second issue, variant A of 'Mar…
A Collection on Tobacco Smoking and Snuff Taking
Edward H. Pinto; C. W. Shepherd; Amoret Scott; Christopher Scott; Alfred H. Dunhill · 1962 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, Hutchinson of London; G. Smith & Sons; Max Parrish; Max Reinhardt, 1962-1978. First edition. Cloth. A collection of four volumes on tobacco smoking and snuff taking, with important notes for the collector. Four volumes. A collection of studies on the history of tobacco p…
Bouquinistes Et Bouquineurs. Physiologie Des Quais de Paris Du Pont Royal Au Pont Sully
Octave Uzanne · 1893 · Rooke Books
£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)
Paris, Librairies-Imprimeries Reunies May et Motteroz, 1893. First edition. Paperback. A limited edition work on the bookseller and bookworm communities in Paris, a lovely illustrated work by Octave Uzanne. The first and limited edition of 1,600 copies, of which this is one of 1…
La Vestale. Tragedie Lyrique En Trois Actes
Gaspare Spontini · 1807 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
Paris, Chez Mlles. Erard, 1807 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of the first act of Gaspare Spontini's celebrated opera, set in ancient Rome. In the original French.The very scarce first edition of this work. Present here is the first act only of this…
Principles of Political Economy
T. R. Malthus · 1820 · Rooke Books
£2,900.00 (€3,476.61 | $3,831.95 | ¥611,986)
London, John Murray, 1820. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important economic work by the influential writer Thomas Robert Malthus. The first edition.'Principles of Political Economy' is now regarded as a very influential study on economics, in which th…
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£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)
ôõÃÂø÷ôðà[Detizdat], Central Committee of the VLKSM, 1940. Paperback. A popular Russian children's fairy tale poem written by poet Korney Chukovsky, in the original Russian. An illustrated work in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.I…
Blood on Paper
Elena Foster; Rowan Watson · 2008 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
London, Victoria & Albert Museum; Ivory Press, 2008. First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. The first edition of this impressive and unique catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition, 'Blood on Paper&apos. The first edition of this work.A unique work produ…
The Foundations of Manchester: Comprising the College and Collegiate Church, the Free Grammar School, and Chetham&Apos;S Hospital
The Episcopal See of Manchester · 1848 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)
Manchester, Thomas Agnew, 1848. Cloth. A scarce complete set of this detailed account of the foundations of Manchester. Complete in four volumes. Scarce work. Volume three is illustrated with thirty-seven plates. Collated complete. A detailed work on the foundations of Mancheste…
The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq.
Henry Fielding; Leslie Stephen [ed.] · 1882 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)
London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1882. Leather. A limited edition ten-volume set of the works of Henry Fielding, edited with a biography by Leslie Stephen. A ten-volume set in half morocco bindings. All edges gilt. No. 92 of a thousand limited edition copies of this edition printed f…
Knole and the Sackvilles
Vita Sackville-West · 1949 · Rooke Books
£1,275.00 (€1,528.51 | $1,684.74 | ¥269,063)
London, Lindsay Drummond, 1949 . Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Vita Sackville-West's ode to her ancestral home Knole House, in Kent. Inscribed by Sackville-West herself to the front free endpaper, with 'for Galby, with love from the author, Christmas 1954.The 19…