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Ismailia, a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Sir Samuel W. Baker · 1874 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1874 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Samuel W. Baker's important account of his expedition to the equatorial regions of the Nile, with the purpose of the suppression of the slave trade. The two volume first edition of this work, in the…
The Novels of Lord Lytton
Right Hon. Lord Lytton · 1874 · Rooke Books
£875.00 (€1,048.98 | $1,156.19 | ¥184,651)
London , George Routledge and Sons , 1874-1875. Leather. Twenty six wonderful volumes of the novels by Lord Lytton, all with frontispieces. Twenty six volumes of Lord Lytton's work. The Knebworth Edition.The set includes, in volume order, Eugene Aram A Tale, Night and Morni…
Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian, & Crotchet Castle
Thomas Love Peacock · 1837 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)
London, Richard Bentley, 1837. Cloth. A collection of four novels by Thomas Love Peacock bound as one, the personal copy of notorious English writer Lytton Strachey. A collection of four novels by noted nineteenth-century writer and close friend of Percy Blysshe Shelley, Thomas …
Fourteen Songs from "When We Were Young
A.A. Milne; H. Fraser-Simon · 1930 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1930. Cloth. An illustrated work containing a selection of Milne's children's poems, set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson. The thirteenth impression of this work. Illustrated with decorations to each of the musical notations by …
Hafed Prince of Persia: His Experiences in Earth-Life and Spirit-Life, Being Spirit Communications
David Duguid · 1914 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
London, W. Foulsham & Co. 1914. Cloth. A unique pseudo-autobiography by David Duguid about Hafed Prince of Persia, a warrior prince and Archmagus, whose life story he claimed to receive through the trance medium. A 1914 popular edition copy of 'Hafed Prince of Persia: His E…
The Passionate Climate
Geoffrey Wagner · 1945 · Rooke Books
£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)
London, Resurgam Books, 1945. First edition. Leather. The author's presentation copy of this scarce collection of poetry, presented to his friend Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, with Wagner's ink manuscript poem to the rear endpaper. The first edition of this scarce work.Aut…
Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Sir Walter Scott · 1848 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)
Edinburgh & London, Robert Cadell; Houlston & Stoneman, 1848. Leather. A smart twelve volume collection of the poetical works of important Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish novelist and poet. Scott remains a celebrated figure in Scotti…
Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of Other Eminent Characters Who Have Distinguished Themselves in the Progress of the Revolution
1797 · Rooke Books
£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)
London, Printed for R. Phillips , 1797-1798. First edition. Leather. The first edition of one of the first biographical works on the French Revolution, complete in two volumes. An excellent set complete in two volumes. The first edition of 1797-98, second state with twelve lines…
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight
Henry Williamson · 1958 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London, Macdonald, 1958-61. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of three consecutive novels from Henry Williamson's popular series, these volumes set during the end and aftermath of the First World War. The first editions, first impressions, of these works.Three volume…
From a Country Hilltop a Breath of Country Air Part One and Part Two Spring Days in Devon and Other Broadcasts Pen and Plough: Further Broadcasts
Henry Williamson · 1988 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, The Henry Williamson Society , 1988-1993. First edition. Paperback. A marvellous scarce set in its original wraps of five volumes issued by the Henry Williamson Society, containing various articles, reviews, broadcasts, and more. The first editions. A scarce set of Henry…
Les Exiles de la Terre
Andre Laurie [Paschal Grousset] · 1888 · Rooke Books
£840.00 (€1,007.02 | $1,109.94 | ¥177,265)
Paris, D'Education et de Recreation, J Hetzel et Cie, 1888. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of this novel by a collaborator of Jules Verne. With stunning pictorial boards. Regarded as one of Grousset's most interesting science fiction novels. Bookplate to…
A Letter to Lord Mansfield a North Briton Extraordinary
Anon · 1770 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)
London, William Bingley, 1770. Paperback. A very scarce, controversial issue of the eighteenth century radical newspaper 'The North Briton&apos. The first and only edition of this issue.Being issue 197 of the periodical, or 51 of the continuation. This particular issue was …
Drawings and Studies in Pencil Chalk and Other Mediums Fine Art Society Limited
Lord Frederic Leighton · 1898 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)
London, Fine Art Society Limited , 1898. First edition. Leather. An exceptional rebound copy of the first and only edition of this extensive collection of Lord Frederic Leighton's drawings. A limited edition, being number 26 of only 500 copies printed. The plates to this co…
The Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period
Percy Macquoid; Ralph Edwards · 1983 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)
Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1983. Cloth. An uncommon and pleasing limited edition reprint copy of Ralph Edwards and Percy Macquoid's monumental and prolific dictionary of English furniture. Originally published from 1924 to 1927, this work was the first major…
Edward and Eleonora. A Tragedy. As It Was to Have Been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Agamemnon. A Tragedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty&Apos;S Servants Tancred and Sigismunda. A Tragedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty&Apos;S Servants. The Tragedy of Sophonisba. Aced at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty&Apos;S Servants.
James Thomson · 1738 · Rooke Books
£675.00 (€809.21 | $891.92 | ¥142,445)
London, A. Millar, 1738-45. First edition. Leather. A collection of four plays by James Thomson, with two, 'Edward and Eleanora' and 'Tancred and Sigismunda', being the first editions. Four plays by James Thomson, bound as one. This volumes includes; 'Ag…
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay
Lord Macaulay · 1860 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. Leather. A smartly bound two volume set off Thomas Babington Macaulay's miscellaneous writings, in a full calf binding with a frontispiece to Volume I. Complete in two volumes. Thomas Babington Macaulay was a Whig politici…
Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales, &C.
William Gilpin · 1800 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1800. Leather. The fifth edition of a lovely travelogue on one of Britain's most scenic and popular rivers, containing seventeen of Gilpin's aquatint plates. The fifth edition of Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South …
3 Vols Essays and Criticisms by Dr. Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith · 1798 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)
London, J. Johnson, 1798. Leather. A smart three-volume collection of Oliver Goldsmith's essays and criticism, uniformly bound in a contemporary full calf. Uniformly bound in a full contemporary calf. Volume I is stated to be "A New Edition", while volumes II and III are "N…
Le Proces Des Fleurs Du Mal
Charles Baudelaire; Ernest Pinard; Gaston Lebre [Ed.] · 1885 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
Paris, A. Chevalier-Marescq, 1885 . Cloth. The first collected publication of the surviving courtroom documents from Baudelaire's notorious 1857 Fleurs du Mal trial, extracted from volume III of Gaston Lebre's 1885 "Revue des grands proces contemporains." Rebound in a …
Humming Birds, Described and Illustrated; with an Introductory Sketch of Their Structure, Plumage, Haunts, Habits, Etc.
H. G. Adams · 1856 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)
London, Groombridge and Sons, 1856 . First edition. Paperback. The scarce first edition of Adams"s engaging natural history of hummingbirds, illustrated with eight charming hand-coloured plates, preserved in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. In the publisher&a…