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Henry Fielding · 1775 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
London, W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; W. Johnston; T. Longman, 1775. Leather. An uncommon to see early edition of Henry Fielding's popular sentimental novel following a marriage in its early days. A scarce to see early edition.Complete in three volumes.ESTC citation numb…
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock · 1924 · Rooke Books
£1,350.00 (€1,618.19 | $1,783.54 | ¥284,808)
London, Constable & Co. Ltd, 1924. Cloth. A complete ten volume set of works by English novelist Thomas Love Peacock. Ten volumes. The Halliford Edition. Limited to six hundred and seventy-five copies. Written by Thomas Love Peacock, an English novelist, poet, and official of th…
The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor&Apos;S Life from His Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the Same, and of His History of the Grand Rebellion, from Restoration to His Banishment in 1667.
Edward Earl of Clarendon · 1759 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)
Oxford, Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition. Leather. A smart three volume autobiographical work on the Earl of Clarendon. The first edition. Complete in three volumes. Volume one is paginated separately with volumes two and three being paginated continuously. Uniforml…
General Besserley&Apos;S Puzzle Box, Stories; General Besserley&Apos;S Second Puzzle Box, a Series of Stories
E. Phillips Oppenheim · 1939 · Rooke Books
£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)
London, Hodder and Stoughton , 1939. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition copies of Oppenheim's popular short story collections, both with their original dust wrappers. The scarce first editions. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, unclipped…
Six John Galsworthy Pamphlets: For Love of Peace; the Land; the Bells of Peace; International Thought; on Expression
John Galsworthy · 1912 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)
Cambridge; London; Oxford, W. Heffer; George Allen & Unwin; The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Animals Friend Society; Oxford University Press, 1912-1924. First edition. Paperback. Covering topics including animal rights, inter-war politics and literary criticism, pr…
Lord Lytton&Apos;S Works
Edward Bulwer-Lytton · 1870 · Rooke Books
£4,200.00 (€5,034.37 | $5,548.79 | ¥886,070)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1870. Leather. A very pleasing set of thirty-seven volumes in uniform leather bindings of the works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a stunning collection in thirty-seven novels handsomely leather-bound in half calf o…
Ten Fac-Simile Reproductions Relating to Old Boston and Neighborhood; New England; Various Subjects
Samuel Abbott Green · 1901 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
Boston, Privately Printed, 1901-3. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon collection of this limited edition set proposing a bibliographical and historical study of American states and various subjects through facsimile reproductions of documents and others, by Samuel Abbott Green. S…
Divine Fancies, Digested Into Epigrams, Meditations, and Observations
Francis Quarles · 1675 · Rooke Books
£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)
London, T. D. for John Williams, 1675. Leather. A very scarce poetical work by the Royalist Francis Quarles, containing scathing poems that attack the Puritans and Papists. A very scarce work.A poetry collection of epigrams, meditations, and observations.In 'Divine Fancies&…
Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls
Frank Oates; C G Oates · 1889 · Rooke Books
£3,000.00 (€3,595.98 | $3,963.42 | ¥632,907)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1889. Leather. A profusely illustrated, beautifully bound copy of this scarce and important travelogue regarding South Africa. Taken from the letters and journals of British naturalist, Frank Oates. The second edition of this work. The first edit…
The Charms of Liberty to Which Is Added Epigrams Poems and Satyrs
William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire · 1709 · Rooke Books
£575.00 (€689.23 | $759.66 | ¥121,307)
London, Henry Hills, 1709. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce pirated edition of William Cavendish's poem, 'The Charms of Liberty&apos. With several pieces by Tom Brown, one poem by the Earl of Rochester, one by a 'Mr Burnaby', one by Edward Ward and sev…
Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the Request of the London Missionary Society Being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of That Country
John Campbell · 1822 · Rooke Books
£1,150.00 (€1,378.46 | $1,519.31 | ¥242,614)
London, Francis Westley, 1822. First edition. Leather. A beautifully illustrated travel work from the nineteenth century on South Africa by missionary and traveller, John Campbell. With the bookplate of one John Ward to the recto of front endpaper, probably Reverend John Ward, R…
De Officio Hominis & Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem Libri Duo.
Pufendorfii; [Samuel Pufendorf] · 1737 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Gul. Thurlbourn, 1737. Leather. The scarce expanded second edition of Thomas Johnson"s scholarly edition of Pufendorf"s foundational natural-law primer. In a contemporary full calf binding. The second, substantially enlarged and corrected edition of Thomas Johnson"s anno…
The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown Volume I
Thomas Brown · 1707 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, Sam. Briscoe; B. Bragg, 1707 . Leather. The first collected edition of Brown"s collected works, the first of two volumes, offering a selection of his observational satires, dialogues, poems, and translations. In a contemporary full calf binding. The first collected editi…
Eastern Love
Various; E. Powys Mathers · 1927 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, John Rodker for Subscribers , 1927-1929. First edition. Cloth. Nine out of the twelve volumes issued for this limited edition "Eastern Love", E. Powys Mather"s illustrated English translations of Oriental folk tales. Limited edition of 1,000 copies on all rag paper, with…
Rural Residences, Consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and Other Ornamental Buildings, Accompanied by Hints on Situation, Construction, Arrangement and Decoration, in the Theory & Practice of Rural Architecture; Interspersed Wiht Some Observations on Landscape Gardening
John Buonarotti Papworth · 1818 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, R. Ackermann, 1818. First edition. Leather. A very smart first edition of this book of hand-coloured, aquatint engravings of quaint, rural British architecture. A first edition of this work. Rebound in half calf with marbled paper boards. With the original spine laid d…
John Constable&Apos;S Correspondence
[ed. by R.B. Beckett] · 1965 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1965-1967. Cloth. Two volumes of correspondence from the esteemed Romantic landscape painter John Constable, offering valuable insight into his mind and that of an ambitious artist. Two volumes of John Constable's Correspondence, Volume III…
The Reluctant Gardener, the Reluctant Cook, & the Reluctant Hostess
Ethelind Fearon · 1953 · Rooke Books
£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)
London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1953-1955. Cloth. Three smart later printings of this uncommon trilogy of "reluctant" books, from English author Ethelind Fearon. Three volumes. Illustrated throughout. "If you are hampered at every turn by tiresome, complicated recipes; an ineff…
Macmillan&Apos;S Pocket Kipling
Rudyard Kipling · 1910 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1910-1928. Leather. A smart collection of twenty volumes from Macmillan's Pocket Kipling, with illustrations throughout. Twenty volumes of a thirty-five volume set. Macmillan's Pocket Kipling. Illustrated throughout. A collection of t…
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: Samuel Halkett and John Laing
Samuel Halkett; John Laing; Dr James Kennedy; W. A. Smith; A. F. Johnson · 1926 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
Edinburgh; London, Oliver and Boyd, 1926-1934. Cloth. Seven volumes of the new and enlarged edition of the dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature, with the original dust wrappers. Seven volumes of the new and enlarged edition of this work in the publisher&ap…
The Present State of the Republick of Letters
1728 · Rooke Books
£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)
London, Printed for W. Innys; et al. 1728-36. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce collection of fourteen volumes of Andrew Reid's eighteenth century periodical, featuring an early printing of a treatise by Sir Isaac Newton. An eighteenth-century periodical edited by Andr…