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Sevens Works by Ferdinand Mount

Ferdinand Mount · 1991 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Heinemann; Chatto & Windus; Bloomsbury, 1991-2008. First edition. Cloth. A smart set collecting six works by Ferdinand Mount, a first edition set, of which five of the volumes are signed. A set of six works by Ferdinand Mount, a combination of his fiction and non-fiction…

A Sammelband of Devotional Pieces and Poems, with &Apos;Select Pieces&Apos; from Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin; John Armstrong; E. Tomkins; Dyer; Barbauld et al · 1800 · Rooke Books

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

London; Ploughmill, B. Crosby and Co; George Nicholson, 1800-1804 . First edition. Leather. A charming sammelband in which eight works of poetry are bound together, including 'Select Pieces' by Benjamin Franklin, and Tomkins's 'Poems of Various Subjects&apos.…

The Evil That Men Do; the Dolly Dolly Spy; the Turquoise Lament

Hugh Pentecost [Judson Philips]; Adam Diment; John D. MacDonald · 1966 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, T. V. Boardman; Michael Joseph; Robert Hale & Company, 1966-1975. First edition. Cloth. Bright first editions of three mystery and thriller novels, in the original dust wrappers. The first editions of these three works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, wit…

The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher

Ben Jonson; Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Peter Whalley; George Colman · 1811 · Rooke Books

£570.00 (€683.24 | $753.05 | ¥120,252)

London, John Stockdale, 1811. Leather. The collected dramatic works of three eminent Renaissance playwrights, Jonson, Beaumont, and Fletcher, a nice set illustrated with portraits of the three men. Complete in four volumes.The collected dramatic works of Ben Jonson, Francis Beau…

William - the Good

Richmal Crompton · 1928 · Rooke Books

£1,490.00 (€1,786.00 | $1,968.50 | ¥314,344)

London, George Newnes Limited, [1928]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of this work featuring charming tales of William Brown, in the original, unclipped, dust wrapper. A scarce, first edition, in the original publisher's red cloth binding, with an unclipped d…

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts.

Lemuel Gulliver [Jonathan Swift] · 1747 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.99 | $1,981.71 | ¥316,453)

London, Charles Bathurst, 1747 . Leather. E. M. Forster's personal copy of the very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels&apos. The very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's fantastical novel about the adventures of Lemuel Gull…

Unknown Mexico a Record of Five Years&Apos; Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; in the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan

Carl Lumholtz · 1902 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of this brilliant travel work on Mexico, signed by the author, complete with colour plates and folding maps. The first U.S. edition.Inscribed by the author to the recto of the front free e…

The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-39

Freya Stark · 1953 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, John Murray , 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by Freya Stark, recounting of her travels in South Arabia between 1933-39. The third and last part of Freya Stark's autobiography, which mainly focusses on her travels around S…

The Works of Joseph Ritson

Joseph Ritson · 1794 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)

London, G. and W. Nicol; T. and J. Egerton; R. Triphook; C. and J. Rivington; J. Johnson, 1794-1813. Leather. A uniformly bound, full calf set of the selected works of Joseph Ritson, published between 1794 to 1813. A lovely, uncommon set. A lovely, uncommon set of selected works…

Angelica Kauffmann

Victoria Manners; G C Williamson · 1924 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition of Victoria Manners and G C Williamson's biography of Swiss painter Angelica Kauffmann. The first, limited edition of 1924 of this extensive biography of Angelica Kauffmann by Victoria Ma…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys; Robert Latham (ed.); William Matthews (ed.) · 1971 · Rooke Books

£330.00 (€395.56 | $435.98 | ¥69,620)

London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd. 1971-1983. Cloth. An eleven volume set comprising the diaries of Samuel Pepys, complete in dust wrappers and with a companion volume and index volume. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was an English politician, bibliophile and author. He kept a diary for te…

Sketches by Boz Dombey and Son Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 1851 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)

Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea; Getz, Buck, and Co, 1851-3. Leather. Three rare early U.S. editions of Dickens' popular works, 'Sketches By Boz', 'Dombey and Son', and 'Bleak House, illustrated throughout. Early U.S. editions of these works.Three o…

Prose Di M Pietro Bembo Nelle Quali Si Ragione Della Volgar Lingua

Pietro Bembo · 1525 · Rooke Books

£5,250.00 (€6,292.96 | $6,935.98 | ¥1,107,587)

Venice , Giovanni Tacuino, 1525. First edition. Leather. A very scarce, true first edition of Pietro Bembo's influential treatise on writing poetry. This is the true first edition of this work. Upon initial publication, this work was protected by a ten-year privilege, meani…

A New Universal and Impartial History of England

George Frederick Raymond · 1790 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

London, J Cooke, c1790. First edition. Leather. A profusely illustrated look at the history of England, told chronologically through the reigns of each monarch and leader. The first and only edition of this work. Undated, dated using ESTC records. ESTC reference No T135893. Illu…

The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England, Concerning One Special Branch of the King&Apos;S Prerogative, Viz. In Dispencing with the Penall Laws, Asserted by . The Lords Arch-Bishops Bancroft, Laud and Usher . [Et Al. ] Together with the Concurring Resolutions of Our Reverend Judges, As Most Consonant and Agreeable Thereunto. In a Letter from a Gentleman of Oxford, to His Friend at London

Anon · 1678 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, J H and T S , 1678. Disbound. A scarce seventeenth century pamphlet regarding penal laws dispensed by James II in 1687. This work provides one individual's opinion of these laws through the form of a letter. The first and only edition of this work. The Penal Laws, o…

3 Vols History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent

George Bancroft · 1843 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Paris, Baudry’s European Library, 1843 . Leather. An intriguing tenth edition of Bancroft"s landmark history of America, complete in three volumes, with a letter signed by George Bancroft to English jurist and explorer, Thomas Falconer. In a contemporary half morocco binding wi…

Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Author of the Sylva. In Two Volumes

William Bray · 1819 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. Leather. A rich wealth of information about the goings-on of the seventeenth century, from the perspective of a gardener and diarist. Second Edition. The whole now published from the first MSS. 'Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6…

The Plays of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Alexander Chalmers [ed.] · 1826 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)

London, Printed for C. and J. Rivington; T Egerton; J. Cuthell; et al. 1826 . Leather. A neatly bound complete eight volume set of plays by William Shakespeare, in full brown morocco. A handsomely bound set of plays by William Shakespeare.William Shakespeare was an English playw…

Barchester Towers: Volume I an Autobiography Can You Forgive Her? Volume I Can You Forgive Her? Volume II

Anthony Trollope; [ed.] Michael Sadleir, [ed.] Frederick Page; · 1948 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1948-1953. Cloth. A wonderful 4 volume set of works by English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era Anthony Trollope, with numerous plates, in their original dust wrappers A wonderful 4 volume set of works by E…

The Comical Romance and Other Tales

Paul Scarron; Tom Brown (Trans.); John Savage (Trans.); J. J. Jusserand · 1829 · Rooke Books

£82.00 (€98.29 | $108.33 | ¥17,299)

London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1829. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated set which contains 'The Comical Romance' and other stories by French writer Paul Scarron, and is one of 1,000 limited edition copies. Limited edition, being No. 621 of one-thousand copies 'printed…