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Als by A.J. Boyer, Member of the California State Society in Washington, D.C. , to Frederick Dewitt of Oakland, Ca

Boyer, A. J. · 1913 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Washington, DC: A.J. Boyer, 1913. ALS by Boyer concerning remarks made by Boyer about Joaquin Miller, the "poet of the Sierra." (The society was instrumental in preserving the Miller cabin in Washington, DC.) Written in ink on a single sheet torn from a notebook, with ragged rig…

Bengal: Past and Present (Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society)

Various · 1907 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Calcutta, The Calcutta General Printing Company, at the Edinburgh Press, 1907-08. Hardback. The first two volumes of the Calcutta Historical Society's journal, comprising of four illustrated issues. Two volumes of 'Bengal: Past and Present (Journal of the Calcutta Hist…

The King&Apos;S Threshold; on Baile&Apos;S Strand

W. B. Yeats · 1905 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

Dublin, Maunsel & Co. Ltd , 1905. First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first Irish editions of these significant plays from Irish poet and dramatist, W. B. Yeats, volumes issued for the publisher's 'Abbey Theatre Series&apos. The first Irish editions of these play…

And We Were Young: Oundle School and the Great War

Colin Pendrill · 2017 · Winkles Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Book New New 1st Edition Helion & Company Solihull 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall "A boy, he spent his boy's dear life for England". These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot hims…

The Japji of Guru Nanak: A New Translation with Commentary

Brar, Rupinder S. · 2019 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 2019. Hardcover. Full-color matte printed boards with the title printed in white letters down a black spine. The free and pasted end pages are a deep, rich red. Pages: (4), 5-168. Contains many color illustrations. "The 'Japji' is by far t…

Persephone

John Drinkwater · 1926 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The limited edition, first edition of John Drinkwater's retelling of the Persephone myth, signed by typographer Bruce Rogers. The first edition of this work. One of five-hundred and fifty copies produced.Designed …

Fire Down Below

William Golding · 1989 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Faber and Faber, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this novel by Nobel Prize winning author William Golding. "In 'Fire Down Below 'William Golding's great sea trilogy makes landfall at last. And completes a gripping masterpiece of contempor…

The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott · 1848 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell; Adam and Charles Black, 1848-1853. Leather. An attractive set of the miscellaneous works of iconic Scottish author Walter Scott, including biographies, histories, and literary criticisms. The Miscellaneous Prose Works of the iconic Scottish author and p…

Lectori vago. Manuscripts, Libraries, and Classical Scholarship from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period. Liber amicorum Luc Deitz

Claude D. Conter, Thomas Falmagne, Marc Laureys, Christophe Marinheiro, Max Schmitz, Tom Zago (eds) · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 668, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:21 b/w, 63 col., 9 tables b/w., Languages: English, French, German. ISBN 9782503624495. Summary This volume pays tribute to the exceptional career of Luc Deitz, shaped by intellectual depth and an insatiabl…

Opera. Nunc primum in lucem edita. quorum cataalogum proxima facies enumerabit.Utrecht, Herman van Borculo, 1541. 8vo. With Borculo's woodcut device on the title page and full-page woodcut device with the motto “Felici genio vivax liber arte per orbem,/Chalcographa missus, non minus volat.” on the verso of the last leaf. 18th-century limp vellum.

SECUNDUS, Janus. · 1511 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

[328] pp.First edition of the collected works of Janus Secundus (or Jan Everaerts, 1511-1536), the most celebrated Neo-Latin poet of the Netherlands, author of the world famous Basia (Kisses). Apart from some scattered occasional poems (see: Dekker, Janus Secundus), nothing of h…

The Works of Robert Burns with an Account of His Life and a Criticism on His Writings. To Which Are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry; Reliques of Robert Burns; Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs

Robert Burns · 1817 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817-1820. Leather. The complete eighth edition of Robert Burns' works, together with his collection of unpublished writings, 'Reliques&apos. The eighth edition of The Works complete in four volumes, with the fifth volume containing a f…

The Adventures of Numa Pompilius, Second King of Rome

M. de Florian; Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian · 1790 · Rooke Books

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

Brussels, B. le Francq, 1790. Leather. A bilingual edition of de Florian's exciting biographical novel on the life of the legendary second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius. Illustrated with detailed plates throughout. Complete in four volumes. Volume I illustrated with a fronti…

The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns And Three Comic Novels

Lynne Truss · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

Gotham 2005 Paperback, 656pp. Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her British audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new pref…

A Dictionary of the English Language Compiled from Dr. Johnson; with the Addition of Many Hundred Words Since Become Familiar. And to Which Is Added a Complete List of All the Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and Remarkable Villages in England and Wales. And a Comprehensive View of English Grammar.

Dr. Johnson · 1825 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Peacock & Mansfield, 1825. Leather. A new edition of this concise English dictionary with many additions. New edition. With a frontispiece and many in-text images. A concise dictionary of the English language with a comprehensive view of English grammar, as well as a lis…

Friendship in Death : In Twenty Letters from the Dead to the Living. To Which Are Added, Letters Moral and Entertaining, in Prose and Verse: In Three Parts.

Elizabeth Singer Rowe · 1728 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, A. Milbank, J. Jones, T. Williams, and D. Manson, c1780. Leather. A smart, late edition of this contemporarily popular epistolary work on the nature of life and death, by an enigmatic female poet. A late edition of this work, first published in 1728 by T. Worrall, London…

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece Volumes I, II and III Renaissance in Italy Italian Literature Parts I and II Renaissance in Italy the Catholic Reaction Parts I and II Renaissance in Italy Revival of Learning Renaissance in Italy the Age of the Despots Renaissance in Italy the Fine Arts

John Addington Symonds · 1898 · Rooke Books

£960.00 (€1,150.71 | $1,268.29 | ¥202,530)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1898-1905. Leather. Symonds' seven-volume Renaissance in Italy and three-volume Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, in a handsome half calf binding. In half calf bindings. Bookplate to the front paste down of each volume, showing that this…

Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and Their Horses, by W(ilfrid) S(cawen) B(lunt). Two volumes. London, John Murray, 1879.

BLUNT, LADY ANNE & BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (Ed.): · 1870 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€1,400.00 ($1,543.05 | £1,167.97 | ¥246,406)

Pp. xviii, (3), 346; vii, (3), 283, adv. pp. 33. With one coloured folding map (two small tears in margin), twelve engraved plates and a folding chart of Arabian thoroughbreds. Contemporary half red cloth decorated in gilt and black, rebacked with red morocco, spines ruled in gi…

Fredrika Bremer&Apos;S Works: The President&Apos;S Daughters; Including Nina

Fredrika Bremer; Mary Howitt · 1852 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1852. Leather. A scarce edition of Bremer's novels The President's Daughters and its sequel Nina, translated by Mary Howitt. Scarce edition. Considered a representation of Bremer's increased maturity, The President's Daughters portrays …

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Edward Fitzgerald · 1859 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press, c1928. Leather. Beautiful green morocco edition of Edward Fitzgerald's popular translation, with lovely colour plates from Charles Robinson. Bound in full green morocco.With four colour plates from celebrated book illustrator Ch…

Johnson&Apos;S England an Account of the Life and Manners of His Age

A. S. Turberville · 1952 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952. Cloth. Two volumes on the England of Samuel Johnson's time, with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. A reprint copy. These two volumes describe the England that Dr. Johnson knew, its habits, clothes, culture and amusements from the perio…