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Carl Linnaeus: De man die de natuur rangschikte
Gunnar Broberg · 2020 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
Uitgeverij Unieboek | Het Spectrum. 2020; Hardcover met stofomslag; goed exemplaar. <h3>Het verhaal van een van de grootste wetenschappers aller tijden</h3><p>'God schiep, Linnaeus organiseerde.' Zo omschreef Carl Linnaeus, de befaamde Zweedse arts, plantkundige, zoöloog en geol…
Nugae Literariae, Prose and Verse
Reverend Richard Winter Hamilton · 1841 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)
London, Hamilton, Adams and Co et al, 1841. Leather. A fascinating collection of writings from a devout and passionate character. Includes essays, prose and poems on subjects from religion, to the olympic games, to craniology, to Shakespeare. Richard Winter Hamilton (1794Â1848)…
Studies for Pictures, a Medley
J. Moyr Smith · 1868 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)
London, Edward Moxon & Co , 1868. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition work containing numerous illustrations by J. Moyr Smith, with a bookplate for the Scottish writer, Compton Mackenzie. The very scarce first edition. Held institutionally in only five UK libraries. Reb…
Christmas Tyde
[Sara Coleridge]; Various · 1849 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, William Pickering, 1849. Cloth. First Edition illustrated collection of Christmas songs and poems, from the library of Ottoline Morrell. First Edition uncommon collection of sacred songs and Christmas themed poems by various authors, including William Shakespeare, John M…
Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters. Of Books and Men. Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope, and Other Eminent Persons of His Time
Joseph Spence; Samuel Weller Singer · 1820 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London, W. H. Carpenter, 1820. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this comical and insightful collection of anecdotes by Joseph Spence. The first edition of this work. This is a humorous collection of literary and historical anecdotes, featuring anecdotes on Queen Anne…
London Society: An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation: Volume V
Various · 1864 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, London Society, 1864. Leather. A charming volume from London Society's monthly periodical, containing engravings, short stories, papers and poems from anonymous nineteenth century writers. The fifth volume of London Society's An Illustrated Magazine of Light an…
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries
Henry Hallam · 1873 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, John Murray, 1873. Leather. An attractive complete fifth edition of Henry Hallam's European literary history, bound by Zaehnsdorf in full tree calf. The fifth edition of this work. Complete in three volumes. Uniformly bound in full signed tree calf by Zaehnsdorf, w…
Dramatic Micellanies
Thomas Davies · 1783 · Rooke Books
£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)
London, Printed for the Author, 1783-74. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this uncommon work of literary criticism by Thomas Davies. The first edition.An uncommon work.Complete in three volumes.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Thomas Betterton to Volume I.…
Miscellaneous Essays
The Rev. Edward Mangin · 1851 · Rooke Books
£895.00 (€1,072.95 | $1,182.62 | ¥188,871)
London, Hope & Co. 1851 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this vanishingly scarce collection of essays by the Rev. Edward Mangin, with an additional letter from the author. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Inscribed by the author to t…
Poesies Completes de Robert Burns
Robert Burns; M. Leon de Wailly [trans.] · 1845 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)
Paris, Adolphe Delahays, 1845. Leather. A smart copy of Leon de Wailly's very scarce French language translation of Robert Burns's poetry. Translated from the original English into French.A very scarce translation of the works of the major Scottish literary figure.Arma…
Wonderful Britain: Its Highways, Byways & Historic Places Described and Pictured by Expert Writers & Photographers
Charles G. Harper; A. G. Bradley; J. E. Morris; J. A. Hammerton [ed.]; et al. · 1928 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Educational Book Co. Ltd. 1928-1929. Cloth. An illustrated four-volume guide to the history and topography of Britain, with contributions by notable writers. A four-volume work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings. Each volume is illustrated with a t…
Poems Upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin
John Milton · 1785 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)
London, James Dodsley, 1785. First edition. Leather. The first edition of John MIlton's poems edited by the literary historian Thomas Warton. The first Thomas Warton edition.ESTC citation number T134607.Page 164 is misnumbered 146.A collection of the poems of John Milton, t…
Little Blue Books on Herbert Hoover
E. Haldeman-Julius · 1573 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
Kansas, Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1931 . Brochure/Pamphlet. Two Little Blue Books on Herbert Hoover's life before and during his Presidency, edited by E. Haldeman-Julius. Comprising No. 1573 'Herbert Hoover - the Fatuous Failure in the White House' and no. 16…
Through the Window: No. 2, Paddington to Birkenhead, 200 Miles of English and Welsh Country As Seen from the G.W. R. Trains
Anonymous [Great Western Railway] · 1925 · Rooke Books
£199.00 (€238.57 | $262.95 | ¥41,995)
London, Great Western Railway, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a volume taking the reader along a scenic train journey across England, in the publisher's scarce original cloth. The first edition of the second volume in the Through the Window series, capturi…
A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Origin and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers to Which Are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
Samuel Johnson · 1824 · Rooke Books
£1,240.00 (€1,486.55 | $1,638.49 | ¥261,677)
London, G. and J. Offor, W. Allason, R. Akerman et. al. 1824. Leather. A monumental two-volume edition of Samuel Johnson's standard dictionary of the English language. A later edition of Samuel Johnson's seminal work, his influential dictionary of the English language.…
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith. M.B. And the Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy of Arts
Oliver Goldsmith · 1845 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845. Leather. A beautifully illustrated collection of Oliver Goldsmith's poetical works, complete with many lovely engravings. A collection of the poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith.Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish poet and novelis…
The Marlowe Papers; Shtum; the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers; Cleanness
Ros Barber; Jem Lester; Samuel Burr; Garth Greenwell · 2012 · Rooke Books
£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)
London, Orion; Picador; Sceptre , 2012-2024. First edition. Hardback. A lovely set of powerful modern titles, all signed. Including Ros Barber's award-winning historical novel 'The Marlowe Papers&apos. All signed by their respective author. In the original cloth board…
The Comedies and Tragedies of George Chapman Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author
George Chapman · 1873 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
London, John Pearson , 1873. Cloth. A smart complete set of this collection of the dramatic works of English writer George Chapman. Complete in three volumes. A collection of the dramatic works of George Chapman, an English dramatist, translator, poet, and classical scholar whos…
Gesta Romanorum or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks As a Fire-Side Recreation
Thomas Wright · 1871 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, John Camden Hotten, 1871. Hardback. A complete two volume set of this new edition collection of anecdotes and tales originating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Complete in two volumes. New edition. A Latin collection of anecdotes and tales that w…
Hogarth Moralized; a Complete Edition of the All the Most Capital and Admired Works of William Hogarth
Rev. Dr. John Trusler · 1831 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)
London, Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, 1831 . Leather. A smart copy of Rev. Dr. Trusler's critical examination of the work of William Hogarth. First published shortly after Hogarth's death, this volume is illustrated throughout with…