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Virgil's Iliad. An Essay on Epic Narrative.
GRANSDEN, K.W., · 1984 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity
€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1984. 221p. Paperback. 'This is a book about Virgil's Aeneid, especially the second half of the poem, are explores in some detail Virgil's use of Homer's Iliad. The author's main purpose is to try to re-establish the value and importa…
L'Art de Seduire les Hommes suivi de l'Amour et les Poisons
Une Femme Curieuse [Maurice Magre] · 0 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB
A$275.00 (€169.04 | $186.31 | £141.02 | ¥29,752)
L'Edition, Bibliotheque des Curieux Paris Second Edition Good Condition 19cm x 12cm. [iv], 270 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. Text is in French. French guide to the seduction of men with supplementary essays on love and poisons (including opium) publ…
Le Pelerinage de Childe Harold; Lettres de Lord Byron Et Memoires Sur Sa Vie
Lord Byron; Thomas Moore; Paulin Paris · 1830 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
Paris, Armand AubreÃÂOeÃÂe, 1830. Cloth. Two volumes from the complete works of Lord Byron. Published in French, each with frontispiece. Volumes three and ten from a French edition of the Complete Works of Byron. Published in French, each with frontispiece. Alongside a memoir…
A Writ for Martyrs
MULLINS, EUSTACE · 1985 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,108)
Staunton, Virginia: O.T.U. Christ Church, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Please Note: We are offering a 1985 first edition paperback copy. "This is an indictment. I present factual evidence documenting crimes which have been committed, and some of the legal actions that have be…
Letters Addressed to a Young Man, on His First Entrance Into Life
Mrs. West [Jane West] · 1803 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, A. Strahan, 1803. Leather. A handsome example of the third edition of Jane West"s substantial conduct book for young men, complete in three volumes, guiding the reader through contemporary manners, morality, marriage and Christian belief. The third edition, complete in t…
L'Istoria della Volgar Poesia Scritta da Giovan Mario Crescdimbeni Canonico di S. Maria in Cosmedin, e Custode d'Aracadia. In questa seconda impression,e fatta d'ordine RAagunnanza degli Arcadi, corretta, risformata, e notabilmente ampliata. All'Altezza Serenissma, del Principe Antonio di Parma.
CRESCIMBINI (Giovanni Mario): · 1714 · John Price Antiquarian Books
£500.00 (€599.33 | $660.57 | ¥105,484)
In Roma, Nella Stamperia d'Antonio de' Rossi all Piazza di Cerli, 1714 4to, 212 mx 156, pp. [xii], 487 [488 - 502 index], engraved vignette on title-page, 6 historiated initials for each of the six chapters, contemporary marginal note in ink on page 90, contemporary vellum, yap…
Poems on Several Occasions
John Gay · 1752 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper , 1752-1753. Leather. Henry Lintot's two-volume edition of John Gay's chief poems, complete with decorative pieces and two engraved plates. A reissue of the 1752 London edition, with the title page to Volume I partly re…
Letters from a Lost Uncle
Mervyn Peake · 1948 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this eccentric Arctic adventure, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper and illustrated throughout in Peake's unmistakable style. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bind…
Poems by Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray · 1894 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
Eton, Eton College Press, 1894. Leather. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, in an elegant full calf Eton College binding signed Spottiswoode & Co. featuring decorations throughout. The collected poems of Thomas Gray, English poet known for his 1751 Elegy Written in a Country Ch…
Lyrical Poems by Charles Richard Cammell
Charles Richard Cammell · 1917 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
Geneva, Kundig, Editor, 1917. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this limited edition of this First World War-era poetry collection by the British author, journalist and occult historian Charles Richard Cammell, signed and inscribed by the author. In the publisher's original …
Fairy Flowers, Nature Legends of Fact & Fantasy
Isidora Newman · 0 · Rooke Books
£500.00 (€599.33 | $660.57 | ¥105,484)
London, Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, c1926. Cloth. A brightly illustrated volume of fantasy children's tales by Isidora Newman, enclosed in the original bright slipcase. With fourteen colour plates, frontispiece, and further illustrations. Collated, complete.F…
Stalin : passage to revolution.
Suny, Ronald Gregor. · 2022 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022. Paperback. xviii,857 pp. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilli…
Crossing frontiers : cultural exchange and conflict : papers in honour of Malcolm Pender.
Burns, Barbara & Joy Charnley (eds.) · 2010 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag
€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)
Amsterdam & New York : Rodopi,2010. Paperback. 268 pp. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 134). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. Contents : Barbara Burns and Joy Charnley: Introduction; Perso…
Our British Landscape Painters: From Samuel Scott to David Cox
William B. Scott · 1872 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)
London, Virtue & Co. [1872]. Leather. An uncommon copy of this fascinating study of the British landscape painters from 1710 to 1859, with sixteen engravings on steel. An uncommon work.Bound in full olive morocco with gilt to fore edge.A work by William Bell Scott, a Scottish ar…
Pierre de Ronsard: Sonnets Pour Helene
Pierre de Ronsard; Humbert Wolfe [trans.] · 1934 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934. First edition. Vellum. A signed limited edition translation of Pierre de Ronsard's 'Sonnets pour Helene', bound in quarter vellum. A special edition of one hundred and fifty numbered copies of this book, printed on hand made pa…
Bloomfield&Apos;S Farmer&Apos;S Boy, Rural Tales, Ballads, Songs & Wild Flowers
Robert Bloomfield; Capel Lofft [Preface] · 1847 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Halifax, W. Milner, 1847 . First edition. Cloth. A charming, very scarce, pocket-sized, first thus edition of a collection of Bloomfield"s beloved pastoral poems, with illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding with blind stamping.This edition…
A Jackdaw in Georgia a Book of Polite Parodies and Imitations of Contemporaries and Others
William Kean Seymour · 1923 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, John G. Wilson, 1923. First edition. Cloth. The first, uncommon signed edition of this volume comprising humorous poems and rhymes by William Kean Seymour. The first edition stated of this clever and amusing anthology of poems, written by William K Seymour on his contemp…
Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times; Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men
Dr. William King; Joseph Spence; Edmund Malone [notes] · 1819 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, John Murray, 1819-1820. Leather. Two volumes bound into one of the memoirs and anecdotes of Dr. William King and Joseph Spence. Two volumes bound into one.In a half navy calf binding. A collection of memoirs from the seventeenth and eighteenth century.Including:(1819) P…
Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems
Robert Browning · 1876 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1876 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of Robert Browning's collection of poetry, 'Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper&apos. The first edition of this collection of poems from beloved Victorian era poet Robert Brow…
All Passion Spent
Vita Sackville-West · 1931 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)
London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. A smart example of the first edition of one of Sackville-West's best known, and most loved, novels. A lovely copy of the first edition, first impression of this novel.A work by by English …