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The Correspondence of David Scott Director and Chairman of the East India Company Relating to Indian Affairs 1787-1805

C. H. Philips · 1951 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)

London , Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1951. Cloth. A collection of the letters of the former director of the East India company, David Scott. With a frontispiece of Scott. Volume I of two volumes (1787-1799). In a blue cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally,...

Meredith

Siegfried Sassoon · 1948 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London , Constable , 1948. First edition. Cloth. An insightful biography into the life and work of George Meredith. First edition. Featuring a frontispiece of a sketch of George Meredith. In original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine. Externally, sound, aside from...

Memoirs of Baron Hyde de Neuville. In Two Volumes

Frances Jackson · 1914 · Rooke Books

£42.99 (€51.53 | $56.80 | ¥9,070)

London , Sands and Co. 1914. First edition. Cloth. A scarce set of the memoirs of the exiled French politician, Jean-Guillaume. First Edition. Both volumes feature tissue-guarded frontispieces. Contains 24 illustrated plates. 'Translated and abridged by Frances Jackson&ap...

Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic

James Douglas · 1904 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this biography of Theodore Watts-Dunton. Although often remembered as a friend of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he he rescued from crippling alcoholism, Watts-Dunton was a highly respecte...

Turgot

Leon Say · 1888 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London , George Routledge, 1888. Cloth. An insightful biographical account on the life and works of Turgot, Translated from the original French by Gustave Masson. Featuring a frontispiece of Turgot. Part of the Great French Writers Series. In original cloth binding with gilt l...

Robert Louis Stevenson Man and Writer a Critical Biography

J. A. Steuart · 1850 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. c1924. First edition. Cloth. A two volume in one first edition of Steuart's Robert Louis Stevenson: Man and Writer. A comprehensive biography of Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), known for Treasure Island, Kid...

A Memoir of James Brown

George Stillman Hillard · 1856 · Rooke Books

£25.99 (€31.15 | $34.34 | ¥5,483)

Boston , Privately Printed, 1856. Cloth. An edition of A Memoir of James Brown by Thomas Stillman Hillard. With obituary notices and tributes of respect from public bodies. There is an engraved portrait of James Brown to the verso of title-page. From the Preface: "The late Jam...

People I Have Met

E.C. Grenville-Murray · 0 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London , Vizetelly and Co, c1884. Cloth. A attractive edition of Eustace Clare Grenville-Murray's People I Have Met. With fifty-four engravings throughout, including plates, the volume paints a vivid picture of the journalist's life in Victorian London, with humourou...

The Life of William Harvey

Geoffrey Keynes · 1966 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1966. Cloth. A biography of the life of William Harvey by Geoffrey Keynes. With numerous black and white illustrations. "In this book Sir Geoffrey Keynes attempts to place Harvey in his proper setting with a fully documented account of his relation...

Men of Might: Studies of Great Characters

A.C Benson; H.F.W Tatham · 1909 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Edward Arnold, 1909. Leather. A collection of biographies by Cambridge Scholars A.C Benson and H.F.W Tatham. Written and compiled by Cambridge scholars A C Benson and H W F Tatham, this work was written as an educational tool for young boys aged 15-18. Containing biogr...

Katherina Und Die Russische Seele.

Mary Lavater-Sloman · 1941 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

Zurich , Morgarten-Verlag, 1941. Leather. An illustrated life story of Catherine II of Russia from 1729-1796. Includes illustrated portrait plates of leaders from Zar Alexei Michailowitsch to Grissfurst Alexander Pawlowitsch as well as illustrations of maps throughout. Contain...

Arnold Bocklin

Heinrich Alfred Scmid · 1919 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Munich, F. Bruckmann, 1919. Cloth. A German language volume examining the life and work of Arnold Bocklin. A German language volume examining the life and work of Arnold Bocklin. A Swiss symbolist painter, Bocklin's legacy is somwhat curious in that he was subsequently se...

The Adventures of the Caliph Haroun Alraschid

[Anne Manning] · 1855 · Rooke Books

£94.00 (€112.67 | $124.19 | ¥19,831)

London, Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. 1855. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon account of the life and reign of Harun al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. First edition.In the publisher's blind-stamped cloth binding.An uncommon narrative of Harun al-Ra...

To Be a Printer

Brooke Crutchley · 1980 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, The Bodley Head, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition copy of this fascinating autobiography of the Cambridge University Printer who served during the typographical revival, signed by the author to the title page. The first edition in the publisher&apos...

The Life of Wellington

W. H. Maxwell · 1890 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Bickers & Son , 1890. Cloth. A charmingly bound and uncommon cloth copy of this illustrated work, in an unusual red variant cloth. An uncommon edition, and a very scarce example of this edition in its original cloth binding - an unusual red variant cloth.Decorated with...

Charles Darwin

Edward Woodall · 1884 · Rooke Books

£675.00 (€809.09 | $891.77 | ¥142,404)

Shrewsbury; Oswestry, Adnitt and Naunton; Woodall and Co. 1884. Cloth. Smart copy of Edward Woodall's scarce and significant illustrated biography on Charles Darwin. Scarce edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding.With a frontispiece and four further monoc...

Memoirs of William Cox, J.P. , Lieutenant and Paymaster of N.S. W. Corps, or 102nd Regiment.

William Cox · 1901 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Sydney; Brisbane, William Brooks & Co. 1901. First edition. Cloth. A scarce account of early colonial New South Wales by a senior officer of the New South Wales Corps, William Cox. In the publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt. First edition.Illustrated with thr...

Rex Whistler: His Life and His Drawings

Laurence Whistler · 1948 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Art and Technics, 1948. First edition. Cloth. First-edition biography of Rex Whistler by his brother Laurence Whistler, illustrated with Rex Whistler's drawings. First edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding. With clipped dust wrapper.Featuring a ...

The Armorial of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount

Alex Maxwell Findlater, Sir David Lyndsay of Mount · 2018 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Edinburgh, The Heraldry Society of Scotland, 2018. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of a fascinating record of heraldic coats of arms from sixteenth century Europe, including nobility, royalty and legendary figures such as the Nine Worthies. The signed first edit...

Kelly&Apos;S Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

1942 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Kelly's Directories, 1942 . Cloth. The sixty-eighth edition of this notorious referential work recording the titled, landed, and official classes in Great Britain for 1942. The sixty eighth edition of this work, published in 1942, and bound in the publisher's...