Biografi

Two Years in California

Mary Cone · 1876 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Chicago , S. C. Griggs and Company , 1876. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated autobiographical work by Mary Cone on her time in California. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. With a frontispiece, a folding map to the front and 1...

The Brudenells of Deene

Joan Wake · 1953 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

London, Cassell & Company, 1953 . First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound edition of Joan Wake's genealogical history of the Brudenell family, in a very fine full morocco binding from Bayntun-Riviere. The first edition, first impression of this work from English histo...

The Earlier Life and Works of Daniel Defoe

Henry Morley [editor] · 1889 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1889. Cloth. A very smart copy of this collection of the early works of Daniel Defoe, with a biographical sketch. The Carisbrooke Library edition. A collection of the early works of Daniel Defoe, an English writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and ...

The Autobiography of Kingsley Fairbridge

Kingsley Fairbridge; L. S. Amery; Sir Arthur Lawley · 1928 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

London, Oxford University Press, 1928. Hardback. A smartly bound third impression of this autobiography by the founder of the Fairbridge Schools, Kingsley Fairbridge. Third impression, November 1928. First impression, January 1927. Scarce impression. With a portrait frontispie...

Five Biographical Works on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell

James T. Boulton; Christopher Hibbert; Kai Kin Yung Frank Brady; Fiona MacMath · 1971 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

New York; London, Barnes & Noble; Longman; The Arts Council of Great Britain; Herbert Pressl Heinemann, Mowbray, 1971-1990. First edition. Cloth. New York; London: Barnes & Noble; Longman; The Arts Council of Great Britain; Herbert Pressl Heinemann, Mowbray, 1971-1990. First e...

George Morland: His Life and Works

Sir Walter Gilbey; E. D. Cuming · 1907 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biography on artist George Morland, with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with fifty colour plates. Collated complete. A detailed biography of George Morland, an Engli...

The Pollock-Holmes Letters Correspondence of Sir Frederick Pollock and Mr Justice Holmes 1874-1932

Mark DeWolfe Howe; Sir John Pollock · 1942 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume set of these works that reveal an intimate friendship between two lawyers, with illustrations. First edition copies. Complete in two volumes. These volumes contain the correspondence of Si...

Lady Hamilton (1763-1815)

A. Fauchier-Magnan · 1912 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Paris, Perrin, 1912 . Leather. A later, leather bound edition of this biography of Lady Hamilton, with illustrations. In the original French a later edition. Lady Hamilton was an English maid, model, dancer and actress. She married Sir William Hamilton who was the British Amba...

Memoires de Mme de Motteville Sur Anne D&Apos;Autriche Et Sa Cour

Francoise Bertaut de Motteville; M. F. Riaux; M. Sainte-Beuve · 1869 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Paris, Charpentier, 1869. Cloth. The memoirs of Francoise Bertaut de Motteville, in the original French, this volume focusing on the end of her life. Volume IV only of a total of four volumes.The memoirs of Francoise Bertaut de Motteville.Motteville was a French member of Anne...

La Vie de Disraeli

Andre Maurois · 1927 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Paris, Gallimard, 1927. Leather. A smart leather bound, limited edition copy of this French biography of Benjamin Disraeli. Limited edition, being number 448 of 1020. In the original French.From the series, the lives of great men, this is a biography of Benjamin Disraeli. Disr...

Scelta Di Lettere Familiari Degli Autori Piu Celebri

Leonardo Nardini · 1823 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

Milano, Giovanni Silvestri, 1823. Leather. A eighth edition copy of this collection of letters from famous authors, in Italian. In the original Italian. Eighth edition copy. This volume contains a collection of family letters of the most famous authors with notes by Leonardo N...

Sir Henry Irving and the Life of Sir Henry Irving

Percy Russell; Austin Fryers · 1896 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London , S. Champness & Co, 1896. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Two volumes on the life of Sir Henry Irving. Two volumes on the life of Sir Henry Irving. The first volume is from the Men and Women of the Century series published by S. Champness & Co and is written by Percy...

Sheridan: A Biography

W Fraser Rae · 1896 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1896. First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy of W Fraser Rae's biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan in two uniform volumes in Eyre & Spottiswoode binding. The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. Inscribed by ...

A New Account of the East Indies

Alexander Hamilton; Sir William Foster [ed.] · 1970 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

Amsterdam, N. Israel, 1970. First edition. Cloth. An attractive illustrated reprint of the Scottish privateer's biography and travelogue of Asia. Two volumes of Captain Alexander Hamilton's biography are bound in one volume in this first edition edited by Sir William...

In the Green Tree

Alun Lewis; A. L. Rowse, Gwyn Jones, Vernon Watkins · 1948 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of letters by the Welsh war poet Alun Lewis in the original dust wrapper. First edition of In the Green Tree in the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrap...

The Subaltern

[G. R. Gleig] · 1845 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Edinburgh and London , William Blackwood and Sons, 1845. Leather. A new edition of The Subaltern by G. R. Gleig. A new, fifth edition copy.Written by George Robert Gleig who was a Scottish soldier, military writer and priest.  The Subaltern is an account of the Peninsular War ...

The Worm Forgives the Plough

John Stewart Collis; Michael Holroyd · 1988 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1988. Cloth. A fine new edition of this colourful illustrated edition of John Stewart Collis's popular story. New edition of The Worm Forgives the Plough by John Stewart Collis in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wra...

Departures

E. L. Grant Watson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London , Pleiades Books, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this reflective nature work, with lovely woodcuts. A first edition copy of this autobiographical nature book  by E. L. Grant Watson. This volume is an intimate examination of nature, exploring the myster...

The Life Story of Sir Charles Tilston Bright CIVIL Engineer with Which Is Incorporated the Story of the Atlantic Cable, and the First Telegraph to India and the Colonies

Charles Bright · 1908 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Archibald Constable & Co. 1908. Cloth. Revised and abridged edition of electrical engineer Charles Tilston Bright's autobiographical work. Revised and abridged edition. Autobiographical book on the life and work of Charles Tilston, British electrical engineer who ...

Five Volumes of Work of Military History

Andrew Lownie; Nisid Hajari; Amarpal Singh; Christopher Andrew; Jonathan Trigg · 2015 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, St Martin's Press; Amberley; Allen Lane, 2015-2021. First edition. Cloth. A collection of five interesting and intense works on recent conflicts in military history. Five volumes. First editions. Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie,...