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Memoirs of Count Grammont

Anthony Hamilton; Sir Walter Scott · 1889 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1889. Cloth. A limited edition illustrated memoir of the Count de Gramont, written by his brother-in-law, a fascinating historical memoir on the courts of Louis XIV and Charles II. A limited edition work, limited to seven-hundred and eig...

Blasting and Bombardiering

Wyndham Lewis · 1937 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. First edition. Cloth. An very bright first edition copy of the founding father of Vorticism Wyndham Lewis' autobiography. With the publisher's original unclipped dustwrapper.Wyndham Lewis co-founded the artistic Vorticist movement a...

The Life of Mr. Thomas Gent, Printer, of York

Thomas Gent · 1832 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Thomas Thorpe, 1832. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of Thomas Gent's historically fruitful autobiography, illustrated with a frontispiece of Gent. The first edition of this work. In the original publishers' binding.An uncommon work.The autobi...

To Keep the Ball Rolling

Anthony Powell · 1983 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,181)

London, Penguin Books, 1983. First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition thus of Anthony Powell's memoirs, the first abridged copy, illustrated with sixteen plates. Signed by the author to the title page, 'Miranda, with love from Tony.. 1983&apos.The first editi...

La Gloire Du Vicomte de Launay Delphine Gay de Girardin

Henri Malo · 1925 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, 1925. Vellum. A finely bound copy of Henri Malo's biographical study of the French author Delphine de Girardin. With a portrait frontispiece of de Girardin. From the library of Katherine Leeds, the wife of the 10th Duke of Leeds. With her inscrip...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1895 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1895. Leather. An attractive half leather bound copy of James Boswell's notable biography of Samuel Johnson; with charming marbled paper over boards, and marbled endpapers and textblock. Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnso...

Bellini

Leslie Orrey · 1969 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1969. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this biography on the Italian opera composer, Vincenzo Bellini, written by Leslie Orrey, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. In a signed binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. ...

The Life of Lord Hill, G.C. B. Late Commander of the Forces

Rev. Edwin Sidney · 1845 · Rooke Books

£248.00 (€297.26 | $327.64 | ¥52,304)

London, John Murray , 1845. First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound copy of this biographical work by Rev. Edwin Sidney, charting the life and times of Lord Hill. Rebound in a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. With new endpapers. Ink inscription to the ...

The Life of General Monk: Duke of Ablemarle, Containing I. A Faithful Account of His Unparallel&Apos;D Conduct, Surprizing Actions, and Providential Success in Accomplishing the Restoration of Monarchy. II. A Particular Relation of the Most Memorable March from Coldstream to London; the Preparations for It in Scotland, the Happy Consequences of It in England. III. Many Mistakes Committed by Our Historians, (Particularly the Earl of Clarendon) Concerning the General&Apos;S Administration, Rectifi

Thomas Skinner; William Webster · 1724 · Rooke Books

£500.00 (€599.32 | $660.57 | ¥105,451)

London, J. Isted and J. Hooke, 1724. Leather. A very scarce biographical work from the early eighteenth century, charting the life and times of the Royalist Duke of Albemarle. Second edition, corrected. Published from the original manuscript of Thomas Skinner, with a preface b...

The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M.

Rev. Matthew Henry; Sir J. B. Williams · 1839 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, William Ball, 1839 . Cloth. A scarce edition of this descriptive biography of Philip Henry, as written by his son, and featuring his sermons in print for the first time. Scarce edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Smartly rebacked with the spine lai...

A Memoir of the Rev. W.B. Trevelyan

Various [pref. by A.F. London] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce memoir celebrating the life of William Bouverie Trevelyan, a vicar famed for his tolerance, including a folding map of Westminster parish to the rear. The very scarce Memoir of the Rev...

The Holy Mountain, Being the Story of a Pilgrimage to Lake Manas

Bhagwan Shri Hamsa; Shri Purohit Swami [trans.]; W. B. Yeats [intro.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Faber and Faber, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this English language translation of a Hindu saint"s pilgrimage, with an introduction to the work from W. B. Yeats. Translated from the Marathi into English by Shri Purohit Swami. The first edition, fir...

The Complete Newgate Calendar: Volume I-V

J. L. Rayner and G. T. Crook; Captain Charles Johnson; Captain Alexander Smith; George Borrow; Andrew Knapp; William Baldwin; Camden Pelham · 1926 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, The Navarre Society Limited, 1926. Cloth. A complete twentieth-century illustrated edition, featuring an extensive range of influential crime stories originally published as The Newgate Calendar. Complete in five volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's origina...

Stemmata Botevilliana: Memorials of the Families of de Boteville, Thynne, and Botfield, in the Counties of Salop and Wilts. With an Appendix of Illustrative Documents

Beriah Botfield · 1858 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

Westminster , J. B. Nichols and Sons , 1858. First edition. Leather. One of 250 privately printed copies of this Shropshire and Wiltshire family history, with genealogical tables and plates. One of 250 copies privately printed.  In the publisher's original quarter morocco...

Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889 Kipling&Apos;S India Uncollected Sketches 1884-88

Rudyard Kipling; Andrew Rutherford [ed.]; Thomas Pinney [ed.] · 1986 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A very smart pair of titles on the literary ephemera of Rudyard Kipling, both with unclipped dust wrappers. An insightful pair of works collecting Kipling's miscellaneous observational and poetic works, published alongs...

8 Vols the Historical Works of William H. Prescott

William Prescott · 1839 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.79 | $1,182.43 | ¥188,758)

London, Richard Bentley, 1839-1847. Leather. A smart uniformly bound eight-volume set of Prescott"s major histories, illustrated with frontispieces, maps, and facsimile signatures, tracing Spain"s rise and conquests in Mexico and Peru. Uniformly bound in a contemporary full ca...

John Thelwall: A Pioneer of Democracy and Social Reform in England During the French Revolution

Charles Cestre · 1906 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Perth, Cowan & Co, 1906. First edition. Leather. The first edition of French academic Charles Cestre's very scarce biography of the life of radical British orator and reformer John Thelwall. The first edition of this very scarce biography, with this work being 'submi...

2 Vols the Eccentric Mirror: Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern

G. H. Wilson · 1806 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, James Cundee, 1806-1807. Leather. Two volumes of this curious illustrated Regency compendium of extraordinary characters, featuring figures deemed to have lived beyond the "ordinary laws of nature." In a contemporary calf binding, rebacked with later brown cloth. Endpa...

Something&Apos;S Burning: The Autobiography of Two Cooks

Fanny Cradock · 1960 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Putnam, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this insightful autobiography on TV cooks Fanny and Johnnie Cradock, illustrated, with dust wrapper. A very smart first edition autobiography of the influential television cooks Fanny and Johnnie Cradock, penned by...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

[Thomas De Quincey] · 1823 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,342)

London, Taylor and Hessey, 1823 . Leather. A smart third edition copy of this influential autobiographical account of addiction by Thomas De Quincey. The third edition, originally published in 1821. In a half brown morocco binding. A signed binding by Sotheran. The work is an ...