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W. Clark Russell · 1891 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Methuen and Co, 1891. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated biography about Lord Nelson's partner Cuthbert Collingwood, written by the naval writer William Clark Russell. The first edition of this work. An uncommon work not mentioned by Wolff. This work is an inter...

Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminius, and the Amalthei: Translation from Their Poetical Works: And Notes & Observations Concerning Other Literary Characters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.

Rev. W. Parr Greswell · 1801 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

Manchester, Cadell and Davies, 1801. Leather. A first edition volume of Rev. W. Parr Greswell featuring a collection of biographical works of poets from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First edition. With biographical works on several 15th and 16th century poets, thos...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Moore · 1826 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. Leather. Two volumes bound into one of Thomas Moore's interesting biography on the Irish poet and playwright Richard Sheridan. Complete as two volumes bound into one. Richard Sheridan was a satirist and poet, as well as...

Seven Letters of John Evelyn Written between the Tears 1665 & 1703 Now Printed from the Original Copies Together with a Facsimile

John Evelyn · 1914 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Oxford, Horace Hart, 1914. Cloth. A wonderful copy of this limited edition work, featuring seven letters written by John Evelyn. An incredibly scarce work, with only fifty copies printed. Includes a facsimile of John Evelyn's letter addressed to Mrs. Evelyn. John Evelyn w...

2 Vols Pylades and Corinna; or, Memoirs of the Lives, Amours, and Writings of Richard Gwinnett, Esq. And Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas

Richard Gwinnett; Elizabeth Thomas · 1732 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, E. Curll, 1732-1736 . Leather. An appealing mixed-edition set of Gwinnett and Elizabeth Thomas"s sixteen-year courtship correspondence, combining the expanded 2nd edition of the first volume with the 1st edition of the continuation and Gwinnett"s Christmas Gambol. In a...

6 Vols the Works of Thomas Secker

Thomas Secker; Beilby Porteus · 1811 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington; et al. 1811. Leather. The new edition of this six-volume collection of the sermons and ecclesiastical writings of Archbishop Thomas Secker, with Beilby Porteus's important biographical memoir. Uniformly bound in contemporary marbled calf. ...

A Parcel of Time: A First World War Childhood

Richard Kennedy · 1977 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Andoversford, Gloucestershire, Whittington Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a sentimental dive into a book illustrator's childhood during the First World War, with lovely ink illustrations throughout. The first edition of A Parcel of Time: A Parcel ...

Robert Louis Stevenson&Apos;S Edinburgh Days

E. Blantyre Simpson · 1913 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Cloth. The charming third edition of an illustrated literary biography on the early years of Robert Louis Stevenson in Edinburgh. The third edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh Days, a tour of the prolific author's youth spe...

The Landscape Annual for 1834: The Tourist in France

Thomas Roscoe · 1834 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Jennings and Chaplin, 1834 . First edition. Leather. An exceptional first edition of this fascinating travelogue from the early 19th century exploring France, illustrated with engraved plates by J. D. Harding. The first edition of this work, the Landscape Annual for 18...

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang · 1991 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, HarperCollins, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a fascinating history of three women in the first half of China's turbulent twentieth century, including the Chinese Civil War, the Russian Occupation of Manchuria and the Cultural Revolution. The fir...

Ancestral Voices and Caves of Ice

James Lees-Milne · 1975 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)

London, Chatto & Windus; Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1975-1983. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of the first and third works within Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries, offering both valuable insight into the National Trust and Milne's charming personali...

Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry

Lady Dacre · 1835 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Richard Bentley, 1835. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition, from copac, of Lady Dacre's Tales of the Peers and the Peasantry. Edited by Lady Dacre, Barbarina Brand, the publication is thought to have been written by Arabella Jane Sullivan, Lady Dacre&apos...

Notes from a Diary 1851-1901

The Right Hon Sir Mountstuart E Grant Duff · 1897 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.52 | $1,453.25 | ¥232,066)

London, John Murray, 1897-1907. Cloth. The complete works of Sir Mountstuart E Grant Duff. Comprising of: Notes From A Diary 1851-1872, 2vols (1897) Notes from a Diary 1873-1881, 2vols (1898) Notes from a Diary 1881-1886, 2vols (1899) Notes From a Diary 1886-1888, 2vols (1900)...

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-1769, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France 1765-1766, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764, Boswell&Apos;S London Journal 1762-1763 Together with Journal of My Jaunt Harvest 1762, and Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 Five of the Complete Fourteen Volumes

Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle · 1951 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London , William Heinemann Ltd, 1951-1957. Vellum. A collection of some of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Five of the complete fourteen volumes. The set consists of: Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-69, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and ...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell · 1831 · Rooke Books

£660.00 (€791.11 | $871.95 | ¥139,240)

London , John Murray, 1831. Leather. The first edition of Croker's influential edition of Boswell's famous biography in a calf binding. Complete in Five Volumes. A New Edition. With Numerous Additions and Notes, by John Wilson Croker, LL.D. F. R. S. With Mrs Nathanie...

The Seven Stairs

Stuart Brent · 1962 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this autobiography by Chicago bookseller and TV personality, Stuart Brent. First printing. With an ink inscription from Brent to 'Elna' to the front endpaper. In a cloth binding with ori...

Tobias Smollett

Jeremy Lewis · 2003 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed biography of the Scottish poet Tobias Smollett Signed by the author Jeremy Lewis as a gift to his friends. Jeremy Lewis was a publisher who was a director of Chatto & Windus for ten years, and the deputy editor of the...

The Life of Raymond Chandler

Frank MacShane · 1976 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biographical exploration into the life and works of Raymond Chandler. Featuring original illustrated dustwrapper designed by Craig Dodd. With tipped in extract from The Sunday Times dated 20th Apr...

Standing in the Sun a Life of J.M. W. Turner

Anthony Bailey · 1997 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A biography about the romantic painter Joseph Turner. Joseph Turner was a romantic painter and water colourist, who lived in London with a strong Cockney accent his whole life. He mostly painted sea and landscapes, and ac...

An Historical Account of the Lives and Writings of Our Most Considerable English Poets Whether Epick, Lyrick, Elegiack, Epigramatists Etc.

Giles Jacob · 1720 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, E Curll, 1720. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this biographical work. This work discusses several English poets and demonstrates a selection of their work. With a frontispiece and five plates. Lacking the plates of Mr Croxall and Mr John Philips, therefor...