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Memoirs of My Youth with the Wanderer and His Home

A. De Lamartine · 1851 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,017)

London, Simms and M'Intyre, 1851. Cloth. A volume featuring Lamartine's 'Memoirs of My Youth' bound with 'The Wanderer and his Home&apos. This volume features two works bound in one, those being 'Memoirs of my Youth' and 'The Wanderer an...

Vies Des Hommes Illustres de Plutarque

Alexis Pierron; Plutarch · 1861 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Paris, Charpentier, 1861. Leather. Three volumes of Plutarch's 'Lives of Famous Men.' Three volumes of Plutarch's Lives of Famous Men. Edited by and in the French of Alexis Pierron. Volumes I-III of the original four volumes. Plutarch's Lives is arguab...

Memoires Du Duc de Sully

Duc de Sully · 1822 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

Paris, Chez Etienne Ledoux, 1822. Leather. The memoirs of Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully. The memoirs of Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully. With a frontispiece to each volume. Complete in six volumes. In the original French. The Duc de Sully assisted Henry IV of France ...

Madame Swetchine: Sa Vie Et Ses Oeuvres

Comte de Falloux · 1860 · Rooke Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,749)

Paris, Auguste Vaton, 1860. Leather. This is a scarce third edition of this biographical work on Anne Sophie Swetchine. This is a scarce third edition of this biographical work on Anne Sophie Swetchine. Volume II only. Printed in French. Anne Sophie Swetchine, known as Madame ...

Reliquiae Wottonianae or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems, with Characters of Sundry Personages and Other Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art Also Additional Letters to Several Persons Not Before Printed

Sir Henry Wotton; Izaak Walton · 1685 · Rooke Books

£359.99 (€431.50 | $475.60 | ¥75,923)

London, B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Cloth. A nicely rebound copy of the fourth edition of Henry Wotton's 'Reliquiae Wottonianae&apos. The fourth edition of this work. A collection of poetry and letters by Henry Wotton, with Izaak Walton's 'Lives',...

Letters of Affaires, Love and Courtship Written to Several Persons of Honour and Quality by the Exquisite Pen of Monsieur de Voiture a Member of the Famous French Academy Established at Paris

Monsieur de Voiture; John Davies · 1657 · Rooke Books

£8,500.00 (€10,188.49 | $11,229.74 | ¥1,792,675)

London, T Dring and J Starkey, 1657. First edition. Leather. The First English edition of Vincent Voiture's letters. With a portrait frontispiece of Voiture. A very scarce work, last seen at auction in 1970. Vincent Voiture was a French poet and writer of prose. During hi...

Henry George Printer Bookseller Stationer and Bookbinder

James Moran · 1972 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Westerham, Westerham Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated first edition, featuring a facsimile of 'George's Westerham Journal' and an additional 1838 title. An excellent condition first edition of this biography of publisher and bookbinder...

The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography

Richard Jefferies · 1923 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Duckworth & Co. 1923 . Cloth. The first illustrated edition of the autobiography of Richard Jefferies, in the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Originally published in 1883, this new edition features illustrations by Ethel...

Temples and Topees

William Hale Harkness · 1936 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)

New York, Privately Printed at the Derrydale Press, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce limited first edition of this privately printed collection of travel letters, richly illustrated with photographs, exploring temples and cultures across Asia by financier and traveller Wi...

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thomas Medwin · 1847 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Thomas Medwin's controversial yet engaging biography on the colourful life of the iconic romantic poet. The first edition of The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an influential yet controversial b...

An Original Letter to Jacques Des Gachons from H Martin

H. Martin Fils · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Xertigny, Vosges, None, 1919 . First edition. Unbound. A delightful handwritten letter from a little-known poet to prominent writer and editor Jacques des Gachons, requesting that the latter read and review his volume of poems. Dated 27/12/1919, this is a very scarce handwritt...

Four Generations of a Literary Family - the Hazlitts in England, Ireland, and America in Two Volumes

W. Carew Hazlitt · 1897 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London and New York, George Redway, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A lovely 2 volume set, a first edition of Hazlitt's illustrated 1897 family and literary history. A lovely two volume first edition set, in original lime cloth, and decorated with gilt text and inscription de...

The Personal Life of Queen Victoria

Sarah Tooley · 1897 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1897. Cloth. The second edition of Sarah Tooley's respected biography of Queen Victoria, offering an insightful portrait of the woman behind the icon for her Diamond Jubilee. The second edition of the Personal Life of Queen Victoria, written ...

Tributary Verses to the Memory of Robert Bloomfield, the Suffolk Poet

Bernard Barton, W.B. Clarke, W. Fletcher · 1823 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

Woodbridge, B. Smith, 1823. Cloth. A very scarce little book that contains loving tributary verses to Robert Bloomfield, 'The Suffolk Poet&apos. A very scarce tribute to Robert Bloomfield, 'The Suffolk Poet', containing an extract from a newspaper obituary, an e...

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope; Edith Sitwell · 1930 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1930. Cloth. A limited edition of this critical study, re-evaluating the form and precision of Alexander Pope's poetry, signed by the author, Edith Sitwell. In the publisher's original yellow cloth, housed in a vibrant green paper cov...

The Life of Charles M. Doughty

D. G. Hogarth · 1928 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Oxford University Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biography of British writer and explorer Charles Montagu Doughty. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, nine plates, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. ...

A Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor · 1987 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, John Murray , 1987 . Cloth. A handsome later edition in blue cloth with a gilt bird embossed, in the original, vibrant unclipped dust wrapper designed by John Craxton.  Book Club Associates 1987 edition in blue cloth with a gilt bird embossed, in the original unclipped...

Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

Patrick Leigh Fermor · 1958 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, John Murray, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Mani in the publisher's original red cloth binding, in the original dust wrapper designed by John Craxton, with twenty-six monochrome photographs by Fermor's wife, Joan Eyres Monsell. The first edi...

A Visit to Java, with an Account of the Founding of Singapore

W. Basil Worsfold · 1893 · Rooke Books

£310.00 (€371.58 | $409.56 | ¥65,380)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of W. Basil Worsfold's late 19th-century account of the Dutch East Indies and the island of Java. An uncommon first edition.Illustrated with fifteen plates, including a sketch map and...

The Pickerings of Barlby, York and Wetherby

P. Spencer Umfreville Pickering · 1916 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1916 . First edition. Leather. British chemist and horticulturist Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering's own copy of his very scarce genealogical study of his family, with his own annotations throughout. A very scarce first edition, in a sign...