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Abstracts of Chancery Proceedings Relating to the Family of Desborough

1923 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London , Mitchell Hughes & Clarke , 1923. Cloth. A scarce volume of Abstracts of Chancery Proceedings Relating to the Family of Desborough. A scarce volume containing Abstracts of Chancery Proceedings Relating to the Family of Desborough. With a letter from A. W. Hughes of the...

John Ray: A Bibliography

Geoffrey Keynes · 1951 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Faber and Faber, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition of Geoffrey Keynes bibliography of the works of John Ray. Illustrated throughout. First edition. Limited to 650 copies. Illustrated throughout with 4 collotypes and 16 reproductions of title pages. Co...

William Blake Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes

William Blake; Sir Geoffrey Keynes; Morton D. Paley; Michael Phillips [editors] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart and bright first edition copy of this selection of essays on the poet William Blake written by scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes. This volume gathers a selection of essays by Geoffrey Keynes that view William Blake...

A Sketch of My Life

Thomas Mann; H. T. Lowe-Porter (trans.) · 1961 · Rooke Books

£64.00 (€76.71 | $84.55 | ¥13,498)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1961 . Cloth. The first UK translated edition of this autobiography and memoir by Thomas Mann. First UK edition of A Sketch of My Life by Thomas Mann in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Translated from the German...

Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

Miss Benger · 1825 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green , 1825. First edition. Leather. A lovely complete two volume set of this fascinating memoir of the Winter Queen. A first edition of this work. A complete two volume set, in in the first edition. This fascinating biography wa...

Dyott&Apos;S Diary 1781-1845 a Selection from the Journal of William Dyott, Sometime General in the British Army and Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty King George III.

R. W. Jeffery [ed] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of the fascinating diary of General William Dyott, in two volumes. A first edition two volume set of this work in the publisher's original cloth bindings. 5 plates to Volume I,...

Te Rauparaha

Patricia Burns · 1980 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Australia, Reed, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A superior first edition copy of Patricia Burns' study on the Maori rangatira Te Rauparaha, complete with illustrations. The first edition of this uncommon work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated throughout.In ...

Natural Reflections; or, Gleanings Abroad and at Home

Henry Barnet Gascoigne · 1806 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,179)

London, Printed for G Wilkie, and J Robinson, 1806. First edition. Cloth. Henry Barnet Gascoigne's book of meditations on his service at sea, a very scarce first edition copy. The first edition of this work. Containing a series of reflections on the author's life at ...

The Letters of Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe; George Harris Healey (Ed.) · 1969 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1969. Cloth. An early edition of this collection of letters from Daniel Defoe, the English writer and spy. A scarce second edition. Reprinted from corrected sheets of the first edition. In the publisher's cloth binding with the original, clipp...

English Men of Letters: Milton; Hawthorne; Southey; Lamb

John Morley [ed.] · 1879 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1879-82. Leather. Four volumes of biographies in John Morley's 'English Men of Letters' series in uniform H. Wood signed bindings. A collection of four volumes from the 'English Men of Letters' series of biographies edited by ...

Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton Esq. Of Halston Shropshire

Nimrod [Charles James Apperley] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London , Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1900. Cloth. A smart re-print of the memoirs of John Mytton with colour illustrations throughout. This is a facsimile reprint of the Second (Enlarged) edition Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, published in 1937.The memoirs ...

The Pictorial Edition of the Life and Discoveries of David Livingstone

J. Ewing Ritchie · 1879 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

London and Edinburgh, A. Fullerton and Co. c.1879 . Leather. The pictorial edition of this biography of David Livingstone with illustrations in half calf binding. The Life and Discoveries of David Livingstone by J. Ewing Ritchie in half calf binding. With colour plates and mon...

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone

John Morley · 1903 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1903. Cloth. The second impression of John Morley's important biography of the life and career of the Victorian Liberal politician William Ewart Gladstone. The first edition, second impressions of this work, published in the month after the first...

Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations

Osbert Sitwell · 1950 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1950. First edition. Cloth. Fifth and final volume in Osbert Sitwell's acclaimed autobiography, the first edition complete with original dust wrapper. First edition of this autobiographical volume by Osbert Sitwell, volume five and final of his ext...

In Bohemia with Du Maurier: The First of a Series of Reminiscences

Felix Moscheles · 1896 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Cloth. The second edition of this biography of Franco-British cartoonist G. du Maurier, with illustrations by Maurier himself. The first of a series of reminiscences by English painter Felix Moscheles, illustrative of George du Maurier's lif...

Margaret Ogilvy

J. M. Barrie · 1897 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,912)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1897. Cloth. Affectionate biography of Margaret Ogilvy by her son, the third edition. Third edition of this work. Biographical work by Scottish novelist J. M. Barrie, telling of his mother and family life in Scotland, with family reminiscences. A ...

Eric Gill for Father Desmond

John Dreyfus and Graham Williams · 1993 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Bain & Williams , 1993. First edition. Paperback. A first edition limited of this study of Eric Gill's relationship with Father Desmond Chute. First edition of this work, limited to one-thousand copies, of which seventy special copies have a letterpress proof take...

A.M. Mackay, Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda

[Alexina Ruthquist] · 1890 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1890. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this moving biography on the missionary Alexander Murdoch Mackay, complete with a portrait frontispiece and folding map. The first edition of this work.A touching biography on Alexander Murdoch Mack...

The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor

John Pearson · 1986 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Michael Joseph, 1986. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical history for the Royal House of Windsor, presented in the original unclipped dust wrapper and signed by the author to the half-title page. First Edition, in the original unclipped dust wr...

Together

Norman Douglas · 1923 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London , Chapman and Hall , 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A first large paper limited edition and signed copy of Norman Douglas' autobiographical travel study Together. Together is an autobiographical travel study that detail the Austrian alpine village where Douglas grew ...