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Escape: A Book of Escapes of All Kinds

[ed. by Francis Yeats-Brown] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. Cloth. An anthology of daring escapes across modern history, stretching from Charles II to a British spy in Lenin's Russia. An early edition of Escape: A Book of Escapes of All Kinds, arranged and edited with introductions by British off...

Europe in the Looking-Glass: Reflections of a Motor Drive from Grimsby to Athens

Robert Byron · 1926 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this engaging travelogue of three friends driving through Europe during the interwar period. The first edition.  In the publisher's original red cloth binding.  A travelogue of thr...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

J G Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1837. Leather. A first edition of this biography of Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, complete in seven volumes. With a frontispiece and folding facsimile plate of handwriting to volume I. Publisher's catalogues to the front and rear of most volum...

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son Philip Stanhope.

Eugenia Stanhope · 1774 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

London, J Dodsley, 1774. First edition. Leather. A second edition collection of letters from the Earl of Chesterfield This collection of letters, provides a wealth of information of the lives of the upper-class in the eighteenth century. The letters are mostly instructive, det...

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility, and the Public Collections of the Country with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

Edmund Lodge, Esq. F.S.A · 1756 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London , The London Printing and Publishing Company, c1869. Cloth. An elaborate work, being an illustrated collection of portraits with biographical and historical memoirs written by Edmund Lodge. With two-hundred and forty black and white engravings with decorative borders, e...

Obituaries from the Times in Three Volumes

Frank C. Roberts · 1975 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London , Newspaper Archive Developments Limited, 1975-1979. Cloth. A set of contemporary dictionaries and reference works; being reprints of the obituaries which appeared in the The Times, from the years 1951 through to 1975. An impressive source for students and researchers o...

Ecclesiastical Biography: Or Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England; from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution; Selected and Illustrated with Notes

Christopher Wordsworth · 1839 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, J. G. and F. Rivington, 1839. Leather. A set of the ecclesiastical biographies of Christopher Wordsworth. Containing volumes I, II and IV of the 1839 third edition. In Ecclesiastical Biographies, selected lives were presented in chronological order so as to illustrate ...

Churchill by His Contemporaries

Charles Eade · 1953 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, Hutchinson, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography of Winston Churchill. A first edition of this account of Winston Churchill by his contemporaries, including President Eisenhower, Lord Altrincham and George Bernard Shaw. Featuring numerous pho...

Jane Austen and Her World

Marghanita Laski · 1975 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London, Thames and Hudson, 1975. Cloth. An attractive copy of this critical biography of Jane Austen. A revised edition of this comprehensive guide to Jane Austen's life and times. A nice clean copy illustrated with numerous plates throughout. "A scholarly and immensely r...

My Young Years

Arthur Rubinstein · 1973 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1973. Paperback. A proof copy of Arthur Rubinstein's My Young Years. A Polish American classical pianist, Arthur Rubinstein here recounts his rise to fame and his struggle with musical talent. In a paper proof binding. Externally, sound with creasin...

Collections and Recollections

George W E Russell · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1898. Leather. Volumes I and II of this memoir by George W.E. Russell, in very attractive leather Mackenzie signed binding. A Tauchnitz edition of the notable work, the volume consists of the diaries of the Liberal politician and memoirist, who wa...

The Royal Wanderer or the Secret Memoirs of Caroline the Whole Founded on Recent Facts an Authentic and Hitherto Unpublished Account of Court Cabals and Royal Travels

Edward Barron · 1820 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, H Rowe, 1820. Leather. A biographical work on Caroline of Brunswick. Illustrated throughout, with eleven full page plates. This work is advertised as the secret memoirs of Caroline, founded on facts. On the approach to her death Caroline ensured that all of her own let...

Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Samuel Fothergill

George Crosfield; Samuel Fothergill; John Fothergill · 1844 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

New York , Collins, Brother and Co. 1844. Leather. A memoir of a Quaker minister who travelled to American colonies. With an engraved frontispiece. This work contains the memoirs of Samuel Fothergill in addition to a selection of his correspondence. His correspondence is of no...

Merchantman Rearmed

David W. Bone · 1949 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1949. Leather. A fascinating memoir of Captain and novelist Sir Captain David William Bone. Limited edition of one hundred and sixty copies of which this is number twenty one. Signed by the author to colophon, with original etching of the author, sig...

Seventeen Sermons of the Rev. And Learned Dr. William Hopkins, Late Prebendary of the Cathedral of Worcester. Published with a Preface Containing a Short Account of His Life.

William Hopkins · 1708 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Sare, 1708. Leather. A diligent biography of a gregarious and well-loved minister. William Hopkins (1647-1700) was educated at Oxford before travelling to Sweden as chaplain to the English ambassador. Having returned to England in 1675 he was made prebend of Worcester,...

The Life of Richard Nash of Bath

Oliver Goldsmith · 1762 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

London, J Newbery and W Frederick, 1762. First edition. Leather. A First Edition copy of 'The Life of Richard Nash of Bath' Written by Oliver Goldsmith (November 1730 – April 1774), the celebrated author and poet best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766...

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town

Lucy Hutchinson · 1808 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1808. Leather. A biography of Lord Hutchinson written by his widow, Lucy. Second edition. Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681) was an English biographer as well as probably the first translator into English of the complete text of Lu...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. In Two Volumes

Charles Kingsley · 1888 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1888. Leather. A smartly bound copy of Kingsley's writings, dating from the 1880s. Sixteenth Abridged Edition. 'Edited by his wife&apos. Both volumes feature tissue-guarded frontispieces. Complete in two volumes. With the bookplates o...

Harriet & Mary Being the Relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg As Shown in Letters between Them

Walter Sidney Scott · 1944 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London , The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. First edition. Leather. A first and limited edition copy of 'Harriet and Mary', numbered 206 of 500. A study, through letters, of the relationship between members of the Shelley circle: Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Har...

Letters of J. Downing, Major Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to His Old Friend Mr. Dwight, of the New-York Daily Advertiser

J. Downing · 1835 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, John Murray, 1835. Cloth. A scarce collection of letters from J. Downing to his 'old friend' Mr. Dwight. Second English Edition, with Three Additional Letters. From the latest New-York Edition. In a brown cloth binding. Externally, worn. There is some loss to...