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A View of the Character and Public Services of the Late John Howard

John Aikin · 1792 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, J. Johnson, 1792. First edition. Leather. The first edition of John Aikin's biographical sketch of John Howard, bound in smart full contemporary calf. The first edition.Illustrated with a monochrome engraved frontispiece. Biographical sketch by John Aikin of the ...

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby; Jeremy Leggatt [trans.] · 2009 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Fourth Estate, 2009 . Cloth. A wonderful example of this very scarce limited edition of Jean-Dominique Bauby's celebrated memoir, in a striking dust wrapper by artist Sam Porritt. A very scarce limited edition, being number 1,692 of a limited edition of 2,000 copi...

Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops Who Have Had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford

Anthony Wood · 1721 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, R. Knaplock; D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson, 1721 . Leather. The second edition of Anthony Wood's important study on the history and antiquities of Oxford and its affluent University, complete in two volumes. The two volume second edition of this work, in contemporar...

Rex Whistler: His Life and His Drawings

Laurence Whistler · 1948 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Art and Technics Ltd. 1948. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography of British artist Rex Whistler, with his own illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-eight pages of images, and numerous in-text figures. ...

Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq. Including a History of the Stage, from the Time of Garrick to the Present Period

James Boaden · 1825 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound two volume first edition set of James Boaden's biography on the life of the renowned actor, John Philip Kemble, bound in full calf. The first edition. Illustrated with a m...

The Life of John Nicholson, Soldier and Administrator, Based on Private and Hitherto Unpublished Documents

Captain Lionel J. Trotter · 1908 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, John Murray, 1908. Leather. A later edition of this biographical study of Brigadier General John Nicholson, with maps. Later edition, first published in 1897. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and three maps, two of which are folding. Collated complete. The life...

Memoirs of Martha: An Autobiography

Martha [Pseudonym]; Agnes Stokes · 1934 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Arthur Barker Ltd. 1934 . Cloth. A vanishingly scarce copy and the first cheap edition of the autobiography of a domestic servant, Martha, a narrative recounted and fictionalised by her mistress. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This copy is the first che...

The Attache at Peking

A. B. Freeman-Mitford [Bernard Freeman-Mitford] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1900. First edition. Cloth. A first edition signed copy of A. B. Freeman-Mitford's scarce account of his time in China, in the original very scarce publisher's cloth. Inscribed by the author to his son. The first edition of this sca...

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone

John Morley · 1905 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1905-1906. Leather. A smartly bound new edition of this biographical study of British politician William Ewart Gladstone. Complete in two volumes. New edition. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. A detailed biographical commentary on ...

An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of Wm Chillingworth, Chancellor of the Church of Sarum

[Pierre Des Maizeaux] · 1725 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, T. Woodward, 1725. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce biography on the life of the controversial religious author and churchman. The first edition. With decorative headpieces. A biographical, critical and historical account on the life and ...

The Diary of the Right Hon. William Windham 1784 to 1810

Mrs. Henry Baring · 1866 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1866. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of these diaries from Whig politician William Windham. The first edition. Scarce. This copy bearing the bookplate of the Laurence family to the front pastedown. With a familial connection to t...

153 Letters from W. H Hudson

W. H. Hudson; Edward Garnett (ed.) · 1923 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

1923, The Nonesuch Press, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition copy of the letters of Anglo-Argentine author, W.H Hudson. A limited edition of this work, being copy seven hundred and forty four of one thousand numbered copies. In the original publisher's brown cl...

Griffith John: The Story of Fifty Years in China

R. Wardlaw Thompson · 1906 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1906 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of R. Wardlaw Thompson's illustrated biography of Christian missionary Griffith John, a translator of the Bible into Chinese. The very scarce first edition, first impression....

The Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson

Izaak Walton · 1864 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1864. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of the short biographies written by Izaak Walton. A collection of the five short biographies written by Izaak Walton, an English writer best known as the author of The Compleat Angler (1653). With s...

The Last Million

Ian Hay [Major General John Hay Beith] · 1918 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The final of three volumes of this good humoured account of army life from British soldier Major General John Hay Beith. First edition. A collection of the author's good-humoured accounts of army life, describing w...

A Cardinal of the Medici: Being the Memoirs of the Nameless Mother of the Cardinal Ippolito de&Apos; Medici

Mrs Hicks Beach · 1937 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Cambridge , At the University Press, 1937. First edition. Leather. An early impression of this intriguing fictional autobiography told from the perspective of Ippolito de' Medici's mother. This impression published two months after the first. Bound in full crushed m...

Coleridge, the Clark Lectures 1951-52

Humphry House · 1953 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Humphry House's critical work on Coleridge, from the libraries of James Reeves and Martin Seymour-Smith. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A volume of three lectures on C...

Life and Works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns; P. Hatley Waddell · 1867 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

Glasgow, David Wilson, 1867. Leather. Two smart volumes on the life and works of Scottish poet Robert Burns, with colour illustrations. Complete in two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title vignette, and eighteen plates, nine of which are ...

An Autobiography: Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie · 1977 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

London, Collins, 1977 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful association copy of Agatha Christie's posthumously published autobiography, inscribed by her widower, the archaeologist and academic Max Mallowan. The first edition.Inscribed by Agatha Christie's husband of fo...

Dickens to His Oldest Friend: The Letters of a Lifetime from Charles Dickens to Thomas Beard

Charles Dickens; Walter Dexter [ed] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

New York, Putnam, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The limited and vanishingly scarce first edition of this work featuring letters from the noted Charles Dickens to his friend Thomas Beard. The vanishingly scarce first edition, limited to only 500 copies. In the publisher's o...