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Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff, Written by Himself at Different Intervals

Richard Watson · 1818 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, T. Cadell, 1818. Leather. Anecdotes from the life of the Bishop of Landaff, written by himself and published by his son. Watson was educated at Cambridge, where his theological career began with his assumption of the post of Regius Professor of Divinity. Incidentally, ...

Memorial of an Only Daughter

Her Mother [Martha Stone Hubbell] · 1858 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London, Sampson Low, Son and Co. 1858. Leather. A mother's memorial to her late daughter, 'Memorial of an Only Daughter', in a full calf binding. Scarce. 'Memorial of an Only Daughter' is a touching biography written by Martha Stone Hubbell, about her ...

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character

E B Ramsay · 1877 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Edinburgh, Edmonson and Douglas, 1877. Leather. A nicely bound copy of Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences. A reprinted and enlarged copy of the twenty-second edition. The twenty-second edition was the final edition to be published in the author's lifetime with his correctio...

Memoirs of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock

Elizabeth Smith · 1809 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Cadell and Davies, et al. 1809. Leather. A lovely edition containing the memoirs of German poets Frederick and Margaret Klopstock. Translated by English linguist Elizabeth Smith. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly....

Memoirs of John Evelyn

John Evelyn, William Bray (Ed) · 1819 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. Leather. A detailed edition of the life and memoirs of diarist John Evelyn. Second edition. 'Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between...

Ariel: A Shelley Romance

Andre Maurois · 1938 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1938. Leather. An amusing and highly detailed fictionalised biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Translated by Ella D'Arcy. Includes an advertiser's catalogue to the rear. Seventh impression of 1935 edition. In a half crushed morocco binding. ...

The Life and Pontificate of Gregory the Seventh

John William Bowden · 1840 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

London , J. G. F. Rivington, 1840. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography of Gregory the Seventh First Edition signed 'With the Author's Kind Regards' John William Bowden was an English writer on church matters. He was a close friend of John H...

The Greville Diary Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication

Philip Whitwell Wilson · 1927 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Cloth. A first edition of this set of the Greville diaries, including passages previously withheld from publication. With a black and white frontispiece in each, and a number of plates. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (2 April 1794 – ...

Memoir of Joseph Train the Antiquarian Correspondent of Sir Walter Scott

John Patterson · 1857 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Glasgow, Thomas Murray and Sons, 1857. Cloth. A memoir of Sir Walter Scott's correspondent. Written by one John Patterson. Prior owner has written below Patterson's name that he is a descendant of Robert Paterson or 'Old Mortality&apos. Patterson was also the au...

An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie

Sir William Forbes; new introduction by Roger J. Robinson · 1996 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , Routledge Theommes Press, 1996. Cloth. A facsimile reprint of the 1806 edition of An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie by Sir William Forbes With new introduction by Roger J. Robinson. Including original frontispiece portrait of Beattie, original intro...

Letters of the Madiai, and Visits to Their Prisons

Misses Senhouse · 0 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Philadelphia , Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1860. Cloth. A scarce copy of Letters of Madiai, and Visits to Their Prisons by the Misses Senhouse. "The manuscript of the following letters of two humble sufferers for the truth." With two colour illustrations to the front o...

Memoirs of Count Grammont

Anthony Hamilton · 1889 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London, John C. Nimmo, 1889. Cloth. A limited printing of this biography of the French Nobleman Count Grammont, written by his brother in law. 'With a portrait of the author and thirty-three etchings by L. Boisson on India paper from original compositions' This editi...

Carlyle to Threescore-and-Ten (1853-1865)

David Alec Wilson · 1929 · Rooke Books

£14.99 (€17.97 | $19.80 | ¥3,162)

London , Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd. 1929. First edition. Cloth. Carlyle To Threescore-and-Ten (1853-1865) by David Alec Wilson. Illustrated with seven black and white plates. First edition. The fifth volume of Mr. Wilson's 'Life of Carlyle&apos. Thomas ...

Memoirs of the Peers of England During the Reign of James the First

Egerton Brydges · 1802 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London , John White, 1802. First edition. Hardback. A fascinating look into society and its notable characters, during the reign of James I. First edition. The title page states volume one, although there was only one volume ever published. Featuring three plates, two of which...

Journal of the Hon. John Erskine of Carnock 1683-1687

John Erskine; Rev. Walter Macleod · 1894 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Edinburgh, University Press, 1894. First edition. Cloth. An attractive, scarce first edition of this journal of the Hon. John Erskine. Edited from the original Manuscript with Introduction and Notes, by the Rev. Walter Macleod. There is a portrait of the Hon. John Erskine oppo...

Recollections and Reminiscences

Lord Hawke (Martin Hawke) · 1924 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Williams & Norgate Ltd. 1924. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Lord Hawke's Recollections and Reminiscences. With seventeen plates throughout. Blind-stamped cover design. Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke of Towton (1860 – 1938), generally known as Lor...

Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson

Hesther Lynch Piozzi · 1786 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

London, T. Cadell, 1786. Leather. A collection of anecdotes concerning Samuel Johnson, in very attractive leather binding. From the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Dealing primarily with the last twenty years of his life, t...

Memoires Du Chancelier Prince Du Bulow

Henri Bloch et Paul Roques · 1930 · Rooke Books

£92.99 (€111.46 | $122.85 | ¥19,618)

Paris, Librarie Plon, 1930-1931. Cloth. The memoirs of Chancelier Prince du Bulow This set contains volumes two, three and four only. Volumes two and three contain sixteen illustrated plates each, with the third volume containing 20 illustrated plates. Prince Bernhard Heinrich...

Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R. S.

William Bray [ed.] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London, Henry Colburn, 1818. First edition. Leather. The smart first edition of John Evelyn's memoirs, offering an illustrated wealth of reference on 17th-century life. First edition. Complete in two volumes; second volume in two parts.  In full contemporary calf. Reback...

Biographies of the Well-Connected

Frederick Brown; Joanna Richardson; Jean Lacouture; Christine Sutherland; Sylvia Kahan; Stephen Klaidman; Jean Findlay · 1969 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London; London; Paris; London; Rochester, New York; New York; London, Longmans; Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Éditions du Seuil; John Murray; University of Rochester Press; Nan A. Talese; Chatto and Win, 1969-2014. First edition. Cloth. London; London; Paris; London; Rochester, Ne...