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William Callow R.W. S. , F.R. G.S. An Autobiography

William Callow; H. M. Cundall · 1908 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this autobiography of William Callow with illustrations of his work throughout. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, twenty-two colour plates and eight black-and-white plates. An auto...

&Apos;Sir,&Apos; Said Dr. Johnson- Some Sayings

Samuel Johnson; H. C. Biron · 1911 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London , Duckworth & Co, 1911. First edition. Cloth. Signed by the editor, a first edition copy of this collection of sayings by Samuel Johnson. A first edition copy. Signed by the editor to the reverse of the front free endpaper. This volume contains a selection of sayings ...

The French Journals of Mrs. Thrale and Doctor Johnson

Moses Tyson; Henry Guppy · 1932 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,565)

Manchester, The Manchester University Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this interesting collection of journals from Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. This work contains Mrs Hester Thrale's journal of her visit to France in 1775 in the company of ...

William Makepeace Thackeray a Biography

Lewis Melville · 1910 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London , John Lane The Bodley Head , 1910 . Cloth. A smart, illustrated two volume biography of writer William Makepeace Thackeray. Complete in two volumes. A later edition with the first edition published in 1899. This is a biography of the British novelist and illustrator ...

Letters of John Pinney

John Pinney; Geoffrey F. Nuttall [ Editor]; Hester Pinney [Foreword] · 1939 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Oxford University Press, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the collected letters of John Pinney, found in the original dust wrapper. A first edition of the Puritan teacher's letters, found in the price-clipped dust wrapper. By gathering the documents ...

Memoires de Beaumarchais

Pierre Beaumarchais · 1877 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, 1877-80. Cloth. The delightful memoirs of Pierre Beaumarchais, providing a detailed insight into French history of the eighteenth century. Complete in five volumes.In the original French.The memoirs of Pierre Beaumarchais.Beaumarchais was a Frenc...

Clemenceau

Georges Lecomte · 1918 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

Paris, Charpentier, 1918. Leather. A French biography of former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau. Detailed Sixth Thousand. Georges Lecomte was a French novelist and playwright who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies. This work is a biography of Georg...

Memoir of Jane Austen

James Edward Austen-Leigh · 1963 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Oxford , Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963. Cloth. A later printing of James Austen-Leigh's biography of his aunt Jane Austen. Reprinted lithographically from the original 1926 edition. First published in this edition in 1951. With front wrap and part of spine of the ve...

The Robert Louis Stevenson Originals

E. Blantyre Simpson · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, T. N. Foulis, 1912. First edition. Cloth. An first edition of this illustrated biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. A first edition copy of this interesting biography of Victorian author Robert Louis Stevenson. With thirty one plates, including one folding plate, colla...

The Story of My Heart

Richard Jefferies · 1912 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Duckworth & Co. 1912. Cloth. The nineteenth century nature writer poetically describes his experiences in this illustrated volume. In this poetic outpouring by Richard Jefferies, the nineteenth century nature writer expressively describes his experiences with the natur...

The Autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk, 1722-1805

Alexander Carlyle; John Hill Burton [ed.] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, T. N. Foulis, 1910. Cloth. A new edition of this autobiography of Dr. Alexander Carlyle, illustrated with numerous portraits. A new edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Loosely inserted are two newspaper articles; one concerning the publ...

Among Friends

Samuel McChord Crothers · 1910 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of the first edition of Samuel McChord Crothers's collection of essays. First edition of Among Friends by Samuel McChord Crothers in the original publisher's cloth binding...

Mussolini His Part in My Downfall

Spike Milligan · 1978 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

London, Michael Joseph, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of the fourth volume of Spike Milligan's war memoir, an account of his time in Italy during World War Two. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Spike Milli...

Memoires de Casanova de Seingalt

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova · 1919 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Paris, Librairie Garnier Freres, 1919-1920. Leather. A lovely illustrated set containing the autobiography of the famed womanizer, Giacomo Girolamo Casanova. Published in French. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova reflects on his life in this lovely eight volume set, each with frontisp...

The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author

Laurence Sterne · 1819 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,375)

London, Cadell and Davies, 1819. Leather. Four neatly bound volumes of works by Laurence Sterne, with a biographical sketch as written by himself. Four volumes. The works and biography of Laurence Sterne, an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric best known for the novels Th...

The Poetical Works of John Milton. With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty&Apos;S State-Paper Office

John Milton; Rev. Henry John Todd · 1842 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)

London, Rivingtons; Longman and Co.; T. Cadell; J. Bohn; Duncan and Malcolm, [et al], 1842. Leather. A four volume complete set of the poetical works of John Milton, in a smart full vellum binding by Tepper Binder. The scarce fourth edition. Complete in four volumes. Uniformly...

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

John Aikin · 1792 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,210)

London, Printed for J Johnson, 1792. First edition. Cloth. Bright rebound copy of the first edition of John Aikin's biographical sketch of John Howard. The first edition of this work, an uncommon copy.Biographical sketch of the life and deeds of John Howard (1726-1790), E...

Rambles, Roamings and Recollections

John Trotandot · 1870 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer , 1870. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition volume of Rambles, Roamings and Recollections. A scarce volume. Written by George Pulman under the name John Trotandot, this volume contains various travel and rambling sketches wh...

Works by Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson · 1950 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York and London , Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Macmillan and Co. 1950-1980. Cloth. Three bright volumes of work by Edmund Wilson. Three volumes of work by Edmund Wilson, who was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. Classics and Commercial, A Literary Chronicl...

Life of a Scotch Naturalist Thomas Edward

Samuel Smiles · 1897 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London , John Murray, 1897. Leather. A smart prize leather bound copy of Life of Scotch Naturalist Thomas Edward, with illustrations. A copy of the popular edition, 1897, of Life of a Scotch Naturalist Thomas Edward by Samuel Smiles, with illustrations by Sir George Reid. The...