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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope Esq

William Ayre · 1745 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, For the Author, 1745. First edition. Leather. A mixed, early edition of this biography regarding noted Romantic poet and translator, Alexander Pope. An uncommon biography as it was unauthorized. It is believed that this work was actually written by Edmund Curll under a...

A Westminster Pilgrim Being a Record of Service in Church, Cathedral, an Abbey College, University, and Concert-Room with a Few Notes on Sport

Sir Frederick Bridge · 0 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Novello and Co.; Hutchinson and Co. c1918. Cloth. A charming memoir of organist and teacher Sir Frederick Bridge. Sir Frederick Bridge presents his memoirs in this charming volume, chronicling his life as the organist at Westminster Abbey, conductor of the Royal Choral...

The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs. Volume III.

[Arthur Thomas Malkin] · 1834 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Charles Knight, 1834. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating work containing twenty four fascinating biographies of eminent men, each with an accompanying gallery portrait plate; volume III from Arthur Thomas Malkin's original seven volume work. This work was origina...

A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq. From 1831 to 1847: Comprising Reminiscences of Social and Political Life in London and Paris During That Period

Thomas Raikes · 1856 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856. Cloth. A fascinating two volume set of work, taking extracts from the journal of the notorious London dandy, Thomas Raikes. A wonderful insight into the life and times of this charismatic man. Very scarce. Two volumes of a four...

Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle

Colin Greenland, Michael Moorcock [intro. by Angela Carter] · 1992 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Manchester, Savoy, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A scarce and fascinating interview with the pioneering science-fiction and fantasy author, an excellent resource for any budding writer. The first edition of Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle, a fascinating interview with the...

The Letters of Fletcher Christian

Fletcher Christian; Stephen Walters · 1984 · Rooke Books

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

Guildford, Genesis Publications Limited, 1984 . Leather. A lovely limited edition, being one of three hundred and fifty copies, of this illustrated facsimile of the letters that reframed Fletcher Christian as a vanished mutineer turned survivor and adventurer. In the publisher...

Sir Charles Tyler, G.C. B. Admiral of the White

Colonel Wyndham-Quin · 1912 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this illustrated military biography. A very scarce first edition title. Focusing on the life of Admiral Charles Tyler, who is known for being one of Nelson's Band of Brothers. Penned b...

The Land of Burns, a Series of Landscapes and Portraits

Professor Wilson; Robert Chambers · 1840 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Glasgow, Blackie & Son, 1840 . Leather. A wonderfully illustrated biography of the life and work of Robert Burns, complete in two volumes and illustrated by David Octavius Hill. An early edition of this work, complete in two volumes. The work of Professor John Wilson and Rober...

The Life and Times of Francis the First, King of France. In Two Volumes.

[James Bacon] · 1829 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Edward Bull, 1829. First edition. Hardback. The complete first edition of this scarce biography of Francis I, in the original publisher's blue paper covered boards. The complete, two-volume first edition.  Bound in the original publisher's blue paper covered...

A Classical Tour Through Italy and Sicily

Sir Richard Colt Hoare · 1819 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, J. Mawman, 1819 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with a map frontispiece, this is the very scarce first edition of antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet's travels through Italy. The very scarce first edition of ...

A Gothic Vision: F.L. Griggs and His Work

Francis Adams Comstock · 1966 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Oxford, Boston Public Library; Ashmolean Museum, 1966. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first and limited edition, richly illustrated, with letters regarding the estate An insightful limited edition catalogue of the artistic work of English etcher, illustrator and conserva...

The Gun in the Field Shooter&Apos;S Delight in the Gunroom

W. H. T. Long; "Scolopax"; C. W. Thurlow Craig; Major Sir Gerald Burrard · 1948 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London; New York; Melbourne; Sydney; Cape Town, Robert Hale Limited; Hutchinson's Library of Sports and Pastimes; Herbert Jenkins, 1948; 1952; 1951. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of uncommon shooting titles, including 2 first editions, and all three original du...

Ferdinand de Lesseps a Biographical Study

Charles Beatty · 1956 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition, and very scarce presentation copy, of this biography, in unclipped dust wrapper. An uncommon first edition title, recounting the life and political career of Ferdinand de Lesseps.French Orienta...

Orientations

Ronald Storrs · 1937 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1937. Cloth. Smart early edition of the autobiography of Ronald Storrs, profusely illustrated with plates and maps. Second impression.In publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with fourteen monochrome plates, including a fr...

Dear Sarah Bernhardt the Leash

Francoise Sagan · 1989 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Macmillan, 1989; 1991. First edition. Cloth. A very smart pair of very scarce first English language and first UK editions respectively, in original unclipped dust wrappers. A very smart pair of very scarce first editions by prolific French author Francoise Sagan - &ap...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell · 1835 · Rooke Books

£528.00 (€632.89 | $697.56 | ¥111,392)

London, John Murray, 1835. Cloth. A decoratively bound set of Boswell's famous The Life of Samuel Johnson including the rarer two volumes of Johnsoniana. Complete in Ten Volumes. Volume X contains additional title pages for Volumes I - VIII to the rear. With an armorial n...

Select Memoirs of Port Royal to Which Are Appended Tour to Alet; Visit to Port Royal; Gift of an Abbess, Biographical Notices &C.

M A Schimmelpenninck · 1829 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, J and A Arch, 1829. Leather. An attractive set of M A Schimmelpenninck's Select Memoirs of Port Royal. A British writer in the anti-slavery movement, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck produced many publications of a religious nature. Whilst struggling with her own belief...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides and Johnsoniana; a Collection of Miscellaneous Anecdotes and Sayings of Samuel Johnson in Ten Volumes

James Boswell · 1859 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.82 | ¥78,059)

London , Henry G. Bohn , 1859. Leather. A uniformly bound set of this well known biography regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; with many claiming it to be the greatest biography written in English. New edition, with numerous addi...

Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the Best Authorities, Both Printed and Manuscript and Digested in the Manner of Mr Bayle&Apos;S Historical and Critical Dictionary

Andrew Kippis, D.D., F.S.A. · 1778 · Rooke Books

£735.00 (€881.01 | $971.04 | ¥155,062)

London , Printed by W. and A. Strahan for C. Bathurst et al, 1778-1793. Cloth. A scarce set of Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, From the Earliest Ages, down to the Present times: Collected from t...

The History of Henry Fielding

Wilbur L Cross · 1918 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London , New Haven Yale University Press, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Wilbur Cross' History of Henry Fielding. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Illustrated throughout all three volum...