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Explorer, Linguist and Ethnologist: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Published Works of Alphonse Louis Pinart, with Notes on His Life

Ross Parmenter; Carl Schaefer Dentzel · 1966 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

Los Angeles, California, Southwest Museum, 1966 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this pleasing bibliography of the published works of Alphonse Louis Pinart. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a tipped-in inscription and signatu...

(1981) Diary; (1983) Hugh Casson&Apos;S London; (1988) Hugh Casson&Apos;S Oxford: A College Companion.

Hugh Casson · 1981 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London; Basingstoke; Melbourne; Oxford, Macmillan London Limited; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; Phaidon, 1981-1988. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing collection of three highly illustrated first editions from the former president of the Royal Academy, in their original dust wrappers. ...

William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life

S. Schoenbaum · 1975 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press; The Scolar Press, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detailled biographical account of Shakespeare's life and works, illustrated with a wide array of facsimile plates and encased in the original dust wrapper. First edition....

Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield, with Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His Writings

Anna Seward · 1804 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, J. Johnson, 1804. Leather. The first edition of the biography and memoirs of Erasmus Darwin, the leading Midlands enlightenment thinker, written by The Swan of Lichfield. The first edition of the Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfi...

Under the Syrian Sun: The Lebanon, Baalbek, Galilee, and Judea

A. C. Inchbold · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. A pair of beautifully colour illustrated first edition travelogues. A complete pair of first editions. Bound in original blue cloth, and decorated with gilt motif to front boards. By English romantic novelist and travel writ...

Oscar Wilde: Three Time Tried

Christopher S. Millard, [Oscar Wilde] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, The Ferrestone Press, 1912. Cloth. The scarce and first complete account of Wilde's three trials surrounding his homosexuality, inspired by his famous letter DeProfundis. Oscar Wilde: Three Time Tried, the scarce and first complete account of the famous three tria...

Turner&Apos;S Liber Studiorum, a Description and a Catalogue

W. G. Rawlinson · 1878 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1878 . First edition. Hardback. A signed first edition of W. G. Rawlinson's comprehensive catalogue of J. M. W. Turner's 'Liber Studiorum', the celebrated series of landscape prints he issued between 1807 and 1819. A scarce first edi...

Nelson&Apos;S Wife the First Biography of Frances Herbert, Viscountess Nelson

E. M. Keate · 1939 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney, Cassell and Company Ltd. 1939. First edition. Cloth. A scarce and illustrated copy of this first and only edition biography following wife of Nelson Frances Herbert. A scarce first edition of the first biography of the estranged wife of Hora...

Correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Carrier

E. H. Carrier [trans.]; Jean-Baptiste Carrier · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London; New York, John Lane; The Bodley Head; John Lance Company, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and scarce first edition collection of translated letters by war criminal Jean-Baptiste Carrier. An uncommon first edition. This volume features the collected and transla...

8 Vols the Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere

William Shakespeare; Charles Knight [Ed.] · 1839 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, Charles Knight and Co. [1839-1843]. Leather. Charles Knight"s ambitious pictorial Shakespeare, complete in eight volumes, richly illustrated with engravings and bound in a handsome half vellum binding by Webb. Uniformly bound in a handsome half vellum binding with marb...

The Works of James Barry, Esq. Historical Painter; Formerly Professor of Painting at the Royal-Academy; Member of the Clementine Academy at Bologna, &C.

James Barry · 1809 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, T. Cadell and W. Davies , 1809. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound two-volume anthology of the written works of eminent Royal Academy painter, James Barry. First and only edition of this uncommon collection, comprising the letters, lectures and essays of Irish pai...

The Word Detective: A Life in Words from Serendipity to Selfie

John Simpson · 2016 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Little Brown and Company, 2016. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of an intriguing memoir and digest into language, written by a Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. The signed first edition of The Word Detective: A Life in Words from Serendipity...

Old Sports and Sportsmen or, the Willey Country with Sketches of Squire Forester and His Whipper-in Tom Moody

John Randall · 1873 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Virtue & Co. 1873 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this illustrated account of the sportsmen of the Willey country, most specifically Squire Forester. The uncommon first edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding.  A work by Joh...

Le Bon Berger Ou le Vray Rãƒâ©Gime Et Gouvernement Des Bergers Et Bergãƒâ¨Res

Jehan le Brie · 1879 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1879. Leather. A charming Paris edition of an intriguing medieval treatise on shepherding, bound in half morocco with blue marble boards. A charming edition of Le Bon Berger ou Le Vray Régime et Gouvernement des Bergers et Bergères, (The Good Shepherd ...

Recollections of a Clairvoyant Society

Anonymous [Frederick S.] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Eveleigh Nash, 1911. Cloth. A fascinating autobiographical account of a French psychic medium who rose to performing readings on nineteenth century nobility. The second edition of Recollections of a Society Clairvoyant, an autobiographical tell-all account of a psychic...

Napoleon III. From the Popular Caricatures of the Last Thirty Years

James M. Haswell · 1873 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, John Camden Hotten, [1873]. Cloth. A fascinating, biographical volume on Napoleon and his public reception through caricature, profusely illustrated with over sixty plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Profusely illustrated with a lovely colour fronti...

My Uncle Silas

H. E. Bates · 1939 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Bates" beloved collection of semi-autobiographical rural tales, following the enigmatic Uncle Silas, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. In the publisher"s original green cloth binding.Comp...

The Little Red Hen; Memories of Childhood

Michael Foreman · 1999 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Andersen Press; Pavilion, 1999-2000. First edition. Hardback. A smart two volume set of signed first editions of prolific children's book creator Michael Foreman's works, illustrated in colour throughout. A two volume set.Both volumes signed by the author Mic...

The Life of John Mytton

Nimrod [Charles James Apperley] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1877. Leather. The fourth revised edition of a celebrated biography on the English gentleman known as 'Mad Jack', written with both truth and love from a friend. The fourth revised edition of The Life of John Mytton, the famous biog...

The Letters of Charles Lamb with a Sketch of His Life Poetical Works of Charles Lamb the Poetical Works of Charles Lamb

Thomas Noon Talfourd; Charles Lamb · 1841 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Edward Moxon, 1841; 1840. First edition. Leather. A very scarce copy of the letters and poetical works of Charles Lamb bound together, in half morocco and marbled boards. A very scarce example of these 3 volumes bound as one.Rebacked in half morocco, with original spin...