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Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay

Frederick A. Pottle · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1938. Paperback. The scarce proof copy of Frederick A. Pottle's biographical account of Boswell's relationship with Mary Bryant. The scarce proof copy of Frederick A Pottle's study of the relationship between James Boswell and Mar...

Dean Swift and His Writings

Gerald P. Moriarty · 1893 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Seeley & Co. Limited, 1893. Cloth. A very smart limited edition copy of this biography of Dean Swift with details of his works. Limited edition. Only one hundred and fifty copies are printed, this copy in number 15. Illustrated with frontispiece and eight plates. Colla...

An Abridgment of Lord Coke&Apos;S Commentaries Upon Littleton: Being a Brief Explanation of the Grounds of the Common Law

Lord Coke; Edward Coke; Humphrey Davenport · 1685 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns, 1685. Leather. A very scarce abridgment of Lord Edward Coke's important treatise on British law, complete with two portrait plates. A very scarce abridgment of Coke's important work, abridged and edited by Humphrey Davenport....

Praeterita Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life

John Ruskin · 1900 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

London, George Allen, 1900. Vellum. The second edition of John Ruskin's remarkable autobiographical work in three beautiful vellum bound volumes. A remarkable work by John Ruskin, complete in three volumes. A highly personal, selective, and eloquent account of parts of hi...

Laura Knight

Janet Dunbar · 1975 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Collins, 1975. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce biography of Laura Knight by Janet Dunbar enclosed in its original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A scarce copy. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Bio...

The Martian a Novel

George du Maurier · 1898 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Harper & Brothers, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated work by George du Maurier. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and forty-eight images by the author. Collated complete. A a largely autobiographical novel describing the life of...

The Life and Opinions of Thomas Preston, Patriot and Shoemaker; Containing Much That Is Curious, Much That Is Useful, More That Is True, and a Great Deal More, (Perhaps,) Than Is Expected!

Thomas Preston · 1817 · Rooke Books

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

London, Printed for the Author by A. Seale, 1817 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of the autobiography of nineteenth century shoemaker Thomas Preston. The first edition of this very scarce work. Preston was a radical, and part of the organising committee ...

Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra

Junius · 1799 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Printed for T. Bensley , 1799. Leather. Illustrated edition of the letters from Junius in two volumes. Complete in two volumes. ESTC T11034 Junius was the pseudonym of a polemicist known for contributing a series of letters to the Public Advertiser in the eighteenth c...

A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh · 1964 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this autobiography of Evelyn Waugh with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Collated complete. Written by Evelyn Waugh, an English writer of novels, biographies ...

The Man in the Making; the Years of Peril; the Savour of the Navy

Arthur Bryant · 1933 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1933-1938. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Arthur Bryant's rigorous biography of diarist Samuel Pepys A rigorous biography of 16th century diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys. With maps to the endpapers of The Man i...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson

James Boswell; Mowbray Morris [intro] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1914. Leather. A Globe Edition of Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, in a very smart half calf binding with the gilt crest of Marlborough College to the front board. The sixth reprint of the Globe Edition of this work in a half calf binding, ...

Side-Lights on English Society: Sketches from Life, Social & Satirical

E. C. Grenville Murray · 1885 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London , Vizetelly & Co. 1885. Cloth. A richly illustrated commentary on late Victorian society by H. C. Grenville. A fifth edition copy of this work.Side-Lights On English Society: Sketches from Life, Social & Satirical is a commentary on society that is richly illustrated th...

The Life of Samuel Johnson Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell; Alexander Napier · 1884 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , George Bell and Sons , 1884. Leather. Six volumes of The Life of Samuel Johnson Together With a Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides and Johnsoniana. Six volumes of The Life of Samuel Johnson Together With a Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides, being new edition with notes...

Richard Cosway R.A. And His Wife and Pupils, Miniaturists of the Eighteenth Century

George C. Williamson · 1897 · Rooke Books

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

London, George Bell & Sons, 1897 . First edition. Leather. A lovely limited edition of this biography and study of Richard Cosway and eighteenth century miniaturists in Hatchards signed leather binding. Limited edition of Richard Cosway R. A. and His Wife and Pupils, Miniaturi...

The Duke of Wellington; His Character, His Actions, and His Writings

Jules Mauel · 1853 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, John Murray, 1853. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of this work on the Duke of Wellington, by Jules Maurel. First edition. Scarce work. Regarding the life and writings of Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesm...

Remarkable Adventurers and Unrevealed Mysteries

Lascelles Wraxall · 1863 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Richard Bentley , 1863. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this collection of biographical studies of some of the greatest adventurers in history, complete in two volumes. The very scarce first edition of this work, complete in two volumes. Rarely s...

Late Harvest

Norman Douglas · 1946 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Lindsay Drummond, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of this autobiographical work by Norman Douglas, enclosed in the original publisher's dust wrapper. The first edition of this work. Containing the author's reflections on his own life ...

Reminiscences of Kaffir Life and History

Charles Brownlee · 1896 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

South Africa, Lovedale, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this biography and collection of memoires from a colonial politician from the Cape Colony. First edition of Reminiscences of Kaffir Life and History and Other Papers by Charles Brownlee in the o...

1909 the Life of George Grenfell Congo Missionary and Explorer

George Hawker · 1909 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of George Hawker's biography of missionary and explorer George Grenfell, complete with maps and 71 illustrations A first edition of George Hawker's biography of the 19th century missiona...

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh; Mark Amory (ed.) · 1980 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of letters to and from English writer Evelyn Waugh. First edition of The Letters of Evelyn Waugh in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Edite...