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Six Short Plays
John Galsworthy · 1921 · Rooke Books
£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)
London, Duckworth and Co. 1921. First edition. Leather. A clean first UK edition of Six Short Plays by John Galsworthy. Bound in leather with gilt lettering and border decoration. First UK Edition. Bound by Hatchards. John Galsworthy OM, 1867 Â 1933, was an English novelist and…
The Pirate and the Three Cutters
Captain Frederick Marryat · 1854 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Leather. A scarce copy of this novel by Captain Frederick Marryat. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a British Royal Navy officer and novelist, now known as an early pioneer of the sea story, or nautical fiction. Illustrated with a frontispie…
Chronology: Or, the Historian&Apos;S Vade-Mecum
John Trusler · 1790 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, Literary Press, 1790. Leather. A pocket-sized edition of Trusler's dictionary of historical events and figures. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Greenly, born at Titley Court, Herefordshire, was a n…
The Poems of Mark Akenside
Mark Akenside · 1772 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772. Leather. An early poetical anthology from the English poet, Mark Akenside. First collected edition, published the same year as the first. Mark Akenside rose from humble beginnings to considerable eminence in medicine and literature. He com…
The Union, or Select Scots and English Poems
[Thomas Warton] (Editor) · 1759 · Rooke Books
£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)
London, R Baldwin, 1759. Leather. A compilation of several famous Scottish and English poets With works of many poets such as Tobias Smollett and James Hammond. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Greenly, born at …
Self Knowledge, a Treatise Showing the Nature and Benefit
John Mason · 1825 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, C and C Whittingham, 1825. Leather. A handsome pocket sized edition of John Mason's famous and popular work. Treatise on Self-Knowledge was first published in 1745 and went through several editions. This edition is in a pocket-sized format. With an engraved title pa…
The School of Man
Francois Genard · 1753 · Rooke Books
£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)
Dublin, Lockyer Davis, 1753. First edition. Leather. A popular pseudo-courtesy book by Francois Genard. Translated from the French This is the first Dublin edition of this book. To which is prefixed a key to the satyrical characters interspersed in the work. Popular pseudo-court…
The Poetical Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. A Distant Relation to the Poet of Thebes Advice to the Future Laureat; an Ode the Louisiad, an Heroi-Comic Poem. Canto the Third and Fourth Odes of Importance Etc. Odea to Kien Long, the Present Emperor of China, and a Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, the Abyssinian Traveller
Peter Pindar · 1790 · Rooke Books
£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)
Dublin, William Porter, 1790-93. Leather. A collection of the poetry of Peter Pindar, with details of his life, bound in one volume. Containing: The Poetical Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. A Distant Relation to the Poet of Thebes Advice to the Future Laureat; An Ode The Louisiad, A…
Ask Mamma;" or, the Richest Commoner in England
Robert Smith Surtees · 1858 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Bradbury and Evans, 1858. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this 19th Century novel, by Robert Smith Surtees. First Edition. With illustrations by John Leech: colour plates and black and white vignettes. Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 Â 16 March 1864) was an…
A Topographical Dictionary of England in Two Volumes
Nicholas Carlisle · 1808 · Rooke Books
£500.00 (€599.33 | $660.57 | ¥105,484)
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808. First edition. Leather. An attractive and scarce two volume first edition set of this important topographical work. Exhibiting the names of the several cities, towns, parishes, tythings, townships and hamlets with the county and divis…
The Comic History of England in Two Volumes
Gilbert Abbot A Beckett · 1847 · Rooke Books
£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)
London, Punch , 1847. First edition. Leather. A first edition of A Beckett's most renowned work, This is a lively history of England told in a style that was highly unusual at its times of publication. With copious illustrations throughout by John Leech, including twenty co…
Marietta a Novel
T. Adolphus Trollope · 1862 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this scarce work by Thomas Adolphus Trollope. Complete in two volumes. Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810 Â 1892) was born in Bloomsbury, London on 29 April 1810, was the elder brother of Anthony Trollope, t…
Tales of My Landlord Second Series the Heart of Mid-Lothian
Sir Walter Scott · 1893 · Rooke Books
£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)
London, John C Nimmo, 1893. Leather. A nicely bound copy of Sir Walter Scott's seventh Waverley novel. With bright tartan endpapers of the Scott clan tartan. Bound without title page, date and publisher's information sourced from Copac. The Heart of Midlothian was orig…
The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason
ed. Rev John Mitford · 1853 · Rooke Books
£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)
London, Richard Bentley, 1853. First edition. Leather. A collection of the letters between Thomas Gray and William Mason to which are added some letters addressed by Gray to the Rev. James Browne, D.D. Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. This is a first edition of this work.P…
Our Common Sea-Birds Cormorants, Terns, Gulls, Skuas, Petrels and Auks
Percy R. Lowe · 1913 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)
London, The Offices of Country Life, 1913. Vellum. An attractively-bound work on the sea birds of the British Isles. Illustrated throughout with many photographs. Dated using Copac. Percy Roycroft Lowe (2 January 187018 August 1948) was an English surgeon and ornithologist. Rebo…
Helga a Poem in Seven Cantos
William Herbert · 1815 · Rooke Books
£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)
London, John Murray, 1815. First edition. Leather. A first edition of William Herbert's poem. William Herbert (12 January 1778 Â 28 May 1847) was a British botanist, botanical illustrator, poet, and clergyman. He served as a Member of Parliament for Hampshire from 1806 to …
The Pilgrims of the Rhine
Lord Lytton · 1891 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1891. Leather. A scarce limited 'Edition de Luxe' of The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lord Lytton being number 196 of 500 copies. With twenty- seven engravings on steel from drawings by Roberts, Maclise and other artists including frontis…
The Greater Origins and Issues of Life and Death
James John Garth Wilkinson · 1885 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, James Speirs, 1885. Leather. Wilkinson's religious philosophical work, in an armorial prize binding. First Edition. With a Swedenborg Society prize presentation label to the front pastedown, dated 1810. The New Church (or Swedenborgianism) is the name of the religio…
Oberon a Poem; from the German of Wieland
William Sotheby · 1798 · Rooke Books
£515.00 (€617.31 | $680.39 | ¥108,649)
London, Cadell and Davies, 1798. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of Sotheby's translation of Oberon. Translated from the German of Christoph Martin Wieland. The original poem was very popular at the time and Sotheby is noted for translating in to English. Wie…
Modern Accomplishments: Or, the March of Intellect
Catherine Sinclair · 1838 · Rooke Books
£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)
London, William Whyte and Co. 1838. Leather. An early copy of this popular novel first published in 1836, in a charming fine binding. Seventh Thousand. Catherine Sinclair (1800-1864) was a Scottish children's writer. She was the fourth daughter of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Bar…