Biography Books

Palmerston, by Philip Guedalla. An illustrated Biography of Henry John temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), who was British Prime Minster t...

Men of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, La...

Studies in Romanticism, Volume 16, Number 4, Fall 1977. This issue with articles on Marxism and Romanticism. With various contributors. Provenance;...

Siecle de Louis XIV, Edition Stereotype, Augmentee d'une Tables des Matieres, Paris, 1810, 2 Volume set. Published by Stereotype de Mame, Freres, P...

Demosthenis; Opera ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem, Accurate Edita. Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1812, 5 volumes. The best works of Demosthenes, Greek statesman...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell, Esq. To Which are Added, Anecdotes by Hawkins...

Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men, who have died during the last thirty years, and in their lives did much to make the city what it ...

From Emperor to Citizen; The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, 2 Volume set, complete. Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing. Third print...

Some English Philhellenes, by Z.D. Ferriman, Author of "Home Life in Hellas,", Turkey and the Turks," etc. 8 Volume Set, comprising: I: Frank Abney...

Thucydides Mythistoricus, by Francis Macdonald Cornford, Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge. SOLD Provenance; from the library of th...

William Hone; His Life and Times, by Frederick Wm. Hackwood. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histo...

The Elgins, 1766-1917; A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives, by Sydney Checkland. Provenance; from the library of the late William St ...

At John Murray's; Records of a Literary Circle 1843-1892, by George Paston. Preface by The Rt. Hon. Lord Ernle. SOLD Provenance; from the library o...

Harold Nicolson; Diaries and Letters 1930-1962, 3 Volume Set. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. The writings of Sir Harold George Nicolson (1886-1968), pol...

Richard Crossman; The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, 2 Volumes: Volume One: Minister of Housing 1964-66, 688pp + Plates, 1976; Volume Two: Lord Pre...

Raffles; The Story of Singapore, by Raymond Flower. Published by Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2007. First Singapore edition, following The Times fi...

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith; Now First Uniformly Collected. Collecta Revirescunt. Vol. I. Containing the author's life and his essa...

The Life of James, Late Duke of Ormonde. Containing: I) An Historical and Genealogical Account of His Grace's Family. II) An Impartial View of His ...

The Courtesan's Revenge; Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King, by Frances Wilson. Provenance; from the library of the late William ...

The Courtesan's Revenge; Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King, by Frances Wilson. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late Wil...

Arthur Miller: Collected Essays, 1944-2000; Echoes Down the Corridor. Edited by Steven R. Centola. Provenance; from the library of the late William...

Red Channels; The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 202...

Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of a Woman. Edited with an Introduction by Gary Kelly. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the...

England's First Family of Writers; Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley, by Julie A Carlson. Provenance; from the library of the late ...

The Regent Library; Mary Wollstonecraft, by Camilla Jebb. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British his...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female Emancipation in France and England, Jacob Bouten, Amsterdam, 1922. Doctorate Thesis. Text is in En...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.; A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With An Essay on His Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Complete.  SOLD P...

Samuel Butler, and His Hudibras and Other Works by A. Ramsay. Published by Charles Knight & Co, London, 1846. Bound by Maclehose of Glasgow. A ...

Sir Roger De Coverley by The Spectator. The Notes and Illustrations by W. Henry Wills (there are no illustrations included in this version). De Cov...

The Illustrated Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information, edited by John Ross. SOLD Published by A. Fullarton & Co, London, Edinburgh and D...

Mémoires Biographiques, Littéraires at Politiques de Mirabeau, écrits par Lui-même, par son pére, son oncle et son fil adoptif. 4 Volumes. Publishe...