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Departures

E. L. Grant Watson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.56 | $65.38 | ¥10,382)

London, Pleiades Books Limited, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by biologist E. L. Watson in the original publisher's dust wrapper with illustrations. The first edition of Departures by E. L. Grant Watson in the original publis...

Profitable Wonders: Some Problems of Animal and Plant Life

E. L. Grant Watson · 1949 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.85 | $40.03 | ¥6,357)

London, Country Life Limited , 1949. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this work concerning some natural wonders by E. L. Grant Watson and C. F. Tunnicliffe. The first edition of this work. Concerning the animal and plant life and natural life wonders. Written by E. L. Gr...

Notable English Trials

E. R. Watson; D. N. Mackay; H. L. Adam; G. H. Knott · 1911 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.15 | $233.50 | ¥37,080)

Edinburgh, William Hodge & Company, 1911-13. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of four popular volumes from the series 'Notable English Trials', discussing the trials of Lord Lovat, William Palmer, Dr. Lamson, and Eugene Aram. Complete with illustrations. The f...

Studies of the Renal Circulation

Josep Trueta; Alfred E. Barclay; Kenneth J. Franklin; Peter M. Daniel; Marjorie M. L. Prichard · 1947 · Rooke Books

£167.99 (€200.77 | $224.14 | ¥35,594)

Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this fascinating medical study of renal circulation; copiously illustrated throughout and in the publisher's original price-clipped dustwrapper. Featuring the following ink insc...

The Great War 1914-1919 the Book of Remembrance of the 5th Battalion (Prince Albert&Apos;S) Somerset Light Infantry

None Stated; Major E. S. Goodland; Captain H. L. Milsom; Major C. H. Goodland; Captain T. M. Pulman; Captain Sir J. S. P. Mellor; Captain A. H. Armstrong, Captain W. E. Hunt; Lieut. J. Bell · 1930 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.39 | $166.78 | ¥26,486)

Chiswick, Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A scarce presentation copy, of an already limited edition print run - featuring an inscription by F. D. Urnwick Bound in its original green cloth.One of a limited edition run - this being one of onl...

8 Vols a Collection of Scarce Culinary and Household Manuals

Various; Mrs. J. N. Bell; Mary Woodman; E. L. B. Forster; Marion Harland; Dora Luck; Mrs. Lincoln; "An Experienced Cook · 1955 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.05 | $260.18 | ¥41,317)

London; Edinburgh, Henry J. Drane; Dean & Son, Limited; Macmillan and Co. Limited; W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd.; Sands & Company; Nicholson & Sons, c1900-1955 . Cloth. A very scarce eight-volume collection of characterful, early 20th-century British domestic guides, offering practic...

Lives of the Poets & City of God

E. L. Doctorow · 1984 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.76 | $66.71 | ¥10,594)

New York, Random House, 1984-2000. First edition. Cloth. Two smart copies of novels from American writer Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, one being the first edition second printing and the other being a review copy of the uncorrected proof. Two volumes. Written by Edgar Lawrence Doct...

Texts and Calendars I and II

E. L. C. Mullins · 1958 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.63 | $100.07 | ¥15,891)

London, Offices of the Royal Historical Society , 1958-1983. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes of this analytical guide to serial publications from the Royal Historical Society. Complete in two volumes. First edition. An analytical guide to printed texts an...

Piers Plowman the C-Text and Its Poet (1966), and, Medieval Literature and Antiquities Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle (1987).

E. Talbot Donaldson ; Niall Rudd et al., and, Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton [editors] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.71 | $80.06 | ¥12,713)

London ; Cambridge, Frank Cass and Company Ltd ; D. S. Brewer, 1966-1987. Hardback. These uncommon, fascinating works of twentieth-century Medieval literary criticism, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of Medieval Literature and Anti...

Cyril Ashley and the Silver Casket

A. L. O. E [Charlotte Tucker] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.71 | $80.06 | ¥12,713)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, Ltd, 1885-6. Cloth. Two Christian allegorical novels by the prolific English author Charlotte Maria Tucker, in their original decorative cloth bindings. A later edition to 'Silver Casket', first published in 1863, and an early edition of &...

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

F. L. Cross; E. A. Livingstone [editors] · 1974 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.85 | $40.03 | ¥6,357)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1974. Cloth. A smart second edition of this reference volume on Christianity. Second edition, revised. A reference volume on Christianity, becoming a dictionary of all the terms from the Christian Church. Taking into account the changes in the ...

Wisdom While You Wait

E. V. Lucas; C. L. Graves · 1903 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.41 | $50.70 | ¥8,052)

London, Isbister & Co, 1903. Cloth. A very scarce mock prospectus for a spoof encyclopaedia by E. V. Lucas and C. L. Graves, a smart copy, illustrated throughout. A very scarce work.The 27th thousandth.This work was originally published for private circulation in 1902.Rebound ...

An Aspect of Dickens&Apos;S Characterisation: His Attempts to Suggest the Social Class of His Characters by Their Speech and Behaviour, with Special Reference to Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend

T. E. A. Acum, M. A. (Lond), L. R. A. M. · 1972 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.41 | $160.11 | ¥25,426)

London, None, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smartly bound doctorate thesis on the characterisation techniques of Charles Dickens. First edition. Very scarce. The doctorate thesis of T. E. A. Acum in English Literature. Exploring Charles Dickens's attempts to suggest the s...

The New Naturalist: A Survey of British Natural History

V. S. Summerhayes; J. A. Steers; L. A. Harvey; D. St. Leger-Gordon; E. B. Ford; W. S. Bristowe · 1951 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.68 | $86.73 | ¥13,772)

London, Collins, 1951-1958. First edition. Cloth. Five very smart first edition volumes from the New Naturalist series, with illustrations throughout. Five volumes. First edition. From the New Naturalist series. This set includes: Wild Orchids of Britain, 1951. Illustrated wit...

Blackheath: The Story of the Royal Hundred, Part One: Blackheath and Greenwich

Gerard L. Baker; J. E. G. de Montmorency · 1925 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.85 | $40.03 | ¥6,357)

Blackheath Village, The Morden Society, 1925. First edition. Paperback. A first edition, first impression of this uncommon work concerning Blackheath and the Royal Hundred, with the original glassine wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher&ap...

Porta Argentariorum

D. E. L. Haynes; P. E. D. Hirst · 1939 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.80 | $53.37 | ¥8,475)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1939. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this heavily illustrated work about the Porta Argentariorum, an ancient Roman arch commissioned by money-changers. A first edition of this illustrated work on the Arcus Argentariorum, an ancient Roman arch ...

A Mystery Scroll and Its Key; This World and the Next

E. L. Gardner · 1942 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€286.83 | $320.23 | ¥50,852)

London, Theosophical Publishing House , 1942. First edition. Cloth. A collection of two scarce theosophical essays by Edward L. Gardner bound in one. The first edition of this work, two essays bound in one. Lacking the title page of 'This World and the Next,' dated t...

Battling with the World; or, the Story of the Roby Family

A. L. O. E.; [Charlotte Maria Tucker] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.78 | $60.04 | ¥9,535)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1895. Cloth. A scarce children's work by Charlotte Maria Tucker under her popular pseudonym A. L. O. E. complete with illustrations throughout. A scarce Victorian children's novel, telling the story of the Roby Family. Whilst an entertaini...

The Topographical Dictionary of England and Wales

E. L. Blanchard [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€537.81 | $600.42 | ¥95,348)

London, L. Tallis, [1860]. First edition. Leather. A very scarce pair of half calf first edition volumes, richly illustrated with colour maps. A first edition. Undated, dated from a copy held by Oxford Brookes University. Bound in half calf, and decorated with marbled endpaper...

English Thought 1860-1900 the Theological Aspect

L. E. Elliott-Binns, D.D., F.R.Hist.S · 1956 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.89 | $26.67 | ¥4,236)

London , New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co. 1956. Cloth. English Thought 1860-1900 The Theological Aspect by L. E. Elliott-Binns. In unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. Providing the sequel to Canon Storr's well-known study of the subject down to 1860. With D. A...