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Electric Motors and Generators

Various · 1947 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, Odhams Press Limited, 1947. Leather. An attractive copy of this work on motoring, in a leather binding. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. A collection of short chapters on various aspects of electric motors and generators by various authors, including F Harrabin, J Nixon and E Emer...

The Cabinet of the Arts a Series of Engravings by English Artists

Anonymous · 1799 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.33 | $647.32 | ¥103,369)

London, Not Stated, 1799. Leather. A scarce collection of engravings by English artists. Contains 88 plates of engravings which include topographical views, portraits, emblematic scenes and reproductions of the engraved title pages of other publications. An interesting, if ecl...

Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Biographical and Critical

M Bryan · 1886 · Rooke Books

£169.99 (€203.76 | $224.57 | ¥35,861)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1886-9. Leather. Michael Bryan's acclaimed reference book on artists. Edited by Robert Edmund Graves. Bound in half calf leather with gilt lettering and marbled edges. With Arthur Shanks nameplate on the front free endpapers. Michael Bryan (1...

American Glass

George and Helen McKearin · 1941 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

New York, Crown Publishers, 1941. Leather. An extensive book on American glass. Bound in half morocco leather with gilt lettering. Has been rebound with new endpapers. Uncommon. Includes chapters on Early Production, Glassmaking and Ornamentation; Early American Blown and Patt...

Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Paintings, Water Colours and Engravings in the Victoria Art Galleries, Dundee on the Occasion of the British Association Meeting.

A H Millar · 1912 · Rooke Books

£27.99 (€33.55 | $36.98 | ¥5,905)

London, British Association, 1912. Leather. A catalogue of this art collection from many galleries. Vellum bound with cream cloth covered boards and gilt tiles to spine. Comprehensive catalogue of this charming art collection with many engravings and illustrations throughout, ...

The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Scultpure, and Other Vestiges of Former Ages, Accompanied by Descriptions in Two Volumes

Walter Scott · 1814 · Rooke Books

£460.00 (€551.37 | $607.69 | ¥97,040)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814-17. Leather. A beautifully bound pair of volumes on The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. Complete in two volumes. Together with illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition, and original po...

Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Volume 2, Italian School

Otto Pacht; J. J. G. Alexander · 1970 · Rooke Books

£119.99 (€143.82 | $158.51 | ¥25,313)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1970. Paperback. A useful illustrated research guide for illuminated manuscripts found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Bound in paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and an unclipped dustwrapper. With eighty-eight plates. This fascinating ...

Society Pictures

George du Maurier · 1865 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Bradbury, Agnew and Co. c1880. Cloth. A two volume set of the drawings of George du Maurier. Parts one and four of original four volume set. George du Maurier was a French-born British cartoonist and author known for his contributions to Punch. He became a member of th...

Wandering Shadows

Vera Röhm · 1998 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

Berlin, G & H, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A new, sealed copy of Vera Röhm's 'Wandering Shadows&apos. A first edition copy. In German and English Bound in cloth with unclipped dust wrapper Vera Rohm's name comes up in discussions of contemporary constructive ar...

Rockingham Ornamental Porcelain

D G Rice · 1938 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London , The Adam Publishing Company, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, second impression of this work by D G Rice. Signed by Rice to front free-endpaper. With 15 colour plates. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with some light shelfwear and some marks to boards...

Nineteenth Century Cameo Glass.

Geoffrey W. Beard · 1956 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London , The Ceramic Book Company, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition collection of the most notable pieces of cameo glass in the nineteenth century. This first edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty copies. Colour illustrated frontispiece of The Dennis...

The Gothick Taste

Terence Davis · 1974 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1974. Cloth. An illustrated edition of this work on Gothick architecture. Gothick architecture was extremely popular in the eighteenth century and echoed the building heritage of the Middle Ages. In a cloth binding in original dustwrapper. Exte...

Baj Disegni

Dan Cameron · 1989 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

London , Fabbri Editori, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by Dan Cameron on Enrico Baj. Published in Italian alongside English. Enrico Baj was an Italian artist and artistic writer whose works show an obsession with nuclear war and an influence by the s...

Thirty Bindings

G.D. Hobson · 1926 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London , The First Edition Club, 1926. Cloth. A volume on bookbinding dating from 1926. Published by the First Edition Club, a collective of rare and antique book enthusiasts, the volumes deal with exceptional bindings from throughout the world and centuries, displayed in thir...

The Moderns Revisted.

Grosvenor Vadehra · 2006 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London , Grosvenor Vadehra, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition study of modern Indian art. The piece looks at the works of M F Hussain, S H Raza, Ram Kumar, V S Gaitonde, F N Souza, Tyed Mehta and Akbar Padamsee. Numerous colour illustrated plates and illustrat...

Seventeenth-Century English Miniatures

John Murdoch · 1997 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London , The Stationery Office, 1997. Cloth. An attractive copy of the first edition of this study of miniature portraits from the 1600s. Illustrated with many colour and monochrome reproductions. Including portraits of Catherine Howard, Charles I, James II, and many other nob...

Italian Art Statuary

Various · 0 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

N/A, N/A, c1900. Cloth. A very scarce catalogue of Italian art from the early twentieth century. Illustrated with many tinted plates of marble sculptures. In a cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some marks and some bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright...

The Story of Picture Printing in England During the Nineteenth Century or Forty Years of Wood and Stone

C. T. Courtney Lewis · 1928 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London , Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 1928. Cloth. A history of pictorial printing in England during the 1800s. Illustrated throughout with many coloured plates. With chapters including Charles Knight as a Printer, Chromolithography, Henry Richard Vizetelly and many others. In...

Book Binders of the United Kingdom (Outside London) 1780-1840

Charles Ramsden · 1987 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1987. Cloth. Lists bookbinders in the United Kingdom from 1780-1840 Provides a list of the bookbinders in the United Kingdom working outside of London, during the period between 1780-1840. With sixteen black and white plates. In a cloth binding with...

A Grammar of Color Arrangements of the Strathmore Papers in a Variety of Printed Color Combinations According to the Munsell Coloe System

A. H. Munsell & T. M. Cleland. · 1921 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.48 | $502.00 | ¥80,164)

London, The Strathmore Paper Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of the Strathmore Paper Company's A Grammar of Color. "This book was arranged and prepared with the authority of the late A. H Munsell of Boston, who spent his life in the perfecting ...