Storia militare

General Regulations and Orders for the Army. Adjutant Generals Office, Horse-Guards. 12th August 1811.

Adjutant Generals Office · 1811 · Rooke Books

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

London, W. Clowes, 1811. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this very scarce British army regulation handbook published during the Napoleonic wars, providing fascinating insight into army operations during this historic period, bound in crushed quarter mo...

Three Practical Treatises on the Duties of the Army During Attacks and Sieges by J. Jebb

J. Jebb [Joshua Jebb] · 1848 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, W. Clowes and Sons, 1848. First edition. Hardback. Three very scarce military works by a notable British Officer of the Royal Engineers, detailing the duties of the British army during attacks and sieges, bound together with all the original maps and plates. The third ...

General Craufurd and His Light Division

Alexander H. Craufurd · 1891 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this military biography of one of Wellington's most celebrated lieutenants and his division. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece and seven pages of facsimile letters to th...

20 Vols a Collection of First Editions by John Masters

John Masters · 1951 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, Michael Joseph, 1951-1983. First edition. Cloth. An impressive set of twenty novels by John Masters; all first editions in the original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impressions of these twenty works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the o...

Wellington: The Bidassoa and Nivelle

Major-General F. C. Beatson · 1931 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Edward Arnold & Co. 1931. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the Duke of Wellington and the Battles of Bidassoa and Nivelle. First edition. Very scarce edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine images across seven plates, w...

The Second World War

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1950 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1950-1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart complete set of Winston Churchill's work on the Second World War, with illustrations. Complete in six volumes. Mixed editions. The memoirs of Sir Winston Churchill a British statesman, soldier, a...

The Life of John Rushworth Earl Jellicoe

Admiral Sir R. H. Bacon · 1936 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography of Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty plates, and eight maps and plans, five of which are foldin...

On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire and Their Historical, Legendary, and Aesthetic Associations

Charles Hardwick · 1882 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Manchester; London, Abel Heywood & Son; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1882. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed history on the battle-fields of ancient Lancashire. First edition. A chronicle of the ancient battles and battle-fields of Lancashire, a ceremoni...

Death of a Hero

Richard Aldington · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York, Covici Friede, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first American edition, first impression, of Richard Aldington's semi autobiographical World War I novel. The first American edition, first impression. With the disclaimer to the front stating that cert...

The South Sea Company: An Historical Essay and Bibliographical Finding List

John G. Sperling · 1962 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Boston, Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1962 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition of for-profit education pioneer John G. Sperling's detailed bibliographical guide to the South Sea Company. The first edition of this work.Illustr...

List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War MCMXIV-MCMXIX

1921 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Riccardi Press, Medici Society Limited, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A privately printed list of the Etonians who fought and lost their lives in the First World War. First and only edition. Privately printed. A list of the Etonians who fought in the Great War of 1914 to...

Jane&Apos;S Fighting Ships 1952-53

Raymond Blackman [ed] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd , 1953. First edition. Cloth. The 1953 edition of 'Janes' Fighting Ships', a heavily illustrated annual on naval ships from around the world. The 1952-3 edition of this annual. Profusely illustrated throughout with monochro...

The Two Types: Being the Saga of the Two Jaunty Heroes Who Have Given Us the Best Laugh Since the Campaign Began

Jon [John Jones] · 1945 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

None stated, British Army Newspaper Unit, [1945]. First edition. Paperback. A humorous wartime comic about two jaunty heroes, published by the British Army Newspaper. The first edition. Illustrated with a colour illustration to the front, and many monochrome illustrations thr...

Historical Records of the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment, Now the 1st Battalion the King&Apos;S (Shropshire L.I. ), from the Formation of the Regiment in 1755, Down to 1889

Colonel W. Rogerson · 1891 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co, [1891]. Cloth. A scarce account of the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot, an illustrated military work. A scarce work.A history of the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot, from its formation in 1755, to its amalgamation with the...

The 85th King&Apos;S Light Infantry (Now 2nd Battn. The King&Apos;S Shropshire Light Infantry)

One of Them"; C. R. B. Barrett [ed.] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. 1913. First edition. Leather. An illustrated first edition copy of this extensive military history, edited by C. R. B. Barrett. The first edition of this work, rebacked in a half morocco binding, with the original backstrip laid down to the spin...

Spitfire Parade

W. E. Johns · 1943 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.48 | $508.64 | ¥81,223)

Toronto , Oxford University Press, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The first Canadian edition of this thrilling adventure by W. E. Johns, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first Canadian edition. First published in the UK in 1941. Scarce to see with the original, unc...

India&Apos;S Paratroopers (a History of the Parachute Regiment of India)

K. C. Praval · 1975 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Leo Cooper, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce illustrated work on the Parachute Regiment of India, with maps. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with fifty-two illustrations and thirty maps, four of which are folded into a pocket at ...

War Memoirs: Volumes I, II, III, IV & V

David Lloyd George · 1933 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1933-1936. First edition. Cloth. A first edition five-volume set of David Lloyd George's illustrated memoirs of the First World War. Five volumes of a six-volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings.Ink inscription to the fr...

The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV

William James · 1847 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.32 | $1,651.42 | ¥263,711)

London, Richard Bentley, 1847 . Leather. A beautiful edition of naval historian William James's detailed and richly illustrated history of the Royal Navy. A 'New Edition' of naval historian William James's impressive work, in which he aims to provide an exa...

Goodbye Mickey Mouse

Len Deighton · 1982 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work of wartime fiction by Len Deighton. A first edition of the work. In the publisher's original cloth and original unclipped dust wrapper. This historical novel is written by British autho...