Storia militare

The World Crisis

Winston Churchill · 1923 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.52 | $1,453.25 | ¥232,066)

London, Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931. First edition. Cloth. An early edition set of Winston Churchill's noted account of the First World War. Comprising volumes I-V of this important work. Lacking the final volume, which was not published until 1931. Prior owner'...

The World Crisis

Winston Churchill · 1923 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.99 | $1,981.71 | ¥316,453)

London, Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931. First edition. Cloth. An unusually smart early edition set of Winston Churchill's noted account of the First World War. Comprising volumes I-V of this important work. Lacking the final volume, which was not published until 1931. V...

The World Crisis

Winston Churchill · 1923 · Rooke Books

£1,450.00 (€1,738.05 | $1,915.65 | ¥305,905)

London, Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition set of Winston Churchill's noted account of the First World War. All volumes are first editions. Volumes I, II, III and VI are all first impressions. Volumes IV and V are second impr...

Post-War Speeches the Sinews of Peace; Europe Unite; in the Balance; Stemming the Tide; the Unwritten Alliance

Winston Churchill · 1948 · Rooke Books

£1,300.00 (€1,558.26 | $1,717.48 | ¥274,260)

London, Cassell and Company, 1948-1951. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition set of Winston Churchill's post-war speeches. All volumes retaining their original dustwrappers. A complete set of Churchill's post-war speeches. Published between 1948 and 1961....

L&Apos;Art de Jetter Les Bombes

Francois Blondel · 1685 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.52 | $1,453.25 | ¥232,066)

Hague, Arnout Leers, 1685. Leather. A very scarce second edition of Francois Blondel's fascinating and unique work on bombing in the French military in the late eighteenth century. The second edition of this work.A very scarce.In the original French.Illustrated with a vig...

Britain&Apos;S Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines During the War 1914-1919

General Sir H. E. Blumberg · 1927 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Devonport, Swiss & Co, 1927. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Colonel Herbert Blumberg's detailed history of the Royal Navy during the First World War, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.An in-depth look into the activities of the Royal Nav...

Imperial Defence a Book for Taxpayers

Stephen King-Hall · 1926 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition copy of Stephen King-Hall's political treatise on the Committee of Imperial Defence, and its cost to the British tax-payer. The Committee of Imperial Defence was an important ad hoc part of the Go...

Panegyricus Cum Notis Integris Arntzenio

Latinius Pacatus Drepanius · 1753 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

Amsterdam, Apud Viduam and Filium S Schouten , 1753. Disbound. A very scarce work of Pacatus Drepaius' Panegryricus, an extant speech, considered the best of its kind. With notes from a number of prominent scholars. Very scarce. With the signatures *-3*⁴ 4*² (-4*2) ...

History of the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers Formerly the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers Now Known As the Royal Scots Fusiliers

Lieut Col Percy Groves · 1895 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Edunburgh and London, W and A K Johnston , 1895. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated, limited edition work on the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers. A bright copy, in the original publisher's cloth binding. One of a print run of 530 copies. With eight vibrant chromol...

The West Riding Territorials in the Great War

Laurie Magnus · 1920 · Rooke Books

£96.00 (€115.07 | $126.83 | ¥20,253)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. 1920. Cloth. A history of West Riding's Territorials during the first world war. With a foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Haig, this comprehensive and illustrated work explores the history and battles of the territorial armies of W...

The British Expedition to the Crimea a Revised Edition

W H Russell · 1858 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

London, G Routledge and Co. Farringdon Street, 1858. First edition. Leather. The first edition thus of this important source regarding the Crimean War. Rebound, in a lovely red calf binding, this title is formed of the collected letters to the Times by its noted correspondent,...

The Barrington Papers Selected from Letters and Papers of Admiral the Hon. Samuel Barrington

Samuel Barrington; D. Bonner-Smith (ed.) · 1937 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1937-41 . First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume set of this first edition copy of 'The Barrington Papers'; consisting of the letters, papers, and correspondence of Samuel Barrington. These works are volumes LXXVII a...

On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

T. C. Bridges · 1915 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Collins Clear Type Press, [1915]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce and very smart first edition copy of this charming work of fiction set during the First World War; following the hero Ken Carrington on his adventures in and around the Dardanelles. This copy is undated, ...

English Seamen Under the Tudors

H. R. Fox Bourne · 1868 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Richard Bentley, 1868. Cloth. An attractive and complete copy of Henry Fox Bourne's work on the sea life under the Tudors, illustrated with five coloured maps. Complete in two volumes. The first volume in this set looks at the exploration and trade by sea during t...

Brassey&Apos;S Annual the Armed Forces Year-Book 1954

Rear-Admiral H. G. Thursfield · 1954 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, William Clowes & Son Limited, 1954. Cloth. An illustrated copy of H. G. Thursfield's navy yearbook 'Brassey's Annual&apos. This work is the 1954 edition of 'Brassey's Annual', now renamed 'The Naval Annual&apos. The annual brings toge...

The Australian Army Medical Service in the War of 1914-1918

A. G. Butler; R. M. Downes; F.A. Maguire; R. W. Cilento · 1930 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)

Melbourne, Australian War Memorial, 1930-1943. First edition. Cloth. A complete three volume first edition set of this important and highly detailed medical work, complete with many maps, plates and diagrams. The first edition. Very unusual to find a complete set of this work ...

The Soldier&Apos;S Life, from Enlistment to His Return Home, Exhibiting the Trials and Hardships of Battle

0 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, W. S. Fortey, c1900. Paperback. A very scare copy of this interesting pamphlet looking at the life of solider, with two poems included telling of life in battle. A very scarce work. This work is a very charming and interesting look at the life of the soldier, offering ...

Industrial Reconstruction: A Symposium on the Situation After the War and How to Meet It

Various [ed. by Huntly Carter] · 1917 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, T. F. Unwin, 1917. Cloth. A scarce collection of opinions on how Britain should be rebuilt after the First World War, including those from George Bernard Shaw and Hillaire Belloc. Industrial Reconstruction: A Symposium on the Situation After the War and How to Meet It,...

Canada in Flanders

Major Charles G.D. Roberts [pref. Lord Beaverbrook] · 1918 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The third volume of a very scarce record of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, including their struggles at Regina Trench. The very scarce third volume of Canada in Flanders, The Official Story of th...

The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution

Sir Walter Scott · 1827 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1827. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Walter Scott's celebrated history on the iconic French general, complete in nine volumes. The first edition of The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: Emperor of the French. With A Pr...