Storia militare

Naval Demobilisation

1918 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Ministry of Reconstruction, 1918. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of this interesting post-First World War pamphlet concerning the issue of naval demobilisation in Britain. A very scarce work.The first edition of this work.An interesting work disc...

The Times History of the War

The Times · 1915 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,181)

London, The Times, 1915-1918. Fine Binding. A finely bound, set of four volumes from The Times' popular periodical regarding the First World War. With a folding map frontispiece to volume II. With black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Comprising volumes II, ...

The Armies of to-Day

Various · 1893 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this detailed work on the army, written by a variety of army officers. Illustrated throughout with many plates. The first edition of this work. A detailed work on the armies of the world in...

The Military Costume of Europe Exhibited in a Series of Highly Finished Military Figures

None · 1812 · Rooke Books

£3,200.00 (€3,835.67 | $4,227.67 | ¥674,889)

London, T Goddard, 1812. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce illustrated collection of European Military Costumes. Two volumes, bound as one. A beautifully illustrated work, providing many examples of military costume in Europe. A very scarce work, with only three ...

Views in Affghaunistaun &C. &C. &C. From Sketches Taken During the Campaign of the Army of the Indus

Keith Alexander Jackson · 1841 · Rooke Books

£9,900.00 (€11,866.59 | $13,079.34 | ¥2,087,939)

London, M. A. Nattali, [1841]. Leather. An excellent and exceptionally scarce first edition imprint of this profusely illustrated work regarding the first Afghan War, presented in the original silk moire boards and complete with highly informative tinted lithograph illustratio...

Le Duc de Wellington

L Galesloot · 1884 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,707)

Gand, Vanderhaeghen, 1884. Cloth. A French language memoir of the Duke of Wellington and his time in Brussels. This copy has a fascinating association, and was bound by the German prisoners in Douglas during the First World War. With the library plate of Cefntilla Court to the...

Le Duc de Wellington Essai Sur L&Apos;Histoire Et Sur la Biographie Du Duc de Wellington

Jules Maurel · 1853 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.07 | $911.59 | ¥145,523)

Bruxelles, Meline, 1853. First edition. Cloth. An historical and biographical work regarding the Duke of Wellington and the Napoleonic Wars. With fascinating ownership, having belonged to a member of Wellington's own staff. Rebound, in a smart cloth binding. The original ...

Histoire de la Campagne de 1815 Waterloo

Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Charras · 1858 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

Londres, Jeffs, 1858. First edition. Leather. The first London printing of this account of Waterloo by noted French military historian and War Minister, Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Charras. From the library of Cefntilla Court which belonged to Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan. Fol...

De la Manoeuvre Des Vaisseaux, Ou Traite de Mechanique Et de Dynamique; Dans Lequel on Reduit a Des Solutions Tres-Simples Les Problemes de Marine Les Plus Difficiles, Qui Ont Pour Objet le Mouvement Du Navire

Pierre Bouguer · 1757 · Rooke Books

£2,100.00 (€2,517.16 | $2,774.41 | ¥442,896)

Paris, H. L. Guerin, 1757. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of Pierre Bouguer's work on naval problems and mechanics, written in French, illustrated with multiple folding plates. The first edition of this work. A scarce work. In the original French. 'De...

The History of the Dress of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1625-1897.

Captain R. J. MacDonald · 1899 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Henry Sotheran & Co. 1899. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated work of military history, compiled and illustrated by Captain R. J. MacDonald Strictly limited to a printing of 1500 copies, with this particular volume appers to be one of the 300 volumes published for genera...

Notes Relative to the Late Transactions in the Marhatta Empire

Richard, Marquis of Wellesley · 1804 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.19 | $792.69 | ¥126,542)

London, John Stockdale, 1804. Leather. The first London edition of Richard Wellesley's first hand notes of the Marhatta war, in which he fought and led Britain to victory. Richard Wellesley fought in the Marhatta War in 1803, and led the British to victory against the Mar...

The Life of Gordon Major-General, Turkish Field Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh and Pasha, Chinese Titu, Yellow Jacket Order

Demetrius C Boulger · 0 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, T Fisher Unwin, c1896. Leather. A biography on Charles George Gordon, also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha and Gordon of Khartoum. The fourth edition. Illustrated, with a portrait frontispiece of Gordon and two further plates. Collated, complete. This biography i...

Iceland

[ed. by Brian Birley Roberts] · 1942 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

Cambridge, Naval Intelligence Division, 1942. Cloth. A scarce and fascinating handbook offering strategic intelligence on the Nordic country, an excellent resource on Allied perceptions of the Arctic during the Second World War. Iceland, a scarce handbook on the strategic inte...

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill · 1949 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

London, Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1949-1954. Cloth. A complete six volume set of Churchill's illustrated account the Second World War, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Complete in six volumes. Mixed editions, with four first edition copies.  In the publisher's orig...

Glossary of Navigation

Rev. J. B. Harbord; C. W. T. Layton · 1948 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,017)

Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd. 1948 . Leather. A very smart, full-calf, prize-bound edition of this nautical navigation glossary from John Bradley Harbord, 1882-1888 Chaplain of the Fleet. Fourth edition.Beautifully bound in full navy calf. Prize binding of the Incorpora...

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939 - 1945 Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

Max Hastings · 2011 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, Harper Press, 2011-2013. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition Max Hastings works in the publisher's original cloth, signed by the author to the title pages with black and white photographic illustrations throughout.  In the publisher's original cloth. Wit...

Reminiscences of My Military Life: From 1795-1818

Lieut.-Col. Chas. Steevens, [ed. by Lieut.-Col. Nathaniel Steevens] · 1878 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Winchester, Warren and Son, 1878. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of insightful memories from a British officer serving in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of Roncesvalles, and insights into Napoleonic combat decision-making. Reminiscences of My Military Life:...

The Beginning of the Road; the End of the Third Reich.

Vasili I. Chuikov; Harold Silver; Ruth Kisch · 1963 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1963-1967. First edition. Cloth. First English translations of these historical volumes on the Battle of Stalingrad and the final days of the Second World War from the perspective of significant Soviet Marshal Vasili Chuikov. First English translations...

Augerii Gislenii Busbequii Omina Quae Extant

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq · 1740 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Basel, Jo. Brandmulleri, 1740. Leather. A fascinating, combined edition of epistles by Flemish diplomat, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. A new, octavo edition of epistles by sixteenth-century Flemish diplomat, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. Bound in calf, with gilt tooled detailing to...

(1972) August 1914; (1999) November 1916

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Michael Glenny; H. T. Willetts · 1972 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London; Sydney; Toronto, The Bodley Head; Jonathan Cape, 1972 . First edition. Cloth. Fascinating first two volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel cycle, both works being the first English editions and the first volume containing a lovely folding map. Lovely co...