Storia militare

Regimental History the Roya; Hampshire Regiment Volume Three 1918-1954

David Scott Daniell · 1955 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,443)

Aldershot, Gale & Polden Limited, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this historical account of the British military, with a frontispiece, 3 plates and an abundance of maps, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work.In publisher&ap...

Ghenko: The Mongol Invasion of Japan

Nakaba Yamada · 1916 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1916. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first UK edition of this important history of the Mongol invasion of Japan, with plates and maps. First UK edition. Very scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen plates, and five maps, three of ...

Market Harborough and Inside the Bar

G. J. Whyte-Melville · 1900 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. [1900]. Leather. The new edition of G. J. Whyte-Melville's two most popular stories, Market Harborough and Inside the Bar, in half blue morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. The new edition of G. J. Whyte-Melville's Market Harborough and...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

T. E. Lawrence · 1935 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,342)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the first trade edition of T. E. Lawrence's account of his experiences during the First World War, illustrated throughout, and in the original dust wrapper. The first trade edition, first impressio...

A Hand-Book of the Orders of Chivalry

Charles Norton Elvin · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Dean & Son, 1892. First edition. Cloth. The vibrant first edition of Charles Norton Elvin's detailed guide to the orders of chivalry, illustrated throughout with vibrant chromolithographs. The first edition of this work.With a chromolithographic title page, and th...

1809 la Marche Sur Vienne

L'Colonel Edmond Ferry · 1909 · Rooke Books

£249.00 (€298.46 | $328.97 | ¥52,515)

Paris, Librairie Militaire R. Chapelot , 1909. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce account of the Battle of Aspern-Essling in Vienna, bound in crushed half morocco with the original covers bound in, and adorned with a folding map. The first edition.A ...

The Campaign of 1815 Ligny: Quatre-Bras: Waterloo

William O'Connor Morris · 1900 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Grant Richards, 1900. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed military history of the efforts undertaken during the Waterloo Campaign. First edition. Illustrated with four maps, three of which are folding. A detailed historical account of The Water...

Die Befreiungskriege 1813-1815: Ein Strategischer Uberblick

V. Caemmerer · 1907 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Berlin, Ernst Seigfried Mittler und Sohn, 1907. Cloth. A smart copy of this detailed history of the Wars of Liberation, in the original German. German. Uncommon work. With a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive strategic study of the German ...

The Palestine Campaigns

Sir Archibald P. Wavell · 1941 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Constable & Company Limited, 1941. Cloth. Sir Archibald P. Wavell's military study on the campaigns in Palestine, complete with folding maps. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A military work on the Palestine campaigns and the lessons to be learnt, an officia...

Carnet de Campagne D&Apos;Un Officier Prussien (1813-1814)

Captain von Columb; Minart [Trans.] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1914. Cloth. A very scarce, smartly bound copy of this account from Captain von Colomb, a Prussian officer involved in partisan warfare during the Napoleonic Wars, with map illustrations. Handsomely bound in half cloth with marbled paper boards.This vol...

Wellington: His Comrades and Contemporaries

Major Arthur Griffiths · 1897 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, George Allen, 1897 . First edition. Cloth. A richly illustrated tribute to Wellington by Crimean War veteran and historian Major A. G. F. Griffiths, offering a compelling portrait of the Duke and his contemporaries, with 31 plates, a map of Belgium, and fold-out facsim...

A Narrative of the Political and Military Events of 1815

James M'Queen [James MacQueen] · 1816 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Glasgow, Printed for the Author, by E. Khull & Co; John Smith and Son, 1816 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with two folding maps, this is the scarce first edition of James MacQueen's detailed account of the political developments and military actions of 1815 The ve...

With the Guards We Shall Go: A Guardsman&Apos;S Letters in the Crimea 1854-1855

Mabell, Countess of Airlie · 1933 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated record of the author's great-uncle, John Jocelyn, 5th Earl of Roden, through the Crimean War. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eighteen black-and-w...

History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore with an Enquiry Into Its Origin and Treatment: And Suggestions for the Prevention of Future Discontent in the Royal Navy

1842 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Thomas Tegg, 1842. Cloth. A smart copy of this fictional account of the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore, from William Johnson Neale. A fictionalised account of two important mutinies for the British Royal Navy. The Spithead and Nore mutinies were major mutinies by sa...

The Great War

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

London, George Newnes, Limited, 1933. Paperback. A collection of periodicals dealing with the scenes and various fronts associated with the First World War, in the original twenty-six fortnightly parts. Complete in twenty-six volumes of fortnightly parts. Illustrated with phot...

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

Winston Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. Cloth. Winston Churchill's interesting historical work on the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Soudan, from the collection of Steve Forbes. The first cheap edition.From the collection of Steve Forbes, with loose bookplates inserted into ...

Memoires de General Bon de Marbot

General Bon De Marbot · 1803 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, c1890. Leather. The thirty-second edition of the detailed memoirs of Marcellin Marbot, in the original French language. French. Complete in three volumes. Thirty-second edition. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. The memoirs of Jean-Ba...

The Officers and Nurses of Evacuation Eight: With a Complete Roster of All Those Who Served with the Unit

Arthur M. Shipley; Agnes T. Considine · 1929 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce supplement volume to Frederick A. Pottle's history of WWI's Evacuation Hospital No. 8, offering personal accounts. The first edition of this very scarce work.With the original unclipped dus...

That Damn Y": A Record of Overseas Service

Katherine Mayo · 1920 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A first edition presentation copy of Katherine Mayo's biographical work on the life of Edward Clark Carter and the role of the Y.M.C.A during WWI, inscribed by the author. The first edition. A pre...

Command a King&Apos;S Ship

Alexander Kent [Douglas Reeman] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Hutchinson, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this novel from Douglas Reeman's popular 'Bolitho' naval war series. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'Comm...