Storia militare

The British Expedition to the Crimea

W. H. Russell · 1858 · Rooke Books

£700.00 (€839.05 | $924.80 | ¥147,632)

London, G. Routledge & Co, 1858. First edition. Leather. The first edition thus of this important source regarding the Crimean War, with illustrations and folding plates. The first edition of this largely expanded work under this title. In 1856 a work with mostly the same cont...

London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria

Winston Churchill · 1900 · Rooke Books

£700.00 (€839.05 | $924.80 | ¥147,632)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Winston Churchill's volume recounting his personal experiences during the Second Boer War, illustrated with folding maps. The first edition of this work.Half-title is present.Illustrated with...

A Fleet in Being

Rudyard Kipling · 1898 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Macmillan And Co. 1898. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A well-preserved first edition of this account of the Royal Navy at sea by Rudyard Kipling. Most renowned for 'The Jungle Book', 'Kim' and 'Just so Stories', Rudyard Kipling (1865-1...

The World Crisis

Winston Churchill · 1923 · Rooke Books

£4,500.00 (€5,393.90 | $5,945.16 | ¥949,063)

London, Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931. First edition. Cloth. A very important association copy of the first edition of Winston Churchill's noted account of the First World War from the library of World War I Gallipoli commander, Granville Egerton. All volumes are first ...

Organization How Armies Are Formed for War

Colonel Hubert Foster · 1913 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Hugh Rees, LTD. 1913. Cloth. A very scarce second edition of this detailed work on how armies are formed to go into war, written by the British Army officer Hubert Foster. The second edition of this work.A very scarce work.A detailed military work describing the proces...

Letters on Cavalry Letters on Infantry

Prince Kraft Zu Hohenlohe Ingelfingen; N. L. Walford · 1889 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.51 | $475.61 | ¥75,925)

Woolwich, Royal Artillery Institution, 1889. Cloth. An uncommon collection of letters written by the Prussian general Prince Kraft Zu Hohenlohe Ingelfingen, illustrated with three folding maps. An uncommon work. A collection of letters looking at the German military and infant...

A Narrative of the Loss of the H.M. S. Royal George, of 108 Guns, Sunk at Spithead, August 29th, 1782; with a Concise Account of the Colonel Pasley&Apos;S Operations on the Wreck in 1839 & 1840

1840 · Rooke Books

£585.00 (€701.21 | $772.87 | ¥123,378)

Portsmouth, John Miller, 1840. Leather. A very scarce copy of this interesting and concise history of the H.M.S. Royal George, bound with wood from the ship to the boards. A very scarce work. Bound with wooden boards, the wood taken from the H.M.S Royal George. A work accounti...

Rope Yarns from the Old Navy

Caspar F. Goodrich · 1931 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

New York, The Naval History Society, 1931. First edition. Hardback. A lovely first limited edition copy of this fascinating naval reminiscences by Rear-Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, published by the Naval History Society. The Naval History Society (the American equivalent of the...

Autobiography and Journals of Admiral Lord Clarence E. Paget, G.C. B.

Right Hon. Sir Arthur Otway (Ed) · 1869 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1869. Cloth. A very scarce copy of the life and journals of the navy of Admiral Lord Clarence, compiled and edited by Sir Arthur Otway. In the publisher's original cloth binding. An autobiographical work by the sailor and politician of the ninete...

The Escapes of Captain O&Apos;Brien, 1804-1808

Donat Henchy O'Brien [intro. by A.J. Evans] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, The Bodley Head, 1932. Cloth. A new edition of O'Brien's gripping account of how he escaped imprisonment during the Napoleonic Wars, with illustrations by Wyndham Payne. A new edition of The Escapes of Captain O'Brien, written by Rear-Admiral Donat Hench...

The Official Records of the Guards&Apos; Brigade in South Africa

1904 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,562)

London, J. J. Keliher & Co. Limited , 1904. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce historical record of the Guards' Brigade in the Second Boer War, with a folding sketch map and plates. Very scarce, "printed for confidential circulation among the officers of the Brigade of G...

Lives of the British Admirals Containing and Accurate Naval History from the Earliest Periods

Dr John Campbell · 1817 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

London, C J Barrington, 1817. Leather. Dr John Campbell's biographical work, 'Lives of the British Admirals&apos. With a frontispiece to each volume. Complete in eight volumes. With the bookplate of one John Foster to the front pastedown of all volumes. The bookplate...

The Great War in Twenty-Six Parts

Winston Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.86 | ¥158,177)

London , George Newnes Limited , 1933. Paperback. An uncommon collection of these periodicals dealing with the scenes and various fronts associated with the first world war, in the original 26 fortnightly parts. Bound in their original pictorial wrappers. Fully illustrated wit...

The Bastille

Capt. the Hon. D. Bingham · 1888 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1888. Leather. A superb documentary concerning the siege of the Bastille. First Edition Making reference to much primary source material and replete with index, this excellent history will be of great interest to the student of Revolutionary history. ...

Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, Containing the Names of the Officers in the Royal and Parliamentary Armies of 1642.

Edward Peacock · 1874 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1874. Leather. A scarce copy of these army lists. The Second Edition; revised, corrected, and enlarged. With letter illustrations throughout, and a preface by the editor. In a quarter morocco binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, sound with ...

Letters to, "the Times" Upon War and Neutrality (1881-1909) with Some Commentary

Thomas Erskine Holland · 1909 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London , Longmans, Green and Co, 1909. Cloth. A collection of letters on the concept of conflict versus neutrality from Thomas Erskine Holland. Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (17 July 1835 – 24 May 1926) was a British jurist. Inscribed to the front endpaper, 'To E. A. Whitta...

Les Drapeaux de la Garde Nationale de Paris En 1789

Henry Lachouque · 1989 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

Paris, J F Raquin et Image Nouvelle, 1989. Cloth. An uncommon reprint of this work on French military dress. Printed in French. One of a limited 3000 copy run. The 1989 reprint of the 1947 edition. Collated: Lacking plate V in the second part, with a duplicate of plate VI inst...

The Navy List, Corrected to the 20th March, 1840 & 20th March, 1843

Admiralty · 1840 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, John Murray, 1840-1843. First edition. Cloth. Two very scarce monthly issues of The Navy List, a comprehensive naval directory listing officers, ships, ports and stations. Two very scarce issues of The Navy List.Includes lists corrected to the 20th March, 1840 and corr...

Poems

James Blyth; Eva Dobell [foreword]; William Curran Reedy [appreciation] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London, The Favil Press, 1944. First edition. Paperback. An uncommon paperbound volume of poetry published in memoriam of James Blyth. An uncommon volume of poetry published in memoriam of James Blyth, the British writer and soldier who was tragically killed in battle at 17 ye...

The Bugler Boy and Other Rhymes

T. L. Morrison · 1915 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

Aberdeen, Aberdeen Daily Journal" Office, 1915. Paperback. An incredibly scarce volume of wartime poetry whose initial profit went to sending chocolate to soldiers while away. An incredibly scarce volume of wartime poetry by T. L. Morrison. In original illustrated paper cover...