Storia moderna

The British Islands and Their Vegetation

A. G. Tansley · 1949 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Cambridge , At the University Press, 1949. Cloth. A very smart study of British vegetation, including a comprehensive look at the environment and history of the British Islands. A new edition issued in two volumes with corrections. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in ...

Flying Memories

Stanley Orton Bradshaw · 1934 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, John Hamilton, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fascinating aviation series of illustrations, with explanations of their contexts to each. First edition. With the publisher's original price-clipped dust wrapper. Undated, dated from copies he...

Refugees for Eternity: The Royal Mummies of Thebes Part Four: Identifying the Royal Mummies

Dylan Bickerstaffe · 2009 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Wiltshire, Canopus Press, 2009. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce historical work on the royal mummies in Thebes, written by Dylan Bickerstaffe. The first edition, first impression. A very scarce work. This work was written by Egyptologist and w...

Rome: A Fold-out History of the Ancient Civilization

Leigh Grant · 2005 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Suffolk, Top That! Publishing Plc, 2005. Paperback. A very smart fold-out replica of ancient civilization in Rome for children. With three scenes of six folding parts in full colour. Collated complete and in near fine working order with a small crease to a statue in the Forum ...

Egypt: Monuments of Civilization

Claudio Barocas · 1973 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this detailed archaeological work on Egypt from Italian Egyptologist Claudio Barocas. First UK edition. From the Monuments of Civilization Series. Illustrated throughout with colour pho...

Cartagine: La Capitale Fenicia Del Mediterraneo

B. Fourure · 1993 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Milan, Jaca Book, 1993. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce copy of the first Italian edition of this historical pop-up book exploring Carthage, an important ancient Mediterranean city. In the original Italian. Italian. First Italian edition. Very scarce work. Illustrated w...

The Love of an Uncrowned Queen, a Queen of Tears, Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV

W. H. Wilkins · 1900 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.54 | $1,651.70 | ¥263,787)

London, Hutchinson & Co; Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900-05. First edition. Leather. A striking Hatchards bound set of three illustrated biographies on Hanoverian women by W. H. Wilkins, the first edition of each biography. The first edition of these works.Bound by Hatchards.In ...

The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India

Stephanie W. Jamison · 1991 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this insightful study into myth and ritual in Ancient India. First edition. A detailed and comprehensive study into ancient myths and rituals from India with a wealth of mate...

El Toreo: Gran Diccionario Tauromaquico

J. Sanchez de Neira · 1879 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.67 | $376.59 | ¥60,143)

Madrid, Imprenta Y Libreria de Miguel Guijarro, 1879. Cloth. A smart complete two volume set of this dictionary of bullfighting terms, in the original Spanish. Spanish. Complete in two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with twenty-five portrait plates. Volume two is illustrat...

Ancient and Modern

[John Francis Erskine Goodeve] · 1875 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Not stated, Printed For Private Circulation, 1875. First edition. Cloth. A scarce and interesting genealogical account of the Earldom of Mar. The first edition. A scarce work, printed for private circulation. With a folding plate to the rear, depicting the author's fami...

Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait

Anton Reiser [Rudolf Kayser]; Albert Einstein · 1931 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Thornton Butterworth Limited , 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition, later state binding of Anton Reiser's biography on the celebrated theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein, with a foreword by the incredible scientist himself. The very scarce first UK...

Here to Stay

John Hersey · 1963 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A superior first edition copy of this collection of moving essays by John Hersey, signed by the author. The first U. S. edition, first printing.Singed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, 'For Fred and Ma...

How It Must Work: In an Address to the Freeholders and Electors of the United Empire

Henry Francis Roper-Curzon, 14th Baron Teynham · 1832 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, James Ridgway, 1832 . Unbound. A signed copy of the second edition of Henry Francis Roper-Curzon, 14th Baron Teynham's appeal for various reforms. A scarce work, inscribed by the author to the head of the title page with 'with the author's best complimen...

Welensky&Apos;S 4000 Days: The Life and Death of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Sir Roy Welensky · 1964 · Rooke Books

£168.00 (€201.40 | $221.99 | ¥35,453)

London, Collins, 1964. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this illustrated autobiography by Sir Roy Welensky, bound in a Maltbys crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards. The first edition, first impression. Bound in a crushed half morocco with cloth to the boa...

The Polish Way a Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture

Adam Zamoyski · 1987 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, John Murray, 1987. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Dam Zamoyski's history of Poland, bound in a modern Maltbys crushed half morocco binding. The first edition, first impression. Bound in a modern crushed half morocco by Maltbys with their signature t...

The Greville Memoirs

Charles C. F. Greville; Henry Reeve · 1874 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,918.13 | $2,114.18 | ¥337,647)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1874-1887. First edition. Leather. A Hatchards bound first edition of Greville's monumental series of journals, an in-depth study of the reigns of three monarchs. A complete first edition set.Present here are: volumes I, II, and III publis...

Cromwell: An Historical Novel

[Henry William Herbert] · 1838 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Harper & Brothers, 1838 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of Henry William Herbert's historical novel surrounding Oliver Cromwell, complete in two volumes. The first edition.Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. Complete in two volumes. Writt...

Outlines of Historic Ornament

Gilbert R. Redgrave [ed.] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1884 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first UK edition of this charmingly illustrated study of historical ornaments. The very scarce first UK edition of this work, translated from the original German of an unnamed earlier volume by Gilbert Ri...

In Sail and Steam: Behind the Scenes of the Merchant Service 1902-1927

Capt. Victor Leslie Making · 1937 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. 1937 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of this work presenting Captain Victor Leslie Making's time working and living at sea between 1902 to 1927. First edition of the work. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Writte...

Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the Christian Aera.

Abbe Barthelemy · 1816 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, W. Green, 1816-1817 . Leather. The first four volumes only of the seven volume seventh edition of this work. With all four volumes bound in one. The first four volumes only of the seven volume seventh edition of this work. An additional atlas volume was also published ...