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The Bulletin: Military Historical Society Volumes I-XX

Various · 1973 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Military Historical Society, 1973-1985. Cloth. Four smartly bound facsimile editions of The Bulletin for the Military Historical Society. Complete in four volumes. Containing volumes I to XX of The Bulletin. Facsimile editions. Illustrated throughout with numerous in-t...

The Koochpurwanaypore Swadeshi Raylway

Jo Hookm [William Henry Deakin] · 0 · Rooke Books

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

Calcutta and Simla; Bombay, Thacker, Spink & Co; Thacker & Co Ltd, c1921. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and humorous collection of cartoons about a fictional Indian railway system, with fantastic cartoons by William Henry Deakin. The first edition in book form, first pub...

Roman Yorkshire

F. R. Pearson · 1936 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, A. Brown and Sons, Limited , 1936. First edition. Cloth. A superior first edition copy of this compelling history of Yorkshire during the Roman Empire, with the very scarce original dust wrapper. First edition. Complete with the publisher's very scarce unclipped ...

Roll of the Baronets As Authorized by Royal Warrant

1940 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Dorking, Adlard and Son, Limited - Bartholomew Press, 1940. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce official roll of the Baronets for the year 1940. Scarce for this year. An official list of all extant baronetcies, maintained by the Registrar of the Baronetage and published by the ...

Eighteenth Century Vignettes

Austin Dobson · 1892 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1892-1894. First edition. Leather. Beautifully bound extra-illustrated copies of the first edition of the first and second series of Austin Dobson's collection of literary essays, with volume I being signed by the author himself. Extra-illustrated...

The Victoria History of Wilshire (Vols XIII, XIV & XVI)

D. A. Crowley [ed.]; C. R. Elrington [ed.] · 1987 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

Oxford , Oxford University Press , 1987-1999. First edition. Cloth. A set of three lovely volumes for the Victoria History of Wiltshire, all complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This set includes three out of the eighteen total volumes issued for Wiltshire's...

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort

John Lothrop Motley · 1860 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John Murray, 1860. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition set of this informative history of the United Netherlands, with illustrations. Two volumes of four, lacking volumes three and four. First edition. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and...

Burke&Apos;S Handbook to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

A. Winton Thorpe · 1921 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, The Burke Publishing Co. Ltd. 1921. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated handbook to the Order of the British Empire and those appointed. First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four colour plates of insignia....

List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War MCMXIV-MCMXIX

1921 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Riccardi Press, Medici Society Limited, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A privately printed list of the Etonians who fought and lost their lives in the First World War. First and only edition. Privately printed. A list of the Etonians who fought in the Great War of 1914 to...

The East India Company&Apos;S Arsenals & Manufactories

Brigadier-General H. A. Young · 1937 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this study into the arsenals of the East India Company. First edition. Very scarce. A detailed history of the arsenals and manufactories of The East India Company, an English join...

Gilpin&Apos;S Forest Scenery

William Gilpin; Francis George Heath [editor] · 1879 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879. Cloth. A scarce copy of this illustrated work on English woodlands and forestry. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A commentary on English woodlands and forests, with cha...

The Relief of Chitral

Captain G. J. Younghusband; Captain Frank E. Younghusband · 1897 · Rooke Books

£129.00 (€154.65 | $170.46 | ¥27,223)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1897. Cloth. A work by the Younghusband brothers on the Siege of Chitral and the Chitral Expedition, complete with illustrations. An account of the Siege of Chitral, written by brothers Major General Sir George John Younghusband and Lieutenan...

The Hawley Collection of Violins: With a History of Their Makers and a Brief Review of the Evolution and Decline of the Art of Violin Making in Italy 1540-1800

Royal De Forest Hawley · 1904 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Chicago, Lyon & Healy, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. A limited edition, first edition catalogue of the Hawley violin collection, illustrated with tipped in colour plates of fine violins. Number 336 of 2,000 copies produced.Illustrated with thirty-six plates, the majority of whi...

Topical Architecture: Ecclesiology I

William Rotch Ware [ed.] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

New York, The American Architect, 1905 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce architectural study of ecclesiastical pulpits, fonts and organ cases, illustrated with eighty-four plates. A very scarce first edition.Edited by American architect Willi...

La Femme Au Dix-Huitieme Siecle

Edmond et Jules de Goncourt · 1923 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)

Paris , Ernest Flammarion, 1923. Leather. The definitive edition of this work by the Goncourt brothers discussing the lifestyles, fashion and philosophies of French women in the 18th century. The definitive edition, complete in two volumes.Uniformly bound in quarter morocco, w...

La Scala Nei Centocinquanti&Apos;Anni Della Sua Vita Artistica

Various · 1928 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Milan, La Scala e il Museo Teatrale, 1928. First edition. Paperback. An uncommon issue of the magazine of the Teatro alla Scala, exploring its history and performances. First edition. Volume VII (January-December 1928) of the official magazine of La Scala, a renowned opera hou...

Marlborough: His Life and Times

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1933. Cloth. A smart early edition of this illustrated biographical history from British statesman Sir Winston S. Churchill, volume one only. One volume of a four volume set, being volume one only. Early edition, printed the same month as th...

Imperial China 900-1800

F. W. Mote · 2000 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2000. Cloth. A smart copy of this detailed history of Imperial China from American historian Frederick Wade "Fritz" Mote. Early edition. With illustrations throughout. A nine hundred year history of China, spanning the late Imperial period,...

The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1861 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1861. First edition. Leather. The first UK edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's history of the first four Hanoverian monarchs. First UK edition. Preceded by the US publication, this is the first issue of the first UK edition, identified via...

A History of England from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Present Day

H. O. Arnold-Forster · 1913 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1913. Leather. A smartly bound fourth edition of this history of English from British politician and writer H. O. Arnold-Forster. Fourth edition, revised. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding plate, and almost two hundred and fifty i...