Storia moderna

Salt and Other Condiments.

J. J. Manley · 1884 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, William Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1884. Paperback. This very scarce handbook produced for the 1884 International Health Exhibition examining the history of salt, its production and manufacture in Great Britain. full bound in the original publisher's paper wraps. The...

The Royal Manor of Richmond: With Petersham, Ham and Kew

Mrs Arthur G. Bell · 1907 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated work by Mrs Arthur G. Bell on Richmond Palace, with colour illustrations by her husband. The first edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and nine colour plate...

Assembly Rooms Bath: A Souvenir Booklet to Commemorate the Reopening by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent October 19th, 1938

1938 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London and Bath , The Mendip Press Ltd , 1938. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce souvenir booklet for the Bath Assembly Rooms, complete with charming tipped-in plates. The first edition of this very scarce booklet. Disbound. With the original illustrated covers present, ...

The Practical Measurer; or, Tradesman and Wood Merchant&Apos;S Assistant: Containing a Variety of Tables, Showing the Superficial and Solid Content of Round, Square, and Unequal Sided Timber or Stone; Designed for the Use of Artificers, Wrights, Carpenters, Sawyers, Plasterers, Glaziers, Builders, Masons, Bricklayers, Wood Merchants, Painters, Ditchers, Causeway-Layers, Etc.

Alexander Peddie · 1833 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Glasgow , Blackie and Son, 1833. Leather. An impressive practical measuring guide, intended for tradesmen and wood merchants, from Scottish physician Alexander Peddie. This work of metrology comprises a series of tables, showing the contents of round, square and unequal sided ...

The Three Cs: The City Surveyor of Works, the CIVIC Arms, by a Citizen

1888 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Bath , Chronicle" Office , 1888. Paperback. A very scarce booklet that lays out the legal rights to the armorial bearings of Bath and their alterations. A vanishingly scarce pamphlet. In the original wraps. Offering an intriguing discussion of the Civic Arms of Bath and the ...

The Illustrated London News & the Field Silver Jubilee

Various · 1977 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, The Illustrated London News & Sketch; The Harmsworth Press Limited , 1977. Magazine. Two smart Silver Jubilee editions from these popular London publications, with images throughout. Two volumes. A collection of issues marking the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of E...

Pascal Et Son Temps

Fortunat Strowski · 1908 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, Librairie Plon, 1908-1910. Leather. A smartly bound three volume set of this history of French mathematician Blaise Pascal, in the original French. French. Complete in three volumes. From the "History of Religious Feeling in France in the Seventeenth Century" series. Vo...

The Story of Bath

Alfred Trice Martin · 1911 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of Bath, England. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece and numerous in-text and full-page images. A detailed history of the cit...

Leading Events in the History of the Port of Bristol

W. N. Reid; W. E. Hicks · 1877 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.34 | $68.71 | ¥10,974)

Bristol, W. C. Hemmons, 1877. Cloth. A first edition work focusing on the Port of Bristol and its history, an interesting work illustrated with a folding plate. First edition. Illustrated with one folding plate. Collated complete. A collection of articles which had previously ...

Record of the Great Floods in Bath

Bath Herald · 1894 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Bath, William Lewis and Son, The Bath Herald Office, 1894. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce pamphlet, reproduced from the Bath Herald, containing a detailed account of the Great Flood of Bath in 1894. The twenty-eighth thousand of this scarce work in the publisher's original p...

The History of Cottingham

Rev. Charles Overton · 1861 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Hull, J. W. Leng, 1861. First edition. Paperback. A first edition copy of this very scarce history of Cottingham, near Hull, by Charles Overton. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Lacking the rear of the wrap. Previous owne...

The Bath Stage: A History of Dramatic Representations in Bath

Belville S. Penley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, William Lewis & Son, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this informative guide to the history of Bath and the stage, from the time of Shakespeare onwards. The first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and with further illustrations throughout.The au...

Origins, Orient and Oriana

Charles F. Morris · 1980 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Brighton, Teredo Books Ltd, 1980. First edition. Cloth. This first edition, first impression of an abundantly illustrated examination of the history and design faults of two important liners, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the ...

History of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital Bath

Randle Wilbraham Falconer; Anthony Beaufort Brabazon · 1888 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Bath , Royal Mineral Water Hospital, 1888. Cloth. A scarce historical account of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital situated in Bath, Somerset. The third issue. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a monochrome frontispiece illustration. A fascinating series o...

The Beauties of History; or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice: Drawn from Examples of Men Eminent for Their Virtues, or Infamous for Their Vices Selected for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth

William Dodd · 1810 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , Vernor, Hood and Sharpe et al , 1810. Leather. A smartly bound copy of these classical historical accounts, categorised into specific themes and lessons. The sixth edition, enlarged and with the addition of an article on the subject of Pride. Rebacked with the origin...

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume IV - the Great Democracies

Winston Churchill · 1958 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1958 . Cloth. The fourth volume from Winston Churchill's 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples', a fine copy, housed in a quarter morocco slip case. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with a su...

The Complete Works of William Hickling Prescott

William Hickling Prescott; John Foster Kirk · 1896 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

London, George Routledge and Sons, [1896]. Leather. A beautiful and exceptionally bright leather set of these collected major works of William Hickling Prescott. Complete in twelve volumes. A set of the major works of William H. Prescott, including his most important historie...

A View of Universal History, Literature, and the Several Schools of Painting

Major James Bell · 1842 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, T. C. Hansard; Robert Baldwin, 1842. Leather. An impressive and unique reference work, presenting world history through a series of coloured tables. An impressive reference work, presenting detailed information on universal history, literature,and different schools of ...

Q. Curtii Rufi Historiarum Libri

Quintus Curtius Rufus · 1656 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

Batavorum, Elzeviriana, 1656. Leather. Quintus Curtius Rufus' brilliant biography on Alexander the Great, illustrated. Illustrated with an engraved title, one folding map, one portrait, and one engraving. In the original Latin.Quintus Curtius Rufus' biography on the...

Home Words for Heart and Hearth, 1887; Newent Parish Magazine

Rev. Charles Bullock · 1887 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Home Words" Publishing Office, 1887. Cloth. A beautiful copy of the 1887 Home Words, interspersed with the Newent Parish Magazine for 1887. A 1887 edition of this work in a decorative cloth binding, with gilt detailing to the front board and spine. Previous owner'...