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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'...

The Diary of Ellen James of Sydenham

Ellen James · 1864 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

Sydenham, None, 1864 . Leather. The fascinating handwritten diary of one Ellen James, offering details into her voyage from London to India in the 1860s. A fascinating, handwritten volume.The front free endpaper identified this as being the diary of 'Ellen James, High Syd...

Pickle the Spy; the Companions of Pickle

Andrew Lang · 1897 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1897-1898 . First edition. Cloth. Two works of historical, biographical fiction from Andrew Lang. Following the life of Jacobite soldier and spy Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell. Two works from Andrew Lang, the Scottish writer, poet, and collector of ...

Lord Randolph Churchill

Winston Spencer Churchill · 1906 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, Macmillan and Co Limited, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Winston Churchill's two volume biography on his father, Randolph Churchill. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and nine monochrome plates. Collated, complete. A ...

Sammelband of Scarce Pamphlets on Glasgow and Its Parks, Museums and Exhibitions

John Garrick; Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen; Jas Paton; et al. · 1882 · Rooke Books

£875.00 (€1,048.98 | $1,156.19 | ¥184,651)

Glasgow, Robert Anderson; et al. 1882-8. First edition. Leather. A sammelband of vanishingly scarce pamphlets on Glasgow, featuring catalogues of art exhibitions, reports on museums, folding maps and more, all bound together in half straight grain morocco. The first edition to...

Scottish Exhibition of Natural History, Art and Industry: Palace of History Catalogue of Exhibits

1911 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Glasgow , Dalross Limited , 1911. Cloth. A smart presentation copy of this extensive catalogue for the 1911 Scottish Exhibition of Natural History, Art and Industry. A presentation copy of this work. First trade edition published as two volumes. A scarce work. In the publish...

The Royal Family in Wartime

Lord Southwood · 1945 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Odhams Press Limited , 1945. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated story of the activities of the Royal Family during World War II. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.An illustrated record of the ...

The Diary of Samuel Pepys Volumes II-VIII

Samuel Pepys; Henry B. Wheatley [ed.] · 1893 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, George Bell and Sons , 1893-1897. Cloth. Seven smart volumes containing Samuel Pepys' historically significant diary, edited with additions and illustrations. An attractively bound copy of this work, containing the historically significant diaries of Samuel Pepys....

Illustrated English Social History

G. M. Trevelyan · 1957 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Readers Union: Longmans, Green and Co. 1957-1958. Cloth. Four smart volumes of this illustrated social history of England from British historian George Macaulay Trevelyan, with the original glassine wraps. Complete in four volumes. With the original glassine wraps. A d...

Feet of Fines for Essex Volume V and VI

Marc Fitch; Frederick Emmison [editors] · 1991 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Oxford, Leopard's Head Press, 1991-1993. First edition. Cloth. Two smart volumes of records of the Feet of Fines for Essex, edited by Marc Fitch and Frederick George Emmison. Two volumes of a six volume set. Volumes V and VI only. First edition. Scarce works. Records of t...

Domesday Book: A Survey of the Counties of England

John Morris [editor] · 1975 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Chichester, Phillimore, 1975-1984. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of ten volumes from the Domesday Book series. Nine volumes bound in ten of a thirty-five volume set bound in forty. First edition. A series of volumes of the Domesday Book, a manuscript record of the G...

Oeuvres Choisies de Jean Calvin

Jean Calvin [John Calvin] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Geneve, A. Jullien, 1909 . Cloth. A very scarce French language edition of the works of French theologian John Calvin, the founder of the Christian theology of Calvinism. In the original French.A very scarce work, produced by the Compagnie des Pasteurs de Genève.Illustrated w...

Curiosities of Literature

I. D'Israeli · 1879 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, George Routledge and Sons , 1879. Cloth. A compilation of engaging insights and anecdotes related to the literary world, from British writer and scholar Isaac D'Israeli. A new edition of this work, presented in one volume. First published in five volumes in 1791-1...

The History of Scotland from Agricola&Apos;S Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection

John Hill Burton · 1745 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, c1897. Cloth. A smart new edition of this detailed historical study of Scotland from Scottish historian John Hill Burton. Complete in nine volumes, with the index volume. New edition. A detailed and comprehensive historical study...

The Letters of Queen Victoria, a Selection from Her Majesty&Apos;S Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861

Queen Victoria et al. ; Arthur Christopher Benson, Viscount Esher [editors] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, John Murray, 1908. Cloth. This illuminating selection of Queen Victoria's correspondence in three volumes with several monochrome plate illustrations, full bound in blind stamped red cloth. This smart three volume set in the publisher's original, blind stampe...

A General Introduction to Domesday Book

Henry Ellis · 1971 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Frederick Miller Ltd, 1971. Cloth. A two volume facsimile of Henry Ellis' introduction to the Domesday Book, in their original dust wrappers. A facsimile edition. First published in 1833. With a facsimile of the original title pages. A complete two volume set. ...

The Correspondence of Bishop Secker; Woodstock Chamberlains&Apos; Accounts 1609-50

A. P. Jenkins [ed.]; M. Maslen [ed.] · 1991 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Stroud , Alan Sutton Publishing; The Oxfordshire Record Society , 1991-1993. First edition. Paperback. A bright pair of scarce volumes from the Oxfordshire Record Society, containing two unique accounts of the county's history. Two first editions, both being scarce volume...

Liber Albus (the Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages)

Henry Thomas Riley [ed.] · 1859 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts , 1859. Cloth. An attractively bound copy of the 'Liber Albus', containing an extensive record of medieval London history. Volume one out of this three-volume work. The first edition thus of this compilation. From...

Sir George Mackenzie, King&Apos;S Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Life and Times, 1636(?)-1691

Andrew Lang · 1909 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1909. First edition. Cloth. Andrew Lang's biography of "Bluidy Mackenzie", the Scottish lawyer, Lord Advocate, essayist and legal writer. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with four ...

Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation, Written During the Reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Mary, Chiefly from the Archives of Zurich

Rev. Hastings Robinson · 1846 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1846-1847. First edition. Cloth. A two-part collection of letters from the fascinating English Reformation, rebound into one volume by Maltby. Two volumes in one, rebound in a cloth binding in Oxford, 8th May 1964, by Maltby, with the bin...