Storia moderna

The Rape of Tutankhamun

John Romer; Elizabeth Romer · 1993 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Michael O'Mara Books Limited, 1993. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated work on the discovery and exploitation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-four colour plates and many in-text figures. Coll...

Knights in Armour

Edward S. Woods; Sir William Robertson · 1924 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Robert Scott, 1924 . Leather. A scarce work by Edward Woods, intended to prepare soldiers for battle, signed by Sir William Robertson, an esteemed Field Marshal who wrote the introduction to the work. The fifth impression. First published in 1916. Bound by Riviere in q...

Literary Relics: Containing Original Letters from King Charles II, King James II, the Queen of Bohemia, Swift, Berkeley, Addison, Steele, Congreve, the Duke of Ormond, and Bishop Rundle

George-Monck Berkeley · 1789 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, C. Elliot; T. Kay; C. Elliot, 1789. First edition. Leather. A very scarce volume of biographical pieces and edited correspondence by eminent historical figures, the first edition of this work by George Monck Berkeley. The first edition of this very scarce work.The &apo...

The Chelsea Historical Pageant, 1908: Book of Words

G. A. Lee [ed.]; R. Blunt [ed.]; J. H. Quinn [ed.] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Chelsea, Printed for the Pageant Committee, 1908 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce accompaniment to the 1908 Chelsea Historical Pageant. The very scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-four plates, tw...

Nubian Rescue

Rex Keating · 1975 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Robert Hale and Company , 1975. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this historical work analysing the spectacular Nubian excavations between 1960-1969. The first edition.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This work explores the incredible fin...

Aspects of Antiquity: Discoveries and Controversies

M. I. Finley · 1968 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London , Chatto and Windus Ltd, 1968. Cloth. A bright copy of this modern discussion to historical questions, with topics such as the validity of the Trojan War and slavery within Graeco-Roman society. A later edition of this work. In the publisher's unclipped dust wrapp...

History of Greece from the Earliest Times to Its Final Subjection to Rome

1829 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1829. Cloth. A detailed history of Greece from the earliest times. A detailed and comprehensive history of Greece. With chapters from the Trojan War, through the Persian Conquest, the establishment of Athens, the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Ma...

His Majesties Propriety, and Dominion on the British Seas Asserted

[Robert Clavell] · 1665 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, T. Mabb for Andrew Kembe, 1665. First edition. Leather. A vanishingly scarce work about Anglo-Dutch relations, the first edition of this fascinating treatise, with a portrait frontispiece of Charles II. The first edition of this very scarce work.Illustrated with a port...

Pictures of the Past, for Little People

Uncle Harry · 1887 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Sunday School Union, 1887. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce work publisher to commemorate Victoria's Golden Jubilee, the first edition. The first edition of this very scarce work.A charming children's history work, including brief tales of the life of Q...

The Honour of Lennox

James MacFarlane · 1933 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Jarrolds Publishers, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A historical novel by historian and author James MacFarlane, with stories about the Lennox line and the lives of James the First-Fourth. The first edition. A vanishingly scarce work. In the publisher's original il...

English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria

G. M. Trevelyan · 1945 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1945. Leather. The third impression of this illustrated social history of England by G.M. Trevelyan, handsomely bound in half calf by Morrell. Third impression. With mapped endpapers and eleven plans or maps in-text. A fascinating work of the s...

The Elizabethan House and Garden

Kathy Still · 1987 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Not stated, Penguin Books, 1987. First edition. Paperback. A delightful easy-to-make cardboard model of a manor house, with a pull-out pamphlet describing the running of an Elizabethan household. First edition. A wonderfully illustrated book that contains all the pieces to ma...

Mereside Chronicle: With a Short Interlude of Lochs and Lochans

C. F. Tunnicliffe · 1948 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Country Life Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this highly illustrated work on Mereside from English painter Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plans, ...

L&Apos; Armement Et la Technique Des Feux Des Infanteries Modernes

Commandant V. Legros · 1899 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, Librairie Militaire De L. Daudoin , 1899. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce French work on military weaponry and fire techniques by Commander V. Legros. The first edition. Part of the 'Studies in Military Art and Technology' serie...

Tombs, Graves and Mummies

Paul G. Bahn [ed.] · 1998 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Phoenix Illustrated , 1998. Paperback. A richly illustrated history exploring the lives and deaths of ancient figures alongside the findings of their tombs, graves and bodies. A fascinating dive from continent to continent, exploring the mummified, fossilised and prese...

Egypt: From Prehistory to the Romans

Dietrich Wildung · 2001 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Koln, Taschen, 2001. Paperback. A vibrantly illustrated account of the architecture found throughout Egypt's history. A richly illustrated history of Egypt. With keen coverage of architecture, tombs and temples. The work discusses basic forms in Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom...

The Loss of El Dorado: A History

V. S. Naipaul · 1969 · Rooke Books

£89.00 (€106.70 | $117.60 | ¥18,782)

London, Andre Deutsch , 1969. First edition. Cloth. An immersive telling of the events of Venezuela and Trinidad, with reference to the legend of El Dorado. From Nobel Prize winner, V. S. Naipaul. The first edition. With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Trinidadian-born Br...

The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England

Edward Hyde, the Earl of Clarendon · 1759 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

Oxford, Clarendon Printing-House, 1759 . First edition. Leather. A smart example of the first edition of this account of the life of the Earl of Clarendon. The first edition of this work, complete in three volumes. The ordinary paper edition.A comprehensive autobiography of Ed...

The History of England

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1908-14. Leather. The Albany edition of Lord Macaulay's 'History of England', bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards. The Albany Edition. A new impression. Six volume, complete set of 'The History of England...

The History of England & Critical and Historical Essays

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1858 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. Cloth. A collection of historical and critical writings from British historian, poet, and Whig politician Thomas Babington Macaulay. Twelve volumes. With an inscription in presentation from the publishers to the front...