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Merchant Adventurers 1914-1918

F. A. Hook · 1920 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, A. & C. Black, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this work exploring the input of merchant adventurers during the First World War, by F. A. Hook. First edition. Uncommon work.Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth. This informative w...

The History of the Duke of Cornwall&Apos;S Light Infantry 1914-1919

Everard Wyrall · 1932 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Methuen & Co. LTD, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical work on the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry between 1914 and 1919, with illustrations and folding maps. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the ...

Loyalties Mesopotamia 1914-1917

Arnold T. Wilson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Oxford; London, Oxford University Press Humphrey Milfrod, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Arnold Wilson's insightful first-hand account of action in Mesopotamia during the First World War. The first edition of this work.Arnold Wilson's account of his...

Arabian Society at the Time of Muhammad. Parts I and II.

Pringle Kennedy · 1926 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Calcutta and Simla, Thacker, Spink & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Pringle Kennedy's history of Arabian society. The very scarce first edition of British author and barrister Pringle Kennedy's discussion of Arabia in the days of Mu...

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope · 1803 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, J. Nichols and Son, 1803 . Leather. The twelfth edition of the letters between an eighteenth century Earl and his illegitimate son, providing fascinating insight into the personal lives of the British aristocracy at the time, and their social attitudes. The complete fo...

River Gardens; Being an Account of the Best Methods of Cultivating Fresh-Water Plants in Aquaria, in Such a Manner As to Afford Suitable Abodes to Ornamental Fish, and Many Interesting Kinds of Aquatic Animals.

H. Noel Humphreys · 1857 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.60 | $455.87 | ¥72,805)

London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co. 1857. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work on river gardens by H. Noel Humphreys, with beautiful colour plates. The first edition of this scarce work. In the publisher's original gilt cloth, re-backed. Illustrated w...

The China Clippers

Basil Lubbock · 1914 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Glasgow, James Brown & Son, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated historical work on shipping. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-one images across sixteen plates, and ten plans. Collated complete. A detailed historical comme...

Here Are the Beatles & Love Me Do: The Beatles&Apos; Progress

Charles Hamblett; Michael Braun · 1964 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Four Square Books; Penguin, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Two smart first edition volumes of these illustrated works on influential rock band, The Beatles. Two volumes. First edition. This set includes: Here Are The Beatles, 1964. A detailed history of English rock b...

Our Own Country: Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial.

1879 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.43 | $647.47 | ¥103,404)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1879-1883 . First edition. Leather. A complete set of this illustrated historical study on different areas of Great Britain, published by Cassell & Company. Uniformly bound in half calf with cloth boards. Complete in six volumes. Dated using...

The Antient Chronicles of Sir John Froissart

Sir John Froissart; John Bourchier · 1814 · Rooke Books

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

London, J. Davis, 1814-16. Leather. John Bourchier's translation of Froissart's brilliant history of the first part of the Hundred Years War. Complete in four volumes.'Chronicles of England' are a collection of stories about the Hundred Years' War, sta...

An Abridgement of Dr. Goldsmith&Apos;S History of England

Oliver Goldsmith · 1823 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, T. and J. Allman; A. B. Dulau and Co et al, 1823 . Leather. An early nineteenth century 'stereotyped' abridgement of Oliver Goldsmith's 'History of England&apos. Illustrated with a frontispiece.Goldsmith's history was first published in four vo...

The Illustrated London News Volume 220- the Royal Tour of Australia New Zealand, Kenya and Ceylon. Volume 162 - Wedding Number. Volume 187- Royal Naval & Military Review Number.

Various · 1923 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, The Illustrated London News, 1923-52. Paperback. Three volumes of 'The Illustrated London News', including a special wedding number, with important historical information about the events during the years 1923, 1935 and 1952, and illustrations and photographs...

Hindustani Grammar for Lower and Higher Standards with Three Appendices on Military Subjects for Colloquial Examinations

Munshi Kashi Nath · 1918 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Amballa [Ambala], S. M. Yaseen , 1918. Cloth. An informative, very scarce study of Hindustani gramma for examinations, written by Munshi Kashi Nath. The third edition. Very scarce. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper to the boards. This language study ...

Biographical Memoirs and Reminiscences

Sir John Kotze · 1934 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Cape Town, Maskew Miller, Limited, [1934]. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Sir John Kotze's important historical autobiography, with detailed photographic illustrations. A first edition copy, volume one, of this important historical biography by Sir John Kotze. V...

Heroes of the Indian Empire or, Stories of Valour and Victory

Ernest Foster · 1886 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. Cloth. A scarce copy of this illustrated collection of stories of great men from the Indian Empire. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates. Collated complete. A collection of stories and sketches on great men fro...

My Friend Toto: The Adventures of a Chimpanzee and the Story of His Journey from the Congo to London

Cherry Kearton; Sir Gilbert Parker · 1925 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Arrowsmith, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart first of this illustrated story of a chimpanzee who travelled from the Congo to London. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-two photographs across sixteen plates. Collated complete. The story of Toto the chimpanzee, wh...

Laneham&Apos;S Letter Describing the Magnificent Pageants Presented Before Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle in 1575

Rober Laneham [Langham] · 1821 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, J. H. Burn, 1821. Hardback. An 1821 printing of a 1575 letter describing Robert Dudley's means of entertaining Queen Elizabeth I at Kenilworth Castle. Illustrated with a frontispiece.The letter was written in August 1575, and reissued in Warwick in 1784. This 1821...

Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae: Monumenta Quotquot Supersunt, Pars Tertia

Wilhelm Gesenius · 1837 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

Lipsiae, Sumptibus Typisque Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii [Vogel], 1837 . First edition. Cloth. Part III only of Wilhelm Gesenius's study of the language and monuments of the Phoenicians, being the plate volume only. In the original Latin.Part III only of this three part work. T...

The War Illustrated Album de Luxe: The Story of the Great European War Told by Camera, Pen and Pencil

J. A. Hammerton [editor] · 1915 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, The Amalgamated Press, Limited, 1915-1916. Cloth. A smart five volume set of this illustrated account of The Great War, with maps. Five volumes of a ten volume set. Edited by Sir John Alexander Hammerton, a British writer described by the Dictionary of National Biograp...

Fifty Years Ago

Walter Besant · 1888 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1888. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this historical study of Britain in 1837 by the novelist and historian Sir Walter Besant. A first edition copy of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Top edge gilt.Bookplate of A...