Storia moderna

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth and Nations. With a Life of the Author. Also, a View of the Doctrine of Smith Compared with That of the French Economists; with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works; from the French of M. Garnier.

Adam Smith · 1806 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

Edinburgh, William Creech, 1806. Leather. A smartly rebound three volume set of Adam Smith's influential and popular work on economics, 'The Wealth of Nations', a work which went on to shape economics theory. Rebound in a smart quarter crushed morocco binding wi...

Ruins Their Preservation and Display

M. W. Thompson · 1981 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, British Museum Publications Limited, 1981. Cloth. An interesting and detailed guide to the preservation and display of historical ruins. Great Britain boasts a wide and varied miscellany of historic ruins, and this work from M.W. Thompson offers readers an insight into...

A New Universal and Impartial History of England

George Frederick Raymond · 1790 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, J Cooke, c1790. First edition. Leather. A profusely illustrated look at the history of England, told chronologically through the reigns of each monarch and leader. The first and only edition of this work. Undated, dated using ESTC records. ESTC reference No T135893. Il...

Chronological Tables of Europe from the Nativity

Colonel Parsons · 1740 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London, B and B Barker, 1740. Leather. A very scarce pocket sized reference work, providing useful historical information regarding the Popes, Emperors and Monarchs from the Nativity to the year 1726. In a beautiful paneled calf binding. With the bookplate of one James Allgood...

Historiae Britannicae Saxonicae Anglo-Danicae Scriptores XV

Thomas Gale · 1691 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€929.10 | $1,024.06 | ¥163,548)

Oxford, E Theatro Shledoniano, 1691. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this volume of Thomas Gale's famed historical work regarding England. Containing monastic chronicles and early annals. In a contemporary half calf binding. With the bookplate of the Earl of ...

The West Riding Territorials in the Great War

Laurie Magnus · 1920 · Rooke Books

£96.00 (€115.09 | $126.85 | ¥20,259)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. 1920. Cloth. A history of West Riding's Territorials during the first world war. With a foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Haig, this comprehensive and illustrated work explores the history and battles of the territorial armies of W...

A Discourse for Taking Off the Tests and Penal Laws About Religion

1687 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)

London, Randal Taylor, 1687. First edition. Disbound. A very sarce first edition of a pamphlet written against the penal laws and test acts that were in place in England, persecuting those who did not belong to the Church of England. A very scarce work. The first edition of th...

Eyphka Eyphka [Eureka Eureka] the Virtuous Woman Found Her Loss Bewailed and Character Exemplified

Mary Rich; Anthony Walker · 1678 · Rooke Books

£2,250.00 (€2,697.37 | $2,973.06 | ¥474,817)

London, Nathanael Ranew, 1678. First edition. Leather. Here appears the first printings of The Countess of Warwick, Mary Rich's writings. These were previously unpublished and are here in the form of a very scarce dedicatory sermon, written in honour of March Rich. The ve...

Sussex Archaeological Collections

Various · 1848 · Rooke Books

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

London, The Sussex Archaeological Society; John Russell Smith, 1848-1892. First edition. Leather. Thirty nine handsome volumes from the Sussex Archaeological Society's monumental annual 'Collections'; rebound in a lovely half mottled cloth binding with attractiv...

The Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Founded 1863. Incorporated 1893. Record Series. Vol. XL. For the Year 1908. Paver&Apos;S Marriage Licences.

John Wm. Clay (Ed) · 1909 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

[Yorkshire], Printed for the Society, 1909. Cloth. A scarce work of references printed for The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, in which John William Clay lays out the marriage licences for the year 1908. Scarce. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding, with...

The Walthamstow Armorial

George Edward Roebuck · 1932 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Walthamstow, Walthamstow Antiquarian Society Office, 1932. Paperback. A very scarce work of heraldry A very scarce work published by the Walthamstow Antiquarian Society. This work gives an overview of the heraldry families of Walthamstow, with in-text black and white illustrat...

English County Histories a Guide

C. R. J. Currie (Ed); C. P. Lewis (Ed) · 1994 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Gloucestershire , Alan Sutton , 1994. Cloth. An excellent copy of this work of English history edited by C. R. J. Currie and C. P. Lewis. As stated in the blurb this works is 'a much-needed historiographical study of county history in England&apos. Not only a fascinating ...

A Complete History of England with the Lives of All the Kings and Queens Thereof from the Earliest Account of Time to the Death of His Late Majesty King William III

John Hughes (Ed); White Kennet (Ed). · 1706 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

London, Brab, Aylmer et al, 1706. First edition. Leather. An early, illustrated look at the history of England through the reigns of its monarchs. Collaboratively written by many noted names of the period includingJohn Milton, Samuel Daniell and Sir John Hayward. The first edi...

Republicas Del Mundo : Divididas En, XXVII. Libros. / Ordenadas Por F. Hieronymo Roman, Frayle Professo, Y Cronista de la Orden de S. Augustin. Natural de la Ciudad de Logronãƒâoeã‚âƒO. Dirigidas Ala S.C. R.M. Del Rey Don Philippe, Rey de Las Espanãƒâoeã‚âƒAs, Nuestro Senãƒâoeã‚âƒor

Fray Hieronymo Roman · 1575 · Rooke Books

£6,000.00 (€7,192.99 | $7,928.17 | ¥1,266,177)

Medina , Francisco del Canto, 1575. First edition. Leather. An extremely scarce first edition volume of this early and extremely influential work of world history, penned by the highly controversial Jesuit Friar and pseudo-historian Fray Hieronymo Roman. Very scarce. The work ...

Modern Athens Displayed in a Series of Views: Or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century Exhibiting the Whole of the New Buildings, Modern Improvements, Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery

Thomas H Shepard; John Britton · 1832 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, Jones and Co. 1832. Leather. A fascinating historical and topographical examination of Edinburgh in the nineteenth century. Copiously illustrated throughout with eighty seven plates from original drawings by Thomas H Shepherd. Thomas Hosmer Shepherd was a renowned topo...

The History of the Philanthropic Lodge No. 304 Leeds 1794-1894

Charles Letch Mason · 1894 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Leeds, Goodall and Suddick, 1894. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this limited edition work on the history of the Leeds Freemasons lodge, written by Charles Letch Mason, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author. A very scarce work, with only one on Copac, held at the British ...

Memorials of St James&Apos;S Palace

Edgar Sheppard · 1894 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1894. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition copy of Edgar Sheppard's monumental historical account of St James's Palace; copiously illustrated throughout and complete in two volumes. Examining the notable births and marria...

The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain; the History of the Reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain. The First Four Books by Robert Watson, LL. D. Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrews. The Two Last by William Thomson, LL. D.

Robert Watson · 1803 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, For T. Cadell and W. Davies; Printed for J. Johnson et al, 1803-8. Cloth. A five volume set of Spanish history covering the reigns of two influence monarchs, Philip the Second and Philip the Third. This five volume set is comprised of two set of works, those being : &a...

Smithonian Institution. United States National Museum. Cradles of the American Aborigines.

Otis T. Mason; Dr. J. H. Porter · 1889 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1889. Brochure/Pamphlet. An uncommon work of nineteenth century American history by Otis T. Mason, with additional material by Dr. J. H. Porter. An article taken from the Report of the National Museum, 1996-87 featuring pages 161-235. Th...

Carlsbads Memorabilien Vom Jahre 1325 Bus 1839

Jos. Joh. Lenhart · 1840 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Strag, Druck und Papier von Gottlieb Haase Sohne, 1840. Hardback. A lovely example of this very scarce work of local topography by Joseph Johannes Lenhart. In the original German. Very scarce. In the original German. Illustrated with a frontispiece titled 'Carlsbad Von De...