Storia moderna

Researches Into the History of Welton and Its Neighbourhood: With a Few Remarks Chiefly of an Antiquarian Nature About Some Adjacent Places in Yorkshire and About the Yorkshire Language.

Thomas Thompson · 1869 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Kingston-Upon-Hull, J. W. Leng, 1869. First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of the first edition of Thomas Thompson's insightful historical study on Welton and Yorkshire, privately printed for friends and presented by the author with his inscription. The first edition...

Old Cavalry Stations

B. Granville Baker · 1934 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Heath Cranton, Limited, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated work exploring old cavalry stations around the UK, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrate...

Westminster Abbey: The Church, Convent Cathedral and College of St. Peter, Westminster

Herbert Francis Westlake · 1923 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Philip Allan and Company, 1923. Cloth. A very scarce limited edition of Herbert Francis Westlake's illustrated historical study on Westminster Abbey and its architecture, signed by the author. A limited edition, being number 3 out of fifty copies printed on fine p...

Great Contemporaries

Winston S. Churchill · 2015 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, The Folio Society, 2015. Cloth. A smart copy of this Folio Society edition of Churchill's collection of biographical essays. With the original slip case. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-nine full page images. Collated complete. A collection of twenty-fi...

Traditions of Lancashire

John Roby · 1906 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, John Heywood, 1906. Cloth. A smart sixth edition set of this historical study of the traditions of Lancashire, with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. Sixth edition. Scarce work. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates. Volume two is illustr...

The Independent Church of Westminster Abbey (1650-1826)

Ira Boseley · 1907 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London, The Congregational Union of England and Wales , 1907. First edition. Cloth. A first edition account of the independent church of Westminster Abbey, as well as other examples found in various abbeys and cathedrals. First edition of this work. In the publisher's or...

The New "Mauretania": Fulfilment of a Great Enterprise

E. Keble Chatterton · 1938 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

Liverpool, Cunard White Star, 1938 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce launch brochure for the RMS Mauretania, a British ocean liner that was one of the first ships built for the newly formed Cunard-White Star company. A very scarce first edition.Completed in May 1939, t...

The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton

Robert Willis; John Willis Clark [ed] · 1886 · Rooke Books

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

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1886. First edition. Cloth. The complete four volume first edition set of Robert Willis' important posthumous work on the architectural history of the renowned Universities of Cambridge and Eton, including the volume of plans. The fi...

Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel · 2009 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, Fourth Estate, 2009-20. First edition. Cloth. A complete first edition set of Hilary Mantel's award winning historical series following the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, all in their original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression to each volume, w...

The Reign of Queen Anne

Justin McCarthy · 1902 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed history of the reign of Queen Anne from Irish historian Justin McCarthy. Complete in two volumes. First edition. A detailed and comprehensive history of Anne, Queen of England, Scotland...

Selections from the Letters, Despatches, and Other State Papers Preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India 1857-58

G. W. Forrest [editor] · 1902 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Calcutta, Military Department Press, 1902. Cloth. The second and third volume of this four volume set on the Indian Mutiny, providing access to official documents from the military department of the Government of India. Two volumes of four, being volumes two and three only. Fi...

The Aftermath & the Unknown War

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1929 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929-1932. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first US editions of these important historical works from British statesman Sir Winston S. Churchill. Two volumes. First US edition. From The World Crisis, Churchill's account of the First...

The History of the Church of Christ

Rev. Joseph Milner; Rev. T. Haweis · 1835 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Edinburgh, Peter Brown and Thomas Nelson, 1835 . Leather. A single-volume edition of Rev. Joseph Milner's major work, continued here by the Rev. T. Haweis after the author's death. Bound in full straight-grain morocco.Complete in one volume. The most important work o...

The Life of Wellington

W. H. Maxwell · 1893 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Bickers & Son, 1893 . Leather. W. H. Maxwell's informative biography of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, in a smart full calf prize binding. A 'New Edition&apos. With a portrait frontispiece.This condensed version of Maxwell's detailed biograph...

The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1906. First edition. Leather. The two volume 'popular edition' of Thomas Babington Macaulay's popular historical work, in attractive signed prize bindings from Howell. The 'Popular Edition', complete in two volumes.&apo...

The C.I. V. And the War in South Africa 1900: The City Press Illustrated Souvenir of the City of London Imperial Volunteers

1900 · Rooke Books

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

London, City Press" Offices , 1900. First edition. Magazine. A very scarce illustrated souvenir showcasing the City of London Imperial Volunteers registered during the Second Boer War. First edition of this very scarce work. In the publisher's original wraps. This publi...

The Great War

Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, George Newnes Limited , 1933-1934. Cloth. The complete first illustrated book edition of Winston Churchill's detailed history of the First World War. A complete three-volume set of Churchill's illustrated study of World War I, originally published in twenty s...

An Account of New Zealand; and of the Formation and Progress of the Church Missionary Society&Apos;S Mission in the Northern Island.

The Rev. William Yate · 1835 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Seeley and Burnside , 1835 . First edition. Cloth. A smartly bound, first edition of this detailed and illustrated account of the Church Missionary Society's formation in New Zealand, written by one of the earliest New Zealand missionaries, the Rev. William Yate. ...

Les Splendeurs de L&Apos;Art En Belgique

H. G. Moke; A. Van Hasselt; Ed. Fetis · 1848 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Bruxelles , Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1848 . First edition. Leather. A decoratively bound, first edition of this richly illustrated work discussing the art and architecture of Belgium, written in the original French. First edition. Written in the original French. Bound in a d...

The History of the Rebellion and CIVIL Wars in England

Edward Earl of Clarendon; Edward Hyde · 1702 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.72 | $2,576.65 | ¥411,508)

Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1702-04. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Edward Hyde's first hand account of the English Civil War, uniformly bound. The first edition of this work.Complete in three volumes.Volumes I and II illustrated with a frontispiece and ...