Storia moderna

The New Aid to Memory. Part the First: Containing the Most Remarkable Events of the History of England. Illustrated by One Hundred and Twenty Symbolical Engravings.

Rev. Robert Rowe Knott · 1841 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Whittaker and Co. 1841. Cloth. A very scarce educational guide to remembering important events in English history. In the publisher's original cloth binding. All edges gilt. Ink inscription to the front free end paper, dated 1847. 12 plates. Collated complete. Kno...

The History of the Hundred of Ramsbury in the County of Wiltshire

Edward Doran Webb · 1890 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Salisbury , Bennett Brothers, 1890. First edition. Hardback. A fascinating volume on the parish of Ramsbury, with illustrations. A first edition copy of the The History of the Hundred of Ramsbury in the County of Wiltshire, part one which concerns The Parish of Ramsbury. The ...

Events in the Taeping Rebellion

General Gordon; A. Egmont Hake [ed.] · 1891 · Rooke Books

£1,475.00 (€1,768.28 | $1,949.01 | ¥311,269)

London, W.H. Allen and Co. 1891. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce illustration narration of the events of the Taeping Rebellion in China taken from the journals of General Charles George Gordon. A fascinating, first-hand account of the events of the Taeping Rebellion (som...

Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; from the Manuscript in the Library at Wooburn Abbey.

Rachel Russell · 1801 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London , J. Mawman , 1801. Leather. A collection of the correspondence of Lady Russell, the seventeenth-century noblewoman. The sixth edition. In a smart half calf binding. With two engraved plates and a frontispiece by C. Knight. Collated complete. Lady Rachel Russell was an ...

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments · 1959 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)

London , Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1959. First edition. Cloth. Three smart volumes of an Inventory on the Historical Monuments in Cambridge, richly illustrated and with four large folding maps. A two volume inventory with a map box of four large folding maps. A fi...

The Relief of Chitral

Captain G. J. Younghusband; Captain Frank E. Younghusband · 1895 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart volume detailing the Chitral Campaign, with illustrations and folding maps. Written by two brothers, this volume is a record of the Chitral Campaign which was a military expedition in 1895 sent by the British autho...

The Farmer&Apos;S Magazine Eight Volumes

1835 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, Not Stated, 1835-1839 . First edition. Leather. The first editions of these six-monthly periodicals about farming and agriculture from the nineteenth century with illustrations and monochrome plates. Eight volumes of the periodical magazine The Farmer's Magazine ...

War Memoirs of David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George · 1938 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London , Odhams Press Limited , 1938. Cloth. An extensive and fascinating collection of war memoirs from Prime Minister during the first world war, David Lloyd George. New edition two volume set of War Memoirs of David Lloyd George. Within these memoirs David Lloyd George pro...

Queen Elizabeth

Mandell Creighton · 1896 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London; Paris; Edinburgh, Boussod, Valadon & Co, 1896. First edition. Leather. A nicely bound first edition copy of Mandell Creighton's popular biography on Queen Elizabeth I, a lovely work complete with plates. The first edition of this work.Bound by M. M. P. in 1904, wi...

Sailing Ships: The Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

E. Keble Chatterton · 1914 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1914. Cloth. A smart second printing of this illustrated history of sailing ships by E Keble Chatterton. A history of the development of sailing ships by Edward Keble Chatterton, prolific author on maritime and naval themes of the twentieth century....

The Natural History of Oxford-Shire

Robert Plot · 1972 · Rooke Books

£99.00 (€118.68 | $130.81 | ¥20,892)

Buckinghamshire, Paul P. B. Minet, 1972. Cloth. A facsimile edition of Robert Plot's first edition study into the natural history of Oxfordshire, illustrated, including with a folding map. A facsimile edition, originally published in 1705.In the original slipcase. Slipcas...

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

Lucy Aikin · 1823 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. Cloth. A fascinating two volume set of the Memoirs of The Court of Queen Elizabeth. This is a two volume set of the Memoirs of The Court of Queen Elizabeth, written by Lucy Aikin. These are copies of the fifth edition, revi...

The History of the English Turf

Theodore Andrea Cook · 1901 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London , H. Virtue and Company, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating six book history of English Turf and horses. This is a six book set of The History of The English Turf by Theodore Andrea Cook. The six books are organised in three volumes with two divisions per volume....

True Stories from Ancient History; Chronologically Arranged, from the Creation of the World to the Death of Charlemagne

1850 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Grant and Griffith , 1850. Cloth. Tenth edition of this history retold for children by Agnes Strickland. Tenth edition of this work. Published anonymously. English historical writer and poet writes a volume of ancient history for children, from the creation of the worl...

Aurora&Apos;S Glade

Christopher Sansom · 1968 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Somerset, Castle Cary Press, 1968. First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition of this charming study in the behaviour of Romanticism by Christopher Sansom. The first edition of this work. A story of La Belle Epoque in England, Sicily, and France, study of Romanticism. By Chris...

Historiae Scoticae Nomenclatura Latino-Vernacula

Christophorus Irvinus [Christopher Irvine] · 1682 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

Edinbruchii [Edinburgh], Gideonis Shaw, 1682 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of Scottish physician, surgeon and antiquarian Christopher Irvine's account of the Latin names used in Scottish history. In the original Latin and English.The scarce first edi...

The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen

Jonathan Swift · 1758 · Rooke Books

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

London, A. Millar, 1758. First edition. Leather. The first edition, second issue of Jonathan Swift's posthumously published - and controversial - history of the final years of the reign of Queen Anne. With leaves Z3 and 2A3 correctly signed, identifying this as the first ...

The Face of London the Record of a Century&Apos;S Changes and Development

Harold P. Clunn · 1933 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London , Simpkin Marshall, 1933. Cloth. A fascinating edition of The Face of London, richly illustrated throughout. This is a fourth edition copy of The Face of London The Record of A Century's Changes and Development, published in November 1933. The volume attempts to pr...

History of Brighton and Its Environs

R. Sickelmore · 1827 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Brighton , C. and R. Sickelmore , 1827 . Leather. A smart, illustrated copy of The History of Brighton and its Environs. This is a smart, fifth edition of the History of Brighton and its Environs, from the earliest period to the present time written by R. Sickelmore. This edit...

Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1876 · Rooke Books

£87.00 (€104.30 | $114.96 | ¥18,360)

London , Chatto & Winduss, 1876 . First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A well presented pamphlet written by a poet, writer and critic on the war between Russia and Turkey. This is a very smart pamphlet detailing Algernon Charles Swinburne's opinions as an English Republican ...