Storia moderna

The Camden Miscellany Volumes I - IV, and VI - VII, with Volume XII of the Third Series

Various Authors · 1847 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London , The Camden Society, 1847-1910. Cloth. Seven Volumes of The Camden Miscellany published by The Camden Society. A good run of a periodical normally found one volume at a time. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. With an armorial namplate for William John ...

The Domesday Book Seu Liber Censualis Willelmi I Regis Angliae, Inter Archivos in Domo Capitulari Westmonasterii Asservatus with Libri Censualis Vocati Domes-Day Book Indices and Accessit Dissertatio Generalis de Ratione Huiusce Libri in Four Volumes

Henry Ellis; Abraham Farley (ed.) · 1783 · Rooke Books

£2,450.00 (€2,937.14 | $3,237.34 | ¥517,022)

London, Not Stated, 1783; 1811-1816. Leather. The 1783 Domesday Book, with 1816 Additional Volumes. The text of this work is in Latin, with 'Introductions' in English. Whilst title pages for Volumes I and II were issued in 1816, these volumes are bound without, as us...

Too Secret Too Long

Chapman Pincher · 1984 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Sidgwick and Jackson , 1984. First edition. Cloth. A revealing piece of work uncovering a torrent of new disclosures that conceal the truth about Britain's secret services. First edition. Featuring photographic plates of people and government documentation. From t...

Flag 4 the Battle of Coastal Forces in the Mediterranean

Dudley Pope · 1954 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, William Kimber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of 'Flag 4' by Dudley Pope. With a foreword by the first Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor. "On paper, a high percentage of the operations would have ...

A Country Chronicle

Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald · 1945 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1945. Cloth. An illustrated country reference book. "The Editor of The Field has touched the gold with this delicious, fascinating calvacade of the months in a little village on the Hampshire downs. The entire panorama of the countryside is here." "...

The Old Court Suburb, or, Memorials of Kensington Regal, Critical, and Anecdotal

Leigh Hunt · 1860 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1860. Leather. A collection of historical anecdotes from Kensington. Third edition. With an engraved frontispiece. Rebound in half-morocco with marbled boards. Externally, smart, with only a couple of marks. Internally, generally firmly bound, altho...

The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Reign of George II. By Dr. Goldsmith and Continued to the Present Period by Mr. Morell

Dr. Goldsmith; Mr. Morell · 1807 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

Bungay, C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1807. Leather. The History of England, From The Earliest Times to The End of The Reign of George II. by Dr. Goldsmith And Continued to The Present Period by Thomas Morell. A new edition. Two volumes bound in one. Embellished with a variet...

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795

John Gifford; John Richards Green · 1797 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, T. N. Longman, 1797. Leather. A scarce early edition of A residence in France. Bound in calf. Rebacked. Two volumes. Scarce. John Richards Green pseudonym John Gifford (1758-1818) was a Tory pamphleteer. He abandoned his paternal name of John Richards Green, and assume...

European History, Narrated in a Series of Historical Selections.

E. M. Sewell; C. M. Yonge · 1873 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.70 | ¥5,063)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1873. Leather. A very scarce first volume of this European history beginning with the Norman conquest. The book covers the period 1003-1154, including the Battle of Hastings, Feudalism, William the Conqueror, Anselm, the Crusades and the Batt...

An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie in Two Volumes

Sir William Forbes · 1806 · Rooke Books

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

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co. 1806. Leather. A scarce set of the Life and Writings of James Beattie by Sir William Forbes. Complete in two volumes. Including many of his original letters. Volume I contains a Frontispiece of James Beattie. James Beattie FRSE (25 Octobe...

A Voyage Round the World in the Years Mdccxl, I, II, III, IV,

George Anson · 1769 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, H. Woodfall, W. Bowyer, W. Strahan et al. 1769. Leather. A fourteenth edition of Anson's A Voyage Round the World In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson PC, FRS, RN (1697 – 1762) was a British admiral and a wealthy...

The Salter&Apos;S Company 1394 - 1994

Hugh Barty-King · 1994 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, James & James Ltd, 75 Carleton Road, 1994. First edition. Leather. A work on the Salter's Company, whose origin is in the salt trade of medieval London. Red leather spine with gilt vertical title. Blue cloth covered boards with stamped gilt crest on the front. The...

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon. Volumes I and II

Sir Arthur Helps · 1852 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, William Pickering, 1852. Leather. A fascinating two-volume first edition from Sir Arthur Helps. The edition is introduced by the author, who marks that no one but those who have known intellectual society and then been deprived of it can truly appreciate the intense re...

Garibaldi and the Thousand

George Macaulay Trevelyan · 1912 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1912. Leather. A biographical work on Italian general and politician, by George Macaulay Trevelyan. Garibaldi is remembered for his attempted re-uniting of Italy. This work is the first of three titles by George Macaulay Trevelyan on Garibaldi. ...

The Comic History of England in Two Volumes

Gilbert Abbot A Beckett · 1847 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, Punch, 1847. First edition. Leather. A first edition of A Beckett's most renowned work. this is a lively history of England told in a style that was highly unusual at its times of publication. With copious illustrations throughout by John Leech, including twenty c...

Mahomet and His Successors

Washington Irving · 1909 · Rooke Books

£215.00 (€257.75 | $284.09 | ¥45,371)

London, George G. Harrap Company, 1909. Leather. A very smart copy of this history of Muhammad and the Muslim faith by Washington Irving. 'Mahomet and his Successors' is an interesting biography about the history and life of Muhammad and his followers. Illustrated th...

Anno Regni Annae Reginae Magna Britannia, Francia, and Hibernia, Octavo

1709 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, British Parliament, 1709-1710. Leather. A collection of the original printed documents stating new acts in parliament, after the act of union, under the rule of Queen Anne. Includes "An act for granting an aid to Her Majesty, to be raised by a Land-Tax in Great Britain...

The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare and of Elizabethan Sport

D. H. Madden · 1897 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1897. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of 'The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare and of Elizabethan Sport' by the Right Hon. D. H. Madden. With illustrated head and tail pieces. First edition. A preface to...

Carthage and the Carthaginians

R. Bosworth Smith · 1916 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1916. Leather. A history of the city of Carthage and an exploration of the myths that surround it. A history of the city of Carthage and an exploration of the myths that surround it. New impression. With frontispiece and vignette title page. In...

The Heroines of George Meredith

Herbert Bedford · 1828 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, c1914. Vellum. This edition was limited to One hundred copies, signed by the Artist and numbered, this is number twenty-one. With twenty tipped-in miniatures in colours. The volume discusses the heroines of Meredith's work, in chapters by tit...