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Pictures of the French a Series of Literary and Graphic Delineations of French Character

Jules Janin, Balzac, Cormenin · 1840 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London , Wm. S. Orr and Co. 1840. Cloth. A charming and detailed observational work, looking into the stereotypical characters seen throughout France. Delicately illustrated with upwards of two hundred and thirty engravings, drawn on the wood by Gavarni, H. Monnier and Meisson...

Washington the Soldier

General Henry B. Carrington · 1898 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)

Boston, New York, London, Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1898. Cloth. A history of the military career of General Washington. Henry Beebee Carrington (March 2, 1824 ? October 26, 1912) was a lawyer, professor, prolific author, and an officer in the United States Army during the A...

The Comic History of Rome

Gilbert Abbot A Beckett · 1852 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London , Bradbury, Evans and Co. 1852. Cloth. One of A Beckett's most famous works, this is a lively history of the Roman Empire told in a style that was highly unusual at its times of publication. One of A Beckett's most famous works, this is a lively history of the...

Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazines, Navy and Army, Panoramas Etc.

J. R. Abbey · 1972 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Folkestone and London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. Cloth. A smart copy of this record of illustration of life in England, taken from the collection of J. R. Abbey. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates, including a coloured frontispiece. Reprinted from the 1953 edition. ...

A Place in the Forest Being the Story of Stansted in Sussex

The Earl of Bessborough · 1958 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London , B. T. Batsford, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy with dedication by the author dated 1982 in ink to front free endpaper of A Place in the Forest being the story of Stansted in Sussex by the Earl of Bessborough First edition in unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrat...

Lives of Illustrious Women of England: Or, Biographical Treasury, Containing Memoirs of Royal, Noble and Celebrated British Females of the Past and Present Day

J. Tillotson · 1857 · Rooke Books

£72.00 (€86.32 | $95.14 | ¥15,194)

London, Thomas Holmes, c1857. Cloth. A lovely mid nineteenth century work on the lives of eminent women. An interesting biographical work exploring the life of numerous notable women throughout history, up until the time of publication in the min-19th century. 'Embellishe...

Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages

A. Hamilton Thompson · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Oxford University Press, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Professor A. Hamilton Thompson's Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages. First edition. A comprehensive and detailed survey of English castles in the Middle Ages, in which an ...

A Narrative of the Siege of Kars and of the Six Months&Apos; Resistance by the Turkish Garrison Under General Williams to the Russian Army: Together with a Narrative of Travels and Adventures in Armenia and Lazistan; with Remarks on the Present State of Turkey

Humphry Sandwith · 1856 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, John Murray, 1856. Cloth. An uncommon third edition of this war account by Humphry Sandwith. Third edition. This work details the experience of army physician Humphry Sandwith during the last major operation of the Crimean War, the Siege of Kars in Turkey. With a front...

Letters of Travel (1892-1913) and Limits and Renewals

Rudyard Kipling · 1920 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London , Macmillan and Co, 1920-1932. First edition. Cloth. Two works by Rudyard Kipling, of travel writing and short stories. First editions. Rather uncommon in the original dustwrappers. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the ...

A Complete System of Chronology; or, Universal History Abridged

J. Aspin · 1812 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London , A Whellier, 1812 . First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of Aspin's compendious abridged history of the universe, religious and factual. Two parts bound as one, complete. Part I comprising all the historical facts recorded by sacred and profance writers, fro...

American Conservation Volume I

Various · 1911 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

N/A, N/A, 1911. Cloth. Seven issues of American Conservation. Volume I numbers 1-7 of this periodical, with continuous pagination. This work is illustrated throughout. Numerous articles regarding conservation of animals, land, plants and indigenous communities in America. Arti...

The History of the Commonwealth of England, from Its Commencement to the Restoration of Charles II. Volumes I and IV

William Godwin · 1824 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , Henry Colburn, 1824. Disbound. Volumes one and four of the radical intellectual's history of the Commonwealth. Godwin was one of the first proponents of Utilitarianism, as well as of Anarchism, and was married to the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. His daugh...

Oliver Cromwell a Eulogy and an Appreciation

the Right Hon Earl of Rosebery [Archibald Primrose] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Andrew Melrose, c1900. Cloth. A scarce edition of this work on Oliver Cromwell. Dated from copac. Archibald Philip Primrose was a British liberal statesmen and Prime Minister between 1894 and 1895. In a cloth binding. Externally, slightly rubbed with some wear to head ...

The Country of the Passion-Play: The Highlands and Highlanders of Bavaria

L. G. Seguin · 1890 · Rooke Books

£74.99 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,825)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1890. Cloth. An illustrated, late nineteenth century edition of Seguin's history of Bavaria and the Passion-Play. Rebacked in cloth with the original gilt lettering on cloth laid down as spine labels. Third Edition, with a new preface. With twenty...

Crecy and Calais; from the Original Records in the Public Record Office

George Wrottesley · 1898 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London, Harrison and Sons, 1898. First edition. Cloth. This is a scarce first edition of this history of the battle and banners of Crecy and Calais. Limited to 100 copies. This edition is signed "Stirling", a relation to John De Stirling who is mentioned throughout the book. S...

A Biographical Catalogue of Portraits and a List of Books, Documents and Relics Relating to Our Congregational History in the Custody of the Chapel Trustees

N/A · 0 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Nottingham, Printed by the Direction of the Congregation, c1905. Cloth. A interesting catalogue of the historical assets of the Unitarian High Pavement Chapel, Nottingham. A fascinating list of all the portraits held by the chapel trustees, accompanied by biographies of each o...

Bacon&Apos;S Essays

Sydney Humphries (ed.) · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.99 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1912. Disbound. A pleasing copy of this 'Sydney edition' collection of fifty eight essays by the renowned philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. This work was reprinted from the edition dated MDCLXXIII. Illustrated with a vig...

A History of York Minster

G. A. Aylmer; Reginald Cant · 1977 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of A History of York Minster edited by G. E. Aylmer and Reginald Cant. With numerous illustrations. "The object of the present volume is to coordinate all this new knowledge in a single work." York Minster, i...

The History of England from the Ascension of James the Second with Memoir and Portrait Volumes I - V and the Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay Volumes I & II

Lord Macaulay · 1874 · Rooke Books

£699.99 (€839.17 | $924.94 | ¥147,719)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1874 - 1877. Leather. A bright, uniform set of 'The History of England' and 'Macaulay's Miscellaneous Writings&apos. Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering and spine decoration.Volume V of...

De Vita & Rebus Gestis Serenissmiae Principis Mariae Scotorum Reginae, Franciae Dotariae, Quae Scriptis Tradidere Autores Sedecim, in Duo Volumina Distributa Et Ad Optimae Fidei Codices Recensita a Samuele Jebb.

Samuele Jebb · 1725 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.95 | $1,189.23 | ¥189,927)

London, Jacob Woodman and David Lyon, 1725. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of De Vita & Rebus Gestis Serenissmiae Principis Mariae Scotorum Reginae. Two Volumes, complete. This work is the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Latin. The binding could do with streng...