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Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence

Captain Francis Grose · 1811 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.33 | $759.78 | ¥121,342)

London, C. Chappel; J. Johnston , 1811 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the first retitled edition of Grose's colourful dictionary of slang and vulgar language, in a full morocco binding from Maltby's of Oxford. A first edition thus, being the retitle...

Vieilles Maisons, Vieux Papiers (Paris Revolutionnaire)

G. Lenotre [Theodore Gosselin] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Paris , Perrin et Cie , 1906. Leather. An attractive set comprising the first, second and third series of Theodore Gosselin's vivid French history. This set includes the first, second and third series of 'Vieillles Maisons, Vieux Papiers', a historical work whic...

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain

William H. Prescott · 1867 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1867. Leather. Two smartly bound volumes of this history of the unification of Spain, a new edition. Complete in two volumes. New edition, revised. With a frontispiece to each volume. A historical study of Ferdinand II, King of Aragon, and his ...

Le Bienheureux Fra Giovanni Angelico de Fiesole

Henry Cochin · 1924 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Paris, Librairie Victor Lecoffre, 1924. Leather. The seventh edition of this detailed study on the life and works of Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole, in the original French. French. Seventh edition. A detailed study of the life and works of Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and...

Winds of Change, and, the Blast of War

Harold Macmillan · 1966 · Rooke Books

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

London, Macmillan, 1966-67. First edition. Cloth. The first impression of the first two volumes in Harold Macmillan's autobiography, both volumes signed and with two letters from Macmillan. The first edition, first impressions.Signed by the author to the title pages.Two l...

The Young-Students-Library, Containing Extracts and Abridgements of the Most Valuable Books Printed in England, and in the Foreign Journals

John Dunton [ed.]; The Athenian Society · 1692 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Dunton, 1692 . First edition. Leather. A smart example of the very scarce first edition of this educational anthology of seventeenth century works, retaining the desirable engraved frontispiece. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece...

The Greville Memoirs (Third Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria

Charles C. F. Greville · 1887 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of two volumes of Charles C. F. Greville's personal journals, chronicling Queen Victoria's reign between the years 1852 and 1860. The two volume 1852 to 1860 first edition of this journ...

Twenty Years of the Chinese Republic: Two Decades of Progress

H. A. Van Dorn · 1933 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first UK edition of H. A. Van Dorn's fascinating study of China in the first part of the twentieth century, illustrated with photographic plates. The scarce first UK edition of this work, which was first pu...

A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea

Thomas Bell · 1874 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, John Van Voorst , 1874. Cloth. A very smart second edition of Thomas Bell's history of British quadrupeds, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. The second edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A charming history of British quadru...

Heaven & Hell

Aldous Huxley · 1956 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this companion volume to Huxley's book 'The Doors of Perception&apos. First edition. A companion volume to Huxley's challenging book 'The Doors of Perception', an autobiograp...

The History of the Pianoforte

Edgar Brinsmead · 1879 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Novello, Ewer & Co. 1879. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated edition of Brinsmead's history of the pianoforte. With a frontispiece, eleven plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed history of the pianoforte, including chapters on soun...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford

Horace Walpole; Mrs. Paget Toynbee [ed.] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903-1925 . First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound, complete set of Mrs. Paget Toynbee's illustrated edition of the letters of Horace Walpole, uniformly bound in straight grain morocco. A first edition thus. Present here is the complete set, ...

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill · 1948 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948-53. First edition. Cloth. The first American editions of Winston Churchill's epic six volume account of the Second World War, written from a first hand perspective, all in their original dust wrappers and from the collection of the r...

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Winston S. Churchill · 1956 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Cassell and Company Ltd , 1956-1958. First edition. Cloth. The complete first edition of Winston Churchill's comprehensive history of Britain and its people. First edition, published simultaneously with the "Chartwell" Edition. Complete in four volumes. In the pu...

Between the Lines

Boyd Cable [Ernest Andrew Ewart] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1916. Leather. A smartly bound second edition of this collection of stories from the trenches of the First World War. Second edition, fifth impression. A collection of stories and accounts of life in the trenches during the First World War, written ...

Survey of England&Apos;S Champions and Truths Faithfull Patriots

Josiah Ricraft · 1818 · Rooke Books

£96.00 (€115.09 | $126.85 | ¥20,259)

London, R. Austin; John Hancock , [1818]. Hardback. An illustrated facsimile edition of this important biographical work on military men in seventeenth-century England, bound in the publisher's original boards. Bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards. ...

The Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Etc. Etc.

Sir John Froissart · 1868 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1868. Leather. A Bickers bound illustrated edition of Froissart's extensive history on Europe. Bound by Bickers.'Chronicles of England' are a collection of stories about the Hundred Years' War, starting with the events lea...

British Husbandry; Exhibiting the Farming Practice in Various Parts of the United Kingdom

John French Burke; Cuthbert W. Johnson; The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge · 1837 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Baldwin and Craddock, 1837 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of volume II of this highly informative and detailed guide to farming and agriculture in nineteenth century England. The first edition of volume II only of a three volume work. Volume I was publishe...

Life of Clarendon; the History of the Rebellion and CIVIL Wars in England

Edward Earl of Clarendon · 1760 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1760-1807 . Leather. A uniformly bound edition of Edward Hyde's first hand account of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, present alongside his two volume biography. Eight volumes of works from statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian Edward H...

The Officers and Nurses of Evacuation Eight

Arthur M. Shipley; Agnes T. Considine · 1929 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this very scarce supplement volume, offering personal accounts of Evacuation Hospital No. 8 during WWI. The first edition of this very scarce work.With the original unclipped dust wrapper (unpriced)...