Storia moderna

Turner on Landscape: The Liber Studiorum

Gerald Wilkinson · 1982 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1982. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work on the English Romantic painter, William Turner, written by Gerald Wilkinson. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and many monochrome vignettes. This work was writt...

The Illustrated London News January: The Nation Mourns Sir Winston Churchill& February: Lying-in-State at Westminster Cathedral

Various · 1965 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, The Illustrated London News & Sketch, 1965. Magazine. Two smart volumes of The Illustrated London News recording the death of Sir Winston Churchill and the period of mourning in Great Britain. Two volumes. Illustrated throughout. Two issues of The Illustrated London Ne...

The History of England, for the Use of Schools and Young Persons

Edward Baldwin [William Godwin] · 1819 · Rooke Books

£138.00 (€165.44 | $182.35 | ¥29,122)

London, M. J. Godwin, 1819. Leather. A smartly bound stereotype edition of this detailed history of England, intended for the education of young persons. Stereotype edition. With a frontispiece and six plates. Collated complete. A detailed history of England from ancient Brito...

The Bristol Avon

Ernest Walls · 1927 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the Bristol Avon, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a fro...

The Bath Pictorial, 1927-8

Bath Chronicle and Herald · 1927 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Bath, Chronicle & Herald Press, 1927. Paperback. A collection of photographs of the beautiful city of Bath for the years 1927 to 1928, with descriptions and historical information. An illustrated work in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. The Bath Chronicle a...

Picturesque Bath: A Collection of Twenty Permanent Photographic Views

Martin J. Ridley · 1901 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Haviland Road, Boscombe, Martin J. Ridley, 1901. Paperback. A very scarce collection of twenty plates, depicting Edwardian Bath, from photographs by the Golden Age photographer Martin J. Ridley. A very scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Front of the wrap...

Sacrosancti Et Oecumenici Concilii Tridentini Paulo III, Julio III, Et Pio IV

Philippi Chiffletii · 1765 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Lovanii, Martini van Overbeke, 1765 . Leather. An attractive mid-eighteenth century edition of Phillipe Chifflet's account of the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, prompted by the Protestant Reformation. In the original Latin.First published over a century p...

Illustrations, Historical and Critical, of the Life of Lorenzo de&Apos; Medici

William Roscoe · 1822 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, T. Cadell, 1822 . Leather. An illustrated biography on the life and work of Lorenzo de' Medici, one of the most important figures of the Italian Renaissance. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, one folding plate, and two further plates. Collated, complete.A ...

Four Portraits: Studies of the 18th Century

Peter Quennell · 1947 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, The Reprint Society , 1947. Cloth. A very smart study of four influential figures in 18th-century Great Britain, from reputable English biographer Peter Quennell. First edition thus from the Reprint Society. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper (u...

Legends, Tales, and Songs, in the Dialect of the Peasantry of Gloucestershire; with Several Ballads, and a Glossary of Words in General Use

0 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Kent and Co, c1878. Hardback. A scarce and intriguing collection of folktales and songs relating to the county and dialect of Gloucestershire, England. A scarce book. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with illustrated paper covered boards. This ...

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain; History of the Reign of Philip the Second

William H. Prescott · 1849 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Richard Bentley , 1849-1855. Cloth. An authoritative set of biographical histories from William H. Prescott, exploring two important Spanish reigns. An informative historical collection that explores two significant Spanish reigns, being that of Ferdinand and Isabella ...

The Vision of Asia: An Interpretation of Chinese Art and Culture

L. Cranmer-Byng · 1947 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, John Murray, 1947. Cloth. A very smart edition of this insightful exploration of Chinese arts and culture. The pocket edition on thin paper. With the publisher's original dust wrapper, unpriced and thus unclipped. With a monochrome frontispiece. This volume, co...

S. Richards Catalogue from Jan. 1890 to Feb. 1892

S. Richards · 1890 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1890-92 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce antiques catalogue, produced by S. Richards Antique Dealers of Nottingham, filled with hand drawn images of his varied stock from January 1890 to February 1892. Bound in full morocco. A catalogue from S. ...

London&Apos;S Natural History; British Game; Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone; a Natural History of Man; Wild Orchids of Britain; Birds and Men: The Bird Life of British Towns, Villages, Gardens and Farmland; Flowers of the Coast; Wild Flowers Botanising in Britain

Various · 1945 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Collins, 1945-1954. First edition. Cloth. A delightful set of first edition illustrated works from the popular 'New Naturalist' series by Collins. First editions. In the publisher's original green cloth binding.A set of eight volumes from Collins' ...

Relics of the Great Marquis of Montrose

J. W. Morkill [John William Morkill] · 1897 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Edinburgh, Neill and Company, 1897 . First edition. Paperback. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce study of the relics of Scottish nobleman the Marquis of Montrose. A vanishingly scarce first edition.Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, with 'To ...

Shakespeare&Apos;S Life and World

Katherine Duncan-Jones · 2004 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, The Folio Society, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed history of the life and times of William Shakespeare, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated throughout with many colour images. A detailed and comprehensive history of the li...

Our Rarer British Breeding Birds

Richard Kearton · 1899 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this Kearton work on the ornithological wildlife in Britain. The first edition of this work.One of the many books based on wildlife in Britain by brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton, two of ...

Domesday England

H. C. Darby · 1997 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 19977. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H. C. Darby's final volume on the Domesday Book, a brilliant analysis. The first edition of this scholarly analysis of the Domesday book.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This is...

Shakespeare&Apos;S England: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age

Various · 1950 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Oxford , Clarendon Press, 1950. Cloth. A fascinating series of essays that explore England's history during the time of Shakespeare, with many illustrations. A later printing of this work. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Containi...

The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty&Apos;S Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861

Queen Victoria; Arthur Christopher Benson; Viscount Esher [ed.] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, John Murray, 1907. Cloth. The first edition thus of this selection of Queen Victoria's correspondence, from the library of long-serving Officer of Arms, Arthur Cochrane. The first edition thus. Complete in three volumes. Uniformly rebound in full blue cloth.Illus...