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Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, Being an Account of Many Remarkable Persons and Places; and Likewise of Battles, Sieges, Earthquakes, Inundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders, and Other Considerable Occurrences and Accidents, for Several Hundred Years Past. With the Natural and Artificial Rarities in Every County, and Many Other Observable Passages; As They Are Recorded by Credible Historians of Former and Latter Ages.
Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, Being an Account of Many Remarkable Persons and Places; and Likewise of Battles, Sieges, Earthquakes, Inundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders, and Other Considerable Occurrences and Accidents, for Several Hundred Years Past. With the Natural and Artificial Rarities in Every County, and Many Other Observable Passages; As They Are Recorded by Credible Historians of Former and Latter Ages.
Richard Burton · 1811 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
Westminster, Machell Stace , 1811. Leather. An attractively bound collection of significant historical tales pertaining to various British counties, with woodcut illustrations throughout. In half calf binding with decorative cloth boards. A new edition of this work.Illustrate...
Sailing Models Ancient & Modern
Sailing Models Ancient & Modern
E. Keble Chatterton · 1934 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. 1934. First edition. Cloth. A delightful guide to sailing models by Edward Keble Chatterton, wonderfully embellished with 151 illustrations. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding with pictorial gilt to the ...
Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English
Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English
Kenny Meadows; Douglas Jerrold; W.M. Thackeray et al · 1878 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Leather. A half morocco edition of Kenny Meadow's humorous work discussing people's features and how they denote personality, in signed bindings by Henderson & Bisset. An excellent example of this work, in half morocco signed ...
The Praetorians
The Praetorians
Jean Larteguy; Xan Fielding [trans.] · 1963 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, Hutchinson, 1963. First edition. Cloth. One of Jean Lartéguy's most successful works; a first UK edition of this novel on the Algerian War. The first UK edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrap...
The Xipehuz and the Death of the Earth
The Xipehuz and the Death of the Earth
J.-H. Rosny aine [Joseph-Henri Boex]; George Edgar Slusser [trans.] · 1978 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
New York, Arno Press, 1978 . First edition. Cloth. A fine example of this English language edition of two science fiction tales by Belgian writer J.-H. Rosny aîné. A very scarce first edition thus.Consisting of English language translations of two science fiction novels by B...
Royal Box: A Souvenir Portfolio of an Exhibition with an Introduction by Mr. Ian Bevan. And with Twelve Plates of Illustrations Chosen from the Incomparable and Immeasurable Collections of the Aforesaid Theatre Museum Recalling Royal Occasions in the Theatre
Royal Box: A Souvenir Portfolio of an Exhibition with an Introduction by Mr. Ian Bevan. And with Twelve Plates of Illustrations Chosen from the Incomparable and Immeasurable Collections of the Aforesaid Theatre Museum Recalling Royal Occasions in the Theatre
Ian Bevan [introduction] · 1977 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
London, The Theatre Museum, 1977. Loose Pages, Articles. A very scarce folder of plates showcasing British royal themed items from the Theatre Museum, published in celebration of Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee. Twelve plates, unbound, displayed together in a with the in...
Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer
Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer
Sir Augustus Simon Frazer; Edward Sabine · 1859 · Rooke Books
£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)
London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce volume containing the letters of soldier Augustus Simon Frazer. The first edition of this very scarce work.The collected letters of Augustus Simon Frazer, cont...
Parturition and Its Difficulties. With Clinical Illustrations and Statistics of 13,783 Deliveries
Parturition and Its Difficulties. With Clinical Illustrations and Statistics of 13,783 Deliveries
John Hall Davis · 1865 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)
London, Robert Hardwicke, 1865. Cloth. The second edition of this scarce and interesting illustrated medical study on childbirth by John Hall Davis. The second edition, revised and enlarged. A scarce work. Illustrated with eight monochrome plates, depicting anatomical medica...
Proto-Indo-European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem, Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas
Proto-Indo-European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem, Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas
Susan Nacev Skomal; Edgar C. Polome [ed.] · 1987 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
Washington, D.C. Institute for the Study of Man , 1987. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive look at the factors involved in the study of the Proto-Indo-European language, dedicated to Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas. The first edition of this work.In the publisher&a...
The Substance of the Celebrated and Patriotic Speech of the Right Hon. William Pitt, on Friday July 22, 1803, on the General Defence Bill
The Substance of the Celebrated and Patriotic Speech of the Right Hon. William Pitt, on Friday July 22, 1803, on the General Defence Bill
William Pitt · 1803 · Rooke Books
£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)
London, T. Davison; J. Asperne; J. Hatchard; et al, 1803. First edition. Disbound. The first edition of this very scarce pamphlet of a speech given by William Pitt the Younger. The first edition of this very scarce work.A faithful reproduction of a speech given by Sir William ...
The Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essays
The Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essays
James Anthony Froude · 1904 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
New York , Longmans, Green, and Co. 1904. Leather. A new impression of James Anthony Froude's historical essays in half leather binding. A new impression of this work. A scarce edition in half calf binding with illustrative gilt stamp. A collection of six historical essa...
William Budd: Bristol&Apos;S Most Famous Physician
William Budd: Bristol&Apos;S Most Famous Physician
Michael Dunnill · 2006 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
Bristol, Redcliffe Press Ltd. 2006. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce work on English physician William Budd, signed by the author. First edition. Signed to the title page with an inscription to Sir Allan Budd, a British economist, founding member of t...
Stories of Robin Hood and His Merry Outlaws Retold from the Old Ballads
Stories of Robin Hood and His Merry Outlaws Retold from the Old Ballads
J. Walker McSpadden · 1923 · Rooke Books
£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1923. Leather. A smartly bound collection of stories on the legendary heroic outlaw Robin Hood, with illustrations. Later edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A collection of tales of the legendary he...
Three Works from the Hakluyt Society: Second Series, Volumes 183, 184 & 188
Three Works from the Hakluyt Society: Second Series, Volumes 183, 184 & 188
R. C. Bridges; P. E. H. Hair; Wendy James; Gerd Baumann; Douglas Johnson; P. G. Foote · 1996 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, The Hakluyt Society, 1996-1998. First edition. Cloth. Three scholarly historical works from the text publication society the Hakluyt Society, in the original dust wrappers. The first editions of these three works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with th...
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by L.C. Miall, F.R. S. , and W. Warde Fowler, M.A.
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by L.C. Miall, F.R. S. , and W. Warde Fowler, M.A.
Gilbert White; L. C. Miall (ed.); W. Warde Fowler (ed.) · 1901 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London , Methuen & Co. 1901. Cloth. A facsimile edition of Gilbert White's letters and other materials accounting his observations and thoughts of nature and histories of Sherborne. A facsimile edition of the the original 1789 edition. With an added introduction and note...
History of the Conquest of Mexico: Volumes I & II; History of the Reign of Philip the Second: Volume III
History of the Conquest of Mexico: Volumes I & II; History of the Reign of Philip the Second: Volume III
William H. Prescott · 1849 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
London, Richard Bentley; Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1849-1859. Leather. Early editions of two of William H. Prescott's most important historical works, on the Conquest of Mexico and the reign of King Philip II. The fourth edition of volumes I and II of History of t...
The Human Slaughter-House
The Human Slaughter-House
Wilhelm Lamszus; Oakley Williams [trans.] · 1913 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
London, Hutchinson & Co. [1913] . Paperback. The first UK paperback edition of this chilling anti-war novel written by Wilhelm Lamszus, translated by Oakley Williams. First UK paperback edition. Published the same year as the US edition. First English translation, based on the...
The Sheriff of Dyke Hole
The Sheriff of Dyke Hole
Ridgwell Cullum · 1913 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
London, Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1913. Cloth. A very scarce fiction work by Ridgwell Cullum about a mining camp. A later edition. First published in 1909. In the publisher's original cloth. A very scarce work. This work was written by British writer Ridgwell Cullum and te...
Pirates of the Eastern Sea (1618-1723) a Lurid Pages of History
Pirates of the Eastern Sea (1618-1723) a Lurid Pages of History
Charles Grey; Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn [editor] · 1933 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of pirates between 1618 and 1723. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A historical commentary on piracy on the ...
A Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry, in Two Parts
A Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry, in Two Parts
Hugh Clark; Thomas Wormull · 1788 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, G. Kearsley, 1788 . Leather. The sixth edition of Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull's educational work on heraldry, illustrated with plates. The sixth edition of this work by Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull.An interesting work discussing heraldry and the study of the su...