Storia moderna

George Heriot&Apos;S School Roll of Honour 1914-1919

1921 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Edinburgh, War Memorial Committee, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this roll of honour for George Heriot's School for the years 1914 to 1919. First edition. Scarce work. With a frontispiece and seventy-nine plates of portraits. Collated complete. A r...

A History of the Straw Hat Industry

John G. Dony · 1942 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Luton, Gibbs, Bamforth & Co. Ltd. 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce history of the straw hat, with illustrations. First edition. Very scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-four images across twenty-one plates, and mapped endpa...

History of the Education of the Blind

W. H. Illingworth · 1910 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1910. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce historical study on the education of the blind. First edition. Very scarce work. A detailed treatise on the important and interesting study on the history of education...

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella & History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth

William H. Prescott · 0 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, George Routledge & Sons, c1850. Leather. Two smartly bound histories from American historian and Hispanist William Hickling Prescott. Two volumes. Written by William Hickling Prescott, an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to...

A Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries, Chaucer to Queen Victoria

G. M. Trevelyan · 1945 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1945 . Leather. G.M. Trevelyan's history of England, handsomely bound in tree calf with gilt detailing, and illustrated with maps. The third impression of this work.A fascinating work of the social history of England focusing on the everyda...

The World Crisis 1911-1918

Winston S. Churchill · 1942 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd , 1942. Cloth. An abridged edition of Winston Churchill's account of the First World War, with the very scarce original dust wrapper. The abridged and revised edition, with an additional chapter on the Battle of the Marne. With the very scarc...

The History of England from the Accession of James the Second

Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1856 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. Leather. A complete four volumes set of this detailed chronicle of the history of England from Thomas Babington Macaulay. Complete in four volumes. Eleventh edition. A history of England covering the seventeen-year period from...

Williams Deacons 1771-1970

Williams Deacon's Bank Limited · 1971 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Manchester, William's Deacon's Bank Limited , 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work recounting the history of the Williams Deacon's bank, presented by the bank to commemorate their 200th anniversary. The first edition, first impression. With...

The Love of a Prince: Bonnie Prince Charlie in France, 1744-1748

L. L. Bongie [Laurence L. Bongie] · 1986 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Bongie's account of Charles Edward Stuart's time in France between 1744 and 1748, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the pu...

The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854

Graham Wallas · 1908 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1908 . Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Graham Wallas's biography of English social reformer and radical Francis Place. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper with 'J. Walkden from Graham Wallas, Jan 2 1910&apos.Illustr...

Sketches of English Life and Character

Mary R. Mitford · 1910 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Edinburgh & London, T. N. Foulis, 1910. Cloth. A nice copy of this account of English life in the nineteenth century, with lovely colour illustrations by Stanhope A. Forbes. The second edition. First published the previous year. Illustrated by Stanhope A. Forbes with a colour ...

The John Rylands Library Manchester: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books and Broadsides Illustrating the Early History of Printing; a Brief Record of Twenty One Years&Apos; Work; the Beginnings of Printed Book Illustration; Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Manchester: Vol. 27, No. 1

1907 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1907-1942. First edition. Paperback. A four-volume set of works on the special collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, by Librarian Henry Guppy. A four-volume set in the publisher's original paper wraps. The last three ...

The British Empire at Home and Abroad: An Account of Its Origins, Progress, and Present Position with Full Descriptions of Canada, Australasia, South Africa, India, and Other Colonies and Dependencies

Edgar Sanderson · 1901 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1901. Cloth. The first two volumes from this illustrated account of the British Empire pre and during nineteenth century. Containing volumes I and II out of six volumes. Originally published from 1898-9 as 'The British Empire in the...

Dresses and Decorations of the Middles Ages

Henry Shaw · 1843 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, William Pickering , 1843. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this fantastically illustrated look into the fashion and decorations of the Middle Ages, with coloured plates. The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. Offering a comprehensive study...

Series of Prints of Roman History, Designed As Ornaments for Those Apartments in Which Children Receive the First Rudiments of Their Education Series of Prints from the Old Testament Scripture Lessons, Designed to Accompany a Series of Prints from the Old Testament

[Sarah Trimmer] · 1797 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, John Marshall; Baldwin and Cradock, 1797-1829. Leather. Three works by Sarah Trimmer, including two of her impressive plate volumes, exploring the history of Rome and the Old Testament. A set of three works by Sarah Trimmer, including her 'Series of Prints' o...

The Second World War

Winston Churchill · 1948 · Rooke Books

£840.00 (€1,006.87 | $1,109.76 | ¥177,214)

London, Cassell & Company, 1948-1954. First edition. Cloth. An smart example of the complete six volume first edition of Winston Churchill's monumental history of the Second World War, with each volume retaining the original dust wrapper. A collection of six first edition...

Stories Selected from the History of France, for Children

Anonymous · 1819 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Harris and Son, 1819 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this fascinating history of France, intended for young readers. A very scarce first edition.A very scarce example of the Harris and Son series of histories of various nations, aimed to be e...

A Collection of Works from Annales Du Service Des Antiquites de L&Apos;Egypte

Various · 1900 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.05 | $2,906.51 | ¥464,132)

Paris, Not Stated, c1900. Cloth. A smartly bound collection of twenty-three works on Egyptian antiquities and archaeological findings, in the original French. French. Twenty-three volumes or essays bound into one. The Annales du Service des Antiquités de L'Egypte is a res...

The Gretna Green Register

Robert Elliott; Rev. Caleb Brown [Intro.] · 1842 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,375)

London, Gretna Green Parson, 1842 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the memoirs of a prominent 'anvil priest' based in Gretna Green, in which he documents many of the thousands of marriages he conducted. The first edition of this scarce work, in the publis...

Japanese Temples and Their Treasures: Volume III

The Department of the Interior Imperial Japanese Government · 1910 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Tokyo , The Shimbi Shoin , 1910 . First edition. Cloth. Volume III of this exceptionally scarce collection of 197 beautiful plates, highlighting the beauty of Japan, compiled by the Department of the Interior Imperial Japanese Government. The first edition. Volume III only of ...