Storia moderna

De Plantis Aegypti

Prosperi Alpini; Prospero Alpini · 1735 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

Batavorum, Gerardum Potuliet, 1735. Leather. A scarce copy of Prospero Alpini's pioneering work on the botany and Egypt, a brilliant work, this edition lavishly illustrated with detailed plates. Prospero Alpini's important and scarce work, discussing the botanical li...

Grammaire Du Neo-Egyptian

M. Korostovtsev · 1973 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

Moscow , Naouka , 1973. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon French study of neo-Egyptian grammar. First edition. A publication of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In the original quarter cloth binding.M. Korostovtsev offers an impressively detailed breakdown of ne...

L&Apos;Age D&Apos;or Des Appareils Allemands 1930-1940

Bernard Vial · 1978 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Saint-Just-la-Pendue , L'Imprimerie Chirat , 1978. Paperback. A very scarce illustrated book of German cameras manufactured from 1930-1940. A very scarce guide to German photography devices from 1930-1940. In the original French. Copy number 509. In the publisher's w...

The Pax Britannica Trilogy

James Morris; Jan Morris · 1992 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, The Folio Society, 1992. Cloth. An attractive set of the Pax Britannica Trilogy, with illustrations throughout and the pictorial slipcase. The second printing of this set, uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding with the embossed gilt roundel to ...

The Study of Man

Alfred C. Haddon · 1898 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, John Murray, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated anthropological study from Alfred Cort Haddon. First edition. Illustrated with eight plates and forty in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed anthropological study of man, with chapters...

The Adventures of a Pincushion

[Mary Ann Kilner] · 1780 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1788 . Hardback. An exceptionally scarce, early edition of this entertaining guide for young readers, offering moral lessons in the form of amusing tales. A well-loved copy of Mary Ann Kilner's most celebrated work, 'The Adventures of a Pincu...

A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands

Charlotte M. Yonge · 1866 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1866. Leather. A collection of true stories relating inspirational deeds, by novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge, in a lovely full calf prize binding. An early edition of this work from the Golden Treasury Series, in a full calf binding, with marbled end pa...

Domesday Studies: Papers Read at the Novocentenary Conference of the Royal Historical Society

J. C. Holt [editor] · 1987 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated papers on the study of the Domesday Book, from the Royal Historical Society. First edition. Illustrated with eight plates of images and sixteen maps. Collated complete. A collecti...

The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History

John Lothrop Motley · 1886 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1886 . Leather. An attractively bound set of this comprehensive work on the Dutch Republic by politician John Lothrop Motley. Complete in three volumes.A detailed history of the rise of the Dutch Republic, written after the author spent five years...

De Antiquis Legibus Liber: Cronica Maiorum Et Viceomitum Londoniarum Et Quedam, Que Contingebant Temporibus Illis Ab Anno MCLXXVIII Ad Annum MCCLXXIV

Thomas Stapleton · 1846 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Sumptibus Societatis Camdenensis [Camden Society], 1846. First edition. Cloth. The first printed appearance of this medieval history derived from the 'Liber de Antiquis Legibus', detailing the mayors and sheriffs of London. The first edition of this work, be...

Township and Borough: Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in the October Term of 1897 Together with an Appendix of Notes Relating to the History of the Town of Cambridge

Frederic William Maitland · 1898 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Cambridge , University Press , 1898. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition containing lectures on townships and boroughs, delivered by distinguished historian Frederic William Maitland. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Containing the...

Analytical Index to the Series of Records Known As the Remembrancia

Corporation of London · 1878 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, E. J. Francis and Co , 1878. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this analytical index for the nine-volume series, 'Remembrancia', containing archival correspondence for 1579-1664. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. This vol...

Winston S. Churchill

Randolph S. Churchill; Martin Gilbert · 1966 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Heinemann, 1966-1981. First edition. Cloth. A collection of first and early editions of part of the companions to Winston S. Churchill's authorised biography, as well as three volumes of the biography itself. With letters from the authors. Eleven volumes. First ed...

Borough of Derby: Calendar of Ancient Records

Mr. I. H. Jeayes · 1904 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Derby , J. W. Simpson, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce calendar of ancient records held in the Borough of Derby. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A vanishingly scarce calendar of ancient records of the Borough of Derby, including ...

The Making of Middle English 1765-1910

David Matthews · 1999 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Minneapolis , University of Minnesota Press , 1999. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first edition offering a detailed account of the formative phase of Middle English literary studies. The first edition. Volume 18 from this 'Medieval Cultures' series. With the ...

Three Very Scarce Works on Australian Life, History and Geography

Lord Apsley; George Sutherland · 1923 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London; Melbourne; Sydney, Angus & Robertson Ltd; Spicers & Detmold Ltd; Hodder and Stoughton, 1923-4. First edition. Paperback. Three very scarce Australian works including a book of Australian geography, a collection of educational children's stories and a memoir by an ...

A Circumstantial Report of the Evidence and Proceedings Upon the Charges Preferred Against His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the Capacity of Commander in Chief, in the Months of February and March, 1809

G. L. Wardle · 1809 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, James Cundee, 1809. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this insightful report, exploring the wrongdoings of Prince Frederick. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and ten plates.Collated, bound without two plates.This report is an a...

A Collection of Works from G. Lenotre or Louis Leon Theodore Gosselin

G. Lenotre [Louis Leon Theodore Gosselin] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

Paris, Perrin et Cie. 1913-1923. Leather. A collection of nineteen volumes from French historian and playwright G. Lenotre, in the original French. French. Nineteen volumes. Memoies et Souvenirs sur la Revolution et L'Empire and Ouvrages de G. Lenotre. Illustrated through...

Ashford Cattle Show Centenary 1856-1956

Alfred J. Burrows · 1958 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Not Stated , 1958. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce history of the Ashford Cattle Show, in celebration of its one hundredth anniversary. The first edition of this very scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth binding.With a frontispiece of the author, five double...

The British Islands and Their Vegetation

A. G. Tansley · 1949 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Cambridge , At the University Press, 1949. Cloth. A pleasing two-volume study of the environment, history and vegetation of the British Islands, richly illustrated throughout. A new edition, with corrections. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original green clot...