Storia moderna

Arctic Miscellanies. A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search. By the Officers and Seamen of the Expedition.

'Aurora Borealis' · 1852 · Rooke Books

£2,600.00 (€3,116.51 | $3,434.96 | ¥548,519)

London, Colburn and Co, 1852. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this remarkable collection of articles written by a crew marooned in frozen Arctic waters. Rebound in half calf and illustrated throughout. The first edition of this fascinating and scarce public...

Note on Water Required and Available for the Sudan Gezira Scheme; Computations Relating to the Note on the Water Supply Required and Available for the Sudan-Gezira Scheme

Murdoch MacDonald · 1918 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Cairo, Government Press, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and fascinating insight into the plans and calculations for one of the world's largest irrigation projects, The Gezira Scheme. Two very scarce first edition publications on the availability and requirement...

History of the Princes of South Wales

George T.O. Bridgeman · 1876 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Wigan, Thomas Birch, 1876. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive work on the genealogy of the historical princes of Wales. Including a signed letter and handwritten pedigree notes, both by the author. A fascinating and comprehensive genealogical history of the princes of Wales...

The City of Edinburgh

David Keir [ed.] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Collins , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this extensive description of the city of Edinburgh, the first edition complete with its large folding map. The first edition of this work, providing a fascinating depiction of the life in the city of Edinburgh, ed...

Abraham Lincoln

Lord Charnwood · 1917 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1917. Fine Binding. A finely bound, early edition of this biography of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. From the library of socialite and patron of the arts, Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. The third edition of this work. A ...

Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies from the Earliest Period of Authentic History to the Reign of Queen Victoria

Reverend Rogers Ruding · 1840 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Hearne, 1840. Cloth. A third edition copy of this scarce work on the history of coinage in England, bound in decorative cloth by Edmonds & Remnants London. Complete in three volumes.Bound by Edmonds & Remnants London, with their binder's plate to the rear pas...

Memoirs of the Lineage Early Life Education and Development of the Genius of James Watt

George Williamson · 1856 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Thomas Constable, 1856. First edition. Fine Binding. A finely bound, first edition copy of George Williamson's memorials of James Watt. In a binding by Alexander Banks, with the binder's stamp 'Banks Junr' of Edinburgh to the front pastedown. Loosel...

L&Apos;Histoire Grecque Et Ancienne Et Romaine

Jules Raymond Lame Fleury · 1839 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris, Librairie Dufart, 1839. Leather. Fleury's original French histories of the ancient worlds, Greece, and Roman, vivid histories written for children. Four volumes of Jules Raymond Lame Fleury's world histories, aimed towards children.In the original French.Three...

Reminiscences Connected Chiefly with Inveresk and Musselburgh and Sketches Off Family Histories

W. H. Langhorne · 1893 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Edinburgh, Privately printed for the Author, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of the author's reminiscences of Inveresk and Musselburgh by W. H. Langhorne. W. H. Langhorne shares reminiscences of his parish in Inveresk and Musselburgh, in East Lothian...

The Index Library Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem Returned Into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Charles the First, Part I, II, and III

W.P.W. Phillimore; George S. Fry; Edw. Alexander Fry · 1893 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, British Record Society, 1893-1899. First edition. Leather. Three volumes in one handsomely bound book, containing parts I, II, and III of post mortem inquisitiones in the reign of King Charles I. A beautifully bound, three volume in one, set of Post Mortem Inquisitione...

Convention between His Britannick Majesty and the Empress of Russia

1793 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Edward Johnston, 1793. Paperback. An uncommon pamphlet, laying out the details of a meeting between King George III and Catherine the Great. An uncommon pamphlet.ESTC citation number T84784.Printed with parallel French and English text.A discussion on the convention be...

The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon

Robert Buchanan · 1868 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.76 | ¥67,510)

London, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868. First edition. Cloth. A first edition biography of this important American ornithologist and naturalist. A biography of the American ornithologist, naturalist and painter John James Audubon. With a full plate frontispiece illustratio...

The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth

William Roscoe · 1806 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, J. M’Creery for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. Leather. The biographical account of Pope Leo X and his pontificate in six extensive volumes by William Roscoe. A second corrected edition complete in six volumes of William Roscoe"s biographical account of Pope Leo X. Bor...

Annales Caermoelenses, or, Annals of Cartmel

James Stockdale · 1872 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

Ulverston, London, William Kitchin, 1872. Cloth. A beautiful descriptive and historical account of Cartmel in Cumbria, illustrated with photographic plates. This work describes the history of the parish Cartmel, located in Cumbria. Known as the 'home of the sticky toffee ...

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq, F.R. S. , Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II

Samuel Pepys · 1825 · Rooke Books

£2,950.00 (€3,536.04 | $3,897.36 | ¥622,358)

London, Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition. Leather. The first full published edition of Samuel Pepys' historically important diary, an immense document of the 1670s, an interesting era of British history. The first edition thus of this work, being the first published edi...

Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots; and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, Galloway, and Murray.

Joseph Ritson · 1828 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, W. and D. Laing, 1828. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this two volume history from renowned English antiquary Joseph Ritson. A half calf, two volume first edition of this work.This is the work of English lawyer and antiquary Joseph Ritson, best known for his ...

The Confessions of William-Henry Ireland Containing the Particulars of His Fabrication of the Shakespearean Manuscripts; Together with Anecdotes and Opinions of Many Distinguished Persons in the Literary, Political, and Theoretical World

William-Henry Ireland · 1805 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.23 | $759.66 | ¥121,307)

London, Printed for Thomas Goddard, 1805. First edition. Leather. A lovely copy of this scarce first edition containing the confessions of famous Shakespearean forger William-Henry Ireland. The first edition of this scarce work by William-Henry Ireland, in which he confesses t...

Discourses Upon Cornelius Tacitus

Virgilio Malvezzi · 1642 · Rooke Books

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

London, E. G. for R. Whitaker, 1642. First edition. Leather. The first English edition of Virgilio Malvezzi's discourse work on the life of Virgilio Malvezzi, illustrated with a detailed woodcut title page. The first English edition of this work.Illustrated with a woodcut...

Defence of the Realm Act in Ireland

Anonymous · 1915 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

Dublin, Committee of Public Safety, 1915. Paperback. A very scarce wartime pamphlet of the use of the Defence of the Realm Act in Ireland. Very scarce work.A pamphlet looking into the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) that was put in place during World War One. The Act gave the ...

Ancient Charters of Birmingham

R Crompton Rhodes · 1934 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

Birmingham , City of Birmingham School of Printing - Central School of Arts and Crafts , 1934. First edition. Paperback. An uncommon volume containing the first edition of the translation of five ancient Charters of Birmingham in their extended form by R. Crompton Rhodes. A ch...