Storia moderna

Refutation of Colonel Napiers Justification of His Third Volume

General Lord Viscount Beresford [William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford] · 1834 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, John Murray, 1834 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of William Carr Beresford's refutation of Sir William Napier"s account of his own actions in the Peninsular War. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with an engraved map plate.Beresford...

Records and Traditions of Deane Church, Village, and Parish in Lancashire A.D. 597 to 1904

James Boardman · 1904 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Not Stated, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this two volume set on the traditions of Deane in Lancashire, with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Scarce work. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Volume t...

Famous Ocean Liners Photo Postcards

William H. Miller Jr; Stephen J. Card · 1988 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Toronto; London, General Publishing Company LTD; Constable and Company LTD, 1988. Paperback. A volume of twenty-four postcards depicting famous ocean liners, including four signed colour plates by Stephen J. Card. A unique volume comprising of twenty-four ready-to-mail postcar...

The Form and Order of the of the Service That Is to Be Performed and the Ceremonies That Are to Be Observed in the Coronation of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary

Anonymous · 1911 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.35 | $640.75 | ¥102,320)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1911 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first Eyre and Spottiswoode edition of this liturgical work outlining the religious and ceremonial proceedings of the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, in a signed straight grain morocco bind...

The King Emperor and His Dominions Souvenir of the Coronation Durbar of H.I. M. George V.

Frederick B. Power · 1911 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London, Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A souvenir publication, published in celebration of the coronation Durbar of King George V held in 1911, a very scarce work on the history of the British Empire and the Wellcome company. The first edition.Illustrated...

A Calendar of Court Minutes of the East India Company 1635-9, 1674-6, 1677-9

Ethel Bruce Sainsbury · 1907 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1907-38. First edition. Cloth. Three scarce volumes of records from the East India Company, with details on the court minutes from 1635 up to 1679. The first editions. A three volume set, featuring the records for the years 1635-1639, 1674-1676, and 1...

Specimens of Ancient Church Plate; Sepulchral Crosses; &C.

1845 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Cambridge; London, J. H. Parker, T. Stevenson; Rivingtons, and Burns, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A lovely and uncommon collection of ancient church relics found across Britain, illustrated with fifty engraved plates. The first and only edition of this work. Very scarce work. ...

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

Winston Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. Cloth. Winston Churchill's interesting historical work on the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Soudan, from the collection of Steve Forbes. The first cheap edition.From the collection of Steve Forbes, with loose bookplates inserted into ...

The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II

Henry Hallam · 1855 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, John Murray, 1855. Leather. A smart eighth edition of Henry Hallam's most famous work, an authoritative history of England's politics. Complete in three volumes. Eighth edition. A detailed and comprehensive study of the constitutional history of England, focu...

A History of Modern Europe from the Capture of Constantinople, 1453, to the Treaty of Berlin, 1878

Richard Lodge · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, John Murray, 1906. Leather. A smartly bound fourth printing of the fourth edition of this insightful history of Europe from British historian Sir Richard Lodge. Fourth edition, fourth impression. A detailed and comprehensive history of Europe from the capture of Consta...

Memoires de General Bon de Marbot

General Bon De Marbot · 1803 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, c1890. Leather. The thirty-second edition of the detailed memoirs of Marcellin Marbot, in the original French language. French. Complete in three volumes. Thirty-second edition. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. The memoirs of Jean-Ba...

The Life of John Kaspar Lavater & Jamaica Enslaved and Free

Anonymous; Benjamin Luckock · 1846 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, The Religious Tract Society , 1846-9 . First edition. Leather. A superbly bound volume containing two works published by the Religious Tract Society, one being a biography of Swiss poet and theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater, and the other being a history of Jamaica. Fir...

The British Classics: The Guardian

Richard Steele; Joseph Addison · 1814 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, C. Whittingham; John Sharpe, 1814-15. Leather. An illustrated edition of one of the periodicals founded by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison. Volumes XIII and XIV of 'The British Classics' series, of a total of thirty-four. These volumes contain the complete ...

The Officers and Nurses of Evacuation Eight: With a Complete Roster of All Those Who Served with the Unit

Arthur M. Shipley; Agnes T. Considine · 1929 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce supplement volume to Frederick A. Pottle's history of WWI's Evacuation Hospital No. 8, offering personal accounts. The first edition of this very scarce work.With the original unclipped dus...

Courts of Requests: Their Nature, Utility, and Powers Described, with a Variety of Cases

William Hutton · 1787 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason, 1787 . First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of William Hutton's account of the eighteenth century small claims court of Birmingham. A very scarce first edition. This work was reprinted in 1840, in an edition which ...

1850 the Capital of Scotland: A Twentieth-Century Contemplation on Edinburgh

Moray McLaren · 1950 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Edinburgh, Douglas and Foulis , 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Moray McLaren's illustrated historical study on Edinburgh, presented and inscribed by the author to his friend and actor Laurence Hardy, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition.The au...

Pride and Negligence: The History of the Boswell Papers

Frederick A. Pottle · 1982 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1982. Cloth. A remarkable look at the complex process behind Yale's publishing of James Boswell's private papers. The Research Edition of this work, published for the 'Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell&apos...

That Damn Y": A Record of Overseas Service

Katherine Mayo · 1920 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A first edition presentation copy of Katherine Mayo's biographical work on the life of Edward Clark Carter and the role of the Y.M.C.A during WWI, inscribed by the author. The first edition. A pre...

Nine Historical Works from the Folio Society

Ferdinand Columbus; Ronald Latham; Jean Le Bel Jean Froissart; Kenneth Fenwick; Charles Burney; et al. · 1958 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, The Folio Society, 1958-69. Cloth. A collection of historical works published by the Folio Society, all in their original slipcases and illustrated throughout. The first Folio Society editions, with 'Third Crusade' and 'Thomas Beckett' being second ...

A History of Tithes

Henry William Clarke · 1891 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co , 1891. First edition. Cloth. Henry William Clarke's scarce work on the history of tithes and their significance within Christianity. A new version, originally published in 1887, with the author stating that 'he re-wrote the previous ed...