Storia moderna

Paris En 1789

Albert Babeau · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Paris , Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1892. Leather. A handsomely bound new edition of this Parisian social history from Albert Babeau, illustrated throughout. A new edition of this work. Bound in quarter crushed morocco. A charming overview of Paris in 1789, the year th...

Printing 1770-1970: An Illustrated History of Its Development and Uses in England

Michael Twyman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this in depth and heavily illustrated study on the history of printing in England, written by a professor and specialist in typography, Michael Twyman. The first edition. Illustrated throughout with...

High-Ways & Dry-Ways; Stokers and Pokers

Francis Bond Head · 1849 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, John Murray, 1849-1850 . First edition. Leather. Two informative works from Sir Francis Bond Head, offering detailed accounts on the railway infrastructure of the British Isles in the Victorian era. Two mid-nineteenth century works by Francis Bond Head, bound in one ha...

Picture Post: Vol. 1, No. 6 (November 5 1938); Vol. 2, No. 13 (April 1, 1939); Vol. 5, No. 13 (December 30, 1939)

Stefan Lorant [ed.] · 1938 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Hulton Press, 1938-1939. First edition. Magazine. A selection of scarce issues of 'Picture Post', a pioneering British photojournalistic magazine. First edition. In the publisher's original wraps.This set includes three issues from the popular British m...

Command a King&Apos;S Ship

Alexander Kent [Douglas Reeman] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Hutchinson, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this novel from Douglas Reeman's popular 'Bolitho' naval war series. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'Comm...

Stories of the Royal Humane Society

Frank Mundell · 1896 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, The Sunday School Union, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce volume detailing significant events led by the Royal Humane Society, with illustrations. The first edition of this very scarce volume. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding.W...

The Path to Leadership

Field-Marshall Montgomery · 1961 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Collins, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Field-Marshall Montgomery's study of leadership qualities, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped d...

Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque, Volume I

G. Ebers; Clara Bell [trans.]; S. Birch [intro.] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1887. Cloth. Volume I of Georg Ebers' informative and illustrated history of Ancient Egypt, translated by Clara Bell, with notes by Samuel Birch. Volume I of a two-volume work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with picto...

Atlante Espanol O Descripcion General Geografica, Cronologica, E Historica de Espana

Bernardo Espinalt y García · 1779 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.45 | $2,510.17 | ¥400,841)

Madrid, Antonio Fernandez; Gonzalez, 1779-1787 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce set of eight first edition volumes of Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia's 'Atlante Espanol', giving geographical, historical, and chronological descriptions of 18th century Spain. In...

Memoire Sur la Veritable Entree Du Monument Egyptien

Duc de Chaulnes; Louis Joseph d'Albert · 1783 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)

Paris, Louis Jorry, 1783. Unbound. A vanishingly scarce monograph on a monument in Egypt, a tomb for animals, a French work illustrated with a folding map. A vanishingly scarce work.In the original French.The second edition, first published in 1777, as an extract from 'Jo...

The Thirteenth Century, 1216-1307; the Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558; the Whig Supremacy, 1714-1760

Maurice Powicke; J. D. Mackie; Basil Williams; Sir George Clark [ed.] · 1962 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1962. Cloth. A three-volume set from the 'Oxford History of England', illustrated with maps throughout. The second edition of each volume of this three-volume set, uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding.Previous ow...

A London Reverie

J. C. Squire · 1928 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of Joseph Pennell's stunning illustrations of London, with historical notes on the iconic city and in the scarce dust wrapper. The first edition.Illustrated by Joseph Pennell with...

The Management of War. In a Letter to a Tory-Member: First and Second Letters.

[Francis Hare] · 1711 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, A. Baldwin , 1711 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of two letters written to "a Tory-Member" concerning the management of the War of the Spanish Succession. The first edition. Bound in paper covered boards, with renewed endpapers. Comprised of 'The Man...

An Historical Description of No. 4 Lilliput Alley (North Parade Passage) Bath Where Lived Sally Lun and Baked Her Famous Delicacies

1680 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Bath, The Bon Marche Press, c1930. Paperback. A smart copy of this very scarce history of the famous Sally Lunn buns from Bath. Very scarce work. Illustrated with four plates. Collated complete. A detailed history of the house in which Sally Lunn lived in Bath, and the story o...

A Manual of British Historians to A.D. 1600

William Dunn Macray · 1845 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, William Pickering, 1845 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Dunn Macray's informative work on early historians making records prior to the year 1600. The first edition of English librarian, cleric and historian William Dunn Macray's work.A fa...

The Norman Kings

James Chambers · 1981 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson , 1981. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce historical work about the four Norman Kings, profusely illustrated with artwork and photographs. The first edition. A very scarce work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A ...

Axioms: A Novel

Sheila Macleod · 1984 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Quartet Books, 1984. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of Sheila Macleod's powerful feminist novel, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped d...

These Splendid Ships: The Story of the Peninsular and Oriental Line

David Divine · 1960 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Frederick Muller Limited , 1960. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this historical work exploring the development of the Peninsular and Oriental Line. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This wor...

Memoires Sur la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1952 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Bruxelles, Editions Le Sphinx, 1952. Leather. A smart copy of the second volume of the memoirs of Sir Winston Churchill from the Second World War, in French. French. Volume II of a III volume set only. Illustrated throughout with numerous black-and-white figures and photograph...

Wayside and Woodland Ferns

Edward Step · 1908 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this profusely illustrated pocket sized guide to the ferns of Britain. The first edition.A fantastic pocket sized guide to the British ferns, club-mosses and horsetails by Edward Step, containing mu...