Storia moderna

An Historical Relation of Ceylon

Robert Knox · 1981 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Dehiwala; Sri Lanka, Tisara Prakasakayo Ltd. 1981. Hardback. A full calf facsimile of this account of Robert Knox's time held in Sri Lanka, with folding map. A full calf reproduction of the 1681 text, together with the introductory pages of an autobiography by Knox from ...

Memoirs of the CIVIL War in Wales and the Marches, 1642-1649

John Roland Phillips · 1874 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1874. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an account of Wales during the Great Rebellion, with volume II containing numerous historical sources, scarce as a complete two volume set. The first edition of Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales ...

Oral Exercises for Beginners in Latin Composition: Intended As a Companion for the Initia Latina

Joseph Edwards, William Cross · 1841 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, James Madden & Co. 1841. Cloth. A very scarce guide to beginner's Latin, including oral exercises and construction rules for beginners, with only one institutional copy available. Oral Exercises for Beginners in Latin Composition: Intended as a Companion for the I...

Illustrations of the Most Interesting of the Sculptured Crosses of Ancient Ireland

Henry O'Neill · 1857 · Rooke Books

£9,500.00 (€11,387.26 | $12,550.83 | ¥2,004,205)

London, Trubner & Co, 1857 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with thirty-six lithographs by Henry O'Neill, this is the impressive and very scarce first edition of this collection of illustrations of the ancient sculptured crosses of Ireland. The first edition of this ...

Skoob Address Book

Katherine H. Davies · 1981 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Skoob Books Ltd. 1981. Leather. A very scarce, illustrated address book of contemporary bookdealers from prominent London bookshop Skoob Books, smartly bound in the original full morocco soft covers. Very scarce.In the publisher's original full-morocco soft covers...

Cosmorama: The Manners, Customs, and Costumes of All Nations of the World

J. Aspin [Jehoshaphat Aspin] · 1834 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, John Harris, 1834. Cloth. A bright copy of the new edition of Aspin's richly illustrated nineteenth century study of clothing, culture and customs around the globe. With hand-coloured plates. A 'New Edition' of this work.Illustrated with twenty-three han...

County Genealogies, Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Hants

William Berry · 1833 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1833 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this exhaustive nineteenth century heraldic work tracing the genealogy of Hampshire's families from the 1530s to the 1830s The first edition of William Berry's extensive and imp...

R.P. Ionnis de Lugo Hispalensis, E Societate Iesv, in Collegio Romano Eiusdem Sociatatis Theologiae Professoris, Disputationes Scholasticae, Et Morales, de Virtve, Et Sacramento Poenitentiae. Item de Svffragiis, Et Indvlgentiis. Opus Confessariis Omnibvs Maxime Vtile.

John de Lugo · 1638 · Rooke Books

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

Lyon, Jacobi & Petri Prost, 1638. First edition. Leather. The incredibly scarce first edition of Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal, John de Lugo's treatise on the sacrament of penance. The first edition of John de Lugo's 1638 treatise on the virtue of penance, published in...

7 Vols British School of Archaeology in Egypt Excavation Reports

W. M. Flinders Petrie; J. Garrow Duncan; Ernest Mackay; Gerald Wainwright; J. W. Walker; Guy Brunton; Alan Gardiner · 1906 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, School of Archaeology in Egypt; Benard Quaritch, 1906-1928. First edition. Cloth. A substantial group of excavation reports, compiled chiefly by the "father of modern archaeology", W. M. Flinders Petrie, richly illustrated and central to the development of scientific E...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon · 1867 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Bell & Daldy , 1867-1870 . Leather. Six volumes of Edward Gibbon's influential historical account of the Roman Empire. A six volume set.Part of the Bohn's British Classics series.With various notes, including those of Guizot, Wenck, Schreiter, and Hugo.Volume...

1918 the Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe

George Abel Schreiner · 1918 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy of the first edition of this illustrated work on food shortages in Central Europe during the First World War by German-American war correspondent George Abel Schreiner. The first edition in the pub...

The Struggle of the Nations: Egypt, Syria, and Assyria

Gaston Maspero; A. H. Sayce [ed.]; M. L. McClure [trans.] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1925 . Cloth. A very scarce copy of this abundantly illustrated historical account of Egypt, Syria and Assyria by acclaimed Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. A reprint of the second edition.In publisher's original cloth bindin...

Orientations; from an Antique Land

Ronald Storrs; Julian Huxley · 1939 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Readers Union; Max Parrish, 1939-1961. Cloth. Two smart works on the Middle East, one based upon personal experiences when working in the British foreign office, and the other a travel account from a fascinated scientist. Orientations, and From an Antique Land, two sma...

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo

Sir Edward Creasy · 1876 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1876. Leather. A smartly bound twenty-second edition of this insightful history on the great battles of the world. The twenty-second edition, originally published 1851.In full brown calf binding. A detailed commentary on important historical bat...

Lives of the British Admirals Containing and Accurate Naval History from the Earliest Periods

Dr John Campbell · 1817 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, C J Barrington, 1817. Leather. Dr John Campbell's biographical work, 'Lives of the British Admirals&apos. With a frontispiece to each volume. Complete in eight volumes. With the bookplate of one John Foster to the front pastedown of all volumes. The bookplate...

The History of the Rebellion and CIVIL Wars in England

Edward Earl of Clarendon · 1839 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,210)

Oxford , Oxford University Press, 1839. Cloth. A voluminous work on the English Civil War and Rebellions. Complete in seven volumes. This is a New Edition, printed from Clarendon's original manuscript which therefore contains previously suppressed passages from the first ...

Robertson&Apos;S Works. In Seven Volumes

William Robertson · 1797 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

London , T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1797-1802. Leather. A collection of the Scottish historian Robertson's works Works include: 'The History of Scotland' (3 Vols, Fifteenth Edition, 1797), 'The History of America' (3 Vols, Eighth Edition, 1800) and ...

The Gloucestershire Domesday

Dr Ann Williams; R W H Erskine · 1989 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Alecto Historical Editions, 1989. Cloth. A beautiful three volume set of the Domesday Book. Comprising of the Domesday Book Studies, which is a detailed explanation of the Domesday Book and therefore a companion to the other two volumes. The work explains the making of...

Advocate for the Dead the Story of the Dead

Alex Weissberg; Constantine Fitzgibbon; Andrew Foster-Melliar · 1958 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography about Joel Brand. The dramatic story of Joel Brand, leader of a Jewish organisation in Budapest, who was offered one million Jews by the Germans in exchange for army lorries. First edition. ...

Modern Ireland a Bibliography on Politics, Planning, Research and Development

Michael Owen Shannon · 1981 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London, The Library Association, 1981. First edition. Cloth. An interesting and comprehensive guide to Modern Ireland. The first edition of this work. Comprehensive guide examining all apspects of Modern Ireland with chapters on, history, politics, government, geography and na...