Storia moderna

Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk

Len Deighton; General W. K. Nehring · 1979 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1979 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Len Deighton's detailed military history of events of the Second World War. A remarkable account of the lightening war on the ground, exploring the scandals in the Nazi hierarchy. It narrate...

Prussia and Saxony; or, an Appeal to the Good Sense of Europe

Anon · 1815 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, The Pamphleteer, 1815. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce pamphlet from the Pamphleteer on the annexation of Saxony. A fascinating essay on the annexation of Saxony to Prussia, The Pamphleteer No. IX, Vol V. Translated from the German.A very scarce work on the history of Sa...

A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France from the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte on the First of March 1815 Till the Restoration of Louis XVIII

Helen Maria Williams · 1895 · Rooke Books

£57.00 (€68.32 | $75.30 | ¥12,025)

Cleveland, The Burrows Brothers, 1895. Cloth. A Limited Edition of Helen Maria Williams' detailed account of the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, first published in 1815. A late nineteenth century Limited Edition printing of British novelist and translator Helen Maria...

The Court of the Empress Josephine

Imbert de Saint-Amand · 1891 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

London, Hutchinson and Co. [1891]. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this UK first edition study of the court of Empress Josephine. Imbert de Saint-Amand was a French diplomat and historian, prolific author of publications on the women of the court of Louis XIV, Loui...

Miniature Memoirs: The Wives of Napoleon

1909 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Sisley's , [1909]. Cloth. A very scarce pocket sized book containing biographical sketches of the wives of Napoleon. A very scarce copy of this work, issued in Sisley's 'Miniature series', held institutionally by one library only and rarely seen on ...

American Women in Gilded Age London: Expatriates Rediscovered

Jane Gabin · 2006 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2006. First edition. Cloth. An interesting historical account of female American literary expatriates in London, the author's presentation copy. A bright first edition, first impression. The first edition, first impression of this...

With the Flag to Pretoria and After Pretoria

H.W. Wilson · 1900 · Rooke Books

£255.00 (€305.66 | $336.89 | ¥53,797)

London, Harmsworth Brothers , 1900-02. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, heavily illustrated work on the history of the Boer War, complete in four uniformly bound volumes. The first edition of this work. A very smart, comprehensive work on the history of the Boer War, a bitt...

Your Days Are Numbered: A Manual of Numerology for Everybody

Florence Campbell · 1932 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Rider & Co. 1932. First edition. Cloth. An exciting first complete textbook of numerology, the scarce first UK edition. The scarce first UK edition of this work, preceded by an undated US edition by the same publishers. An exciting work, Your Days are Numbered by Flor...

Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography

Sir James Stephen · 1860 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. Cloth. A wonderful collection of biographical essays of key religious figures by Sir James Stephen, reprinted from his articles in the Edinburgh Review. A fourth edition copy of Sir James Stephen's 'Essays in Eccles...

Napoleon Et Son Temps, Sainte-Helene: La Captive de Napoleon Et la Mort de L&Apos;Empereur

Aubry Octave · 1935 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Paris, Flammarion, 1935. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of this work on the captivity and death of Napoleon Bonaparte of France, written by twentieth-century novelist and historian, Octave Aubry. Two volumes in one, handsomely bound in quarter morocco with gilt detailing to ...

Madame de Maintenon Et la Maison Royale de Saint-Cyr 1686-1793

Theophile Lavallee · 1862 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Henri Plon, 1862. Leather. An illustrated, early edition of this biography and historical account of the Madame de Maintenon the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis. Handsomely bound in half morocco by Hardy Mennil. A fascinating biography and historical account of Madame de M...

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, During the Course of Polite Education with His Life and Miscellaneous Pieces to Which Is Appended a Copious Index

Philip Dormer Stanhope · 1833 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Philadelphia , Desilver , 1833 . Leather. A collection of over four hundred letters written by British statesman Philip Dormer Stanhope to his son during the courses of the eighteenth century. A collection of over four hundred letters exchanged between Philip Dormer Stanhope a...

The London Gazette Published by Authority No 5247, the Death of Queen Anne

Unnamed · 1714 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

London, The London Gazette, 1714. Cloth. A very scarce and incredibly well-preserved original London Gazette newspaper article from August 1714, detailing the death of Queen Anne. Nicely rebound in cloth binding. Presenting The London Gazette No. 5247, Published by Authority f...

Inventory of Parochial Documents in the Diocese of Bath and Wells and the County of Somerset

J. E. King [ed.] · 1938 · Rooke Books

£56.00 (€67.12 | $73.98 | ¥11,814)

Taunton, Harold King, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition reference work providing an inventory of the civil and ecclesiastical records held by each Somerset parish. Compiled by the Somerset County Council County Records Committee, this is a detailed first...

Fur and Feather Series

Various · 1896 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1896-98. First edition. Cloth. A lovely set of three works relating to the natural history, hunting and preparation of the hare, the rabbit and the red deer, each illustrated throughout and presented in the delightful publisher's pictorial...

The Wounded Don&Apos;T Cry

Quentin Reynolds · 1941 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1941. Leather. An immensely scarce war memoir by Quentin Reynolds', his vivid first hand account of World War Two. From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. A very scarce work, this copy being the fourth edition, published in May 19...

University of Edinburgh: Charters, Statutes, and Acts of the Town Council and the Senatus 1583-1858

Alexander Morgan · 1937 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Edinburgh , Oliver and Boyd , 1937. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon copy of this study of the origin and growth of the university of Edinburgh, the first edition in its unclipped dust wrapper. An interesting study of the origin and development of the University of Edinburgh,...

The Lands of Cazembe: Lacerda&Apos;S Journey to Cazembe in 1798

Captain R.F. Burton · 1873 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, John Murray, 1873. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating work on Portuguese travels to remote Africa, including the original large folding map of the voyage. A very interesting publication of narratives and and information about Portuguese travels to remote areas of Afri...

Marie-Therese

Constantin de Grunwald; Karl Tschuppik · 1936 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1936. Leather. A lovely French biography on the Empress Maria Theresa, a fascinating volume bound here in a nice quarter calf binding. A fascinating biography on the formidable Maria Theresa, the important ruler of the Habsburg dominions for forty years...

George Selwyn

John Heneage Jesse · 1843 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Richard Bentley, 1843-44. Leather. A finely bound set of George Selwyn's memoirs. Compiled by John Heneage Jesse. The first edition. In a signed binding by J R Gray and Son, with their stamp to the front pastedown.  Former owner's book label to the front p...