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A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East Towards Cathay and China

Gerrit de Veer; Charles T. Beke [ed.] · 1853 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

London, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1853. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first Hakluyt society edition of De Veer's accounts of his late sixteenth century voyages, signed by the editor, Charles Tilstone Beke. A very scarce first edition thus, being the first e...

Home Office CIVIL Defence Manual of Basic Training

Home Office · 1949 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1949-1951. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce collection of eight mid-twentieth century Civil Defence manuals issued by the Home Office, offering guidance in such matters as defence against atomic and chemical warfare. The first e...

Henry III King of France and Poland: His Court and Times

Martha Walker Freer · 1858 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1858. Leather. A smart three volume set of this biography of Henry III of France and Poland. Complete in three volumes. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. A biography of Henry III, King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, ...

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Winston S. Churchill · 1956 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.26 | $1,710.88 | ¥273,205)

London , The Educational Book Company Ltd, 1956-1958. Cloth. An excellent complete 'Chartwell' edition of Winston Churchill's popular history, complete here with very scarce original glassines. The first printings of the "Chartwell" Edition, being the first illu...

A History of Cirencester

Welbore St. Clair Baddeley · 1924 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Cirencester, Cirencester Newspaper Company, Limited, 1924. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this detailed history of Cirencester, a market town in England. First edition. Illustrated with three folding maps and plans, and thirty-two plates. Collated complete. A detai...

Life of Humphrey Chetham

Francis Robert Raines; Charles W. Sutton · 1903 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Manchester, Chetham Society, 1903. Cloth. A smart two volume set of this biography of English philanthropist Humphrey Chetham, with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. Scarce work. From the Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster a...

Gustavus III and His Contemporaries 1746-1792

R. Nisbet Bain · 1894 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co , 1894. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce complete work on Gustavus III by British historian Robert Nisbet Bain. The first edition, complete in two volumes. Very scarce to find both complete and single volumes of this work. In the p...

Into Battle, the End of the Beginning, & Victory

Winston S. Churchill; Randolph S. Churchill; Charles Eade · 1942 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1942-1946. First edition. Cloth. Three smart later editions of these collections of speeches from British statesman Sir Winston S. Churchill. Three volumes. Written by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, a British statesman, military offi...

The Gallant Little Campeador

Cecil Hunt · 1941 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1941. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated account of a yacht during the Second World War, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrap...

Uniforms of the Australian Colonies

A. N. Festberg; B. J. Videon · 1972 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Melbourne, Hill of Content, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the uniforms of the Australian Colonies, with a letter from Ross Campbell. First edition. Illustrated with twelve colour plates. Collated complete. A detailed account and...

A 1930s Family Photo Album

Anonymous · 1933 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

Not Stated, None, 1933-1937 . Cloth. A charming family photo album, consisting of one-hundred and forty-four photographs of life in England between 1933 and 1937. A fantastic 1930s photo album, following the outings and gatherings of an English family between the years 1933 an...

Marlborough: His Life and Times

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1933. Cloth. A smart early edition of this illustrated biographical history from British statesman Sir Winston S. Churchill, volume one only. One volume of a four volume set, being volume one only. Early edition, printed the same month as th...

The Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark · 1963 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Macmillan, 1963. Paperback. A scarce uncorrected proof copy of Muriel Spark's popular post-World War Two novella. The uncorrected proof copy. In the publisher's original proof paper covers. The uncorrected proof of Muriel Spark's novella about the lives ...

Exposition D&Apos;Oeuvres de L&Apos;Art Francais Au Xviiieme Siecle

Academie Royale Des Arts · 1910 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Berlin, Academie Royale Des Arts, 1910. Leather. A very scarce limited edition work, featuring a heavily illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of eighteenth century French artwork, bound in half vellum. A limited edition, being number 189 out of five hundred copies of this e...

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. A very scarce supplement volume to Frederick A. Pottle's history of Evacuation Hospital No. 8, established in WWI. The first edition of this very scarce supplement volume. With the original unclipped dust wrapp...

Reminiscences of Kenwood and the Northern Heights

Sir Arthur Crosfield · 1925 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Country Life Ltd, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated historical work on Kenwood and Hampstead Heath by Sir Arthur Henry Crosfield. The very scarce first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and fourteen monochrome plates. C...

Handwritten Notes on the Severn Tunnel

[John Hawkshaw] · 1873 · Rooke Books

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

None, None, c1886 . Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce booklet of handwritten notes regarding the construction of the Severn Tunnel, written by the engineer of the tunnel, Sir John Hawkshaw, alongside a hand-drawn plan of a nearby spring affecting the area of construction. A boo...

The Barber of Putney

J. B. Morton · 1934 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Philip Allan & Co. Ltd, 1934. Cloth. The first revised edition of J. B. Morton's semi autobiographical novel about his experiences during World War One. The first revised edition. First published in 1919. In the publisher's original cloth. This war novel was ...

The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(I)" & Carrying on - After the First Hundred Thousand

Ian Hay [Major General John Hay Beith] · 1915 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915-1917. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes of this good humoured account of army life from British soldier Major General John Hay Beith. Two volumes. First edition. With a colour frontispiece to volume one. ...

The Island of Formosa Past and Present: History, People, Resources, and Commercial Prospects. Tea, Camphor, Sugar, Gold, Coal, Sulphur, Economical Plants, and Other Productions

James W. Davidson · 2005 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Taipei , SMC Publishing Inc. 2005. Cloth. An attractive new edition of James W. Davidson's comprehensive history of the short-lived Republic of Formosa. A new edition of this work. First published by Macmillan in 1903. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wra...