Storia moderna

The British Section of the Ravenna Cosmography by I.A. Richmond and O.G. S. Crawford. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries

I. A. Richmond; O. G. S. Crawford · 1949 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Oxford, Privately printed, 1949. Paperback. A scarce and important work exploring the British section of the ancient Ravenna Cosmography. The British Section of the Ravenna Cosmography, from Archaeologia Vol. XCIII, written by I. A. Richmond and O. G. S. Crawford and read to t...

The Roads of England

R.M.C. Anderson; Sir William R. Morris · 1932 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Ernest Benn, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work on the transportation and roadways of England, with numerous illustrated maps throughout. A fascinating early twentieth-century work on transportation and roadways through England, including...

Recollections of an Old Soldier: A Biographical Sketch of the Late Colonel Tidy, C.B. , 24th Regt. With Anecdotes of His Contemporaries

Mrs. Ward; Harriet Ward · 1849 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Richard Bentley, 1849. First edition. Leather. A vanishingly scarce first edition biography on the Colonel Francis Skelly Tidy, a touching memorial penned by his daughter. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work, last sold at auction in 1964.A touching biogra...

A History of Northumberland Vol I the Parish of Bamburgh with the Chapelry of Belford Vol II the Parishes of Embleton, Ellingham, Howick, Long Houghton, Lesbury Vol III Hexhamshire: Part I Vol IV Hexhamshire: Part II (Hexham, Whitley Chapel, Allendale, and St. John Lee and the Parish of Chollerton, the Chapelry of Kirkheaton and the Parish of Thockrington Vol V the Parish of Warkworth, the Parish of Shilbottle, the Chapelry or Extra-Parochial Place of Brainshaugh Vol VI the Parish of Bywell St P

Edward Bateson; Allen B. Hinds; John Crawford Hodgson; H. H. E. Craster · 1893 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Andrew Reid, Sons & Co; Andrew Reid & Company, 1893-1914. First edition. Cloth. Ten bright first edition volumes of the History of Northumberland, richly illustrated with plates and colour maps. In the publisher's original cloth binding. This is Vol I...

The History of the Tyne Electrical Engineers, Royal Engineers

Various · 1935 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Newcastle, R. Ward & Sons, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition illustrated copy of this history of the Royal Engineers. A first edition copy of The History of the Tyne Electrical Engineers, Royal Engineers, which is from the formation of the submarine Mining Comp...

Une Lettre inã©Dite de Napolã©on a Champagny, Ministre Des Relations Extã©Rieures (Collection de la Fondation Napolã©on)

Napoléon · 2004 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Paris, Librairie Arteme Fayard, c2004. Unbound. Facsimile of an inedited letter from Napoleon to the minister of foreign relations, very scarce limited edition. Facsimile of an unedited letter from Napoleon to Champagny, written in 1807, enclosed in the original paper wraps wi...

Introductory Essay to a New System of CIVIL and Ecclesiastical Topography, and Itinerary of Counties of Ireland. With Remembrances of Memorable Events, Recorded at Places Where They Occurred. Also, Tables of Direct and Cross Roads - Table of 2436 Parishes, Under the Respective Barony and Diocess - an Alphabetical Table - Judges Circuits Post Towns.

Rev. Matthew Sleater · 1806 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

Not Stated, Privately printed, 1806. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of Sleater's study of Irish topography and history. The first edition of this work in the original paper boards. Ink inscription to the paste down. List of subscribers to the front o...

History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth, with an Account of the Emperor&Apos;S Life After His Abdication; History of the Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilisation of the Incas; History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain; History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilisation, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes; History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain; Critical and Historical Ess

William H. Prescott · 1857 · Rooke Books

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

London, George Routledge and Co.; Richard Bentley; Routledge, Warne and Routledge; , 1857-61. Leather. A handsome uniformly bound fifteen volume set of historical works by the renowned American historian, William H. Prescott. New editions. Uniformly bound in a handsome half ca...

Monumental Inscriptions and Coats of Arms from Cambridgeshire

John Layer; William Cole; WM Palmer · 1932 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Cambridge , Bowes and Bowes, 1932. First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of this large paper volume concerning monumental inscriptions and coats of arms from Cambridgeshire. The first edition of this work, a scarce book. A detailed study of monumental inscriptions and coa...

Champ Fleury the Art and Science of the Proportion of the Attic or Ancient Roman Letters, According to the Human Body and Face

Geofroy Tory · 1970 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Wakefield, S. R. Publishers Ltd, 1970. Cloth. A handsome 1970 reprint of Geofroy Tory's important 1529 work on the French language. In the publisher's original cloth binding. 111 illustrations. Collated complete. Geofroy Tory published his own book, Champ Fleury, in ...

Blood Royal, the Illustrious House of Hanover

Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson · 1979 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Book Club Associates, 1979. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson's fascinating historical account of the House of Hanover, rebound in full vellum. The first edition. Rebound in full vellum with gilt lettering to the spine....

Lean&Apos;S Royal Navy List, Containing Special Points of Interest of the Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines on the Active and Retired Lists

Lieut. Colonel Francis Lean · 1895 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Witherby & Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of Lean's Royal Navy List for January 1895, record of the British Royal Navy. First edition of this work. A very scarce number from Lieut.-Colonel Francis Lean's quarterly periodical concerning the...

Darnley; or, the Field of the Cloth of Gold

George Payne Rainsford James · 1830 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition. Leather. A dramatized retelling of the 1520 meeting between Henry VIII of England and Francois I of France, with a tipped-in handwritten letter by the author, G.P.R. James. A fascinating, dramatized retelling of t...

The Case of Adolf Eichmann

Victor Gollancz · 1961 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , Victor Gollancz, 1961. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A first edition copy of Victor Gollancz's The Case of Adolf Eichmann. A first edition pamphlet of Victor Gollancz's The Case of Adolf Eichmann. Victor Gollancz was a British publisher and humanitarian ...

Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss. Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Steam-Engine.

Samuel Smiles · 1865 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, John Murray, 1865 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this biography of two steam-engine engineers from the nineteenth century with illustrations. First edition, in full calf binding of Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho MSS. Compr...

The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie; Brian Vickers · 1967 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Oxford University Press, 1967 . Cloth. The revised edition of The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie with the original dust wrapper. Revised modern edition of Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling, originally published in 1771. This text is based from the second cor...

Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action, Adapted to the English Drama

Henry Siddons · 1807 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Richard Phillips, 1807 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with sixty-six engraved plates, this is the scarce first edition of Henry Siddons guide to gesture in theatrical performance. The scarce first edition of English actor and theatrical manager Henry Siddons&apo...

Marmorum Oxoniensium Inscriptiones Graecae Chandleri Exemplar Editae

Gulielmo Roberts · 1791 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)

Oxonii , E. Typographeo Clarendoniano , 1791. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce copy of this volume detailing marble inscriptions in Latin and Greek. This is a very scarce copy of Marmorum Oxoniensium Inscriptiones Graecae Chandleri Exemplar, or Oxonian Marble Inscriptions in G...

The Bookman Illustrated History of English Literature

Thomas Seccombe; W. Robertson Nicoll · 1906 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. Cloth. A lovely and in-depth work looking into the vast history of English literature and its development across the centuries, illustrated. Complete in two volumes.'The Bookman Illustrated History of English Literature' is a richl...

Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century

Sidney Lee · 1904 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , Charles Scribner's Sons , 1904. Leather. A smart copy of Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century, considering the likes of Shakespeare and Francis Bacon. This is a smart copy of Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century, written by Sidney Lee who was an English...