Storia regionale e locale

Les Guides Nagel: Iran

1966 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Geneve, Paris, Munich, Les Editions Nagel, 1966. Cloth. A smart and scarce copy of this guide to travelling Iran, with maps and illustrations. In the original French. French. Scarce work. Illustrated with three colour folding maps and twenty-five black-and-white plans. Collate...

A Year Amongst the Persians

Edward G. Browne · 1893 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Edward G. Browne's detailed account of his time in Persia in the 1880s. The scarce first edition of this work by British Iranologist Edward Granville Browne.Illustrated with a colour ...

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents

James D. Richardson [editor] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

New York, Bureau of National Literature, 1913. Leather. A complete set of this illustrated historical work on the Presidents of the United States of America. Complete in eleven volumes. An important collection of messages, letters, and papers of the Presidents of the United St...

Breaking the Record & the Romance of the South Pole

M. Douglas; G. Barnett Smith · 1898 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1898-1900 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce pair of first editions documenting dangerous and thrilling Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, accompanied by illustrations. First editions, in the publisher's original pictorial binding. Compri...

The Great North

Felice Bellotti; James Cadell [translator] · 1957 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very smart advanced reading copy of this exciting account of the expeditions of Bellotti, with illustrations. First edition. Advanced reading copy with request for review insert. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated com...

Flowers from a Persian Garden, and Other Papers

W. A. Clouston · 1890 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, David Nutt, 1890. First edition. Leather. A Bayntun-Riviere first edition of William Alexander Clouston's travel work on Iran, a smartly bound copy of this scarce work. The first edition of this scarce work.Bound by Bayntun-Riviere.A charming travel work on Iran, ...

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773

James Bruce of Kinnaird · 1790 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)

Edinburgh; London, J. Ruthven; G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790. First edition. Leather. The first edition of James Bruce's travelogue recounting his search to the source of the Nile, an illustrated set of five volumes. The first edition.Complete in five volumes.ESTC citati...

Through the Jungle Very Softly a Quest for Wild Animals in the Far East

Richard and Clara Winston · 1963 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London , Hodder & Stoughton , 1963. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated account of explorations for animals in the Jungle, from the library of Desmond Morris. A first edition in English, translated from the original German of Ludwig Koch-Isenburg by Richard and Clare Winston....

Cook&Apos;S Guide to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, Including Iceland

1897 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Thos. Cook & Son, 1897. Cloth. A bright third edition of this guide to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Thomas Cook's handbook for tourists of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, including Iceland, aimed at a middle-class audience. The series was issued to advertise Cook&apo...

Voyage En Orient

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1881 · Rooke Books

£540.00 (€647.37 | $713.54 | ¥113,956)

Paris, Hachette et Cie and Furne, Jouvet, et Cie, 1881. Leather. A smartly bound original French edition of Alphonse Lamartine's important travel work on his time spent exploring the Middle East. Complete in two volumes. Bookplate of Thomas Enfield Harbottle to the front ...

An African Adventure

Isaac F. Marcosson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London, John Lane Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and illustrated work regarding American travel through Africa. Complete with 48 illustrations including photographs, maps and frontispiece of King Albert. Collated complete. The first UK edition of the work. P...

British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910, Natural History Report. Geology. Vol. II. No. 2. The Volcanic Rocks of Cape Adare South Victoria Land

W. Campbell Smith · 1959 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1959 . First edition. Paperback. British mineralogist and petrologist Walter Campbell Smith's very scarce geological report on the volcanic rocks of the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula, East Antarctica. N...

The Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilisation of the Incas; the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilisation

William H Prescott · 1850 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Richard Bentley , 1850. Leather. Uniformly bound set of the history of Peruvian and Mexican conquest by William H. Prescott, a bright group. William H Prescott wan an American historian, widely recognised as the first American scientific historian. Here is a six volume...

The Quest for Cathay

Sir Percy Sykes · 1936 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, A. & C. Black Ltd, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition work discussing Middle Aged European exploration of China, an illustrated work complete with a colour frontispiece and folding maps. The first edition.In the original uncommon price-clipped dust wrap...

Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Israelites; or, a Journey from Cairo to Mount Sinai and Petra

W. H. Bartlett · 0 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, George Bell and Sons , c1850. Cloth. A fascinating travelogue of Sinai and Egyptian desert by celebrated British artist William Henry Bartlett, adorned with beautiful engravings. Undated copy, dated from Jisc. An uncommon Bell edition. Containing William Henry Bartlett...

Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave

Charles Bell · 1860 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

New York, H. Dayton, 1860. Cloth. The very scarce abridged edition of Charles Ball's account of his life under slavery in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century America. A very scarce abridged edition of the first hand account of Charles Ball's experiences as a...

Geology of the Antarctic Peninsula

G. E. Grikurov · 1978 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

Washington D.C. Office of Polar Programs, 1978. Cloth. A very scarce work on the geology of the Antarctic, an interesting work originally written in Russian by G. E. Grikurov. A very scarce work, originally published in Russian as 'Geologiya Antarkticheskoho Poluostrova&a...

New- Englands Memoriall

Nathaniel Morton · 1903 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

Boston, The Club of Odd Volumes, 1903. Cloth. A marvellous limited edition facsimile of Nathaniel Morton's historical writings on the Plymouth Colony. A limited edition, this being No. 128.The 'New England's Memorial' was the first comprehensive history of ...

In African Forest and Jungle

Paul Du Chaillu · 1903 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, John Murray , 1903. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this travelogue by Paul du Chaillu, exploring the African forests and jungles. A scarce first UK edition of this travel work by Paul Du Chaillu, preceded by a rarer undated first US edition. Telling ...

Exploration Du Parc National de la Garamba

Jacques Verschuren · 1957 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Bruxelles, M. Hayes, 1957. First edition. Paperback. The very scarce signed first edition of this French biologist's scientific study of the bats of the Congo's Garamba National Park. In the original French.The very scarce first edition of the biologist and ornitholo...