Storia regionale e locale

A Handbook for Travellers in Japan

Basil Hall Chamberlain; W. B. Mason · 1894 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.43 | $647.47 | ¥103,404)

London, John Murray, 1894. Cloth. A bright, early edition of Basil Hall Chamberlain's popular Japanese travel guide. The 'Handbook for Travellers in Japan' was first issued in 1891 and ran through several editions in quick succession. Chamberlain was a professor...

The Fall of Torngak or the Moravian Mission on the Coast of Labrador

J W Davey · 1905 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London, S W Partridge & Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. J W Davey shares a depiction of what was considered the dominion of the evil spirit of Torngak, the first edition of this very scarce volume. The first edition of this work, only published in 1905. A very scarce volume. O...

From North Pole to Equator Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands

Alfred Admund Brehm; J Arthur Thomson; Margaret R Thomson · 1896 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Blackie and Son, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A superior copy of the first English translation of zoologist Alfred Edmund Brehm's account of his travels. The first English translation, by Margaret R Thomson and edited by J Arthur Thomson.Illustrated throughout, wit...

A Suburb of Yedo

Theobald A. Purcell · 1889 · Rooke Books

£1,470.00 (€1,762.28 | $1,942.40 | ¥310,213)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1889. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this beautifully illustrated look into Tokyo as it was in the nineteenth century, a charming collection of sketches on the city. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.A charmin...

Indie in Woord En Beeld

L F Van Gent; W A Penard; Dr D Rinkes · 1924 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Weltevreden, Weltevreden Topografische Inrichting, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this record regarding the Dutch East Indies. In Dutch and English, with parallel text. Illustrated throughout. A pictorial record of Indonesia in the 1920s and a brief history ...

IL Mio Viaggio Nel Tibet Occidentale

Giotto Dainelli · 1932 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Milano; [Milan], A. Mondadori, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this Italian travel work on the Western Tibet, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.In the original Italian.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty-two plates.Collated, comple...

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M. S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy

Henry Keppel · 1846 · Rooke Books

£700.00 (€839.18 | $924.95 | ¥147,721)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1846. Cloth. The second edition of Henry Keppel's account of his expedition to Borneo on the H.M.S. Dido, illustrated throughout, including with folding maps. The second edition of this work.Complete in two volumes.Half-title is present to each v...

The Physiography of the River Nile and Its Basin

Captain H. G. Lyons · 1906 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

Cairo, National Printing Department, 1906. Leather. An interesting and thorough study of the River Nile, illustrated with folding maps and plates. This work offers a thorough geographical study of the River Nile, a river in Africa which is commonly regarded as the longest in t...

African Discovery a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in Central Africa

Mungo Park · 1845 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson, 1845. Cloth. A delightful and important nineteenth century work on African travel, in a pocket-sized format. A scarce and unusual imprint, with little record of this edition's existence. This copy's pagination is alike to Nelson's previ...

2 Vols Masterpieces by Hiroshige and Selections from Hokusai"S Views of Mount Fuji

Utagawa Hiroshige; Katsushika Hokusai · 1914 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, c1905-[1914]. Paperback. Two very scarce early Hasegawa woodblock albums, comprising twenty-four beautifully printed reproductions after Hiroshige and Hokusai, in the striking original pictorial wrappers. In the publisher"s original dark grey pictorial pape...

Inncwadi Yabantwana, or, Zulu Spelling Book

1908 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

Durban, Natal, T. L. Cullingworth, 1908 . Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce illustrated spelling book for early learners of the Zulu language, most widely spoken in South Africa. Very scarce. In the publisher's original paper covers. Illustrated throughout with numerous ex...

Lettres Sur L&Apos;Egypte

[Claude-Etienne Savary] · 1786 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

Paris , Chez Onfroi, 1786. Leather. The complete second edition of Claude-Etienne Savary's compelling letters on Egypt, complete with four folding maps. Second edition. Complete in three volumes.Bound in contemporary mottled calf, with gilt to the spines. Marbled endpaper...

First over Everest: The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition

P. F. M. Fellowes; L. V. Stewart Blacker; Colonel P. T. Etherton et al. · 1933 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The fourth impression of this exciting account of the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition in 1933, with illustrations throughout, and with 3D glasses. The fourth impression of this work, published in the same year as...

African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &C. From 1852 to 1860

William Charles Baldwin · 1863 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Richard Bentley , 1863. Cloth. The second edition of this illustrated Africa travel work from William Charles Baldwin, with a folding map. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Rebacked, with the contemporary cloth for the boards and spine laid down.Il...

A Picnic Party in Wildest Africa Being a Sketch of a Winter&Apos;S Trip to Some of the Unknown Waters of the Upper Nile

C. W. L. Bulpett · 1907 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Edward Arnold, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of Barrister Charles Bulpett's exploration of Central Africa. A first edition of the travels of C. W. L. Bulpett, with accounts contributed by other members of his party. In publisher's cloth...

The Nile Basin

H. E. Hurst and P. Phillips · 1938 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

Cairo, Schindler's Press/Government Press, 1938-1939. Cloth. Four volumes of this set of geographical publications about the Nile river. From the Ministry of Public Works, Egypt. Physical Department. Includes: Physical Department Paper No. 33, Supplement to Volume II. Mea...

Forms for Great State Councils of the Improved Order of Red Men Adopted by the Great Council of the United States

The Great Council of the United States/Great Chief of Records · 1834 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

Unknown, The Great Council of the United States, c1903. Leather. A very scarce work by The Great Council of the United States, 'Forms for Great State Councils Of The Improved Order of Red Men&apos. The Improved Order of Red Men are an American fraternal organization origi...

[Modern Travels Through Every Important Country of the Old and New Continent Etc. ]

[Rev William Bingley] · 1823 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

[London], [Harvey and Darton], 1823. Leather. A collection of plates from Modern Travels Through Every Important Country. The original work had six parts, Africa, South America, North America, North Europe, South Europe and Asia. This book is several plates from the sections o...

Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18 Volume XII: The Copper Eskimos

D Jenness · 1923 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Ottawa, F A Acland, 1923. Cloth. A volume of the report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition. This volume focuses on the life, traditions and background of the 'Copper Eskimos' of the Canadian Arctic. Includes a second section on the physical characteristics of the &apo...

Deserts Idle

Michael H. Mason · 0 · Rooke Books

£54.99 (€65.92 | $72.66 | ¥11,605)

London , Hodder and Stoughton Limited, c1924. Cloth. An edition of Desert Idles by Michael H. Mason, Author of The Arctic Forests. Illustrated from photographs. With a map inserted into a pocket into the rear of the volume. In a blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the sp...