Storia regionale e locale

Canada and the States Recollections 1851 to 1886.

Sir E. W. Watkin · 1887 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. [1887]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of recollections of Canada and the United States from the influential railway entrepreneur Edward Watkin, who was president of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. In the publisher's original cloth...

The New Far West and the Old Far East

W. Henry Barneby · 1889 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London , Edward Stanford, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, signed copy of this interesting travel account, with illustrations throughout. A first edition copy of this work that is signed by the author, dated 1895. A fascinating travel account of William Henry Barn...

A Fossicker in Angola

Malcolm Burr; Henry W. Nevinson · 1933 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, FIgurehead, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A lovely presentation copy of this very scarce work, from the library of Henry Nevinson and Evelyn Sharp. The first edition of this very scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, 'To H. W. Nevinson...

Sierra Leone: Its People, Products, and Secret Societies

H. Osman Newland · 1916 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, LTD, 1916. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H. Soman Newland's illustrated study on Sierra Newland, a lovely copy complete with plates. The first edition.An exploration of Sierra Leone, following the authors travels by rail,...

New Guinea Gold Cannibals & Gold-Seekers in New Guinea

Edmond Demaitre · 1936 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London , Geoffrey Bles, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating volume on the inhabitants of New Guinea, with illustrations. This is a copy of the first English edition of this work, translated from the original French of Edmond Demaitre by Henry Dawson Beaumont. The volume ...

Society in China

Robert K. Douglas · 1894 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, A. D. Innes & Co, 1894. First edition. Cloth. An interesting first edition study on the society and culture of China in the nineteenth century, an insightful work by Robert Douglas. The first edition.An interesting exploration of society in China in the nineteenth cent...

La Chine

Laurence Oliphant; Francoise Guizot · 1875 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1875. Leather. A French translation of Laurence Oliphant's travel account of his time spent in China with Lord Elgin. In French.A new edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.Laurenc...

The Polar Book

Louis Bernacchi; Various · 1930 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, E. Allom & Co, 1930. First edition. Paperback. A scarce first edition of this vivid work on Polar Exploration, an interesting volume edited by Louis Bernacchi, complete with a folding map. The first edition of this scarce work.Illustrated with one folding map.'The...

Watkins&Apos; Last Expedition

F. Spencer Chapman; Augustine Courtauld [intro.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated account of Gino Watkins's fatal East Greenland Expedition, enclosed in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition of British Army Officer Freddie Spencer Chapman's acc...

Kangchenjunga the Untrodden Peak

Charles Evans · 1956 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London , The Travel Book Club, 1956. Cloth. A fascinating account of the expedition Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world. This book is the story of how Kangchenjunga was climbed with a foreword by The Duke of Edinburgh who was a patron of the expedition. The ...

Tombouctou la Mysterieuse

Felix Dubois · 1897 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Paris , Ernest Flammarion, [1897]. Cloth. French edition of this illustrated travelogue of Mali by Felix Dubois, in the original French. Travelogue of Timbuktu in Mali, north of the Niger River by Felix Dubois, in the original French. Dated from Copac, only early edition of th...

The Albert N&Apos;Yanza Great Basin of the Nile and Exploration of the Nile Sources

Samuel W. Baker · 1867 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1867. Leather. Samuel Baker's important account of his journey through the Albert N'Yanza and exploration of the Nile, an early edition complete in two volumes bound in one. An early edition of this important account of Samuel Barker's ...

Voyage En Orient, Detache Textuellement Des Souvenirs, Impressions, Pensees, Et Paysages

M. de Lamartine · 1836 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Malines et Brussels , P.J. Hanicq Et Editeurs, 1836. Leather. A smart, pocket-sized copy of this uncommon work about the author's luxurious journey throughout Asia, made from 1832 to 1833, illustrated throughout. A smart, pocket-sized work the author's journey throug...

A Hunter&Apos;S Wanderings in Africa

Frederick Courteney Selous · 1893 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1893. Cloth. A smart and richly illustrated third edition of Frederick Courteney Selous' description of travels in Africa. First published in 1881, this work describes the author's nine years spent amongst game in South Africa, covering...

Kenya Trees & Shrubs

Ivan R. Dale; P. J. Greenaway · 1961 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Nairobi, Buchanan's Kenya Estates Limited, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this botanical work exploring the trees and plants of Kenya, lavishly illustrated and with colour plates. This work provides an in-depth record of the indigenous trees of Kenya.Writt...

Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland

H. C. Taylor · 1873 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Fredonia, New York, W. McKinstry & Son, 1873. Cloth. A first edition of H. C. Taylor's exploration into the history of Portland, illustrated with portraits. This work explores the early history of Portland, containing biographical sketches of its earliest settlers, as wel...

The Republican Court or, American Society in the Days of Washington

Rufus Wilmot Griswold · 1867 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1867 . Cloth. A fascinating study of American high society under the presidency of Washington, illustrated throughout with engraved portraits of the notable women of the period. American anthologist, editor and poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold&apos...

Palestine and Syria

Karl Baedeker · 1898 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

Not Stated, Karl Baedeker, 1898. Cloth. An early edition describing Palestine and Syria, complete with folding maps and a folding panorama. The first edition to include the Peninsula of Sinai. Lacking a title page; dated and edition established by the pagination.The third edi...

The Home of the Blizzard

Sir Douglas Mawson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1930. Cloth. A smart, second impression of this comprehensive work about the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 to 1914. Written by the leader of the expedition, Sir Douglas Mawson. A very comprehensive work on the Australasian Antarctic Expedi...

The Tragedy of the Italia with the Rescuers to the Red Tent

Davide Giudici · 1928 · Rooke Books

£86.00 (€103.10 | $113.64 | ¥18,149)

London, Ernest Benn LTD, 1928. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon copy of the first edition of this account of the devastating Polar expedition of the Italia by Davide Giudici. The Italia was a polar airship set to take off for polar flight during 1927-8, designed and piloted ...