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After Two Years: A Study of American Prohibition

Philip Whitwell Wilson · 1922 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, United Kingdom Alliance , 1922. First edition. Paperback. An uncommon study of American prohibition two years after its enactment, written by US-residing journalist Philip Whitwell Wilson. First edition.In the publisher's wraps. This report provides an interestin...

Millbrook: The True Story of the Early Years of the Psychedelic Revolution

Art Kleps; Arthur Kleps · 1975 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.54 | $1,651.70 | ¥263,787)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1975. First edition. Unbound. The true first edition of Arthur Kleps' first hand account of Millbrook, home of Timothy Leary's psychedelic research, a scarce work on 1960s counter-culture. The scarce true first edition, later published in book...

The War and Culture, a Reply to Professor Munsterberg

John Cowper Powys · 1914 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New York, G. Arnold Shaw, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The true first of this insightful essay on World War One, published in the early days of the war. The first edition. This U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition, which was published five months later as 'The Menace of ...

Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope

Charles J. F. Bunbury · 1848 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, John Murray, 1848. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon travelogue on Charles Bunbury's exploration of South Africa, the first edition of this work, complete with plates. The first edition of this uncommon work.Half-title is present.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a...

A Tourist in Africa

Evelyn Waugh · 1960 · Rooke Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Waugh's later travel work, illustrated throughout, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original uncli...

Proceedings of the First Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World

W. E. McDermut; Wm. E. Trautmann · 1905 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

New York, Labor News Company, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce account of the first convention of the Industrial Workers of the World , a labour union which is still operating today. A very scarce first edition, an account of the first convention of the Industrial Wor...

L&Apos;Egypt

Janine Monnet · 1963 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Paris, Fernand Nathan, 1963. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this scarce work on the ancient Egyptian civilization and its art, in the original French. French. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with photographs, some of which are in colour. A...

The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria

Captain Frank E. Younghusband · 1896 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, John Murray, 1896. Cloth. An illustrated travel work by Frank Younghusband, following his decade long exploration of Asia in the late nineteenth century. The third edition, published in the same year as the first. Francis Younghusband's vivid travel account of hi...

Stanley&Apos;S Emin Pasha Expedition

A. J. Wauters · 1890 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, John C. Nimmo, 1890. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alphonse-Jules Wauters' detailed account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, complete with the original illustrations. The first edition of this work. An account of Henry Morton Stanley's work ...

Twelve Volumes of Works from the &Apos;Traveller&Apos;S Library&Apos;.

Ferdinand Werne; Frederick Hardman etc · 1851 · Rooke Books

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

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851-55. Leather. Twelve volumes of works from the Longman's 'Traveller's Library' series, all bound in half straight grain morocco. Twelve Volumes. Complete in twenty-five volumes. Bound in half straight grain m...

Caravans of the Old Sahara

E. W. Bovill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, International Institute of African Languages & Cultures; Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition travel work on Western Sahara, an illustrated history by E. W. Bovill. The first edition of this scarce work.In the or...

Fire and Sword in the Sudan

Rudolf C. Slatin Pasha; F. R. Wingate [trans] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. Cloth. The illustrated first edition of Rudolf Carl von Slatin's exceptional account of his time spent in Sudan, tracing the history of the country. The first edition of the work, in the original publisher's cloth. With pu...

Flight of the Unicorns

Anthony Shepherd · 1965 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Elek Books, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this account of an expedition in the Arabian deserts to find the Arabian oryx. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Bookp...

Aus Dem Westlichen Himalaja: Erlebnisse Und Forschungen

Karl Eugen Von Ujfalvy · 1884 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated travel log from the Himalayas, in the original German language. German language. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, nineteen plates, and eight folding plates to the rear. Wit...

Geãƒâoeã‚âOgraphie Pittoresque Et Monumentale de la France Et de Ses Colonies

Charles Brossard · 1906 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Paris, E. Flammarion, 1906. Leather. An uncommon volume on the geography of the French colonies. With over five hundred illustrations, some of which are in colour. An uncommon illustrated geographical survey of France and its colonies. Published in French, with 376 monochrome ...

Considerations Upon the Expediency and the Means of Establishing a University in the City of New-York

Morgan Lewis; Hugh Maxwell · 1830 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, Privately printed, 1830. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce first edition copy of an address to the citizens of New York, on establishing a university in this city. The first edition of this work, disbound but intact. An address to New York citizens concerning th...

Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass. His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants

J. Gardiner Bartlett; Charles Edward Banks · 1927 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

New York, Privately printed, 1927. Cloth. A limited edition copy of this very scarce illustrated work tracing the genealogy of Henry Adams in England and America. A very scarce work in a cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 28 further plates, including portraits,...

Through the Heart of Africa: Being an Account of a Journey on Bicycles and on Foot from Northern Rhodesia, Past the Great Lakes, to Egypt, Undertaken When Proceeding Home on Leave in 1910

Frank H. Melland; Edward H. Cholmeley · 1912 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1912. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Melland and Cholmeley's account of their voyage through Africa on bicycles. First edition. With the inscription "from the authors family." Illustrated throughout with frontispiece, for...

Egypt

R. Talbot Kelly · 1902 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A striking signed limited edition work by Robert Talbot Kelly recounting his travels and experiences in Egypt, complete with seventy-five colour plates. A limited edition de luxe, limited to five hundred copies, of whic...

Narrative and Critical History of America

Justin Winsor · 1967 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

New York, AMS Press, Inc, 1967. Cloth. An eight volume set of this illustrated history of America, edited by Justin Winsor. Eight volumes. All illustrated throughout with in-text diagrams and sketches. Edited by Justin Winsor, an American writer, librarian and historian. His w...