Storia regionale e locale

Deserts Idle

Michael H. Mason · 1924 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1924 . First edition. Cloth. Bright advance copy of this travel work dedicated to Africa by Michael H. Mason, the first edition. The first edition of this work. 'Advance Copy not for circulation' stamp to title page. Diary of a shooting ...

The Talaings

R. Halliday · 1917 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

Rangoon, Superintendent, Government Printing, 1917. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce study on the Mon of Burma, a vivid description by Robert Halliday, the first edition complete with illustrations. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.In the original unclipped...

Une Mission En Abyssinie Et Dans la Mer Rouge 23 Octobre 1859 - 7 Mai 1860

Stanislas Russel; Gabriel Charmes · 1884 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Paris, E. Plon, 1884. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition French travel work following the author's explorations of Abyssinia and the Red Sea. The first edition of this scarce work.In French.An interesting French travel work on Abyssinia and the Red Sea, recounti...

Life with the Hamran Arabs an Account of a Sporting Tour of Some Officers of the Guards in the Soudan During the Winter of 1874-5

Arthur B. R. Myers · 1876 · Rooke Books

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

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1876. First edition. Leather. Lovely copy of the scarce first edition of this sporting tour in the Soudan in 1874-5. The first edition of this work. A scarce copy. A sporting account in the Soudan by Arthur B. R. Myers, surgeon in the Coldstream gua...

Himalayan Journals

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker · 0 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Glasgow, The Grand Colosseum Warehouse Co. c1890. Cloth. An illustrated edition of this collection of naturalist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's accounts of travels to the Himalayas, Nepal, and Bengal. A fascinating account of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker's travels to the Him...

China a New Aspect

H. Stringer · 1929 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, H. F. &. G. Witherby, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition work on the growing development of China in the interwar era. The first edition of this scarce work.A unique work on China, looking at the successful and attempted development on the country, look...

Ismailia a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade

Samuel W. Baker · 1874 · Rooke Books

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

London, Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Samuel Baker's exploration of Central Africa, a vivid description of his expedition, illustrated throughout. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, one ...

Huc and Gabet: Travels in Tartary Thibet and China 1844-1846

William Hazlitt [translator] · 1988 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

New Delhi, Asian Educational Services , 1988. Leather. Two smart re-print volumes that depict Huc and Gabet's travels in Tartary, Thibet and China. This is a 1988 reprint of the original volume that was published first in Paris in 1850. Abbe Huc was a French Catholic pri...

An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti from the Journal of George Robertson Master of H.M. S. Dolphin

George Robertson; Oliver Warner [ed.] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£33.00 (€39.56 | $43.60 | ¥6,964)

London, Folio Press, J. M. Dent , 1973. Cloth. Photo-lithographic printing of this account of the discovery of Tahiti from the first Folio edition of 1955, an excellent copy. Reprint in photo-lithograph of the first Folio Society edition of 1955. An excellent copy. Containing ...

Greenland Volume I: The Discovery of Greenland, Exploration and Nature of the Country

M. Vahl [ed.] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Copenhagen; London, A. A. Reitzel; Humphrey Milford , 1928. First edition. Paperback. The first edition, first impression of this scarce volume concerning the discovery and early exploration of Greenland, in the original wraps. The first edition, first impression of this accou...

A Polar Reconnaissance: Being the Voyage of the "Isbjãƒâ¶Rn" to Novaya Zemlya

Albert H. Markham · 1881 · Rooke Books

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

London, C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this account of 1879 voyage to Novaya Zemlya aboard the "Isbjörn," nicely rebound in full cloth with all plates and maps present. A fascinating account of the 1879 polar expedition to Novaya...

Antarctica and the South Atlantic

Robert Fox · 1985 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, British Broadcasting Company, 1985. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition based on the author's extensive travels upon the HMS Endurance, richly illustrated throughout the text and presented in a fantastic dust wrapper. This work describes the author&ap...

East Africa

Elspeth Huxley · 1941 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins, 1941. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition travel work on East Africa, in a striking binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe made for Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. The first edition of this work.A charming concise tra...

A Handbook for Travellers in Japan (Including Formosa)

Basil Hall Chamberlain; W. B. Mason · 1913 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, John Murray, 1913. Cloth. An early twentieth century tourists guide to Japan, profusely illustrated and complete with numerous folding colour maps. The ninth edition of this work, containing thirty colour folding maps, plans, plates and illustrations, including a foldi...

Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit

Henry van Dyke · 1908 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons , 1908. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Henry Van Dyke's travel journal narrating his travels in the Holy Land, embellished with beautiful coloured plates throughout. The first edition of Henry Van Dyke's tra...

Antarctica Today and Tomorrow

G C L Bertram · 1957 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Dunedin, University of Otago, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very smartly bound copy of C G L Bertram's lecture on exploration in relation to Antarctica. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice Back. Kenn Back was a British meteorologist with the British Antarctic survey...

A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia

P. H. G. Powell-Cotton · 1902 · Rooke Books

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

London, Rowland Ward, Limited, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Powell-Cotton's energetic account of a nine-month hunting trip undertaken through Abyssinia, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A vivid account of a sporting trip taken thr...

Sonnige Welten. Ostasiache Reise-Skizzen

Emil Selenka; Lenore Selenka · 1905 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidels Verlag, 1905. Cloth. A German travel work on East Asia, a detailed voyaging work, illustrated with beautiful colour plates featuring patterned tissue guards. The second edition of this work.In the original German.A beautiful travel work documenting th...

New Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun

Samuel Mossman · 1873 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, John Murray, 1873. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this look into Japan in the mid-nineteenth century by Samuel Mossman, illustrated with a colour folding map. The first edition of this work.A record of Japan's growth and progress in the mid-nineteenth ...

Chronicles of Uganda

R. P. Ashe · 1894 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. First edition. Cloth. An interesting association copy of this extensive study on Uganda, signed by the author to his uncle-in-law. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the half-title, 'Haughton E. Jackson, with love fr...