Storia regionale e locale

No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting

Anne L. Macdonald · 1988 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

New York, Ballantine Books, 1988 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first printing of this historical account of knitting in America. The first edition, first printing of the work.Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'For Jenny.. Aff...

The Antarctic Question - Voyages to the South Pole Since 1898; Scientific Advantages of an Antarctic Expedition

J. Machat; John Murray · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

[Washington], [Government Printing Office Washington], 1898-1908. Unbound. Two scarce extracted articles on Antarctic exploration, comprising addresses by J. Machat and Dr. John Murray. Two extracted reports on Antarctic exploration. Scarce.'The Antarctic Question' b...

Egypt: Handbook for Travellers. Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinal

Karl Baedeker · 1885 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Leipsic , Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1885. Cloth. The second edition of this popular Baedeker travel book to lower Egypt, complete with folding maps and plans. Second edition, revised and augmented. The present volume was issued as the second of a series of Handbooks for the ...

Japan and the Japan Mission of the Church Missionary Society

Eugene Stock; Rev. G. H. Pole; Rev. C. D. Snell · 1905 · Rooke Books

£67.00 (€80.32 | $88.53 | ¥14,139)

London, Church Missionary Society, 1905 . Cloth. Historical overview of the involvement of the Church Missionary Society in Japan, featuring photographic plates and a folding map. Fourth edition.In publisher's original decorative cloth binding.With the bookplate of Cliff ...

The English in the West Indies or the Bow of Ulysses

James Anthony Froude · 1888 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1888 . Cloth. An illustrated travelogue on the West Indies by controversial figure James Anthony Froude, with a frontispiece and seven plates. A new edition of the work.In publisher's original decorative green cloth binding. With a fronti...

The Belgian Congo: B.R. 522 (Restricted) Geographical Handbook Series for Official Use Only

1944 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Oxford , Naval Intelligence Division [Printed by Oxford and Cambridge University Presses], 1944. First edition. Cloth. A unique guide to the Belgian Congo, issued for use of Naval officers during the Second World War. With folding maps. First edition. In the original cloth bi...

Twenty-Six Years of Missionary Work in China

Grace Stott · 1897 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

New York , American Tract Society , 1897. Cloth. An illustrated second edition of this account of missionary work in China, with a frontispiece and 7 plates. The second edition of the work.In publisher's original green cloth binding. With gilt to top edge.Includes a front...

Introduction to &Apos;a Diplomat in Japan&Apos;: An Essay

Gordon Daniels · 1968 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Tokyo; London, Oxford University Press, 1968. Cloth. Very scarce, resourceful copy of George Daniel's introduction to Ernest Satow's A Diplomat in Japan. Very scarce edition of George Daniel's introduction to 'A Diplomat in Japan' by Sir Ernest Satow. ...

Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8

Lieut.-Col. Sir Alexander Burnes · 1843 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Murray, 1843. Leather. A handsomely bound second edition of this posthumous account from Captain Sir Alexander Burne, detailing what would be his fatal stay in Kabul. The second edition of this important account of Alexander Burnes' stay in Kabul, where he wa...

Eothen

Alexander William Kinglake · 1889 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. Leather. A smart new edition of Kinglake"s Eothen, his celebrated 1844 travel narrative through the Near East, in a full green morocco binding. Bound in a full green morocco binding. New edition.Alexander William Kinglake's first...

Japan over Asia

William Henry Chamberlin · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Duckworth, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Chamberlin"s illustrated contemporary study of Japan"s imperial expansion, from the library of the House of Commons. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper boards with blind stamp fr...

The Overland to China

A. R. Colquhoun · 1900 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Harper & Brothers, 1900. Cloth. A profusely illustrated second edition of Archibald Colquhoun's popular travel work on China, with folding maps. The second edition. Published the same year as the first.Rebound with front board and back strip preserved. Illustrate...

Scented Isles and Coral Gardens: Torres Straits, German New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies

C. D. Mackellar · 1912 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, John Murray, 1912 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated with colour and photographic plates, this is the scarce first edition of explorer C.D. Mackellar's account of his travels across Asia. A scarce first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven furthe...

The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains

H. B. Tristram · 1860 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, John Murray , 1860. First edition. Cloth. A near fine first edition of this Saharan travelogue from Henry Baker Tristram, with folding maps and engraved plates. First edition. In the original cloth binding.Beautifully illustrated throughout, including a frontispiece, ...

A Collection from the Things Seen in Series

Various · 1931 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Seeley & Co. Limited, c1910-1931. Cloth. A collection of twelve volumes from the Things Seen In series by Seeley and Co. with detailed descriptions of different countries and regions. Twelve volumes. A series of travel books published in the early twentieth century by ...

Korea and Her Neighbors

Isabella Bird Bishop; Sir Walter C. Hiller · 1898 · Rooke Books

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

New York; Chicago; Toronto, Fleming H. Revell Company, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of this insightful history on Korea by Isabella Bird Bishop, complete with plates and folding maps. The first U.S. edition of this uncommon work.An insightful history of K...

History of the Conquest of Mexico with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cortes

William H. Prescott · 1866 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1866. Leather. The author's authorised edition of this historical study of the conquest of Mexico from American historian and Hispanist William Hickling Prescott. Author's authorised edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A sweeping a...

A Collection of Travel Books on the Middle East

Various · 1930 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Ernest Benn, Limited; Naval Intelligence Division; Faber & Faber; Hodder & Stoughton; Collins; Longmans; Cassell & Co. 1930-1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of ten volumes on the Middle East, with historical commentary and illustrations throughout. Ten vo...

Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia

Bertram Thomas; T. E. Lawrence · 1932 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1932. Cloth. A smart illustrated first edition, second impression, of Bertram Thomas' account of his crossing the Rub' al Khali. The first edition, second impression of this work, reprinted in the same year as the first impression. Illustrated ...

Oyster Bibliography, Extracted from &Apos;Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries&Apos;

Anonymous · 1894 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1894 . Cloth. A unique volume featuring a bibliography of publications about Oysters, drawn from an 1894 publication by the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Extracted from the 1894 publication 'U.S. Commission of Fish and Fish...