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British Antarctic Survey Air Operations Manual

D. N. Rowley · 1976 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Not Stated, British Antarctic Survey, 1976. Paperback. A very scarce aircraft manual, printed for use in polar research aircrafts and polar bases. Printed by and for the British Antarctic Survey, the UK's national polar research facility, which has five polar research sta...

Checkmate Fighting Tradition in Central Persia

F. A. C. Forbes-Leith · 1927 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, George G. Harrap & Company LTD. 1927. First edition. Cloth. A nice example of the first edition of this detailed account of life and work in Persia at the beginning of the twentieth century, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.'Checkmate' i...

The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria an Account of an Official&Apos;S Seven Years&Apos; Experiences in the Northern Nigerian Pagan Belt, and a Description of the Manners, Habits, and Customs of the Native Tribes

Arthur John Newman Tremearne · 1912 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Tremearne's detailed travel work about his time in Northern Africa, illustrated throughout including with a folding map. The first edition of this work.'The Tailed Head-Hunters of...

Mendiland Memories Reflections and Anticipations

William Vivian · 1926 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, Henry Hooks, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this first-hand account of the Mendi tribe at the beginning of the twentieth century, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.An insightful look into Mendiland, ho...

The Turkish Empire: The Sultans, the Territory, and the People

[Thomas Milner] · 1876 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1876. Cloth. A very scarce new edition of this fascinating and extensively detailed look into the history of the Turkish Empire, illustrated with a folding map. A very scarce work. An in-depth work discussing the history of the Turkish Empi...

Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage

William Edward Parry · 1824 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

London, John Murray, 1824. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this important travel work regarding Parry's second expedition through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay. This copy belonged to Parry's daughter, Katharine. With the inscription 'Katharine Brodi...

Narrative of an Expediiton to Explore the River Zaire Usually Called the Congo

J K Tuckey · 1818 · Rooke Books

£14,500.00 (€17,383.07 | $19,159.74 | ¥3,059,929)

London, John Murray, 1818. First edition. Fine Binding. John Kirk's copy of the first edition of this important travel work regarding Tuckey's expedition along the River Congo. This account of the journey is decorated by a folding map frontispiece of the coast from C...

Twenty-Four Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1896

Unamed · 1897 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Washington, Governmant Printing Office, 1897. Cloth. A very scarce work of American coin history dating from the latter half of the nineteenth century. In the publisher's original cloth binding, this very scarce work of American coin manufacturing history is in excellent ...

The Months of Japanese Ladies: Calendar for 1903

T. Hasegawa · 1902 · Rooke Books

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

Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, 1902. First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of Hasegawa's crepe-paper calendar, with twelve vivid colour woodblock scenes of Japanese women and seasonal customs. In the original illustrated crepe-paper wrappers, bound in the Japanese ...

Longmans&Apos; New Atlas Political and Physical

Geo. G. Chisholm · 1889 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London; New York, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1889. Cloth. A copy of this very scarce and heavily illustrated atlas, with colour and folding maps. A very scarce atlas, in the publisher's original cloth binding. Heavily illustrated, with a large colour folding map slotted int...

The Pilgrim Fathers

W. H. Bartlett · 1854 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. 1854. Leather. A smart full-morocco edition of this highly illustrated historical travel work on the founding of New England from popular British artist William Henry Bartlett. Second edition, revised.In blue full-morocco binding.With a lovely...

In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria

Henry M. Stanley · 1890 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.31 | $779.60 | ¥124,507)

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons , 1890. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Henry M. Stanley's account of his successful, but damning Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Copiously illustrated throughout. First US edition. Complete in two volumes. In the publis...

Danziger&Apos;S Travels

Nick Danziger · 1988 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Grafton Books, 1988. Cloth. A re-print of this travel book by Nick Danziger. "Nick Danziger's graphic account of his hair-raising adventures during an eighteen-month journey 'beyond forbidden frontiers' in Asia makes a vivid and unforgettable impact." Wi...

In Africa with the Union Jack

W Pimblett · 1898 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, J S Virtue and Co, 1898. Leather. A fascinating and passionately patriotic British colonialist narrative. Featuring a portrait frontispiece of General Gordon and several futher plates. With ink stamp of Bickers and Son, Leicester Square to verso of front free-endpaper....

The Madeira Islands

Anthony J Drexel Biddle · 1900 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.63 | $422.84 | ¥67,529)

London , Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1900. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first UK edition of this work on the Madeira islands. Collated: Complete, with all plates and maps. Plate opposite page 267 of volume I bound back to front and upside down. This comprehensive work covers ...

The Jersey: An Outline of Her History During the Two Centuries, - 1734 to 1935

R. M. Gow · 1938 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

New York, The American Jersey Cattle Club, 1938 . Cloth. A 1938 institutional history of the Jersey cattle breed, charting two centuries of selective breeding and agricultural development, richly illustrated throughout. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First pu...

Journey Through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies

M. Leon de Laborde · 1836 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.55 | $508.72 | ¥81,246)

London, John Murray, 1836 . First edition. Leather. The first English language edition of M. de Laborde's travel narratives of his time in Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt, with illustrations throughout and a folding map. The first English translation of French archaeologist a...

The Great River: The Story of a Voyage on the Yangtze Kiang

Gretchen Mae Fitkin · 1922 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Shanghai , North-China Daily News and Herald, Ltd , 1922. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon account of a voyage down the Yangtze River, illustrated with photographs throughout. First edition. Uncommon. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Il...

Lost in the Arctic: Being the Story of the &Apos;Alabama&Apos; Expedition, 1909-1912

Ejnar Mikkelsen · 1913 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, William Heinemann, 1913. First edition. Cloth. The illustrated first UK edition of this record of some of the Greenland expeditions of Danish polar explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen. First UK edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty-three plates, and a large folding map ...

The First Crossing of Greenland

Fridtjof Nansen; Hubert Majendie Gepp [trans.] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898 . Leather. A calf-bound copy of this remarkable account from Fridtjof Nansen of the first crossing across Greenland's inland ice. A new impression of this work. Bound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and endpapers.Illu...