Storia regionale e locale

Northern Lights: The Official Account of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-1931

F. Spencer Chapman · 1932 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated record of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition of 1930 to 1931. First edition. Illustrated with sixty-four plates and four folding maps. Collated complete. A detailed commentary, ...

When the Going Was Good

Evelyn Waugh · 1946 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Duckworth, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this anthology of four travel books from English author Evelyn Waugh. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and one folding map. Collated complete. An anthology of four travel books offerin...

Moroccan Journal & the Beauty of Morocco

Rom Landau · 1952 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Robert Hale Limited; Evans Brothers Limited, 1952-1953. First edition. Cloth. Two smart volumes on Morocco from Polish-born British author and Foreign Service Officer Rom Landau. Two volumes. Written by Romauld Landau, a writer born in Poland who became a British citiz...

4 Vols Four Novels by John Masters

John Masters · 1954 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Michael Joseph, 1954-1962. First edition. Cloth. A compelling four-volume set of historical novels by John Masters, exploring colonialism, identity, and conflict across India and Africa. These are first editions in the original dust wrappers. In the publisher's or...

A Collection of Works on South-West Asia and International Relations

Various · 1957 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis; Longmans, Green & Co.; Hodder and Stoughton; Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.; John Murray; Faber and Faber, 1957-1978. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of twelve volumes of studies on South-West Asia and international relations with regards to in...

The History of the Discovery and Conquest of America

Wm. Robertson; Dugald Stewart · 1844 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Halifax, William Milner, 1844. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this detailed history of the conquest of America, from Scottish historian William Robertson. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, title vignette, and two folding maps. Collated complete. A detailed and compre...

Slaveholding As a Religious Question

Anthony Schuyler · 1861 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

New York State, Not Stated, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce sermon by Anthony Schuyler discussing how the Bible condemns slave owners. The first edition.A vanishingly scarce work.A sermon by Anthony Schuyler, preached at his seat at Christ Church, Oswego, on the 3rd ...

Report on the Geology and Resources of the Region in the Vicinity of the Forty-Ninth Parallel

George Mercer Dawson · 1875 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Montreal; London; New York, Dawson Brother; Sampson Low & Co; B. Westermann & Co, 1875. First edition. Leather. A very scarce geographical study on Canada, along its 49th parallel, the first edition of this illustrated work. The first edition of this very scarce work.An in-dep...

Journal of a Visit to South Africa in 1815 and 1816 with Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, Near the Cape of Good Hope

C. I. Latrobe; Frank R. Bradlow · 1969 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Cape Town, C. Struik (PTY) Ltd. 1969. Cloth. A faithful facsimile of a Christian missionary's travels to South Africa, an interesting travel work complete with colour plates. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1818. A limited edition of one thousand copies, of whic...

Five Signed Travel Works by Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron · 1984 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Heinemann; Chatto and Windus , 1984-2006 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of five, signed travel works by Colin Thubron, surrounding his travels in Asia and Russia. Five travel works, each signed by the author. Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the original...

The Diaries of Captain Robert Scott

Captain Robert Scott · 1968 · Rooke Books

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

Tylers Green, University Microfilms LTD, 1968. Cloth. A smart facsimile of the journals kept by Robert Falcon Scott on the fateful Terra Nova expedition. Complete in six volumes.A smart facsimile of the diaries of explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott.Robert Falcon Scott was a ...

Under the Pole Star: The Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1935-1936

A. R. Glen; N. A. C. Croft · 1937 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Methuen Publishers, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this travel account of the Oxford University expedition to the Polar regions of 1935 to 1936. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-seven plates, seventeen maps, four diagrams in t...

Bankers, Bones & Beetles: The First Century of the American Museum of Natural History

Geoffrey Hellman · 1969 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York, The Natural History Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on the American Museum of Natural History, with the compliments of the author. First edition. With a tipped in typed card which reads "With the compliments of Geoffr...

A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900

H. Rider Haggard · 1901 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1901. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated travelogue from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty images across twenty-three plates. Collated complete. A d...

The New Playground, or, Wanderings in Algeria

Alexander A. Knox · 1883 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1883. Cloth. An uncommon second edition of this exciting travel work by Alexander Knox, exploring Algeria. The second edition of this uncommon work.'The New Playground' is a vividly described travel guide for British people in the lat...

Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years&Apos; Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West

Colonel Richard Irving Dodge; General Sherman · 1882 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

Hartford, A. D. Worthington and Company ; et all, 1882. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition copy of an interesting work on Native Americans by an influential colonel of the United States Army. The first edition. Smartly rebound in a modern quarter morocco bi...

Un Ete Dans le Sahara

Eugene Fromentin · 1857 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1857. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Fromentin's detailed account of his travels across the Sahara desert, in the original French language. French language. First edition. A charming account of the author's travels through Alger...

Cairo of to-Day: A Practical Guide to Cairo and the Nile

E. A. Reynolds-Ball · 1905 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1905 . Cloth. The fourth edition of Eustace Reynolds-Ball's delightfully detailed guide to turn of the century Cairo. The fourth edition of this work, which was first published in 1898.Illustrated with a folding map in a pocket to the rear...

This Is Jerusalem Twelve Miniatures in Color

Theodor F. Meysels · 0 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Tel Aviv, E. J. Herzfelder, c1950. First edition. Paperback. A charming selection of plates depicting Tel Aviv, with commentary by Theodor F. Meysels. In the original landscape portfolio. Disbound, as issued. With an introductory leaflet and twelve tipped in colour plates. Col...

Elephants Arrive at Half-Past Five

Ilka Chase · 1964 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, WH Allen, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this photo-safari through East Africa by Ilka Chase and Dr Norton Brown. The first edition of this work. By Ilka Chase, American actress, radio host, and novelist, and her husband Norton Brown. A fascinati...