Storia regionale e locale

Things Japanese Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan

Basil Hall Chamberlain · 1905 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, John Murray, 1905. Cloth. Basil Hall Chamberlain's immensely popular Japanese encyclopedia, looking at the history of Japan. Illustrated with a folding map. A popular encyclopaedia on Japan, written in an accessible informal tone. This work went through many editi...

Savage Africa: Being the Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial Southwester and Northwestern Africa

William Winwood Reade · 1864 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.43 | $2,907.00 | ¥464,265)

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1864. First edition. Leather. Theodore Roosevelt's first edition copy of this narrative of a tour in equatorial, southwestern and northwestern Africa by W Winwood Reade. Rebacked, with the original boards preserved. The first American editi...

Japan

Vilhelm Rasmussen · 1903 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

Not Stated, Det Nordiske Forlag, 1903. Leather. A thorough descriptive account of Japanese culture in the Danish language. Wilhelm Rasmussen (1869-1939) was a Danish author. This work details Japan, Japanese culture and people.With an illustrated title page, and a number of bl...

Service and Sport in the Sudan a Record of Administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

D. C. E. F. Comyn · 1911 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A complete first edition of this account of the author's time working in Sudan, illustrated throughout with plates and folding maps. The first edition of this work.An account of the author's experiences ...

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796 and 1797 [with] the Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805

Mungo Park · 1799 · Rooke Books

£4,400.00 (€5,274.86 | $5,813.99 | ¥928,530)

London, Bulmer and Co; Murray, 1799-1815. First edition. Leather. The first edition of these important African travel works based on Mungo Park's missions. Park's writings and journals became an immediate success and a staple in Africana and travel literature. A set,...

Richmond Its People and Its Story

Mary Newton Stanard · 1923 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating single volume work on the history of Richmond, examining the capital city's past from the Colonial Period to the war between the states, and the following reconstruction. This text was writt...

Egypt and Mohammed Ali or Travels in the Valley of the Nile

James Augustus St John · 1834 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown Green and Longman. 1834. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce travel work on Egypt by British journalist, author and traveller James Augustus St John. To Volume II the pages xxii-xix have been mistakenly bound in backwards...

In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country a Record of Travel and Discovery in Central Africa

A B Lloyd · 1899 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1899. First edition. Cloth. Albert Lloyd's tales of being a missionary for four years in Central Africa, signed by the author to the recto of front endpaper. Albert Lloyd was a missionary sent to Central Africa. This book documents his four years o...

Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa

Marius Maxwell · 1925 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, William Heinemann, 1925. Cloth. Marius Maxwell's 'Stalking Big Game With A Camera In Equatorial Africa' beautifully illustrated and very scarce with the dust wrapper with photographic plates throughout, including large folding plates. Reprint by The Medi...

Great Masters of Ukiyoe School: Calendar for 1913

T. Hasegawa · 1912 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, 1912 . Paperback. A very scarce copy of this Hasegawa book-form calendar for 1913, richly illustrated throughout with colour woodblock reproductions after seven major masters of ukiyo-e. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps, sewn in the Ja...

Man and Beast in Eastern Ethiopia

J. Bland-Sutton · 1911 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition of this copiously illustrated hunting account from John Bland-Sutton. Author's presentation copy, "with John Bland-Sutton's best wishes" inscribed to the title page. First ed...

Travels in the Interior of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco, from the Years 1781 to 1797; Through Caffraria, the Kingdoms of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Moncemugi, Muscgako, &C. Likewise Across the Great Desert of Sahara and the Northern Parts of Barbary

Frederick Christian Damberger · 1801 · Rooke Books

£474.00 (€568.25 | $626.33 | ¥100,028)

Dublin, P Wogan, 1801. First edition. Leather. One of the first editions in English of the incredible fabricated African travel narratives from the gentleman known as Zacharias Taurinius. A scarce Dublin imprint. In Two Volumes, Complete. Bound as One. With a fold-out map of A...

Doreen Coasting with Some Account of the Places She Saw and the People She Encountered

Alys Lowth · 1912 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1912. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this account of the travels of Doreen through Africa. Illustrated throughout with many monochrome photographs. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. In a blue cloth binding. Externally, smart, though...

Old Hicks the Guide or Adventures in the Camanche Country in Search of a Gold Mine

Charles W Weber · 1848 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London , Charles H Clarke, c1856. Cloth. A U.K Edition of Charles Webber's Old Hicks The Guide. Undated, dated from WorldCat which references the British Library's catalogue. This work was originally published in New York, 1848. Webber was a United States journalist ...

Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Performed in the Years 1819-20 in His Majesty&Apos;S Ships Hecla and Griper Under the Orders of William Edward Parry and Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Performed in the Years 1821-22-23 in His Majesty&Apos;S Ships Fury and Hecla Under the Orders of William Edward Parry

William Edward Parry · 1821 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

London, John Murray, 1821-1825. Leather. Two accounts of the journeys undertaken by William Edward Parry and his crew in the Arctic. Second edition. Sir William Edward Parry (19 December 1790 – 8 or 9 July 1855) was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer, who in 1827 atte...

Eskimo Life

Fridtjof Nansen · 1893 · Rooke Books

£1,750.00 (€2,097.96 | $2,312.38 | ¥369,302)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1893. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this work by Fridtjof Nansen. With 16 plates and woodcuts in the text. Publisher's Catalogue to the rear. Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian arctic explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanit...

The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration

Sir Clements R. Markham · 1921 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Cambridge , University Press, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A scarce illustrated history of polar exploration, written by eminent geographer and explorer Sir Clements Markham. The first and only edition until Cambridge University Press' 2015 reprint, followed by another mod...

Advance Japan: A Nation Thoroughly in Earnest

J. Morris · 1895 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, W. H. Allen and Co. Limited , 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this comprehensive and illustrated guide to Japan. Very scarce first edition. In the publisher's decorative cloth binding.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, forty-sev...

On the Borders of Pigmy Land

Ruth B. Fisher · 1905 · Rooke Books

£67.00 (€80.32 | $88.53 | ¥14,139)

London, Marshall Brothers, Ltd. 1905 . Cloth. The fifth edition of this illustrated early twentieth century travel journal from colonial missionary Ruth Fisher. The fifth edition of the work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-two plates. Collated complete.A missionary...

The Handbook of Uganda

H. R. Wallis · 1913 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Government of the Uganda Protectorate by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of H. R. Wallis's illustrated guide to Uganda in the 1910s, intended for the use of British subjects travelling abroad. A ...