Storia regionale e locale

Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa

Frederick Courteney Selous · 1893 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Rowland Ward and Co. Limited, 1893. First edition. Cloth. The illustrated first edition of Frederick Selous' exciting travel account of his eleven years spent in South East Africa, illustrated with a folding map. The first edition of this popular work, which went ...

The Early Cape Hottentots

Isaac Schapera; Benjamin Farrington · 1933 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.39 | $693.71 | ¥110,791)

Cape Town, The Van Riebeeck Society, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition work studying the indigenous people of South Africa by Isaac Schapera and Benjamin Farrington, illustrated throughout. The scarce first edition of this work.A fascinating study into the Kho...

Through the Dragon&Apos;S Eyes

L. C. Alrington; E. Alabaster · 1934 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, Constable & Co LTD, 1934. Cloth. The second edition of this scarce account of Lewis Arlington's fifty year career in the Chinese Government Service, illustrated with colour plates. The second edition of this work.A scarce work.A vivid account of the author's ...

La Stella Polare Nel Mare Artico

U. Cagni; A. Cavalli Molinelli · 1903 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Milan, Ulrico Hoepli, 1903. Cloth. An Italian work on the voyage of the 'Stella Polare', complete with a profuse number of illustrations and folding maps. The 'Stella Polare' was originally a Norwegian vessel named Jason, but was sold to an Italian company ...

Whaling in the Antarctic

A. G. Bennett · 1932 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1932. Cloth. A thorough account detailing whaling in the Antarctic. This first American edition forms an account of the then-modern industry of whaling based on the author's thirteen years experience, including four years at sea with the ...

Wanderings in South Africa

Charles Waterton · 1898 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Blackie & Son, c1890. Fine Binding. A leather bound copy of Charles Waterton's travelogue regarding his time in South America, the United States and the Antilles. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown, 'St George's School Roundhay. Lower Division 1st Pr...

Journal D&Apos;Un Voyage a Temboctou Et a Jenne, Dans L&Apos;Afrique Centrale

Rene Caillie · 1830 · Rooke Books

£2,700.00 (€3,236.85 | $3,567.68 | ¥569,780)

Paris, Imprime par Autorisation du Roi a l'Imprimerie Royale, 1830. First edition. Leather. A lovely first edition of Rene Caillie's important travel work on Central Africa, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.Complete in three volumes.In the origi...

Scenes and Services in South Africa

Robert Moffat · 1876 · Rooke Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

London, John Snow & Co, 1876. First edition. Cloth. An exceptional copy of the first edition of Robert Moffat's description of his time spent as a missionary in South Africa, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A look into Robert Moffat's work as a...

The Children of Madagascar

Herbert F. Standing · 1887 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1887. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Herbert F. Standing's Madagascan travel work, written whilst he was a missionary. The first edition of this work.An explorative travel work, discussing the lives of children living in Ma...

Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian, Descriptive and Pictorial

William Richard Holmes · 1845 · Rooke Books

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

London, Richard Bentley, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this fascinating and rare early travel work on Persia and the Caspian Sea, written by the young William Richard Holmes. Illustrated with four tinted lithograph plates. The first edition of this...

The Resources and Prospects of America Ascertained During a Visit to the States in the Autumn of 1865

Sir. S. Morton Peto · 1866 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London; New York , Alexander Strahan, Publisher, 1866. Cloth. An interesting work of American history written by the noted British engineer and politician, Sir. S. Morton Peto. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. An exploration of the resources and p...

American Indian Education Government Schools and Economic Progress

Evelyn C. Adams · 1971 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

New York, Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Cloth. A pleasing copy of Evelyn C. Adams's scarce history and appraisal of the American Indian education in the United States. This work is part of the 'American Education: Its Men, Ideas, and Institutions' ser...

An Arctic Boat-Journey in the Autumn of 1854

Isaac I. Hayes · 1860 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Richard Bentley, 1860. Cloth. Isaac Israel Hayes's fascinating account of the 'Second Grinnell Expedition' of 1853–1855, led by Elisha Kane to search for Franklin's lost expedition. Isaac Israel Hayes was an American Arctic explorer, physician, and ...

Adventures and Researches Among the Andaman Islanders

Frederic J. Mouat · 1863 · Rooke Books

£875.00 (€1,048.98 | $1,156.19 | ¥184,651)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this extremely scarce travel work, complete with four plates and a fold out map. The first edition. Collated complete with four monochrome plates and one fold out map depicting The Great Andaman and A...

Deutsches Land in Afrika

Dr Hermann Thomsen · 1911 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

Munchen, Verlad der Deutschen Alpenzeitung, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated account of German settlements and the journey to colonize parts of Africa. With illustrations by Ernst Vollbehr, a famous German travel writer, and painter who visited the German-...

Expedition Zu Den Zentralafrikanischen Kivu-Pygmã¤En [Expedition to the Central African Kivu Pygmies]

Peter Schumacher · 1949 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Brussels, Institut Royal Colonial Belge; Koninklijk Belgisch Koloniaal Instituut Brussel, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing two-volume set of Peter Schumacher's fascinating expedition to the Central African Kivu Pygmies, heavily illustrated with plates. Complete in t...

Die Bubi Auf Fernando Poo; Kordofan

Carl Meinhof; Günter Tessmann · 1916 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Hamburg; Hagen and Darmstadt, Friederichsen; Folkwang Verlag, 1916-1923. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of two German studies on Africa written towards the end of their colonial history, one on Bantu tribes and the other on Kordofan in Sudan. The first editions of tw...

The Birds of Africa - Volume II

Emil K Urban [ed.]; C Hilary Fry [ed.]; Stuart Keith [ed.] · 1986 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Academic Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. The second volume of this enormously significant ornithological work on Africa, illustrated in colour by Martin Woodcock. This is the second volume only, of what went on to become an eight volume series. This volume is titled...

Sketches of Life and Sport in South-Eastern Africa

Charles Hamilton; F. G. H. Price · 1870 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. Cloth. The illustrated first edition of this account of Charles Hamilton's time spent in South Easter Africa. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and five plates.Charles Hamilton's account of ...

"First With the Most" [Nathan Bedford] Forrest

Henry, Robert Selph · 1991 · Clausen Books, RMABA

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Mallard Press Textblock very clean and tight. All edges straight and sound. Brown boards, bumped head and foot of spine, dent to the front top edge. Unclipped dust jacket, minimally shelf worn, mylar sleeved; 558p., including index. The only enlisted man in the entire American...