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The Great Plague in London in 1665

Walter George Bell · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study of the plague in London during 1665, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, five folding plates, seventeen plates, and ten in-text images. Collate...

Hereward: The Saxon Patriot

Lieutenant-General Harward; Thomas Netherton Harward · 1896 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Elliot Stock, 1896. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce biography on the life of Hereward the Wake. The first edition of this scarce work.A biographical account of the life and character of Hereward the Wake, an Anglo-Saxon nobleman, who led a local ...

The Cretan Labyrinth: A Retrospect of Aegean Research (the Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1933)

J. L. Myres · 1933 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , 1933. Paperback. A very scarce Huxley Memorial lecture by John Myres, offering a survey of research developments into prehistoric Greece. In the publisher's original wraps. This work, reprinted from t...

Capt. John Smith of Willoughby by Alford, Lincolnshire Works 1608-1631

Edward Arber [editor] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Archibald Constable & Co. 1895. Cloth. A smart two volume set of this collection of works from English soldier and explorer Captain John Smith. Complete in two volumes. The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works. Volume one is illustrated with a portrai...

Two Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of a New Transmitter of Radio Free Europe Beamed to Hungary

Frederic R. Dolbeare; Gyula Dessewffy · 1951 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1951. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce program and record of the two addresses spoken at the ceremony inaugurating the new service of Radio Free Europe for Hungary. First edition. Limited to three hundred copies. A program and reco...

Parodies, a Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings

James Gray [ed.]; William Garbutt; 'T.C.'; John Gilbert; John Rowell Waller; R. Irving; J. S. Burrows et al. · 1880 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1880-1884 . Leather. A fantastic collection of newspaper clippings of poetic and literary parodies from the latter part of the nineteenth century. Two half morocco scrapbook volumes filled with newspaper clippings of parodies and humorous poems. In tota...

Palmyra

Iain Browning · 1979 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this highly illustrated work on the fascinating ancient site of Palmyra. First edition. Illustrated with four colour plates, four maps, and numerous monochrome in-text figures. Collated complete...

The Nun-Runners

Sonia Dougal · 1971 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. Paperback. A smart uncorrected proof of this true story of a nun-smuggling racket, with a letter from the publishers to The Sunday Times for review. Uncorrected proof. With a letter from A. P. Watt & Son to Ronald Hall at The Sunday Times. I...

Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and the Armada

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1872 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872. Leather. A smart new edition of this collection of narrative poems, or lays, from Thomas Babington Macaulay. New edition. A collection of narrative poems, or lays, which recount heroic episodes from early Roman history with strong dramati...

The History of the League

Louis Maimbourg; John Dryden · 1684 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, M. Flesher; Jacob Tonson, 1684. First edition. Leather. The first edition of John Dryden's translation of Maimbourg's fascinating history of the French Wars of Religion. The first edition of John Dryden's translation of Louis Maimbourg's 'Histo...

The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) Pictorial Post Cards

Anonymous · 1905 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Geo. Falkner & Sons, c1905 . Paperback. A very scarce collection of eight military postcards depicting the uniforms and history of The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). A very scarce collection of eight colour postcards, housed in the publisher's original envelope.These...

History of Hungarian Literature

Tibor Klaniczay; Jozsef Szauder; Miklos Szabolcsi · 1964 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London; Budapest , Collet's Holding Ltd; Corvina Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this impressively compiled history of Hungarian literature, a once scarce area of discussion for English readers. The first edition.In the publisher's br...

Cairo, Petra, and Damascus, in 1839. With Remarks on the Government of Mehemet Ali, and on the Present Prospects of Syria

John Kinnear · 1841 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€929.10 | $1,024.06 | ¥163,548)

London, John Murray, 1841 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first and only edition of John Kinnear's informative collection of writings on his life in the Near East. The uncommon first edition of this work.Kinnear was a member of the well-known family of Scottish banke...

The British Islands and Their Vegetation

A. G. Tansley · 1949 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Cambridge , At the University Press, 1949. Cloth. A very smart study of British vegetation, including a comprehensive look at the environment and history of the British Islands. A new edition issued in two volumes with corrections. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in ...

Flying Memories

Stanley Orton Bradshaw · 1934 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, John Hamilton, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fascinating aviation series of illustrations, with explanations of their contexts to each. First edition. With the publisher's original price-clipped dust wrapper. Undated, dated from copies he...

Refugees for Eternity: The Royal Mummies of Thebes Part Four: Identifying the Royal Mummies

Dylan Bickerstaffe · 2009 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Wiltshire, Canopus Press, 2009. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this very scarce historical work on the royal mummies in Thebes, written by Dylan Bickerstaffe. The first edition, first impression. A very scarce work. This work was written by Egyptologist and w...

Rome: A Fold-out History of the Ancient Civilization

Leigh Grant · 2005 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Suffolk, Top That! Publishing Plc, 2005. Paperback. A very smart fold-out replica of ancient civilization in Rome for children. With three scenes of six folding parts in full colour. Collated complete and in near fine working order with a small crease to a statue in the Forum ...

Egypt: Monuments of Civilization

Claudio Barocas · 1973 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this detailed archaeological work on Egypt from Italian Egyptologist Claudio Barocas. First UK edition. From the Monuments of Civilization Series. Illustrated throughout with colour pho...

Cartagine: La Capitale Fenicia Del Mediterraneo

B. Fourure · 1993 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Milan, Jaca Book, 1993. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce copy of the first Italian edition of this historical pop-up book exploring Carthage, an important ancient Mediterranean city. In the original Italian. Italian. First Italian edition. Very scarce work. Illustrated w...

The Love of an Uncrowned Queen, a Queen of Tears, Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV

W. H. Wilkins · 1900 · Rooke Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.54 | $1,651.70 | ¥263,787)

London, Hutchinson & Co; Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900-05. First edition. Leather. A striking Hatchards bound set of three illustrated biographies on Hanoverian women by W. H. Wilkins, the first edition of each biography. The first edition of these works.Bound by Hatchards.In ...