Storia

Isabella D&Apos;Este: Marchioness of Mantua 1474-1539

Julia Cartwright · 1903 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, John Murray, 1903. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of volume II of Julia Cartwright's biography of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua and Renaissance art patron. The first edition of volume II of this work in the publisher's original cloth bi...

The Stones of Paris in History and Letters

Benjamin Ellis Martin; Charlotte M. Martin · 1899 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Cloth. An insightful history of Paris with numerous illustrations, complete in two bright volumes. A two volume set in the publisher's original cloth binding. 18 plates to Volume I, 20 plates to Volume II and numerous further ...

The Spas of England and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Northern Spas, Southern Spas, and Midland Spas

A. B. Granville · 1841 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.55 | $508.72 | ¥81,246)

London, Henry Colburn, 1841 . First edition. Cloth. The complete three volume first edition of A. B. Granville's illustrated guide to the spas and sea bathing places of England. Volume I, 'Northern Spas', is illustrated with a folding linen map, eight plates, an...

The Elizabethan Home Discovered in 2 Dialogues

Claudius Hollyband; Peter Erondell; M. St. Clare Byrne (ed.) · 1925 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London, The Haslewood Books; Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1925 . Cloth. An interesting historical record of life in the Elizabethan period from dialogues reprinted from the time. First thus of The Elizabethan Home Discovered in 2 Dialogues by Claudius Hollyband and Pet...

Sawas 1939-1947 Book of Thanks

EAS Bailey · 1981 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Inversanda, Ardgour, EAS Bailey, 1981. First edition. Cloth. The first limited edition of this historical record of World War Two with a signed letter from the editor. First limited edition of Sawas 1939-1947 Book of Thanks 1980 in the original publisher's imitation leath...

The New Army in Training & the Fringes of the Fleet

Rudyard Kipling · 1915 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan, 1915-1916. Paperback. A pair of pamphlets issued during the First World War written by Rudyard Kipling. The New Army in Training is a first edition. The Fringes of The Fleet is a reprint. Originally published in 1915. Kipling wrote 6 articles about the train...

Les Ecrivains Militaires de la France

Theodore Karcher · 1866 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Trubner & Co. 1866. First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of this study of French military literature by Theodore Karcher. The first edition of this work, in the original French. Printed in London with a address to the English reader in English language. A study o...

Biographie Universelle Ancienne Et Moderne in Forty Five Volumes

M. Michaud · 1843 · Rooke Books

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

Paris and Leipzig, A. Thoisnier Desplaces; Chez Madame C. Desplaces; Lirairie de F. A. Brockhaus, 1843-1860 . Leather. This vast collection of biographies of writers and scholars throughout history complete in forty five volumes. The complete set of Biographie Universelle Anci...

An African Adventure

Isaac F. Marcosson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London, John Lane Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and illustrated work regarding American travel through Africa. Complete with 48 illustrations including photographs, maps and frontispiece of King Albert. Collated complete. The first UK edition of the work. P...

The Emperor&Apos;S Last Island a Journey to St Helena

Julia Blackburn · 1991 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1991 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical study of Napoleon's exile on St Helena, including a letter from the publisher. First edition of The Emperor's Last Island A Journey to St Helena by Julia Blackburn in the orig...

Heritage of a Prison H.M. P. Shepton Mallet 1610-1985

Francis Disney; Donald L. Long · 1989 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Shepton Mallet, Whitstone Press, 1989. Cloth. A very scarce and fascinating history of H. M. P. Shepton Mallet from 1610 to 1985 by one of its former prison officers, Francis Disney. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Loos...

Napoleon at St. Helena

Barry Edward O'Meara · 1888 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1888. Cloth. An illustrated work detailing the experiences and events of Napoleon Bonaparte's exile at St. Helena, written by his physician at the time, Barry Edward O'Meara. A fascinating insight into the events and experiences on the ...

Napoleon at St. Helena, 1815-1821

Frederic Masson; Louis B. Frewer [trans.] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

New York, Medill McBride Company, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of this detailed and illustrated historical account of the final years of Napoleon Bonaparte's life, 1815-1821. The first US edition of Louis B. Frewer's translation of Frederic Masso...

British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910, Natural History Report. Geology. Vol. II. No. 2. The Volcanic Rocks of Cape Adare South Victoria Land

W. Campbell Smith · 1959 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1959 . First edition. Paperback. British mineralogist and petrologist Walter Campbell Smith's very scarce geological report on the volcanic rocks of the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula, East Antarctica. N...

Junius

Junius; Anonymous · 1801 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, T. Bensley; et al, 1801. Leather. The politically radical Georgian letters of 'Junius', the anonymous figure writing to the 'Public Advertiser', an early edition. Complete in two volumes.An early edition of this work.A selection of the letters of Ju...

The Cape of Adventure, Being Strange and Notable Discoveries, Perils, Shipwrecks, Battles Upon Sea and Land, with Pleasant and Interesting Observations Upon the Country and the Natives of the Cape of Good Hope.

Ian D. Colvin · 1912 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London and Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack , 1912 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this travel journal and collection of memoirs from experiences in The Cape from the British colonisers of the early twentieth century First edition of The Cape of Adventure by Ian D. C...

The Vanished Cities of Arabia

Mrs. Steuart Erskine · 1860 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Hutchinson & Co. c1924. Cloth. Erskine's history of the vanished cities of Arabia, with colour plates by Major Fletcher. In the publisher's original cloth binding. 40 plates including the frontispiece, some in colour. Collated complete. Mrs Steuart Erskine (1...

The Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilisation of the Incas; the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilisation

William H Prescott · 1850 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Richard Bentley , 1850. Leather. Uniformly bound set of the history of Peruvian and Mexican conquest by William H. Prescott, a bright group. William H Prescott wan an American historian, widely recognised as the first American scientific historian. Here is a six volume...

Orbis Terrarum Antiquus Cum Thesauro Topographico, Continente Indices Tabularum Geographicarum Topographicos, Eosdemque Criticos.

Christiano Theophilo Reichardo [Christian Gottlieb Reichard] · 1824 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Norimbergae [Nuremberg], Sumtibus Friderici Campii, 1824 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this scarce topographical thesaurus from German cartographer Christian Gottlieb Reichard. In the original Latin. The scarce first edition of this topographical thesaurus, a...

Beetles of the British Isles

E. F. Linssen · 1959 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London & New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the first series of this guidebook for Beetles in Britain with colour plates and in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Beetles of the British Isles by E. F. Linssen in the ...