Storia

A Suburb of Yedo

Theobald A. Purcell · 1889 · Rooke Books

£1,470.00 (€1,762.28 | $1,942.40 | ¥310,213)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1889. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this beautifully illustrated look into Tokyo as it was in the nineteenth century, a charming collection of sketches on the city. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.A charmin...

Holland House

Princess Marie Liechtenstein · 1875 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan And Co. 1875. Cloth. A third edition on the subject of Holland House in a decorative binding, profusely illustrated and with folding plates. Princess Marie Henrietta Adelaide of Liechtenstein (1850-1878) was an English writer who was adopted by a nobleman and...

Airshipwreck

Len Deighton; Arnold Schwartzman · 1978 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1978. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Len Deighton's tribute to airship travel in its heyday, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Original promotional postcard loosely inserted.&apo...

Rules and Regulations Governing Navigation of the Panama Canal and Adjacent Waters

1931 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)

Mount Hope, The Panama Canal Press, 1931. Paperback. A very scarce collection of rules regarding navigation on the Panama Canal, illustrated throughout. A very scarce work.An interesting study into the rules and regulations about navigating the Panama Canal and its adjacent wa...

Report of the Select Committee Appointed by the House of Commons, England, &Apos;to Inquire Into the Practicability of Providing, by Means of the Commercial Steam Marine of the Country, a Reserve Steam Navy, Available for the National Defence When Required&Apos;

1854 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

New York, J. H. Burnet, 1854. Paperback. A very scarce pamphlet on the Victorian defence system in Britain regarding their Navy and reserve Navy. A very scarce work.An interesting report into whether it was possible to provide a reserve steam navy in Britain, ready for nationa...

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Winston Churchill · 1956 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Cassell and Company LTD, 1956-8. First edition. Cloth. First editions of Volumes II and IV of Churchill's important history of Great Britain. In two volumes.The first editions, first impressions, of these works.Volumes II and IV of a total of four volumes.Volume I...

Indie in Woord En Beeld

L F Van Gent; W A Penard; Dr D Rinkes · 1924 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Weltevreden, Weltevreden Topografische Inrichting, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this record regarding the Dutch East Indies. In Dutch and English, with parallel text. Illustrated throughout. A pictorial record of Indonesia in the 1920s and a brief history ...

IL Mio Viaggio Nel Tibet Occidentale

Giotto Dainelli · 1932 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Milano; [Milan], A. Mondadori, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this Italian travel work on the Western Tibet, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.In the original Italian.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty-two plates.Collated, comple...

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M. S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy

Henry Keppel · 1846 · Rooke Books

£700.00 (€839.18 | $924.95 | ¥147,721)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1846. Cloth. The second edition of Henry Keppel's account of his expedition to Borneo on the H.M.S. Dido, illustrated throughout, including with folding maps. The second edition of this work.Complete in two volumes.Half-title is present to each v...

The Letters from and to Sir Dudley Carleton, Knt. During His Embassy in Holland, from January 1615/16, to December 1620

Dudley Carleton · 1780 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.72 | $1,453.50 | ¥232,133)

London, Not Stated, 1780. Leather. A finely bound collection of Dudley Carleton's letters written during his embassy in Holland, illustrated with a frontispiece. The third edition of this work. In a fine morocco binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece.A collection of lett...

History of Education in Bihar Under British Rule

Bhagvati Sahay · 1928 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Not Stated, [Bhagalpur Untied Pr.], 1928. Cloth. A very scarce work detailing the development of education system in Bihar whilst it was under British rule. A very scarce work.Bound without title page, publishing information is taken from WorldCat.                   ...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon · 1903 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, John Murray, 1903-1925. Cloth. A bright, smartly bound set of Edward Gibbon's seminal work 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire&apos. With an illustrated frontispiece of Edward Gibbon and a folding map to the rear of volume I. Folding map...

Rerum Britannicarum, Libri Septem, Quibus Res in Anglia, Scotia, Hibernia, Ab Anno Mdcxlv Bello Gest, Exponuntur. Horn, Georg.

Georg Horn · 1648 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

Lugd Batav, Francisci Hackii, 1648. First edition. Leather. This very scarce work details the British history from 1645 to 1646 when the King Charles I was captured. In LatinFirst editionBy the German historian Georg Horn, who also wrote "Arca No" in 1666. Seven books in one v...

Aulae Turcicae Othomannicique Imperii Descriptio: Qua Turcarum Palatina Officia Mores Religio Sectae Item Mahometicae, Imperiorumq III Ex Ea Prodenntium Status Luculenter Enarruntur

Antoine Gueffroy · 1577 · Rooke Books

£4,900.00 (€5,874.28 | $6,474.67 | ¥1,034,045)

Basileae, Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1577. Fine Binding. A finely bound set of this scarce history regarding the Ottoman empire and Turkey. Finely bound in uniform calf bindings, and held in a custom slipcase.Being two volumes with the signatures, [alpha]-[epsilon]8, [zeta]4...

Mercurius Politicus. Comprising the Summe of All Intelligence, with the Affairs and Designs Now on Foot in the Three Nations of England, Ireland, and Scotland. In Defence of the Common-Wealth, and for Information of the People

[Marchamont Nedham] · 1651 · Rooke Books

£11,250.00 (€13,486.86 | $14,865.32 | ¥2,374,083)

London, Tho. Newcomb, 1651-2. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition collection of these five issues of the influential political English Civil War magazine 'Mercurius Politicus', in a beautiful binding by Andrew Grieve of Edinburgh. The first edition of...

An Authentic Account of the Conduct of the Young Chevalier from His First Arrival in Paris After His Defeat at Culloden to the Conclusion of the Peace at Aix-la-Chapelle

Anon · 1749 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Nutt , 1749. Paperback. An early account of this scarce work purporting to be written by a knight stationed in Paris during the mid eighteenth century. With details from the Jacobite rising Battle of Culloden and the War of the Austrian Succession. The letter gives det...

Notes on the Ceremony of Installation

Henry Sadler · 1889 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, George Kenning, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition looking into the yearly Ceremony of Installation within the Freemasons, illustrated with a frontispiece, written by Henry Sadler. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. This work discu...

A Short View of the History of Free-Masonry. Dedicated to the Grand Lodge of England

William Sandys · 1829 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Crew and Spencer, 1829. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this concise and informative history of the Freemasons in England, written by the antiquarian William Sandys. The first edition of this work. An uncommon work. With excellent provenance from the...

The Genuineness of Lord Clarendon&Apos;S History of the Rebellion the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing I. An Account of the Chancellor&Apos;S Life from His Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the Same, and of His History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to His Banishment in 1667.

John Burton · 1744 · Rooke Books

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

Oxford, James Fletcher, 1744-59. Leather. A very scarce collection of two works on Edward Hyde the first Earl of Clarendon, one being his own autobiography, and the other being a defence of his 'History of the Rebellion' by John Burton. Two volumes in one, bound with...

Danicorum Monumentorum Libri Sex: E Spissis Aniquitatum Tenebris Et in Dania Ac Norvegia Extantibus Ruderibus Eruti Ab Regum Daniae Series Duplex Et Limitum Inter Daniam & Sueciam Descriptio. Ex Vetustissimo Legum Scanicarum Literis Runicis in Membrana Exarto Codice Eruta

Ole Worm · 1642 · Rooke Books

£9,500.00 (€11,388.91 | $12,552.93 | ¥2,004,781)

Hafniae; [Copenhagen], Joachimum Moltkenium, 1642-43. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of Ole Worm's important work studying the ancient runestones in Scandinavia, his work being the beginning of Danish research into runes, with information on runestone...