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Viscount Kemsley&Apos;S Luncheons: An Editor&Apos;S Memories

William Waite Hadley · 1988 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, None, 1988 . First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy of The Sunday Times editor W. W. Hadley's vanishingly scarce record of the private luncheons held at Kemsley Manner during WWII. With accounts of conversations with General Montgomery, Clement Attlee ...

My Life with the Eskimo

Vilhjalmur Stefansson · 1924 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1924. Cloth. A smart new and cheaper US edition of this insightful account from Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson. New and cheaper edition. Scarce edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty plates, and two folding maps ...

Under the Pole Star: The Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1935-6

A. R. Glen; N. A. C. Croft · 1937 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Methuen Publishers, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this travel account of the Oxford University expedition to the Polar regions of 1935 to 1936. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-seven plates, seventeen maps, four diagrams in t...

Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa

Major Denham; Captain Clapperton; Doctor Oudney · 1826 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, John Murray, 1826. Leather. The second edition of this important narrative regarding the Bornu Mission, an expedition which aimed to find the source of the Niger. The second edition, and first octavo edition of the work. First published in quarto earlier the same year....

A History of British Butterflies

Rev. F. O. Morris · 1865 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1865 . Cloth. Illustrated throughout with hand coloured plates of butterflies, this is a lovely early edition of F. O. Morris's hugely popular study of British Butterflies. First published in 1853, this is a new edition of this popular work.A...

Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; from the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey

Rachel Russell, Lady Russell · 1773 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773 . Leather. A bright example of the second edition of the publication of the personal correspondence of Lady Rachel Russell, an English noblewoman, heiress, and writer whose husband was executed for involvement in the Rye House Plot. The s...

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield · 1774 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, J. Dodsley, 1774. First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the first edition, second state of the letters between an 18th century Earl and his illegitimate son, providing fascinating insight into the personal lives of the British aristocracy at the time, and thei...

Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon

Frank Wall · 1921 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.66 | $1,519.57 | ¥242,684)

Colombo, H. R. Cottle, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of physician and herpetologist Frank Wall's study of the snakes of Sri Lanka. A very scarce first edition.Inscribed by the author to a front blank, 'Ethel,...

Marlborough: His Life and Times

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1934 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1934-1936. Cloth. Two first edition volumes of this biographical work on John Churchill, written by Sir Winston Churchill. Being volumes II and III of IV only. Two volumes, being volumes II and III of IV only. First edition. Volume II illust...

Old Plaistow: A Paper Read at the Balaam Street Schools

John Spencer Curwen · 1892 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

Plaistow, H. Parker, 1892. Cloth. A second edition of this very scarce historical work on Plaistow, in London, with illustrations throughout. Second edition. Very scarce work. With the original paper wraps bound in. Illustrated throughout by English artist and illustrator, Spe...

Shades and Echoes of Old London; Commercial Tales and Sketches

Rev. John Stoughton · 1864 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, At The Leisure Hour Office, 1864-1865 . Leather. Two charmingly illustrated and highly informative works published by the Leisure Hour periodical, offering a collection of short narratives about London. Two charming studies of the history of London and its historical r...

Paradise Row or a Broken Piece of Old Chelsea

Reginald Blunt · 1906 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, Macmillan & Company Limited, 1906. First edition. Vellum. A limited edition of this illustrated historical study of Chelsea by Reginald Blunt, a signed presentation copy. First edition. Limited to one hundred and ten copies, of which this is number eighty-four. The aut...

Two Thousand Years of London

C. Whitaker-Wilson · 1935 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1935. Cloth. A smart second edition of this history of London over two thousand years, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Second edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen...

Royal Performances in London Theatres

Richard Northcott · 1912 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, Percy Lindley, 1912 . First edition. Hardback. Illustrated throughout, this is the very scarce first edition of Richard Northcott's account of the theatrical performances attended by the Royal Family throughout history. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with...

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Including Accounts of Timbukto, Sokoto, and the Basins of the Nigar and Benuwe.

Henry Barth · 1890 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1890. Cloth. Henry Barth's illustrated travelogue of his time in North and Central Africa from the Minerva Library of Famous Books. The Minerva Library of Famous Books. Illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous woodcut vignettes, and se...

The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, from 1799 to 1818.

Lieut. Colonel Gurwood [John Gurwood] · 1837 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.66 | $1,519.57 | ¥242,684)

London, John Murray, 1837-9. Leather. A complete thirteen volume set of Gurwood's important historical work on the military career of the Duke of Wellington, bound in half calf and including the index. The New Edition. A thirteen volume complete set, including volume thir...

Africa&Apos;S Dome of Mystery

Eva Stuart-Watt · 1929 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Marshall, Morgan & Scott, Ltd. 1929. Cloth. A brightly illustrated interesting account of the Wachagga people of Kilimanjaro from Eva Stuart-Watt. Illustrated with a colour frontispice, thirty-five plates, numerous in-text images, and a folding map to the rear. Collate...

Notes on an Old Baptist Family: Ward of Nottingham

John T. Godfrey · 1900 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Nottingham , Privately Printed , 1900. Cloth. A privately printed genealogical history of the descendants of Benjamin Ward of Nottingham. An uncommon copy of this work. Printed for private circulation. In the original cloth binding. With a frontispiece, folding genealogical ...

The Americans in the Great War

1914 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Clermont-Ferrand , Michelin et Cie. c1919. Cloth. A three-volume Michelin guide to the American armies' movements across the battles of World War I, illustrated throughout. From the Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918). This particular series on th...

A History of Greece

George Grote · 1846 · Rooke Books

£2,250.00 (€2,697.37 | $2,973.06 | ¥474,817)

London, John Murray, 1846-1856 . First edition. Leather. A uniformly bound, complete set of George Grote's celebrated History of Greece, complete with folding maps and plans. The first edition, published between 1846 and 1856. Complete in twelve volumes. Uniformly bound...