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The London and Middlesex Notebook: A Garner of Local History and Antiquities

W. P. W. Phillimore [ed] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Elliot Stock, 1892. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce historical work on the antiquities of London and Middlesex, with many detailed illustrations. The first edition.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, monochrome vignettes, and five monochr...

Phoenician

Ilya Sholeimovich Shifman · 1963 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Moscow, Publishing House of Eastern Literature, 1963. First edition. Paperback. A smart copy of this very scarce historical study of the Phoenician colonization of the Western Mediterranean area, in the original Russian. Russian. First edition. Very scarce. A culmination of Sh...

An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa

John Barrow · 1804 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. First edition. Leather. An illustrated account of John Barrow's time in South Africa, the first edition, Volume II only. The first edition of this uncommon work.Volume II only, lacking Volume I. Illustrated with a fol...

Ancient As the Hills: 1973-1974; the Milk of Paradise: 1993-1997

James Lees-Milne · 1997 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, John Murray, 1997-2005 . First edition. Cloth. Fine copies of the sixth and twelfth volumes of the diaries of James Lees-Milne, covering his life in the years 1973-1974, and 1993-1997. The first edition, first impression of each volume.In the publisher's original ...

A Journal of the Terror: Being an Account of the Occurrences in the Temple During the Confinement of Louis XVI, Together with a Description of the Last Hours of the King

M. Clery [Jean-Baptiste Clery]; Abbe de Firmont [Henry Essex Edgeworth] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, The Folio Society, 1955. Cloth. The Folio Society edition of this account of the imprisonment and last days of King Louis XVI of France, in a lovely gilt binding with the original glassine and slipcase. The Folio Society edition.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispie...

Medieval Georgian Enamels of Russia

Shalva Amiranashvili · 1964 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1964. First edition. Cloth. A smart first translated edition of this illustrated history of the Medieval Georgian enamels of Russia. First translated edition. Illustrated with sixty-four tipped-in colour plates. Collated complete. A detailed his...

Jane&Apos;S Fighting Ships 1952-53

Raymond Blackman [ed] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd , 1953. First edition. Cloth. The 1953 edition of 'Janes' Fighting Ships', a heavily illustrated annual on naval ships from around the world. The 1952-3 edition of this annual. Profusely illustrated throughout with monochro...

Archaeologia Aeliana or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity

C. H. Hunter Blair [ed.] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne , 1930. Cloth. A pleasing volume of various tracts relating to the antiquities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with plates. From the Fourth Series, Vol. VII of the Publications of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcast...

The Riviera: Pen and Pencil Sketches from Cannes to Genoa

The Dean of Canterbury [Henry Alford] · 1870 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Bell & Daldy, 1870 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the Dean of Canterbury's beautifully illustrated guide to the Riviera. The first edition of this work from English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer, Henry Al...

Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture

John Pope-Hennessy · 1963 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Phaidon, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. The complete three volume first edition of John Pope-Hennessy's wonderfully impressive guide to Italian sculpture in the Baroque and High Renaissance periods. The first edition, first impression of these three volumes, in the ...

Practical Observations on Diseases of Women

William Jones · 1850 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

London, H. Balliere, 1850 . Cloth. The second edition of William Jones's very scarce illustrated discussion of various gynaecological conditions and their treatments. The second edition of this work, which was published in 1840.Illustrated with ten plates - depicting nipp...

Islamic Architecture and Its Decoration A.D. 800-1500

Oleg Graber · 1967 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Faber and Faber, 1967. Cloth. A collection of photographs by Derek Hill depicting the beauty if ancient Islamic architecture, in the original dust wrapper. The second edition, with twelve new colour photographs and eighty-five in black and white. First published in 196...

History of Lyncombe and Widcombe, with Personal Recollections of the Parish in the Thirties

William Tyte · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Bath , Bath Chronicle" and "Bath Pictorial" Offices , 1898. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce local history of two Bath districts, Lyncombe and Widcombe, with illustrations. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work. In the original green cloth binding. A c...

The Tulip

Anna Pavord · 1999 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A lavishly illustrated history of the humble tulip and its dominating presence across our history. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper and original cloth binding.An extr...

National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Annual Conference: Verbatim Report of the Proceedings Together with the Text of Mr. Churchill&Apos;S Speech.

Winston S. Churchill · 1948 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London , The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations , 1948-52. First edition. Paperback. Three scarce volumes featuring accounts of the annual conferences of the National Conservative Union, with reports of Churchill's speeches. The first editions. In t...

The Victoria Histories of the Counties of England - Domesday Survey

Various · 1920 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, The St. Catherine Press, 1920-1926. Cloth. A collection of eighteen volumes from the Victoria Histories of the Counties of England focusing on the Domesday Survey, bound in five volumes. Eighteen volumes bound into five. From The Victoria History of the Counties of Eng...

Music in the Time of Queen Elizabeth: A Paper Read Before Ye Sette of Odd Volumes February 24th, 1914

Frederick Keel · 1914 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, John Lane, 1914. Hardback. A scarce limited edition work featuring a paper read to the 'Sette of the Odd Volumes' society by Frederick Keel on music from the Elizabethan era. A limited edition. Number 103 out of 249. This copy is lacking the signature to the ...

Domesday Book in Relation to the County of Sussex

W. D. Parish · 1886 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Sussex, H. Wolff, 1886. Cloth. A facsimile of the original Domesday Book for Sussex, with a translation, indices, and an explanation of terms. A complete topographical work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the gilt crest of the Sussex Archaeological Society...

Collection Complette Des Oeuvres de Mr. De Voltaire

Voltaire · 1768 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Geneve, [Cramer], 1768. First edition. Leather. The first seven volumes only of the first folio edition of the complete collected works of Voltaire. Illustrated with fantastic engraved plates. In the original French.The first folio edition of Voltaire's collected works. P...

The Two Types: Being the Saga of the Two Jaunty Heroes Who Have Given Us the Best Laugh Since the Campaign Began

Jon [John Jones] · 1945 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

None stated, British Army Newspaper Unit, [1945]. First edition. Paperback. A humorous wartime comic about two jaunty heroes, published by the British Army Newspaper. The first edition. Illustrated with a colour illustration to the front, and many monochrome illustrations thr...