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The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post

Various · 1759 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

London, The London Chronicle, 1759. Disbound. A run of over one-hundred issues of this popular London-based Georgian evening paper. One-hundred and five issues of 'The London Chronicle' bound in one volume, for February 3rd 1759 to October 4th 1759, being issues 329 ...

The History of England from the Accession of James the Second

Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1852 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. Leather. Two volumes of the eighth edition of this detailed chronicle of the history of England from Thomas Babington Macaulay, Volumes I and II only. Two volumes of a five volume set. Volume I and II only. Eighth edition. A c...

The Birds of Surrey

John A. Bucknill · 1900 · Rooke Books

£238.00 (€285.32 | $314.48 | ¥50,225)

London, R. H. Porter, 1900 . First edition. Leather. A handsome copy of the first edition of Sir John Strachey's illustrated ornithological study of the birds of Surrey. The first edition of this work by British lawyer and Judge John Alexander Strachey Bucknill, who serve...

Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1876 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1876. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this lesser known political work by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The first edition of this lesser known work by poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, an essay in which he criticises the political views of ...

The Horoscope in Detail

Alan Leo; H. S. Green · 1906 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Not Stated, 1906 . Cloth. The very scarce second edition of Alan Leo and H. S. Green's astrological guidebook. The second edition of volume IV of Alan Leo's 'Astrological Manuals&apos.Alan Leo was an English astrologer, author, publisher, astrological da...

Napoleon the Gaoler: Personal Experiences and Adventures of British Sailors and Soldiers During the Great Captivity

Edward Fraser · 1914 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated collection of personal accounts from British sailors and soldiers imprisoned in France by Napoleonic forces. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates...

The Antient Chronicles of Sir John Froissart of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, and Flanders, and Adjoining Countries

Sir John Froissart; John Bourchier [translator] · 1814 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, J. Davis, 1814-1816. Leather. A smart copy of Sir John Froissart's prose history of the Hundred Years' War, translated from the original French by the order of King Henry VIII. Complete in four volumes. Scarce edition. A prose history of the Hundred Years&apo...

The Dickens Country

Frederick G. Kitton · 1905 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this illustrated work on the residences of the noted Charles Dickens, written by Frederick G. Kitton and bound in full straight grain morocco. The first edition. The 'Pilgrimage Series&apo...

War Memoirs: Volumes I, II, III, IV & V

David Lloyd George · 1933 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1933-1936. First edition. Cloth. A first edition five-volume set of David Lloyd George's illustrated memoirs of the First World War. Five volumes of a six-volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings.Ink inscription to the fr...

Local Gleanings: An Archaeological & Historical Magazine Chiefly Relating to Lancashire & Cheshire

J. P. Earwaker [editor] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Manchester, J. E. Cornish, 1880. Cloth. Volume one of this archaeological and historical magazine on Lancashire and Cheshire, with illustrations throughout. Volume one of two. Illustrated with eight plates, two folding plates, and many in-text figures. A collection of articles...

A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Rev. F. O. Morris · 1880 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, William Mackenzie , 1880. First edition. Cloth. A brightly illustrated set of five first editions presenting the country seats and estates of British noblemen and gentlemen. First edition, bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth.Dated using Jisc. Five v...

Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada

Ruy Freyre de Andrada; C. R. Boxer [editor] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1930. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated account of the exploits of Ruy Freyre de Andrada, a Portuguese soldier. The Argonaut Series. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirteen plates, two of which are folding. Collated complete. The exp...

The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894

Captain Frank E. Younghusband · 1896 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, John Murray, 1896. Cloth. An illustrated travel work by Frank Younghusband, following his decade long exploration of Asia in the late nineteenth century. The third edition, published in the same year as the first. Francis Younghusband's vivid travel account of hi...

The Cabinet History of England

Charles Macfarlane · 1845 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Charles Knight and Co. 1845-1847. First edition. Leather. The complete twenty-six volume set of Macfarlane's comprehensive work on the history of England, uniformly bound in thirteen volumes. The first editions of these twenty-six volumes in thirteen books in half...

The Norman Balliols in England Compiled in Part from Mr. Wentworth Huyshe&Apos;S Harold and the Balliols

Benjamin J. Scott · 1914 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Blades, East, & Blades, Printers, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A delightful presentation copy of this historical look at the Norman Balliols in England. First edition. Presentation copy with an inscription to the front endpaper "with the compilers kind regards" dated 19...

Extreme Oriental Mixture

Gilbert Collins · 1925 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated account of the author's experiences travelling across China. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty plates. Collated complete. A detailed account of the aut...

Enclosures and Defences in the Neolithic of Western Europe

Colin Burgess; Peter Topping; et al. · 1988 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Oxford, BAR International Series, 1988 . First edition. Paperback. A pair of scarce, first editions of this interesting study of Neolithic enclosures and defences in Western Europe, illustrated throughout. First editions, in the publisher's original paper wraps. Very scar...

Nordland

1893 · Rooke Books

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

Leipzig, Not Stated, 1893 . Cloth. A very scarce collection of twenty-six plates of the photographs of Wilhelm Dreesen, depicting late nineteenth century Norway. In the original Danish.Illustrated with seventy-seven photographic images on twenty-six plates. Collated, completeT...

The Tower Menagerie: Comprising the Natural History of the Animals Contained

Edward T. Bennett · 1829 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Robert Jennings, 1829 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this illustrated work about the various wild animals previously held at the Tower of London. The first edition of this work by Edward T. Bennett.An entertaining work about the various wild animals pre...

The Juvenile Tourist or the Excursion Into the West of England; Into the Midland Countries, with Part of South Wales; and Into the Whole Country of Kent; Concluding with an Account of Maidstone and Its Vicinity. Interspersed with Historical Anecdotes and Political Extracts

John Evans · 1818 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London , Baldwin, Cradock and Joy , 1818. Hardback. A very scarce enlarged and corrected edition from 1818. A very scarce edition of the Juvenile Tourist. This edition is the fourth edition published in 1818. It has been enlarged and corrected. A very scarce collection of trav...