Storia

The White Spider the Story of the North Face of the Eiger

Heinrich Harrer; Hugh Merrick [translator] · 1979 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London , Granada , 1979 . Cloth. An impressive mountaineering book by Heinrich Harrer, with illustrations. A third impression, in English, translated from the original German by Hugh Merrick. This work provides an insight into rock climbing and mountaineering, telling the sto...

Einfuhrung in Die Metaphysik

Martin Heidegger · 1957 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Tubingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1957 . Cloth. The second edition of this brief introduction to metaphysics from German philosopher Martin Heidegger. In the original German.The second edition of this introductory work, first published in 1953 from a lecture course given by Heide...

Contes de la Decadence Romaine

Jean Richepin · 1898 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Paris, Eugene Fasquelle, 1898. First edition. Leather. A smart first edition copy of Jean Richepin's tales of Roman history, a vivid exploration of Rome and its decadent history. The first edition.In the original French.Jean Richepin's historical short stories explor...

Paris Revolutionnaire; le Tribunal Revolutionnaire; Vielles Maisons Viewux Papiers

G. Lenotre [Theodore Gosselin] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1906-08. Leather. Three historical works on France by Theodore Gosselin in five volumes. Theodore Gosselin was a French historian and playwright who wrote under pseudonym G Lenotre. He contributed articles in Le Figaro, Revue des deux mondes, Le Monde i...

Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture

Abdul Halim Sharer · 1989 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989. Cloth. Abdul Halim Sharer describes eighteenth and nineteenth century life in the Indian city of Lucknow. An uncommon volume on the Indian city of Lucknow, found in the unclipped dustwrapper. With 32 illustrations and three maps, collated ...

A History of Nanchao Under the Meng Family

Michael Blackmore · 1958 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Not Stated, Privately printed, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A PhD thesis on the history of Nanchao, which existed as a state in China from the 8th to the 9th centuries, presented to the University of London. An original PhD thesis in the original cloth binding, with a dust wrap...

Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa

Robert Moffat · 1842 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, John Snow, 1842. Leather. A smart eighth thousand of Robert Moffat's popular account of his work as a missionary in Africa in the mid-nineteenth century. Illustrated throughout. The eighth thousand of this work, published in the same year as the first.Illustrated ...

Historia de Inglaterra

MM Leon Galibert; Clememte Pelle · 1844 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Barcelona, Imprenta del Imparcial, 1844. Leather. Three volumes from the history of England by Leon Galibert and Clememte Pelle in the Spanish language. History of England by MM Leon Galibert and Clememte Pelle translated to Spanish by 'A Literary Society.' Volumes I...

Le Regent Ses Filles, Ses Maitresses, Les Dames Galantes de la Regence

Albert Meyrac · 1912 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Paris, Albin Michel, 1912. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume first edition set of this interesting history of the Regency, with illustrations. A complete two volume set, in the original French. These volumes are from a series of indiscreet and gallant chronicles, ...

Gesammelte Schriften

Wilhelm Dilthey · 1960 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Stuttgart, B. G. Teubner, 1960-1973 . Cloth. Two volumes of works by Wilhelm Dilthey. Two volumes from the works of Wilhelm Dilthey. In the original German. The first volume, Weltanschauung und Analyse Des Menschen seit Renaissance und Reformation, explores the World view an...

History of the Persecutions Endured by the Protestants of the South of France, and More Especially of the Department of the Gard, During the Years 1814, 1815, 1816, &C.

Mark Wilks · 1821 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Mark Wilks's account of the persecution of Protestants in the South of France in the 1810s, during the Bourboun Restoration and Hundred Days. Illustrated with a fol...

Jeanne D&Apos;Arc

M. Boutet de Monvel · 1896 · Rooke Books

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

Paris, Plon Nourrit & Cie, 1896. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated retelling of the story of Joan of Arc by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Movel, with the scarce original dust wrapper. French language. In the scarce original dust wrapper. Illustrated throughout with an image to every ...

The King&Apos;S Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1914

Various · 1915 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Winchester, Warren and Son, 1915. First edition. Paperback. This scarce 1914 edition details the involvement of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in the first year of the Great War. This scarce 1914 report from the King's Royal Rifle Corps details the involvements of the ...

Indira Priyadarshini

Various · 1966 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New Delhi, Popular Book Services, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this biography of Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, published when she became the third prime minister of India. With twenty five pages of illustrations to the rear, found in the unclipped dust wrapper...

Out of the Past: Some Biographical Essays

Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff · 1903 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.31 | $101.74 | ¥16,249)

London, John Murray, 1903 . First edition. Leather. The scarce two volume first edition of this collection of biographical essays by Sir M.E. Grant Duff, in signed half calf bindings by Bickers. A scarce first edition from Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, a Scottish pol...

On the Face of the Waters

Flora Annie Steel · 1905 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, William Heinemann, 1905. Paperback. A scarce paperback edition of Flora Annie Steel's novel on the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Scarce work. Hailed by critics as one of the best novels dealing with the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Based heavily on research that Steel co...

All Our Yesterdays

H. M. Tomlinson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Tomlinson's anti-war novel, All Our Yesterdays. First edition. An anti-war novel, following a group of characters from the declaration to the armistice, through the London Docks to the sho...

Soldier from the Wars Returning

Jerrard Tickell · 1942 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Chapman and Hall Ltd. 1942 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this war inspired novel in the scarce original dust wrapper. First edition of Soldier from the Wars Returning by Jerrard Tickell in the original publisher's cloth binding and scarce unc...

With Kitchener to Khartum

George Warrington Steevens · 1898 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1898. Cloth. A detailed account of the campaign in Sudan, variously known as the Madhist Revolt, or the Second Anglo-Sudan War of 1896-1899. Twelfth edition. Illustrated throughout with eight maps, four of which are folding. Collated comp...

At the Sign of the Grasshopper

Oliver A. Minns · 1913 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , Unwin Brothers, 1913. Paperback. A scarce history of the Gresham Press, with illustrations. A scarce short account of a little journey to the Gresham Press at Ludgate Hill and St. Martha Printing works. With four pages of tipped in plates and twenty pages of illustra...