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Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa

Henry M. Stanley · 1874 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874 . First edition. Cloth. The charmingly illustrated first edition of Henry M. Stanley's accounts of two British military campaigns in Africa in the 1860s and 70s. The first edition of this work, in the publisher's ori...

A Short History of the English People

John Richard Green; Mrs. J.R. Green and Miss Kate Norgate (ed) · 1892 · Rooke Books

£510.00 (€611.40 | $673.89 | ¥107,625)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1892-1894. Leather. A finely bound set of the Illustrated Edition of Green's influential history of England. Each volume has a bookbinder's stamp for Pearse, Warrington, to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Featuring numerous illustratio...

Modes and Manners

Max Von Boehn · 1932 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, George G Harrap & Company Ltd, 1932-1935. Cloth. A fascinating and standard work on the history of costume and fashion, complete in four volumes. A set of this work by Max Von Boehn. Complete in four volumes. Volume I contains: From the Decline of the Ancient World to ...

History the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster

Edward Baines · 1836 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, Fisher Son and Co. 1836. Leather. A topographical work on The County Palatine and the Duchy of Lancaster. A four volume set in a uniform leather binding. Illustrated across all volumes with many plates. Plates comprise of both portraits and maps. Complete with all plat...

The Works of William Robertson

William Robertson, Dugald Stewart · 1840 · Rooke Books

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

London, T. Cadell, 1840. Leather. A uncommon eight volume complete set of The Works of William Robertson, in attractive leather bindings. Including a biography of the author, as well as his notable historical works on Scotland, the reign of Charles V, America and India. Includ...

Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Wars of the English in France During the Reign of Henry the Sixth, King of England

Joseph Stevenson · 1861 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1861-64. Cloth. A three volume set of this work relating to Henry the Sixth. Complete in three volumes. Part II is split into two volumes. Edited by Joseph Stevenson, English Catholic archivist and editor of historical texts....

The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh

Professor Ferrier · 1865 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.55 | $508.72 | ¥81,246)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1865. Cloth. An extensive collection of work by Professor Ferrier. Consisting of: Vol I, II, III, IV Noctes Ambrosianae Vol V, VI, VII, VIII Essay, Critical and Imaginative Vol X, IX Recreations of Christopher North Vol XI Tales Vol XII Poems With...

The National and Domestic History of England

William Hickman Smith Aubrey · 1858 · Rooke Books

£252.99 (€303.29 | $334.29 | ¥53,388)

London, James Hagger, c1879. Leather. An leather bound illustrated copy of William Hickman Smith Aubrey's 'History of England' Leather bound with decorative gilt tooling to spine and cloth covered boards. Illustrated with colour and engraved plates, as well as n...

The History of England from the Accession of James II

Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1853 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.30 | $792.82 | ¥126,618)

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853. Leather. A complete set of Macaulay's renowned History of England. Ninth edition. Thomas Babington Macaulay was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on Britis...

Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Macaulay · 1860 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

London, Longman, Brown and Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1860. Leather. A handsome three volume set of the critical and historical essays of Lord Macaulay Including essays on: Milton, Machiavelli, Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, and Moore's Life of L...

The History of Great Britain, from the First Invasion of It by the Romans Under Julius Caesar & the History of Great Britain from the Death of Henry VIII to the Accession of James VI of Scotland to the Crown of England

Robert Henry; James Pettit Andrews · 1788 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, T Cadell et al. 1788-1796. Leather. All volumes of Robert Henry's History of Great Britain plus James Pettit Andrews' continuation. Two books are bound in each volume. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. ...

The Works of William Robertson in Twelve Volumes

William Robertson · 1812 · Rooke Books

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

London , Cadell and Davies , 1812. Leather. A set of The Works of William Robertson, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Principal of the University, of Edinburgh, Historiographer to His Majesty for Scotland, and Member of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid. To which is prefi...

British Foreign Policy in the Second World War

Sir Llewellyn Woodward · 1970 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London , Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970-1976. Cloth. A first edition of Sir Llewellyn Woodward's history of British foreign policy during the Second World War. Part of an enormous and meticulous project undertaken by the government to provide a official histor...

Adventures in Americana 1492-1897 with Americana Collection of Herschel V Jones: A Check List [1473-1926]

Wilberforce Eames · 1964 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Cooper Square Publishers Inc, 1964. Cloth. A three volume set of works on Americana of Herschel V Jones. Americana complete in two volumes with supplementary check list volume issued at a later date. With 300 photographic plates. Herschel V Jones was a publisher of th...

A Short History of the English People

J. R. Green · 1892 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1892. Cloth. The illustrated edition of John Richard Green's Short History of the English People. With twenty-six coloured plates, and numerous other illustrations and maps throughout. John Richard Green (1837 - 1883) was an English historian. H...

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1882 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1882. Leather. A set of Thomas Babington Macaulay's essays. Some of the topics included are Frederic the Great, Gladstone on Church and State, and Lord Francis Bacon. New edition. Macaulay's political writings are famous for their rin...

The History of a Crime

Victor Hugo · 1878 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London , Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A scarce four volume set of Vicor Hugo's essay The History of a Crime, the first two volumes of which are the second UK edition, whereas the third and fourth (added as a further, initially unp...

Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Macaulay · 1884 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1884. Leather. A handsome set with the Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay which includes essays on: Milton, Machiavelli, Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress, and Moore's L...

Henry III King of France and Poland His Court and Times

Martha Walker Freer · 1858 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London , Hurst and Blackett, 1858. Leather. A scarce biography of former French king, Henry III. Including engraved frontispieces to each volume. From numerous unpublished courses, including MS. documents in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, and the Archives of France and Italy etc....

The Holinshed Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland in Six Volumes, Grafton&Apos;S Chronicles in Two Volumes and Monstrelet&Apos;S Chronicles in Five Volumes

Raphael Holinshed et al. · 1807 · Rooke Books

£5,750.00 (€6,893.29 | $7,597.83 | ¥1,213,420)

London , J. Johnson, F. C. and J. Rivington et al, 1807-9. Leather. Three scarce complete sets of early nineteenth-century publications of influential Medieval and Early-Modern Era chronicles, uniformly and finely bound. Holinshed's Chronicles, also known as Holinsheds Ch...