Storia

A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles Part I. And Part II.

Philip Henry Gosse · 1855 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, John Van Voorst, 1855-1856. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon complete pair of well-illustrated zoological works by the "Father of the Aquarium". A smart pair of first edition works by influential English naturalist, Brethren evangelist, and "Father of the Aquarium" Ph...

The Book of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle 1834-1934

A. Conley; Sidney Webb; Walter M. Citrine; et al. · 1934 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, The Trades Union Congress General Council, 1934. First edition. Cloth. An abundantly illustrated first edition of this historical account of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original green cloth binding.A history of the Martyr...

The Book of the Meat Trade

Frank Gerrard [ed.] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, The Caxton Publishing Company, 1950 . Cloth. A comprehensive 2 volume set of the intricacies of the meat trade, with numerous illustrations throughout. A comprehensive complete two volume set on the meat trade.The third reprints of the work, first published in 1949.In ...

Missionary Travels in Central Africa

F.S. Arnot · 1914 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Bath, Office of "Echoes of Service, 1914 . First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this travelogue by English missionary, exploring Central Africa. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original green cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece, 1...

The Book of Julian

Norah Gribble · 1923 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Not Stated, None, 1923 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of Norah Gribble's biography of her son, Captain Julian Royds Gribble, who died in a POW camp fourteen days after the First World War had concluded. The vanishingly scarce first edition of thi...

British Imperial Calendar and Ridgway&Apos;S Peerage for 1834

The British Almanac; James Ridgway · 1834 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Winchester and Varnham; James Ridgway, 1834 . Leather. Two handsomely bound and scarce volumes of peerages and reference works for 1834, with both the Imperial Calendar and Ridgway's Peerage for the year present. Beautifully bound in straight grain morocco signed ...

The Origin and History of a Great Industry

The Pioneers Ant. Jurgens' Margarine Works · 1910 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Oss, Ant. Jurgens' Margarine Works, 1910. First edition. Cloth. Very scarce profusely illustrated history of the influential Antoon Jurgens Margarine Works. Very scarce first edition.In publisher's original binding.Profusely illustrated with an illustrated title page...

The Antiquities of London: Comprising Views and Historical Descriptions of Its Principal Buildings; Also Anecdotes of Eminent Persons Connected Therewith

Thomas Pennant · 1818 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, Printed for J. Coxhead, 1818. Leather. The second one-volume edition of this early 19th-century history of London, complete with fifty engraved plates. Second edition, in one volume. A new edition in two volumes preceded this in 1813.Bound in half crushed morocco, with...

Rambles in Greater London a Short History of Lincoln&Apos;S Inn London Triumphant 14 Stanhope Gate Fashionably Situate in May Fair Covent Garden a Volume of Drawings by Imre Hofbauer the Other London London Is London a Selection of Prose & Verse the Hurlingham Club 1869-1953 the Orrible Synne a Look at London Lechery from Roman to Cromwellian Times

Walter Jerrod; Sir Gerald Hurst; Sydney R. Jones; A. N. Holden and Co; Desmond Shawe-Taylor; Imre Hofbauer; D. M. Low; Captain Taprell Dorling; C. J. Burford · 1925 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London and Glasgow; London; New York; Norwich; Brussels, Blackie & Son Limited; Constable; The Studio Publications; Boulton & Paul Ltd; Max Parrish & Co. Limited; Nicholson and Watson; , [1925] Undated, dated from a cop. Cloth. London and Glasgow; London; New York; Norwich; Br...

A Scarce Set of Retrospective Poetry: From 1923-1949

D.S. Hancock; Dent Dormer; John Freeman [int. by J.C. Squire]; Geoffrey Fyson · 1923 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Arthur H. Stockwell; Macmillan and Co.; Parthian Press, 1923-1949. First edition. Cloth. A scarce set of poetry published between 1923-1949, from the comic to the melancholy. All first editions, including signed copies. A Scarce Set of Retrospective Poetry: Published b...

Rhymes from an Eastern Battlefield

W.E. Gladstone Solomon [William Ewart Gladstone Solomon] · 1918 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, W. Thacker and Co. 1918. First edition. Cloth. A signed and very scarce anthology based on a South African artist's experiences serving in Italy and the Middle East during the First World War. Rhymes from an Eastern Battlefield, a very scarce war poetry anthology,...

A Hundred Year History of the P. &0. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

Boyd Cable · 1937 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. An abundantly illustrated first edition copy of this comprehensive historical account of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original blue cloth ...

Discourses on Several Subjects

Samuel Seabury · 1815 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Hudson, William E. Norman, 1815 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce two volume first edition of the collected discourses of Samuel Seabury, in which he writes on a variety of theological subjects from his Episcopalian perspective. The first edition of this work, complete i...

Chirurgie de Guillaume de Salicet

Guillaume de Salicet; Paul Pifteau · 1898 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

Toulouse, Saint-Cyprien, 1898. First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the very scarce limited edition first edition of Paul Pifteau's French language translation of William of Saliceto's 'Chirurgia', on the importance of the surgical knife. Translate...

The Works of Soame Jenyns

Soame Jenyns; Charles Nalson Cole · 1790 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Dublin, P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. M'Kenoie et al; William Porter, 1790-1791 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first Dublin edition of the collected theological and miscellaneous works of English M.P. Soame Jenyns, complete in two volumes. The scarce first Dublin edition o...

My Own People

Rev. Hugh Francis Blunt · 1921 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Manchester, The Magnificat Press, 1921. First edition. Cloth. An incredibly scarce volume of poetry by Catholic priest and apologist of Irish descent, Hugh Francis Blunt. An incredibly scarce first edition.In very smart original binding, with gilt lettering and motif to the fr...

For Daws to Peck at

Monk Gibbon · 1929 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Victor Gollancz Limited, 1929. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon presentation copy, in original dust wrapper, and inscribed to the author's friend, publisher Alister Mathews. An uncommon example of a presentation copy of this title, in its original, unclipped dust...

Fettered Fancies Verses and Songs

Rothiemay · 1919 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Hove, Combridges, [1919] Undated, dated from a cop. Magazine. Hove: Combridges, [1919] Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library. Magazine. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. An incredibly scarce volume of privately printed post First World War poetry. An incredibly scarc...

Scarce Poems of the Early Twentieth Century

Bertram Dobell; A.B. Pears; Andrew Dodds; C.L. Graves [Charles Larcom Graves]; Robert Vansittart · 1915 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London; Cockermouth; Stirling, P.J. and A.E. Dobell; Brash Bros.; The Scottish Farm Servant; Clement Ingleby; Hutchinson and Co. 1915-1944. First edition. Hardback. A scarce set of first editions of British poetry, published and written during the First World War, Interwar and...

For the Sceptre of the Sea

G.B. Warren · 1916 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

1916, John Long, 1916. Cloth. A very scarce and signed patriotic anthology focused on naval warfare, written at the height of the First World War by poet G.B. Warren. The signed first edition of a very scarce poetic anthology centered on naval warfare during the First World Wa...