Storia

A Portfolio of Royal Descents

Edward Ralph Serocold Skeels Gaskel · 1902 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.66 | ¥51,684)

London, Private Circulation; Phillimore & Co, 1902 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce genealogical work on the descendants of the medieval British king, Edward I, owned and signed by one of the individuals mentioned within. The first edition. Printed for private circulation...

Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months&Apos; Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram

Fridtjof Nansen · 1897 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.33 | $647.32 | ¥103,369)

Westminster , Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition. Cloth. The complete first English edition of this riveting first-hand account detailing Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition. Profusely illustrated throughout. The first English edition. Complete in two volu...

Egypt and the Sudan

Karl Baedeker · 1914 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Leipzig , Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1914. Cloth. A very smart Baedeker handbook covering routes across Egypt and Sudan. The seventh edition of this Baedeker traveller's handbook. This was also the second Egypt volume to feature Sudan in the title. In the publisher'...

Historical Records of the 1st Devon Militia (4th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment)

Colonel H. Walrond · 1897 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1897. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this uncommon military history of the 1st Devon Militia, with illustrations. First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with thirteen plates. Collated, lacking the frontispiece and thir...

The Story of the "9th King&Apos;S" in France

Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts · 1922 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)

Liverpool, The Northern Publishing Co. Ltd. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this historical account of the 9th Battalion of the King's Liverpool Regiment through its involvement in the First World War. First edition. A military history of the 9th Batt...

The Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire Vol II Being a Complete History of the Prince of Wales&Apos; Own Royal Regiment from 1893 to 1908

Henry Graham · 1908 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Devizes, Geo. Simpson, "Gazette" Printing Works, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first edition of the second volume of this history of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire from 1893 to 1908. First edition. Volume II of II only. Illustrated with a frontispiece, three p...

The Bluidy Banner of Drumclog & Bothwell Brig; Highland Targets and Other Shields; Medieval Triumphs and Processions; the Portraits of John Knox and George Buchanan

James Drummond · 1861 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.01 | ¥200,409)

Edinburgh , Neill and Company, 1861–1875. Leather. A very scarce collection of four limited-edition antiquarian works by Scottish artist and historian James Drummond, handsomely bound as one by Andrew Grieve of Edinburgh, including a volume inscribed by the author to philanth...

The Wonders of the World in Nature, Art & Mind

Henry Ince, M.A., & Robert Mudie, Esq. · 1839 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, D. Omer Smith, c1860 . Cloth. A scarce edition of this comprehensive guide to the fascinating features of the world, including a frontispiece, engraved title page and illustrations throughout. A scarce edition of a work first published in 1839. In publisher's deco...

Yun-Nan: The Link between India and the Yangtze

Major H. R. Davies · 1909 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

University Press, Cambridge, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates, this is the first edition of Davies's geographical and ethnographical study of the Chinese province of Yunnan. A first edition, first impression.Henry Rodolph Davies...

Some Feudal Coats of Arms

Joseph Foster · 1902 · Rooke Books

£99.00 (€118.67 | $130.79 | ¥20,885)

Oxford and London, James Parker & Co, 1902 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lavishly illustrated study into feudal coats of arms, illustrated with many colour zinco etchings throughout. The first edition of this work.An impressively detailed study into feudal ...

The Settlers in Canada. Written for Young People

Captain Marryat [Frederick Marryat] · 1844 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1844. First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound two volume first edition set of Frederick Marryat's children's novel following a family of settlers living near Lake Ontario, bound in decorative half calf. The first edition...

Some Account of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex

Mr. John Parton · 1822 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.49 | ¥295,340)

London, Luke Hansard and Sons , 1822. First edition. Leather. A desirable large paper association copy of this very scarce survey of St. Giles' Parish, from the library of prominent furniture designer, Ambrose Heal. A large paper copy of the first edition, of which only t...

The History & Records of Queen Victoria&Apos;S Rifles 1792-1922

Major C. A. Cuthbert Keeson · 1923 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1923. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated history of Queen Victoria's Rifles, the 9th Battalion, London Regiment. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty plates, and seventeen folding maps. Collated...

A Collection of Historical Studies on Japanese Culture

Donald Keene; A. C. Scott; Ethel Edith Mannin; J. Hillier · 1952 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.; William Heinemann; The Travel Book Club; G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1952-1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of four illustrated volumes on the history of Japan, exploring their discovery of Europe, the Geisha girl, rebuilding post-w...

An Immigrant in Japan

Theodate Geoffrey [Dorothy Godfrey Wayman] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce account of the author's residency in Japan, with illustrations. First edition. Very scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-nine images acr...

The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George the Second

Oliver Goldsmith; Charles Coote · 1815 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington; G. Wilkie et al, 1815 . Leather. A handsome four volume edition of Oliver Goldsmith's 'History of England', continued to the Treaty of Amiens by Charles Coote. The twelfth edition of this work, complete in four volumes.This work t...

Skrine of Warleigh in the County of Somerset

E. W. Ainley Walker · 1936 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Taunton, The Wessex Press, 1936. First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the very scarce first edition of this genealogical and antiquarian study of the Skrine family. A limited edition, privately printed work. No. 153 of 200 copies of this very scarce work printed.Illu...

The British Colonies, Their History, Extent, Condition and Resources; Vol VIII

Robert Montgomery Martin · 1850 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, John Tallis & Company, [1850]. First edition. Cloth. Volume VIII of Robert Montgomery Martin's renowned series on the British colonies, covering the possessions of the East India Company, with John Tallis and Company's sought after detailed maps. The first ed...

With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic

George Binney; Professor W. J. Sollas · 1925 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of George Binney's account of his pioneering expeditions to the Arctic, compete with a folding map and plates. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and thirty-nine plate...

North of North Cape: The Arctic Voyages of the Norkap II

Dudley Vaill Talcott · 1936 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this illustrated account of the Arctic Voyages of the Norkap II from American author Dudley Vaill Talcott. First UK edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-nine plates of ...