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Imperial China 900-1800

F. W. Mote · 2000 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2000. Cloth. A smart copy of this detailed history of Imperial China from American historian Frederick Wade "Fritz" Mote. Early edition. With illustrations throughout. A nine hundred year history of China, spanning the late Imperial period,...

The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1861 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1861. First edition. Leather. The first UK edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's history of the first four Hanoverian monarchs. First UK edition. Preceded by the US publication, this is the first issue of the first UK edition, identified via...

A History of England from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Present Day

H. O. Arnold-Forster · 1913 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1913. Leather. A smartly bound fourth edition of this history of English from British politician and writer H. O. Arnold-Forster. Fourth edition, revised. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding plate, and almost two hundred and fifty i...

History of England, and, Short Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Froude · 1902 · Rooke Books

£1,750.00 (€2,097.62 | $2,311.86 | ¥369,175)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1902-08. Leather. A uniformly bound set of works by James Anthony Froude, including his important history of England. Complete in sixteen volumes, being twelve volumes of 'History of England', and four volumes of 'Short Studies on...

The Defence of London, 1915-1918

A. Rawlinson; Admiral Sir Percy Scott · 1924 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Andrew Melrose, 1924. Cloth. The third edition of this informative and detailed account of the German bombing of London from 1914-1918, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The third edition of this work, first published the year prior.In the scarce unclipped dust wrap...

Schritt Fur Schritt

Winston S. Churchill · 1940 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Amsterdam, Allert de Lange , 1940. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first German edition of this important work from Winston Churchill, comprising all of his articles on foreign affairs pre-WWII. The first German edition. Originally published in the UK in 1939. In the publi...

The World Crisis 1911-1918

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1938 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Odhams Press Ltd. 1938. Cloth. A smart new edition set of this detailed history from British statesman Winston Churchill, with illustrations and maps. Two volumes of a possible six volume set. Volumes one and two only. New edition, abridged. Volume one is illustrated w...

The World Crisis 1911-1914 & 1915

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1924 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

Sydney, Australasian Publishing Company Ltd. 1924. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition set of this detailed history from British statesman Winston Churchill, with illustrations and maps. Two volumes of a six volume set. Volumes one and two only. First Australian editio...

Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries

E. F. Knight · 1895 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895. Cloth. A smart new edition of this illustrated study of the author's travels in Asia, from English journalist Edward Frederick Knight. New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-six plates, twenty-seven in-text images, and ...

The King"S Grace

John Buchan · 1935 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this sympathetic portrait of Edward VII and George V from Scottish novelist and historian John Buchan. First edition. With a colour frontispiece. A sympathetic portrait beginning with the death ...

Rhodesia Served the Queen: Rhodesian Forces in the Boer War 1899-1902

Colonel A. S. Hickman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

Salisbury, Authority of the Government of Rhodesia and Under the Auspices of the Rhodesian Army , 1970. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the first volume of Hickman's study of British military forces in Rhodesia, with illustrations. First edition. Volume one...

The New Zealanders

[George Craik] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Charles Knight, 1830 . First edition. Leather. An illustrated, early nineteenth-century account of New Zealand and its people, written by George Craik, smartly bound in half calf. First edition. Bound in half calf with cloth boards. A comprehensive, early nineteenth-ce...

Kaipara or Experiences of a Settler in North New Zealand

P. W. Barlow · 1889 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington , 1889 . Cloth. The second edition of this scarce account of P. W. Barlow, an early settler of New Zealand, who emigrated there from England in the nineteenth century. Second edition. Published one year after the first. Bound i...

Old New Zealand

A Pakeha Maori [Frederick Edward Maning] · 1863 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1863 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detailed account of the customs and history of New Zealand, from the viewpoint of "A Pakeha Maori", Frederick Edward Maning, an irishman who settled in a Maori community and adopted their lifesty...

In the Land of the Tui: My Journal in New Zealand

Mrs. Robert Wilson · 1894 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this insightful journal documenting Mrs. Robert Wilson's three years spent in New Zealand in the late nineteenth century, complete with map and illustrations. First edition. Bound in...

Frontier Life: Taranaki, New Zealand.

Edwin Stanley Brookes · 1892 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

Auckland, H. Brett, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. A very bright, first edition of this illustrated work on the early settlement in Taranaki, New Zealand, as documented by the assistant surveyor, Edwin Stanley Brookes. First edition. A superb copy, bound in the publisher's...

Maori Lore. The Traditions of the Maori People, with the More Important of Their Legends

James Izett · 1904 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Wellington NZ, John Mackay, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charmingly illustrated discussion of Maori myth, legend, and tradition. The first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-seven photographic plates.Author James Izett has compiled a l...

The Maoris of New Zealand

James Cowan · 1910 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first edition of James Cowan's fascinating illustrated discussion of the Maori and their history. The first edition of this work from James Cowan, a New Zealand writer known for hi...

The Personal Life of George Grote

Mrs. Grote [Harriet Grote] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, John Murray, 1873 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Harriet Grote's personal biography of her late husband, the political radical and historian George Grote. The first edition of this work. Due to its popularity, a second edition was published later the...

Dans Les Rues de Paris Au Temps Des Fiacres

Leon-Paul Fargue · 1950 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Paris, Les Editions Du Chene, 1950. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated historical work on Paris, with a focus on the transportation, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. Written in French. Illustrated with a monochrome front...