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The Cave Dwellers of Southern Tunisia. Recollections of a Sojourn with the Khalifa of Matmata

Daniel Bruun · 1898 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, W. Thacker & Co , 1898. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce autobiographical account of the author's time with the cave dwellers in Tunisia, written by Daniel Bruun and illustrated throughout. The first edition. Scarce. Illustrated with a fron...

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death

David Livingstone; Horace Waller · 1874 · Rooke Books

£445.00 (€533.40 | $587.87 | ¥93,876)

London, John Murray, 1874. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the collected final journals of David Livingstone, edited by his close friend, complete with plates and folding maps. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.The final journals of noted explorer David Livi...

Haydn&Apos;S Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations, Containing a History of the World

Benjamin Vincent · 1891 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1891. Leather. The 18th edition of Hadyn's dictionary of dates, revised and enlarged for American readers, rebound in a handsome leather binding. The eighteenth edition of this work, revised and enlarged for American readers, rebound in a half...

Paris and Its Story

T. Okey · 1904 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this lavishly illustrated history of Paris by Thomas Okey, in a decorative cloth binding. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the fron...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Being the Transactions of the Lodge Quatuor Coronati, No. 2076, London

G. W. Speth [editor] · 1963 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

Margate, Keble's Gazette Office , 1963. Cloth. A smart copy of this facsimile edition of Volume I of the transactions of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, a Masonic lodge in London. Scarce work. Facsimile edition. Originally published 1888. Volume one only. Illustrated with a front...

The Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze: A Study in Chinese Nautical Research

G. R. G. Worcester · 1947 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Shanghai, The Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed illustrated study into Chinese nautical research, volume one only. Volume one only. Introduction; and Craft of the Estuary and Shangh...

Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation

G. G. Coulton · 1919 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1919 . First edition. Cloth. An early edition of Coulton's study of social life in Britain, inscribed by the author. Early edition of the work, in the publisher's original blue cloth binding. First published in 1918. Author&apos...

The Tenures of Kent

Charles I. Elton · 1867 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, James Parker and Co. 1867 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of Charles Elton's study of the tenures of Kent. First edition, in the publisher's original red cloth binding. Written by English politician and antiquary, Charles Isaac Elton, who w...

The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History

John Lothrop Motley · 1874 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Leather. Motley's famous historical work on the rise of the Dutch Republic, in a lovely Bickers binding; complete in one volume. A new edition of this work in a full calf binding with gilt detailing to the spine and marbled end pap...

Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges

Cornell Plant · 1921 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Samuel Cornell Plant's account of his journey along the Yangtze river. The very scarce first edition of this work.The author journeyed along the upper Yangzte for many years, and was kn...

Early Reminiscences of Danegate and Its Surroundings

Helen Rust · 0 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Not Stated, Printed for Private Circulation, c1880 . Cloth. A charming and very scarce privately published volume about a woman's reminiscences about her childhood in the Rotherfield parish of East Sussex. The work of Helen Rust, with small head and tail pieces illustrate...

The Great Mirror of Folly Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720

William N. Goetzmann [ed]; Catherine Labio [ed]; K. Geert Rouwenhorst [ed]; Tomothy G. Young [ed]; Robert J. Shiller · 2013 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

New Haven , Yale University Press , 2013. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of this work on the crash of 1720 with a foreword by American economist Robert J. Shiller, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, second printing. Illustrate...

Gold: Or, Legal Regulations for the Standard of Gold and Silver Wares in Different Countries of the World. Translated and Abridged from "Die Gesetzliche Regelung Des Feingehaltes Vob Gold-Und Silber-Waaren, Von Arthur Von Studitz".

Mrs Brewer; Edwin W. Streeter · 1877 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1877. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first English edition of this work on gold and silver standards in different countries, by Mrs Brewer and translated from the original by Arthur Von Studnitz. The scarce first English edition. Translated from the ...

Aunt Charlotte&Apos;S Stories of English, German, and French History for the Little Ones

Charlotte M. Yonge · 1876 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Marcus Ward & Co. 1876-1884. Cloth. A smart collection of illustrated stories from English, German, and French history for children, from English novelist, Charlotte Mary Yonge. Three volumes. Written by Charlotte Mary Yonge, an English novelist who wrote in the servic...

Introductory Lectures on Modern History, Delivered in Lent Term, Mdcccxlii with the Inaugural Lecture Delivered in December, Mdcccli

Thomas Arnold · 1849 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, B. Fellowes, 1849. Leather. A smartly bound fourth edition of this collection of lectures on modern history from English educator, Thomas Arnold. Fourth edition. A collection of lectures, written almost exactly as they were delivered, on modern history. Each lecture ex...

The Natural History of Man

James Cowles Prichard; Edwin Norris · 1855 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.29 | $693.56 | ¥110,752)

London, H. Bailliere, 1855. Cloth. The fourth and best edition of this important and extensive history of mankind, vividly illustrated in colour throughout. The fourth edition, much edited and enlarged.Volume I illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, eleven hand-coloure...

Choix de Mosaiques Romaines D&Apos;Algerie

Charles Albert Joly · 1915 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1915 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce collection of ten colour plates depicting the impressive Roman mosaics of Algieria. In the original French.Illustrated with ten colour plates, reproduced by Charles Albert Joly. Collated, complete.A beautiful wor...

A First Book of South African Flowers

H. M. L. Bolus · 1928 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

Capetown, The Speciality Press of South Africe, 1928 . Cloth. An excellent example of H. M. L. Bolus's delightfully informative and beautifully illustrated guide to the flowers of South Africa. The second edition of this work, first published three years prior. In the ver...

Medieval Lincoln

J. W. F. Hill · 1948 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work on the medieval city of Lincoln by J. W. F. Hill, illustrated throughout and in the original publisher's cloth. The first edition.In the original publisher's cloth.Ill...

Hutchinson&Apos;S Story of the British Nation a Connected, Pictorial & Authoritative History of the British Peoples from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Walter Hutchinson [ed] · 1922 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London , Hutchinson & Co , [1922-24]. First edition. Cloth. The complete four volume, first edition set of Hutchinson's illustrated work on the history of Britain, bound in moire cloth. Four volumes. Complete in four. The first edition.Bound in full moire cloth. Illustra...