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Carol Christie · 1911 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, The St. Catherine Press, 1911. First edition. Paperback. A scarce and charming account of life in the Suffolk village of Walberswick in the Edwardian era. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Library stamp to the front fre...

Lectures on the Historians of Bohemia: Being the Ilchester Lectures for the Year 1904

Count Lutzow · 1905 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Henry Frowde, 1905. Cloth. A scarce edition of this interesting historical study on the chroniclers of Bohemia. Scarce work. A collection of lectures, originally given in the year 1904, now published for a wider audience exploring the earliest chroniclers of Bohemia. W...

Gensãƒâ©Ric la ConquãƒâªTe Vandale En Afrique Et la Destruction de L&Apos;Empire D&Apos;Occident

F. Martroye · 1907 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

Paris, Librairie Hatchette et Cie, 1907. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of this work surrounding Genséric and the decline of the Western Roman Empire, written by 20th-Century French historian, François Martroye. A scarce first edition of the work in quarter m...

The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland Comprising Specimens of the Architecture, Sculpture and Other Vestiges of Former Ages

Sir Walter Scott · 1814 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

London, Longman and Co. 1814-1817. Leather. A complete two-volume set on the architecture, sculpture and other antiquities of the Scottish Borders, by Sir Walter Scott. A two-volume work in full morocco bindings, with blind stamping and gilt detailing to the boards and squares...

With the Flag to Pretoria and After Pretoria: The Guerilla War

H. W. Wilson · 1900 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Harmsworth Brothers; The Amalgamated Press, 1900-1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this richly illustrated four volume work on the history of The Boer War, with folding maps. The first edition of this four-volume work in the publisher's original pic...

Jerusalem

0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Not Stated , Not Stated , c1950. Cloth. A very scarce collection of colour prints depicting life in Jerusalem. Very scarce. No publishing details present. In original red cloth portfolio binding. With captions in English, French and German. With thirty colour plates depicting ...

Jack Hinton, the Guardsman

Charles Lever · 1844 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Dublin, William Curry, 1844 . Leather. An early edition of this novel from Irish author Charles Lever, illustrated throughout by Phiz. Illustrated with twenty-seven engraved plates by English artist and illustrator Hablot Knight Browne, known by his pen name, Phiz.A wonderful ...

English Gone Wrong

Eric Partridg · 1957 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Phoenix House, 1957. First edition. Paperback. The scarce first edition of Eric Partridge's booklet discussing the changes to the English language. The first edition of this work. A scarce booklet. Eric Partridge discusses the English language with focus on '...

A Bird&Apos;S-Eye View of Picturesque India

Sir Richard Temple · 1898 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.35 | $627.50 | ¥100,205)

New York, The New Amsterdam Book Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A very smart scarce edition of this illustrated travel guide to India. First U.S. edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece, thirty-one plates, and a folding map to the front of the text. Collated compl...

On the Road with Wellington: The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsula Campaigns

August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann; Anthony M. Ludovici · 1924 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this translated account of a war commissary in the Peninsula Campaigns, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with colour frontispiece and nineteen colour tipped in plates. Collated complete...

How England Saved Europe: The Story of the Great War (1793-1815)

W. H. Fitchett · 1899 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1899. Cloth. A complete four volume set of this history of the Great War 1793-1815, with illustrations throughout. Complete in four volumes. A detailed history of the Great War or the Great European Conflict of 1793 to 1815, with a chronological tab...

The Cathedrals and Churches of Belgium

T. Francis Bumpus · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, T. Werner Laurie LTD, 1928. Cloth. A second edition of this illustrated work documenting the cathedrals and churches of Belgium. A revised edition of this work in original publisher's binding and unclipped dust wrapper. First edition was published in 1908, however...

A School of Purposes

A. P. Herbert · 1946 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Methuen & Co. LTD, 1946. First edition. Cloth. An informative collection of Fougasse posters from 1939-1945, introduced by A. P. Herbert. This work is in original publisher's cloth binding, with an original, price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition of the work. A...

The Campaign of 1815 Chiefly in Flanders

Lieut.-Col W. H. James · 1908 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A detailed work surrounding the campaign at Waterloo in 1815 and the defeat of Napoleon. The first edition of the work. An uncommon edition of this work in original publisher's binding. This work by Walte...

A Dictionary of Forces&Apos; Slang 1939-1945

Eric Partridge; Wilfred Granville; Frank Roberts · 1948 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1948. First edition. Cloth. An amusing collaboration of ex-military veterans, presenting their experience of slang in the British army, navy and air force between 1939 and 1945. This work is presented in original publisher's red cloth binding, in...

Jerusalem, Ancient & Modern, with Plans and Illustrations

J. M. Tenz · 1912 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)

Clevedon, Not Stated, 1912. Paperback. A scarce guide to the history of Jerusalem, with an account of the last days of Christ on Earth and the Seige of Jerusalem. The fourteenth edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Illustrated with a two pl...

Three Personal Records of the War

R. H. Mottram; John Easton; Eric Partridge · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, The Scholartis Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this collection of three accounts of the First World War, with maps. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Two bookplates to the front paste down, o...

The Comic History of England

Gilbert A. A' Beckett [Gilbert Abbott à Beckett] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. 1880. Cloth. Two volumes of The Comic History of England by the humorist Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, illustrated by John Leech. A two-volume work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings. 138 illustrations pasted into the text and...

Some Impressions of the United States

Edward A. Freeman · 1883 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Longmans Green and Co. 1883. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this nineteenth century work of Americana. by Liberal politician Edward A Freeman. The first edition of the work. With publisher's advertisements to the rear dated September 1882. Written ...

Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington 1831-1851

Philip Henry · 1888 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, John Murray, 1888. Cloth. The second edition of this collection of notes from varied and insightful conversations with the Duke of Wellington. Second edition. A collection of notes from conversations with Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, who served twice as Pr...