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Memorials of Sergeant William Marjouram, Royal Artillery; Including Six Years&Apos; Service in New Zealand, During the Late Maori War

William Marjouram · 1861 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.69 | ¥56,958)

London, James Nisbet and Co, 1861. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of the memorials of Sergeant William Marjouram about his experiences fighting in the Maori War, illustrated with a frontispiece. The scarce first edition of this work.The memoirs of William Marjo...

Britain&Apos;S Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines During the War 1914-1919

General Sir H. E. Blumberg · 1927 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Devonport, Swiss & Co, 1927. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Colonel Herbert Blumberg's detailed history of the Royal Navy during the First World War, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.An in-depth look into the activities of the Royal Nav...

Historia Anglicana Liber de Archiepiscopis Et Episcopis Angliae

Bartholomew de Cotton; Henry Richards Luard · 1859 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.83 | ¥14,345)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859. First edition. Leather. The Rolls Series edition of Bartholomew de Cotton's history of England. A bright copy of this work, in English. First edition thus. This is Cotton's second book, which contains the history of...

A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain

John de Wavrin; William Hardy · 1864 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. First edition. Leather. An English translation of John de Wavrin's noted history of Great Britain. Being one volume from the Rolls Series. The first edition thus of this work. The Rolls Series is a major collection...

Imperial Defence a Book for Taxpayers

Stephen King-Hall · 1926 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition copy of Stephen King-Hall's political treatise on the Committee of Imperial Defence, and its cost to the British tax-payer. The Committee of Imperial Defence was an important ad hoc part of the Go...

Catalog Ofver Skara Kongl. Gymnasii Bibliothek

[Wilhelm Luth] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Skara, C. M. Torin, 1830. First edition. Paperback. A scarce first edition of this detailed and fascinating catalog of the books held in the Katedralskolan in Skara, Sweden, compiled by the librarian of the school. The first edition of this work. A scarce work. Collated, compl...

The History of That Inimitable Monarch Tiberius, Who, in the XIV Year of His Reign, Requested That Senate to Permit the Worship of Jesus Christ; and Who, in the XVI and Three Following Years, or, Before the Conversion of Cornelius by Peter, Suppressed All Opposition to It

John Rendle · 1813 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Exeter, Trewman and Son, 1813. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this fascinating biography on the second Roman Emperor Tiberius, written by the Reverend John Rendle. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. A biography and history on the life and reign of the R...

Feudal and Modern Japan

Arthur May Knapp · 1898 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Duckworth and Company, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detailed and fascinating study on Modern and Feudal Japan, illustrated with many beautiful plates. The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. This detailed work is an authoritati...

Seven Eventful Years in Paraguay

George Frederick Masterman · 1869 · Rooke Books

£3,700.00 (€4,434.97 | $4,887.93 | ¥780,540)

London, Sampson, Low, Son and Marston, 1869. First edition. Cloth. The important first edition of this account of the war between Paraguay and Brazil. Vanishingly scarce in this English edition, published a year before the Spanish edition. The original English edition of this ...

Romae Antiquae Noticia; or the Antiquities of Rome

Basil Kennett · 1820 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Edinburgh, Stirling & Slade, 1820. Cloth. An illustrated look into Roman antiquities by Basil Kennett, illustrated with folding plates. A fascinating and detailed work on the antiquities of Ancient Rome. This was considered the standard work on the subject for a century after ...

Christ&Apos;S Hospital a Retrospect

Edmund Blunden · 1923 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Christophers, 1923. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the history of the Christ's Hospital school, written by the alumni Edmund Blunden, illustrated. The first edition of this work. A detailed work on the Christ's Hospital in Horsham, England. Christ...

A Letter to a Friend Upon Occasion of the Death of His Intimate Friend

Sir Thomas Browne · 1690 · Rooke Books

£11,900.00 (€14,263.83 | $15,720.62 | ¥2,510,387)

London, Charles Browne, 1690. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first edition copy of Sir Thomas Browne's important treatise, from the library of noted antiquarian, and lawyer Robert S Pirie. This work is a literary elaboration of a clinical report of a real patient wh...

A Large New Catalogue of the Bishops of Several Sees Within the Kingdom of Scotland, Down to the Year 1688. Instructed by Proper and Authentic Vouchers: Together with Some Other Things Necessary to the Better Knowledge of the Ecclesiastical State of This Kingdom in Former Times: As Also, a Brief Preface Concerning the First Planting of Christianity in Scotland, and the State of That Church in the Earlier Ages

[Robert Keith] · 1755 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

Edinburgh, Tho. and Wal. Ruddimans, 1755. Leather. A fascinating work on the bishops and religious houses that were found in Scotland up to the year 1688. This work is an account of the Bishops religious houses in Scotland up to the Reformation. The work also contains a brief ...

Thesaurus Rei Antiquariae Huberrimus Ex Antiquis Ta, Numismatum Quam Marmorum Inscriptionibus Pari Diligentia Qua Side Conquisitus Ac Descriptus, & in Locos Communes Distributus Sicilia Et Magna Graecia Sive Historiae Urbium Populorumq Graeciae Ex Antiquis Nomismatibus Liber Primus Graeciae Universae Asiaeq Minoris Et Insularum Nomismata Veterum

Hubert Goltzium · 1618 · Rooke Books

£5,500.00 (€6,592.53 | $7,265.83 | ¥1,160,263)

Antwerp, Officina Gerardi Wolsschati , 1618. Leather. A very scarce collection of three historical antiquities works on numismatics and Sicilian history, written by the artist and printer Hubert Goltzius. Illustrated with many plates. Three volumes bound in one. All three volu...

Important Considerations Respectfully Addressed to a Distinguished Female Invalid and Published with a View to the Benefit of Other Patients at the Bristol Hot-Wells

1810 · Rooke Books

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

Bristol, J Mills and Co, c1810. Leather. A very scarce treatise regarding Bristol Hot-Wells and the treatment of patients. Undated, Worldcat states the date to to be c1808. However, 'The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature' from 1810 mention the wor...

Memoires Historiques Et Critiques Sur Divers Points de L&Apos;Histoire de France, & Plusieurs Autres Sujets Curieux

Francois Eudes de Mezeray · 1732 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

Amsterdam, Jean Frederic Bernard, 1732. Leather. An original French work by the historian Francois Eudes de Mezeray, this work being a collection of extracts from 'Dictionnaire de la France&apos. In the original French. Complete as two volumes in one. This work is a compi...

The History of Witches Ghosts and Highland Seers Containing Many Wonderful Well-Attested Relations of Supernatural Appearances, Not Published Before in Any Similar Collection. Designed for the Conviction of the Unbeliever, and the Amusement of the Curious

Anon · 1775 · Rooke Books

£9,500.00 (€11,387.09 | $12,550.08 | ¥2,004,090)

Berwick, R Taylor, c1772. First edition. Leather. A vanishingly scarce, first edition of this occult work discussing first-hand accounts of witches, ghosts and seers. Undated, the ESTC reference T60882 speculates a publication date of 1775. However, the front endpaper of this ...

Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty&Apos;S Government

James Richardson · 1853 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.60 | $3,302.65 | ¥527,392)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1853. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition set of James Richardson's narrative of his mission to central Africa. An association copy, owned by the author's nephew. With an inscription to the title page, 'A Goodsir nephe...

Panegyricus Cum Notis Integris Arntzenio

Latinius Pacatus Drepanius · 1753 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.78 | $1,182.35 | ¥188,806)

Amsterdam, Apud Viduam and Filium S Schouten , 1753. Disbound. A very scarce work of Pacatus Drepaius' Panegryricus, an extant speech, considered the best of its kind. With notes from a number of prominent scholars. Very scarce. With the signatures *-3*⁴ 4*² (-4*2) ...

Transactions of the Somerset Masters Lodge

Brother P. B. Rigg; Brother H. Hiram Hallett · 1934 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,805)

Bath, Mendip Press, 1934-5. First edition. Leather. Uncommon first edition of the 1934 and 1935 editions of the Somerset Masters Lodge transactions, illustrated. The first edition of these volumes. An uncommon work. In two volumes. The 1934 and 1935 volumes of the 'Transa...