Storia

A History of Architecture in All Countries from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

James Fergusson · 1887 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.79 | ¥78,054)

New York, Dodd, Mead, And Company, 1887. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this thorough and illustrated history of architecture throughout the world, written by the well known Scottish architecture historian, James Fergusson. James Fergusson is remembered for being an art hist...

A Specimen of Arbitrary Power; in a Speech Made by the Grand Seignior to His Janizaries

Anon · 1731 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€928.95 | $1,023.82 | ¥163,492)

London, W Pepper, 1731. First edition. Disbound. An extremely scarce political pamphlet from 1731, written anonymously and regarded as attacking the Prime Minister Robert Walpole. The first and only edition of this work. Written anonymously and purtporting to be a speech given...

Scott of the Antarctic

Reginald Pound · 1968 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, World Books, 1968. Cloth. A moving biography about the ill-fated Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Captain Scott led two expeditions to the Antarctic in his lifetime, the 'Discovery Expedition, which was a large-scale expedition to carry out scientific and g...

To Abyssinia Through an Unknown Land an Account of a Journey Through Unexplored Regions of British East Africa by Lake Rudolf O the Kingdom of Menelek

Captain C H Stigand · 1910 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Seeley and Co. 1910. First edition. Cloth. Chauncey Stigand's account of his time in British East Africa with the King's African Rifles. "To Abyssinia Through an Unknown Land" is Chauncey Hugh Stigand"s accounts of his traveling to East Africa in 1901 with th...

The English Historical Review Published Quarterly

Various; Rev Mandell Creighton (ed) · 1886 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1886-87. Leather. Two volumes of 'The English Historical Review' edited by Rev Mandell Creighton, with work by author such as H G Keene, Oscar Browning, and S R Gardiner. The English Historical Review is the oldest surviving English lang...

Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society

John Campbell · 1815 · Rooke Books

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

London, Black and Parry et al. 1815. First edition. Leather. A comprehensive and fascinating work on missionary John Campbell's travels in South Africa. The first edition of this work. Campbell was heavily involved with the abolition of the slave trade. Illustrated, a fro...

Co-Operation in a University Town with the Seventy Years Record of the Cambridge and District Co-Operative Society Limited

W Henry Brown · 1938 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Co-Operative Printing Society, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical look at Cambridge and the University. This is the first work to be illustrated by Ronald Searle. Ronald Searle was a British artist and satirical cartoon artist. He created ...

Report on the Basin of Moose River and Adjacent Country Belonging to the Province of Ontario

E. B. Borron · 1890 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Toronto, Warwick & Sons, 1890. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition study of the Moose River Basin, as written by politician E. B. Borron, with folding maps. A very scarce first edition. Bound in publisher's original pink paper wraps. Penned by Canadian ...

Three Front Cover Wraps for Auction Catalogues for the Lythwood Estate & Two Folding Plans (Messrs. Hall, Wateridge and Owen)

1905 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Shrewsbury, Messrs. Hall, Wateridge and Owen , 1905. Cloth. A very scarce collection of large auction catalogue front wraps for the 1905 sales of Lythwood Estate, together with two large folding plans. A unique folio comprising three original front wraps used for auction catal...

Modern Painters in 5 Volumes

John Ruskin · 1923 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London; New York, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; E. P. Dutton & Co, c1906-1923. First edition. Cloth. A four volume set by English Polymath John Ruskin, featuring illustrations, including in colour. Four volumes out of the original five published. Bound in publisher's original or...

Industrial Reconstruction: A Symposium on the Situation After the War and How to Meet It

Various [ed. by Huntly Carter] · 1917 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, T. F. Unwin, 1917. Cloth. A scarce collection of opinions on how Britain should be rebuilt after the First World War, including those from George Bernard Shaw and Hillaire Belloc. Industrial Reconstruction: A Symposium on the Situation After the War and How to Meet It,...

Essai Bibliographique Sur la Destruction Volontaire Des Livres Ou Bibliolytie

Fernand Drujon · 1889 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.53 | $455.77 | ¥72,780)

Paris, Maison Quantin, 1889 . Leather. The first separate edition of Drujon's fascinating bibliography of two hundred and sixty eight deliberately destroyed books, one of only two hundred and fifty numbered copies on papier verge. Rebound in a modern quarter brown calf bi...

Smalcaldensis Geographia Antiqua

Christophori Cellarii [Christoph Cellarius], [ed. by Samuel Patrick] · 1764 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, J. & T. Pote et al. 1764. Leather. A fascinating dive into ancient maps of the world from a reputable German historian, with numerous folding maps, enlarged by Samuel Patrick. The enlarged fifth edition of Smalcaldensis Geographia Antiqua (The Ancient Geography of Smal...

Gerard&Apos;S Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes

John Gerard [ed. by Thomas Jonhson, Marcus Woodward] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.40 | ¥79,109)

London, Gerald Howe, 1927. Vellum. A limited edition facsimile of an iconic work within English horticulture, one of 150 copies printed on handmade paper and in the publisher's original vellum. The limited edition facsimile of Gerard's Herball, or Generall Historie O...

The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

Viscount Grey of Fallodon; Viscount Bryce [preface] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London; New York; Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A first edition glimpse into historic social and political dynamics in the Ottoman Empire, with folding map. A first edition of this extensive sociological investigation. Penned by Viscount Grey of Fa...

Vite Dei Primarj Marescialli, Ammiragl E Generalli Che Si Distinsero Nelle Guerre Napoleoniche, Dal 1789-1814

Giacomo Lombroso · 1848 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

Milan, Borroni e Scotti, 1848. Leather. A very scarce volume of biographies on military leaders during the Napoleonic Wars by an Italian historian, written less than fifty years after the conflict. The very scarce Vite dei Primarj Marescialli, Ammiragl E Generalli che si Disti...

Westminster Abbey

Mrs. A. Murray Smith · 1904 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A scarce limited edition copy of this ode to Westminster, colour illustrated, and signed by the publisher. A copy of the scarce De Lu limited edition. Signed by the publisher to the edition page. One of 250 De Luxe co...

The London Year: A Book of Many Moods

H. V. Morton · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Methuen & Co. 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a travel guide touring the reader through a year in London, including visits to the Chelsea Flower Show and a Christmas market at Covent Garden. The first edition of The London Year: A Book of Many Moods, w...

Eugene de Beauharnais

Violette M. Montagu · 1913 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, John Long, Limited, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this uncommon first edition biography, illustrated throughout. A smart and uncommon first edition biography by biographer Violette M. Montagu. A detailed and illustrated account tracing the life of French ...

The Petition of the Governors and Trustees of the Free Grammar School of King Edward VI at Shrewsbury

Various [J.R. Kenyon, W.F.F. Boughey] · 1872 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Shrewsbury, Witherby and Co. c1872. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce petition against the Public Schools Act with past decrees adjoined from Shrewsbury Grammar School, the education site of Charles Darwin. The Petition of the Governors and Trustees of the Free Grammar School of Kin...