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A Selection of Contemporary Chinese Paintings

Sun Jie; Hsu Menghsiung [trans]; Various · 1981 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Beijing, Zhaohua Publishing House, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A richly colour illustrated first edition work, with passages in Chinese and English. A very smart and richly illustrated first edition title.Featuring twenty-two double-sided unlisted colour plates, one single-sid...

Near East Far East

Cecil Beaton · 1943 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1943-45. First edition. Cloth. Two pleasing first editions of Cecil Beaton's autobiographical account of his travels around India and China, with original photographs by the author. Two first edition photo books by British photographer, Cecil B...

Laboratory Manual for Automotive Electricity, Especially Designed to Accompany the Text "Automotive Construction and Operation" by Wight and Smith

W.M. R. Varner, Fred C. Smith · 1926 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of a laboratory manual delving into fundamental principles for understanding automotive electricity and engineering, aimed for both public school and trade school students. The scarce first editi...

Wellington&Apos;S Battlefield Illustrated, Bussaco

G. L. Chambers · 1910 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the very scarce first edition of this study of Wellington"s victory at Bussaco, illustrated with folding maps and original photographs by the author. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. F...

2 Vols the History and Topography of the United States of America

John Howard Hinton [Ed.] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

London; Edinburgh; Dublin, J. & F. Tallis, c1850. Leather. A richly illustrated two-volume survey of American history and geography, with engraved plates, maps, and facsimile documents throughout, bound in a contemporary half calf binding. Uniformly bound in a contemporary hal...

An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with Various Papers Relative to the Plague: Together with Further Observations on Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and Additional Remarks on the Present State of Those in Great Britain and Ireland

John Howard · 1791 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Printed for J. Johnson, C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, 1791. Leather. A smart second edition of this curious history of Europe's lazarettos, illustrated with engraved plates and plans, several of which are folding. Second edition, with additions. Bound in half morocco,...

Despatch from His Majesty"S Agent and Consul-General at Cairo

Sir William Garstin · 1904 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Harrison and Sons, 1904 . First edition. Leather. A substantial first edition official survey of the Upper Nile, richly illustrated with plates and folding plans, offering insight into irrigation and engineering in Egypt...

Everybody&Apos;S Pepys: The Diaries of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669

Samuel Pepys; O. F. Morshead [ed.] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, G. Bell and Sons, 1927. Leather. A handsome half-morocco edition of this wonderfully illustrated abridged version of Samuel Pepys' diaries, featuring sixty drawings by Ernest Howard Shepard. Early edition, reprinted one year after the first.Beautifully bound in ha...

The Pleasures of Life: Part I; the Pleasures of Life: Part II.

Sir John Lubbock · 1898 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898. Leather. The complete set of Lubbock's talks on happiness, smartly bound in one half-calf volume. Complete in two volumes, bound as one.Smartly bound in half calf with marbled boards and endpapers.Bookplate of John H. O. Thornhill ...

Le Peloponnese Byzantin Jusqu&Apos;En 1204

Antoine Bon · 1951 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1951. First edition. Paperback. A scarce French first edition, very scarce in its original paperback binding, featuring vignette maps. A scarce first edition title, by archaeologist, Hellenist and photographer Antoine Bon, in the origin...

Kensington: Picturesque & Historical

W.J. Loftie · 1888 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this fascinating historical guide regarding the London borough of Kensington, with coloured plates. The first edition.In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Illust...

Picture Writing in Ancient Egypt

Nina M. Davies · 1958 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Oxford; London, Published on behalf of the Griffith Institute by Oxford University Press, 1958. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this artistic colour-illustrated work on Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics by the prominent Nina M. Davies, presented in the original unclipped d...

A Woman in Berlin I Was Hitler&Apos;S Chauffeur: The Memoir of Erich Kempka

[Marta Hillers]; Erich Kempka · 1955 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Secker and Warburg; Frontline Books, 1955-2010. Cloth. A pair of insightful memoirs by Marta Hillers and Erich Kempka from their experiences of Second World War, both in the publishers' original cloth with the original bright, unclipped dust wrappers. This set con...

Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa

Hugh Murray · 1832 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Edinburgh , Oliver and Boyd , 1832. Leather. A pleasing second edition of this history of Africa and African expeditions, illustrated with charming vignettes and a folding map. Second edition, revised.Bound in later quarter calf, with cloth boards. Renewed endpapers. Folding ...

2 Vols Nineveh and Its Remains

Austen Henry Layard · 1849 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, John Murray, 1849 . Leather. The third edition of Layard"s famous account of the discovery and excavation of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh in two volumes, illustrated with plates and folding maps. In a half calf binding with marbled paper boards. Third edition,...

Cairo: Sketches of Its History, Monuments, and Social Life

Stanley Lane-Poole · 1898 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, J.S. Virtue & Co. 1898 . Cloth. The scarce third edition of this abundantly illustrated detailed account of late nineteenth century Cairo by Stanley Lane-Poole. The scarce third edition. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispie...

The Making of Modern Egypt

Sir Auckland Colvin · 1906 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Seeley & Co. Limited, 1906 . Cloth. The second edition of Sir Auckland Colvin's historical account of the events leading to a modern Egypt, with plates and maps. The second edition.In the publisher's original red cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece,...

A Black Byzantium: The Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria

S. F. Nadel · 1961 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London; New York; Toronto, Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1961. Cloth. Insightful anthropological glimpse into the Nupe people of Nigeria following research conducted by Siegfried Frederick Nadel in the 1930s, illustrated with...

Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahdiism, and of Subsequent Events in the Sudan to the Present Time

Major F. R. Wingate · 1891 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1891. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this authoritative account of the rise of Muhammad Ahmad, illustrated with numerous folding maps in colour. First edition.Bound in 20th-century quarter calf, with cloth boards. Renewed free endpapers,...

An Alphabetical Index to the Chinese Encyclopaedia, Ch&Apos;in Ting Ku Chin T&Apos;U Shu Chi Ch&Apos;Eng

Lionel Giles · 1911 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

British Museum; London, Printed by the Order of the Trustees of the British Museum; Longmans and Co.; Asher and Co.; Henry Frowde; Bernard Quaritch, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition reference title, compiled by acclaimed sinologist, philosopher and trans...