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Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore

Maurice Freedman · 1957 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. Paperback. An interesting and comprehensive exploration of Chinese families in Singapore. Maurice Freedman (1920 - 1975) was a British scholar who was one of the world's leading experts on Chinese anthropology. Includes ...

Our Fathers (1870-1900)

Alan Bott · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, William Heinemann, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition fourth impression of Alan Bott's 'Our Fathers&apos. With 201 engraved illustrations. Following a career as a special correspondent Alan Bott (1893-1952) wrote accounts of WWI and historical public...

The Acts and Ordinances of the Eastland Company

Maud Sellers (Ed) · 1906 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Offices of The Royal Historical Society, 1906. Cloth. A fascinating history of The Eastland Company, or North Sea Company, "from the Original Muniments of the Gild of Merchant Adventurers of York." The 11th of 94 volumes published by the Royal Historical Society as the...

Louis XV Essai D&Apos;Apres Les Documents Authentiques

Claude Saint-Andre · 1921 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.88 | ¥18,984)

Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, 1921. Leather. A biography of Louis XV, with his portrait to frontispiece. In French. Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774) was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his g...

The Life of Samuel Johnson and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell · 1922 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.42 | $2,510.02 | ¥400,818)

New York, Gabriel Wells by Doubleday Page and Company, 1922. Leather. An attractively-bound copy of Boswell's famous 'Life of Johnson&apos. With a biographical introduction by Clemence Shorter.Illustrated throughout with fiifty-three plates (collated complete).Bound ...

Two Great Rivals (Francois I of France and Charles V of Germany) and the Regent of the Roues

Andrew Haggard · 1905 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Hutchinson and Co. 1905-1910. Leather. A pair of uniformly bound historical works from Andrew Haggard. Containing Two Great Rivals (Francois I and Charles V), and the Women Who Influenced Them, and The Regent of the Roues.In Brentanos bindings (binder's ink stamps...

La Societe Francaise Au Xiiie Siecle with la Vie En France Au Moyen Age

Charles-Victor Langlois · 1904 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.88 | ¥18,984)

Paris , Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1904-1908. Leather. Two French historical works by specialist Middle Ages historian Charles-Victor Langlois. These copies are in the original French. With the armorial nameplate for Ronald Lindsay on the front pastedown of each volume. Charles...

Supplement Au Nouvel Abrege Chronologique de L&Apos;Histoire de France

Anonymous · 1756 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

Paris, Prault, 1756. Leather. A scarce supplementary volume to the 1756 fifth edition of the Nouvel Abrege Chronologique de L'Histoire de France. A scarce supplementary volume to the 1756 fifth edition of the Nouvel Abrege Chronologique de L'Histoire de France. In Fr...

La Crise Britannique Au XXC. Siecle

Andre Siegfried · 1931 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1931. Leather. A quarter-calf binding of Siegfried's La Crise Britannique Au XXc. Siecle. With a dedication by the author. Andre Siegfried (1875 – 1959) was a French academic, geographer and political writer best known for his commentaries ...

The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet. In Three Volumes

Thomas Johnes · 1810 · Rooke Books

£252.00 (€302.06 | $332.91 | ¥53,161)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1810. Vellum. Enguerrand de Monstrelet's chronicles of fifteenth century France, from the Savile Club Library. 'Containing an account of the cruel Civil Wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the posession o...

Ducatiana Ou Remarques de Feu M. Le Duchat Sur Divers Sujects D&Apos;Histoire Ed de Literature Recueillies Dans Fes Mss. & Mises En Ordre

M. Le Duchat · 1738 · Rooke Books

£199.99 (€239.72 | $264.20 | ¥42,189)

Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1738. Leather. Two volumes in one of this French work discussing various aspects of history and literature. Leatherbound volume with gilt title to the spine and engraved frontispiece. Two volumes in one in the French language. The Duchat Jacob Formey...

Le Caire Alexandrie Et Leurs Environs

Francis Ambriere · 1962 · Rooke Books

£77.99 (€93.48 | $103.03 | ¥16,453)

London, Librarie Hachette, 1962. Leather. A scarce lovely travel guide to Cairo in French in a fine binding. Includes folding maps as well as illustrations in the text, some photographic. Francis Ambrière (September 27, 1907 – 1 July 1998) was a French author who was selecte...

A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande and Kinges of the Same, Deduced from the Creation of the Vvorlde, Vnto the First Habitation of Thys Islande: And So by Contynuance Vnto the First Yere of the Reigne of Our Most Deere and Souereigne Lady Queene Elizabeth: Collected out of Sundry Aucthors, Whose Names Are Expressed in the Next Page of This Leafe.

Richard Grafton · 1569 · Rooke Books

£3,750.00 (€4,494.90 | $4,953.98 | ¥791,088)

London, H Denham, 1569. Leather. A scarce 'Seconde Volume' of Grafton's A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande. Bound in morocco calf with gilt decoration to the spine. Rebacked with the original leather. This work is the 'This s...

Across East African Glaciers. An Account of the First Ascent of Kilimanjaro

Dr. Hans Meyer · 1891 · Rooke Books

£5,940.00 (€7,119.93 | $7,847.10 | ¥1,253,084)

London, George Philip & Son, 1891. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this incredibly eminent work of mountaineering from the first recorded European to ascend the summit of Kilimanjaro. A lovely bright copy, with all maps present. Translated from the German of...

Reports on the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee Appointed to Consider of Provision Being Made for the Better Regulation of Madhouses in England

Various · 1815 · Rooke Books

£1,520.00 (€1,821.93 | $2,008.01 | ¥320,654)

London, Ordered by the House of Commons, 1815. Leather. A collection of the reports of 1815 and 1816 on the reformation of mental asylums of England in the nineteenth century. Containing the first report (ordered to be printed 25 May 1815), the second report (2nd June 1815) th...

Tallis&Apos;S Illustrated London; in Commemoration of the Great Exhibition

William Gaspey · 1851 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London and New York, John Tallis and Company, 1851 . First edition. Leather. The two volume first edition of this illustrated guide to London and its environs by William Gaspey, in commemoration of the Great Exhibition, bound in half calf. The first edition of this work, compl...

The Theatre at Work Fireworks & Fetes Animals of Australia Zoo Birds Living Pictures Signs and Symbols a History of the Countryside Wild Flowers Pottery and Its Making Mountain and Moorland Birds a Book of Trains

James Cleaver; Alan St. H. Brock; Webster Murray; Sheila Hawkins; David Seth Smith; John Maddison; G. E. Pallant Sidaway; Margaret & Alexander Potter; Paxton Chadwick; R. B. Talbot Kelly; W. J. Bassett-Lowke; F. E. Courtney · 1947 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Middlesex; New York, Penguin Books Ltd. [1947]; [1946]; [1947] (Undated. Paperback. Middlesex; New York: Penguin Books Ltd. [1947]; [1946]; [1947] (Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library); 1951; 1950; 1953; c.1947; [1949]; [1950]; [1947] (Undated, dated from co...

Housecraft Principles and Practice

Ruth Binnie; Julia E. Boxall · 1934 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1934. Cloth. A very scarce illustrated and instructional title, seen here with its incredibly scarce, unclipped original dust wrapper. A very scarce guide to the care and maintenance of the home, in original olive green cloth binding.An in...

Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months&Apos; Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram

Fridtjof Nansen · 1897 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

Westminster , Archibald Constable and Company , 1897. First edition. Cloth. The copiously illustrated first English edition of Fridtjof Nansen's daring Fram expedition, a first hand account. First English edition. Complete in two volumes.In the publisher's gilt-stamp...

Missionary Travels and Researchers in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years&Apos; Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean

David Livingstone · 1858 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

New York , Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1858. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of David Livingstone's influential account of African travel - a major contribution prior to the "Scramble for Africa" in the late 19th century. First U.S. edition. Rebacked, wit...