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Royal Tunbridge Wells

0 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Tunbridge Wells, Royal Tunbridge Wells Corporation, c1950 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce guide on Royal Tunbridge Wells, with photographs, original advertisements and a folding map. First edition, in the publisher's original paper wraps. Scarce. This work is a ...

A More Extended Discussion in Favour of Liberty of Conscience

Christopher Wyvill · 1809 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.76 | ¥32,698)

London, J. Johnson, 1809. Paperback. The third edition of cleric and landowner Christopher Wyvill's very scarce work. The third edition of this work, very scarce in all editions.Retaining original half title.Wyvill discusses debates held in Parliament regarding the claims...

Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, from the Conquest to the Present Time

Francis Grose · 1786 · Rooke Books

£2,350.00 (€2,816.81 | $3,104.49 | ¥495,749)

London, S. Hooper, 1786-88. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this illustrated extensive history of the English military, a pioneering historical study by Francis Grose. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.An impressive and extensive history of the English mil...

Owestry Parish Church: The Churchwardens&Apos; Accounts for 1579-1613

William Day · 1970 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Owestry, Privately printed, 1970. Hardback. A transcription of the churchwardens' accounts of Owestry Parish Church in Shropshire. A very scarce work in pictorial boards. Library bookplate to the front paste down. Small library stamp to the paste downs, preface, rear free...

Memoir of Mary Ann Gilpin of Bristol; Consisting Chiefly of Extracts from Her Diary and Letters

Mary Ann Gilpin; Charles Gilpin · 1842 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, Privately printed, 1842. Cloth. A very scarce memoir by Mary Ann Gilpin of Bristol, giving an insight into 19th century life. The third edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front paste down. Bookplate o...

Stories of the Forties

Reginald Moore; Woodrow Wyatt · 1945 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of stories from the forties, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Detailed as Volume One with confirmation that "there will be further volumes in this series." ...

Blind Jack of Knaresborough Road-Builder Extraordinary

Garry Hogg · 1967 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Phoenix House , 1967. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce uncorrected proof of Blind Jack of Knaresborough by Garry Hogg. The uncorrected proof is in the original publisher's wraps.Very scarce. This book explores the story of John Metcalf also known as Blind Jack...

King Henry Beaclerc and Reading Abbey ; the Trail by Combat of Henry Du Essex and Robert de Montfort at Reading Abbey

Jamieson B. Hurry · 1917 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London , Elliot Stock , 1917-1919. First edition. Cloth. Two very scarce works on the history of Reading Abbey. The first edition. Very scarce. King Henry Beaclerc and Reading Abbey tell the story of Reading and the history of its royal founder. King Henry Beaclerc founded Re...

The History of England, in Easy Verse: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Beginning of the Year 1806

W. R. Johnson · 1806 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Tabart & Co. 1806. Leather. A scarce copy of this history of England in verse, from the invasion of Caesar to the year 1806. Scarce work. Illustrated with a folding map frontispiece. Written in verse to encourage young persons to commit the details to memory, this hist...

The Ecritoire and Its Historical Pictures: Presented by the Ladies and Other Inhabitants of Bath to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, May 25th, 1870

Jerom Murch [ed.] · 1870 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Bath, William Lewis, 1870 . First edition. Cloth. Sir Jerom Murch's very scarce work detailing the ecritoire given by the Ladies of Bath to the Princess of Wales on the occasion of her wedding. A vanishingly scarce work, recorded as held by only the Amsterdam's Rijks...

Britain: It&Apos;S Earliest History and Connection with Other Nations

[Francis Sewell Cole] · 1851 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Jas. Bain; Henry Lamb, 1851. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this very scarce history of Britain by Francis Sewell Cole. The first edition. Very scarce. In the publisher's original blind stamped cloth. Inscribed by the author with initials to th...

Choix de Chroniques Et Memoires Sur L&Apos;Histoire de France

J. A. C. Buchon · 1886 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Paris, Librairie ch. Delagrave, 1886. Cloth. A smart and scarce copy of this collection of historical chronicles and memoirs of France, in the original French language. French language. Scarce work. A collection of chronicles and memoirs on the history of France, with chapters...

The Trail That Is Always New

Willoughby P. Lowe · 1932 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Gurney and Jackson, 1932. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated collection of accounts from the travels of Willoughby P. Lowe, a naturalist collector for the British Museum. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, twenty-one plates, and fifteen in-text images. Coll...

The Love of Wild Life

Mary Maughan · 1977 · Rooke Books

£585.00 (€701.21 | $772.82 | ¥123,410)

None, None, 1977-79. Leather. A very unique hand-produced journal, recounting ornithological and zoological tours undertaken by a Mary Maughan, compiled with original photographs and drawings. A beautiful and unique hand-produced ornithological and zoological journal. With on...

Histoire de Charles V

R. Delachenal · 1909 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,805)

Paris, Libraire Alphonse Picard and Filis, 1909. Leather. Volume one and two of a five volume history of Charles V. The first edition. Only volume one and two of a five volume set. Handsomely bound in a green morocco binding. A detailed history of Charles V king of France from...

The Modern Athens: A Dissection and Demonstration of Men and Things in the Scotch Capital

Robert Mudie · 1825 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Knight and Lacey, 1825 . Leather. The second edition of Scottish newspaper editor and author Robert Mudie's account of life in early nineteenth century Edinburgh. The scarce second edition of this work, which was first published the year prior.During his employmen...

Catalogue of Plate Belonging to the Duke of Portland, K.G. , G.C. V.O. At Welbeck Abbey

E. Alfred Jones · 1935 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London , The Saint Catherine Press , 1935. First edition. Cloth. This book focuses on important historic plates made in both English and Dutch silver which belonged to the Duke of Portland. The First edition. This copy is a limited edition, it is No. 191 of 200 copies printed....

Cowdray: The History of a Great English House

Mrs. Charles Roundell [Julia Anne Elizabeth Roundell] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Bickers & Son, 1884. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this history of Cowdray House, which was one of England's great Tudor houses. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with a gilt crest to the front bo...

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians

Charles Rollin · 1827 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, G. Cowie and Co. 1827. Leather. A uniformly bound set of Charles Rollin's famous Ancient History, translated from the French; complete in three volumes. A new edition of this set in half calf bindings, in three volumes. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of ...

Damage; 1934

D. G. Holliday · 2014 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Matador, 2014-2017. First edition. Cloth. A well presented pair of novels on the subject of the First and Second World Wars, by British author D. G. Holliday. This wonderfully presented pair of novels are both First Editions, in original publisher's cloth binding ...