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Marshal Marmont&Apos;S Memoirs, Extract from the Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal Volume CVI

1857 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London and Edinburgh, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts; Adam and Charles Black, 1857. Leather. A fine copy of this literature review extracted from The Edinburgh Review Volume CVI, critiquing 'Memoires du Duc de Raguse' (1857). A handsomely rebound copy of ...

Napoleon from the Tuileries to St. Helena; Personal Recollections of the Emperor&Apos;S Second Mameluke and Valet

Louis Etienne St. Denis; Frank Hunter Potter [trans.] · 1922 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers , 1922. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of this first English edition of Louis Etienne Saint Denis' memoirs of Napoleon. The first edition of this work, translated from the original French by Frank Hunter Potter. A scarce copy. W...

The Last Boer War

H. Rider Haggard · 1899 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co LTD, 1899. First edition. Cloth. A first edition historical work which endeavors to give a concise description of the First Boer War of 1880-1881, written by H. Rider Haggard. First Edition, first printing.In the publisher's origi...

Deeds That Won the Empire

W.H. Fitchett · 1903 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1903. Cloth. Fitchett's thrilling historical study of the major battles fought by the British Empire, replete with illustrated plates. A comprehensive and fascinating work on the historic battles fought by the British Empire. Including Waterloo...

The Return of Louis XVIII

Gilbert Stenger; Mrs. Rodolph Stawell (Trans) · 1909 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, William Heinemann, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A nicely illustrated work containing a historical overview of the Bourbons and their return to France, with illustrated plates throughout text. Scarce First Edition. Illustrations include a frontispiece and eleven illustr...

Napoleon at Home the Daily Life of the Emperor at the Tuileries

Frederic Masson; James E. Matthew · 1894 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London; Philadelphia, H. Grevel and Co.; J. B. Lippincott Company, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of Frederic Masson's look into the personal life of Napoleon Bonaparte at home, complete with illustrations throughout. The first edition of this work ...

Memoirs of Marshal Bugeaud from His Private Correspondence and Original Documents, 1784-1849

Count H. d'Ideville; Charlotte M. Yonge · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of these intriguing memoirs of Thomas Bugeaud, a Marshal of France and prominent figure during the Napoleonic Wars. The first edition of this work in English.Complete in two volumes.The exciting ...

The Private Life of Napoleon

Arthur Levy; Stephen Louis Simeon · 1894 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1894. Cloth. A nice set of this personal biography on the life of Napoleon, this being the second edition of the English translation by Arthur Levy. The second edition of this uncommon work, published in the same year as the first edition.Compl...

Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century, Compiled from the Most Authentic Histories of the Period. Volume V, 1796-1799.

Edward Cust · 1869 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, John Murray, 1869. Cloth. The very scarce final volume of this study of the major military campaigns that took place between 1796 and 1799. The work of Queen Victoria's 'Master of Ceremonies', Sir Edward Cust. The very scarce fifth volume of the third ed...

The French Revolutionary Epoch

Henri Van Laun · 1878 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, London, 1878. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Henri Van Laun's late nineteenth century two volume study of the causes and repercussions of the French Revolution. The scarce first edition of writer, translator and teacher of French Henri van Laun&...

The Campaign of 1815

William O'Connor Morris · 1900 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London and New York, Grant Richards, 1900. Cloth. A military history detailing the efforts undertaken during the Waterloo Campaign. Fought between the French Army of the North, an Anglo-allied army and a Prussian army, the waterloo campaign took place between June and July 181...

A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress and Facsimile of Autographs of Subscribers to the County Seats of Great Britain and Ireland

The Rev. F. O. Morris · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,917.83 | $2,113.70 | ¥337,531)

London, William Mackenzie; A. Clarke, 1880. Cloth. A remarkable set illustrating the country seats and estates of British noblemen and gentlemen, complete in six volumes and the scarce supplement. A stunning collection of this illustrative volume of British and Irish country s...

The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, Commonly Called the King of the Beggars. With His Portrait from an Original Picture in the Possession of the Earl of Exeter, Being a True Account of His Life, from His Leaving Tiverton School at the Age of Fifteen, and Entering Into a Society of Gipsies; Wherein the Motives of His Conduct Are Related and Explained: Also, the Variety of Shapes and Characters He Assumed in Great-Britain, Ireland, and Several Other Places of Europe: With His Travels

1802 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Bath , Printed and Sold by J. Browne; Crosby and Letterman, 1802. Leather. An early edition of this entertaining biography of Bamfylde-Moore Carew. An early edition of this work, originally published in 1745. Tracing the life, travels, and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, ...

Universal Magnetism: A Private Training Course in the Magnetic Control of Others

Edmund Shaftesbury · 1942 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Marple, Cheshire, Psychology Publishing Co. Ltd, 1942. Cloth. A remarkable work on mind-control by Edmund Shaftesbury, published for the Psychology Publishing Co. A fascinating work on mind control, detailing realms seven through ten, on control of individuals, the estate of s...

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

Arnold Zweig; Eric Sutton · 1928 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Martin Secker, 1928. Cloth. The first English edition of this thrilling German war novel, originally written by Arnold Zweig and translated by Eric Sutton, enclosed in the original dust wrapper. Presenting the first English edition of this satirical German war novel ab...

The War in the Peninsula

H.R. Clinton · 1890 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Frederick Warne, 1890. Cloth. A third edition copy of this illustrated work on the campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in France and Belgium, published in the late nineteenth-century. A fascinating military and European history work on the Duke of Wellington's cam...

Yorkshire Geological Society Vol. XVI, Part III. The Carboniferous Rocks

T. McKenny Hughes · 1908 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Leeds; London, Chorley & Pickersgill, Ltd.; The Electric Press, 1908. Paperback. A well presented article on Ingleborough's Carboniferous Rocks by T. McKenny Hughes, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society in 1908. A well presented article on In...

China and the World War

Thomas Edward La Fargue · 1937 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

California, London, Oxford, Stanford University Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. An exceptional first edition of La Fargue's examination into China's part played during the First World War. No. 12 in Hoover War Library Publications.This work closely examines China&...

Diary of Military Government in Germany 1945

B. N. Reckitt · 1989 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Devon, Arthur H. Stockell LTD, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A signed scarce first edition copy of the diaries of Basil Reckitt, written whilst he was stationed in Germany before the end of the Second World War. The scarce first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the r...

Churchill

Celia Sandys · 2003 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Contender Books, 2003 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this illustrated study of the life of Winston Churchill. Signed by the author, Churchill's granddaughter. The signed first edition of this study of statesman and former British Prime Minister, W...