Storia

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon. Volumes I and II

Sir Arthur Helps · 1852 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, William Pickering, 1852. Leather. A fascinating two-volume first edition from Sir Arthur Helps. The edition is introduced by the author, who marks that no one but those who have known intellectual society and then been deprived of it can truly appreciate the intense re...

Garibaldi and the Thousand

George Macaulay Trevelyan · 1912 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1912. Leather. A biographical work on Italian general and politician, by George Macaulay Trevelyan. Garibaldi is remembered for his attempted re-uniting of Italy. This work is the first of three titles by George Macaulay Trevelyan on Garibaldi. ...

The Comic History of England in Two Volumes

Gilbert Abbot A Beckett · 1847 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.47 | $515.21 | ¥82,273)

London, Punch, 1847. First edition. Leather. A first edition of A Beckett's most renowned work. this is a lively history of England told in a style that was highly unusual at its times of publication. With copious illustrations throughout by John Leech, including twenty c...

Mahomet and His Successors

Washington Irving · 1909 · Rooke Books

£215.00 (€257.71 | $284.03 | ¥45,356)

London, George G. Harrap Company, 1909. Leather. A very smart copy of this history of Muhammad and the Muslim faith by Washington Irving. 'Mahomet and his Successors' is an interesting biography about the history and life of Muhammad and his followers. Illustrated th...

Anno Regni Annae Reginae Magna Britannia, Francia, and Hibernia, Octavo

1709 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, British Parliament, 1709-1710. Leather. A collection of the original printed documents stating new acts in parliament, after the act of union, under the rule of Queen Anne. Includes "An act for granting an aid to Her Majesty, to be raised by a Land-Tax in Great Britain...

The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare and of Elizabethan Sport

D. H. Madden · 1897 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1897. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of 'The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare and of Elizabethan Sport' by the Right Hon. D. H. Madden. With illustrated head and tail pieces. First edition. A preface to...

Carthage and the Carthaginians

R. Bosworth Smith · 1916 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1916. Leather. A history of the city of Carthage and an exploration of the myths that surround it. A history of the city of Carthage and an exploration of the myths that surround it. New impression. With frontispiece and vignette title page. In...

The Heroines of George Meredith

Herbert Bedford · 1828 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, c1914. Vellum. This edition was limited to One hundred copies, signed by the Artist and numbered, this is number twenty-one. With twenty tipped-in miniatures in colours. The volume discusses the heroines of Meredith's work, in chapters by tit...

A New Survey of England Wherein the Defects of Camden Are Supplied, and the Errors of His Followers Remarked: The Opinions of Our Antiquaries Compared: The Roman Military Ways Traced; and, the Stations Settled According to the Itinerary, without Altering the Figures.

N. Salmon · 1731 · Rooke Books

£479.99 (€575.34 | $634.10 | ¥101,257)

London, J. Walthoe, 1731. Leather. A scarce early edition of Salmon's Survey of England Scarce second edition Complete in eleven parts with all title pages. First title page states two volumes though the binder has here bound all the parts together in one volume. Bound in...

Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV. Translated from the French Editions, with Variations and Additions from Many Celebrated Mss. By Thomas Johnes, Esq. To Which Are Prefixed, a Life of the Author, an Essay on His Works, and a Criticism of His History

John Froissart · 1874 · Rooke Books

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

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1874. Leather. A set of essays on the history of Western Europe, particularly that of France, Spain and England during the Hundred Years' War. Jean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405), often referred to in English as John Froissart, was one o...

A General History of England. Volume One and Volume Two.

Thomas Carte · 1747 · Rooke Books

£324.00 (€388.36 | $428.02 | ¥68,350)

London, For the Author, Sold by J. Hodges, 1747-50. First edition. Leather. The first editions of the first two volumes of Thomas Carte's somewhat controversial history of England, with Jacobite leanings. Bright, with wide margins. Volume One and Two Only, of Four. "Carte...

News Publications Concerning the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the Coronation of George V

N.A · 1897 · Rooke Books

£330.00 (€395.55 | $435.95 | ¥69,616)

London, Not Stated, 1897-1911. Leather. A fascinating collection of news publications concerning the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (June 1897) and the Coronation of King George V (June 1911). The following items relate to the Diamond Jubilee: 'The Illustrated London N...

The Age We Live in: A History of the Ninteenth Century, from the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time

James Taylor · 1813 · Rooke Books

£119.99 (€143.82 | $158.51 | ¥25,313)

London, William Mackenzie, c1886. Leather. The first four volumes of this comprehensive look at Britain in the nineteenth century, with beautiful illustrations, and in decorative morocco. Volumes I - IV only(of seven). Bound as Two Volumes. With a selection of engraved plates....

Oceana or England and Her Colonies

James Anthony Froude · 1887 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz , 1887. Leather. The copyright edition of this work by James Anthony Froude. James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer and editor of Fraser's Magazine. In a quarter morocco binding by Birdsall and Son. Externally, smar...

The Fair Ladies of the Winter Palace

Dr Angelo S Rappoport · 1914 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.33 | $647.32 | ¥103,369)

London, Holden and Hardingham, 1914. First edition. Fine Binding. A first edition of this salacious history of the Imperial Russian women, from their seclusion in the 17th century to their extravagant domestic dominion in the 19th. The author protests in the preface that he is...

Short Studies on Great Subjects Vol. IV

James Anthony Frouse · 1897 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.19 | ¥8,014)

London, Green and Co, 1897. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this fascinating collection of socio-historical essays, including Life and Times of Thomas Beckett, The Oxford Counter-Reformation and A Cagliostro of the Second Century. It features a prize bookplate on th...

Interest at One View, Calculated to a Farthing

Richard Hayes · 1789 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London, J. Johnson G. G. J. et al. 1789. Leather. An early book of interest tables. Bound in morocco leather with gilt bands. Uncommon. Richard Hayes was an accountant. In a full morocco binding. The binding is tight and firm. The boards are attached by the cords only. There i...

An Accompaniment to Mitchell&Apos;S Map of the World

Samuel Augustus Mitchell · 1845 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

Philadelphia, S. Augustus Mitchell, 1845. Cloth. A companion volume to Mitchell's 'Map of The World&apos. This volume has a wealth of information on varying countries, from individual states of the United States to continents. Written by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, an ...

Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages

Edward L. Cutts · 1930 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Simpkin Marshall, Ltd. 1930. Cloth. A fascinating history of the Middle Ages by Edward L. Cutts. Edward Lewes Cutts was an English writer, antiquarian and curate, specialising in archaeology and the study of ecclesiastical history This text contains a series of sketche...

Calendar of Treasury Books 1676-1679

William A. Shaw. · 1911 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1911. Cloth. Volume V. Part I of the calendar of treasury books prepared and introduced by William A. Shaw. Complete in two parts. Introduction by Shaw states that in these closing years of The Earl of Danby's treasureship the...