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The Antarctic Question - Voyages to the South Pole Since 1898; Scientific Advantages of an Antarctic Expedition

J. Machat; John Murray · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

[Washington], [Government Printing Office Washington], 1898-1908. Unbound. Two scarce extracted articles on Antarctic exploration, comprising addresses by J. Machat and Dr. John Murray. Two extracted reports on Antarctic exploration. Scarce.'The Antarctic Question' b...

The History of Esarhaddon (Son of Sennarcherib) King of Assyria, B.C. , 681-688

Ernest A. Budge · 1880 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.46 | ¥209,902)

London, Trubner & Co. 1880. First edition. Cloth. A first edition scholarly reconstruction of the reign of Esarhaddon, drawing on Assyrian inscriptions, authored by one of the pioneers of British Assyriology. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition of E ...

Regency Furniture 1795-1820

M. Jourdain · 1934 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Country Life Ltd, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. An abundantly illustrated first edition copy of this work regarding Regency style furniture. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original grey cloth binding. A charming work concerning the various pieces of ...

Egypt: Handbook for Travellers. Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinal

Karl Baedeker · 1885 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Leipsic , Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1885. Cloth. The second edition of this popular Baedeker travel book to lower Egypt, complete with folding maps and plans. Second edition, revised and augmented. The present volume was issued as the second of a series of Handbooks for the ...

The Navy List

Admiralty-Office · 1821 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London, John Murray, 1821-1827 . First edition. Leather. A substantial set of British naval history, offering monthly issues of the Navy List spanning 1821-27 and bound across three volumes. Three volumes, with three monthly issues of the 'Navy List' bound together i...

Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen; with Anecdotes Descriptive of Their Manners and Customs.

John D. Hunter · 1824 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. Leather. The third edition of John D. Hunter"s autobiographical captivity narrative, offering a vivid early nineteenth-century perspective on Native American life west of the Mississippi. Bound in a contemporary half ...

The Ruins or, a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires. To Which Is Added, the Law of Nature.

M. Volney · 1791 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Farrah , c1880. Cloth. A later English edition of Volney"s landmark meditation on the rise and fall of civilisations, including The Law of Nature, illustrated with two fold-out plates and a frontispiece. In the publisher"s original green cloth.Illustrated with two fold...

Scotland&Apos;S Story; a Child&Apos;S History of Scotland

H. E. Marshall [Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1906 . Leather. A scarce copy of this historical account of Scotland for children, illustrated in colour, bound in full morocco. A scarce work.Bound in a lovely full green morocco binding.A work by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, a Scottish writer, part...

The War in the Crimea

Edward Hamley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Seeley and Co. Limited, 1892 . Leather. A very scarce illustrated historical account of the Crimean war, in a full calf prize binding. The very scarce fifth edition of the work. In full brown calf binding, with a marbled fore edge and endpapers. A prize binding, for ...

De la Prostitution Dans la Ville de Paris; Expose Des Causes Les Plus Frequentes de la Propagation de la Maladie Venerienne

A. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet · 1836 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.35 | $627.50 | ¥100,205)

Bruxelles, Etablissement Encyclographique, 1836-1837 . First edition. Leather. The first volume of Parent-Duchatelet's study of prostitution in 1830s Paris, bound with a very scarce first edition study on the spread of venereal diseases in Belgium. Two works, both in the ...

Japan and the Japan Mission of the Church Missionary Society

Eugene Stock; Rev. G. H. Pole; Rev. C. D. Snell · 1905 · Rooke Books

£67.00 (€80.31 | $88.51 | ¥14,134)

London, Church Missionary Society, 1905 . Cloth. Historical overview of the involvement of the Church Missionary Society in Japan, featuring photographic plates and a folding map. Fourth edition.In publisher's original decorative cloth binding.With the bookplate of Cliff ...

Illustrated Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition Burlington House 1894

None Stated · 1896 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Printed for the Committee by Charles Whittingham and Co. 1896. Leather. A limited edition catalogue illustrating the heraldic antiquities at an 1894 exhibition at Burlington House. With colour plates. One of 250 copies printed. In the original quarter morocco binding,...

The Shipwreck; or the Adventures, Love, and Constancy, of Paul and Virginia

Bernardin de St Pierre; C. F. Barrett [trans.] · 1800 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Lodnon, S. Fisher, 1800. Leather. A translated work, rebound in quarter red morocco. An incredibly scarce translated title.Paul and Virginia, as it appears in this title, is a translation from the French 'Paul et Virginie', by  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierr...

The Happy Family; or Scenes of American Life

William S. Cardell · 1823 · Rooke Books

£2,900.00 (€3,476.06 | $3,831.08 | ¥611,775)

Philadelphia, Thomas T, Ash, 1823. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of American writer William Samuel Cardell's fictional account of a family of pioneers settling in Ohio, aimed at 'well instructed children of seven years old and upwards&apos. The vanishingly ...

Conflict; Angora to Afghanistan

Rosita Forbes · 1931 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated work by English travel writer and explorer Rosita Forbes. The first edition of the work. In full blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and 48 half tone plate...

Cosmorama: The Manners, Customs, and Costumes, of All Nations of the World, Described

John Aspin [Jehoshaphat Aspin] · 1848 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Grant and Griffith, [1848]. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this illustrated commentary of cultural connections by Jehoshaphat Aspin. A very scarce work.In full red cloth, rebound, with the original spine laid down.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and 23 plates. Collated,...

Flores Historiarum Per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem Collecti, Praecipue de Rebus Britannicis Ab Exordio Mundi Usque Ad Annum Domini MCCCVII Et Chronicon Ex Chronicis, Ab Initio Mundi Usque Ad Annum Domini MCXVIII, Deductum: Auctore Florentino Wigorniensi Monacho. Cui Accessit Continvatio Usque Ad Annum Christi MCXL I. Per Quendam Eiusdem Coenobii Eruditum

[Matthew Paris] · 1601 · Rooke Books

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

Francofurti, Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium, 1601. Vellum. A vellum-bound early 17th-century printing of Matthew Paris' important historical chronicle, 'Flores Historiarum', in the original Latin. A reprint of the second edition (1570, London) of Matthew Paris&...

Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms

M.C. Cooke [Mordecai Cubitt Cooke] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an intriguing and enjoyable record of different types of mushrooms and whether they are edible or poisonous, including preparation tips, by eminent mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Co...

1877 East Cheshire: Past and Present; or a History of the Hundred of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester

J.P. Earwaker · 1877 · Rooke Books

£269.00 (€322.43 | $355.37 | ¥56,747)

London, Printed For The Author, 1877. First edition. Cloth. The two volume first edition of J. P. Earwaker's impressively detailed and richly illustrated study of the history of Cheshire. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes.English antiquary John Parso...

Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt

William Pitt; Lord Rosebery [intro.]; Sir Walter Farquhar · 1900 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Not Stated, Printed for Private Circulation, 1900 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional example of the scarce first edition of the letters written by William Pitt to his intended, Eleanor Eden. With an account of Pitt's health from his physician. The scarce first edition...