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A War Photographer in Thrace: An Account of Personal Experiences During the Turco-Balkan War, 1912

Herbert F. Baldwin · 1913 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing copy of the first edition of this very scarce work by English war photographer Herbert Baldwin, in the publisher's original red cloth with pictorial gilt embossed, and thirty-two photographic plates taken by ...

Chosen Essays

Edward Thomas · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Newton, The Gregynog Press, 1926. Cloth. A lovely limited edition from The Gregynog Press of noted war poet Edward Thomas' essays. Limited edition of three hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number two hundred and nine. Colophon to the rear of the work.With charmi...

Claverhouse

Mowbray Morris · 1887 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1887. First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound first edition of this biographical work regarding John Graham, Viscount of Dundee. The first edition of the work. Uncommon.Part of the English Worthies series of biographical works, edited by And...

Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Penton Mewsey, Weyhill and Wherwell, in the County of Hampshire

Rev. Robert Hawley Clutterbuck; Edward Doran Webb [ed.] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Salisbury, Bennett Brothers, Printers , 1898. First edition. Cloth. A very smart local history of various Hampshire parishes, written by Rev. Robert Hawley Clutterbuck. The first and only edition. Uncommon. In the original cloth binding.Illustrated with a portrait frontispie...

Villare Cantianum; or, Kent Surveyed and Illustrated: Being an Exact Description of All the Parishes, Boroughs, Villages, and Other Respective Manors in the County of Kent; and, the Original and Intermedial Possessors of Them, Down to the Author&Apos;S Time. Drawn out of Charters, Escheat-Rolls, Fines, and Other Public Evidences; But Especially out of Gentleman&Apos;S Private Deeds and Muniments

Thomas Philipott · 1776 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

London, Lynn; Printed and Sold by W. Whittingham; R. Baldwin; H. Gardner et al , 1776. Cloth. A pleasing second edition of Thomas Philipott's historical survey of Kent. The second edition, corrected. In a modern white cloth binding, with leather spine label.This fascinat...

A Field-Marshal&Apos;S Memoirs: From the Diary, Correspondence, and Reminiscences of Alfred, Count Von Waldersee

Alfred, Count Von Waldersee; Frederic Whyte [translator] · 1924 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this memoir from German Field Marshal, Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig Graf von Waldersee, translated into English. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The memoirs of Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig Gra...

The Monarchy of the Middle Classes. France, Social, Literary, Political, Second Series.

Henry Lytton Bulwer · 1836 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London , Richard Bentley, 1836. Leather. The second series of this two volume work by Henry Lytton Bulwer, with 4 folding tables. The second series of this work. First series published in 1834 with the title 'France, Social, Literary, Political&apos.Two volumes bound in o...

English Furniture from Charles II to George II

R. W. Symonds · 1929 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, The Connoisseur, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely example of R. W. Symonds's limited edition, first edition celebration of English furniture throughout the centuries. Illustrated throughout. A first edition, limited to one thousand copies of which this is num...

Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8

Lieut.-Col. Sir Alexander Burnes · 1843 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

London, John Murray, 1843. Leather. A handsomely bound second edition of this posthumous account from Captain Sir Alexander Burne, detailing what would be his fatal stay in Kabul. The second edition of this important account of Alexander Burnes' stay in Kabul, where he wa...

Report Improvements and Town Planning Committee to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council Assembled on the Preliminary Draft Proposals for Post-War Reconstruction in the City of London

Corporation of London · 1944 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, B. T. Batsford, Ltd , 1944. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated proposal of improvements for post-WWII London, with many coloured folding maps and plates. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth, with gilt stamped to the front...

Historical Essays: First and Second Series

Edward A. Freeman · 1871 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1871-1873. First edition. Leather. A smartly rebacked set of two volumes of historical essays from English historian Edward Augustus Freeman, the first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. First collected edition of these works. A collection...

Eothen

Alexander William Kinglake · 1889 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. Leather. A smart new edition of Kinglake"s Eothen, his celebrated 1844 travel narrative through the Near East, in a full green morocco binding. Bound in a full green morocco binding. New edition.Alexander William Kinglake's first...

Japan over Asia

William Henry Chamberlin · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Duckworth, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Chamberlin"s illustrated contemporary study of Japan"s imperial expansion, from the library of the House of Commons. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper boards with blind stamp fr...

A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second

Right Hon. Charles James Fox · 1808 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

London, William Miller, 1808 . First edition. Leather. An extra-illustrated example of the first edition of Charles James Fox's posthumously published study of the reign of James II, a work with a decidedly Whig view of history. An extra-illustrated first edition of this ...

Woburn Abbey and Chenies

Robert Hobbes; J. A. Froude · 1913 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Privately Printed by J.M. Dent & Sons, 1913 . Leather. Inscribed by Hebrand Russell, the 11th Duke of Bedford, this is a very scarce privately published work gathering together historical writings on his family seats. A very scarce, privately printed work. The second e...

A History of Greater Ealing

Cyril M. Neaves · 1931 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Brentford, The Brentford Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. 1931. Cloth. A very scarce second edition of this illustrated history of Greater Ealing, with the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Second edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illust...

The Overland to China

A. R. Colquhoun · 1900 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Harper & Brothers, 1900. Cloth. A profusely illustrated second edition of Archibald Colquhoun's popular travel work on China, with folding maps. The second edition. Published the same year as the first.Rebound with front board and back strip preserved. Illustrate...

Scented Isles and Coral Gardens: Torres Straits, German New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies

C. D. Mackellar · 1912 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, John Murray, 1912 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated with colour and photographic plates, this is the scarce first edition of explorer C.D. Mackellar's account of his travels across Asia. A scarce first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven furthe...

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M. S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy

Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel · 1846 · Rooke Books

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

London, Chapman and Hall, 1846 . Cloth. Illustrated throughout with tinted lithographs and folding maps, this is a wonderful example of the two volume second edition of Henry Keppel's account of the 1843-44 campaign against Borneo pirates. The second edition of this work,...

The Historie of That Most Famous Saint and Souldier of Jesus Christ; St George of Cappadocia

Peter Heylyn · 1631 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, B. A. and T. F. for Henry Seile, 1631 . First edition. Leather. The scarce and sought-after first edition of Peter Heylyn's seventeenth century account of St. George of Cappadocia. The first edition. A scarce work. Bound in half calf with marbled paper-covered boa...