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Melbourne&Apos;S Yesterday: A Photographic Record 1851-1901

Don Bennetts · 1976 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Souvenir Press, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this collection of photographic records of the history of Melbourne, Australia, signed in presentation to Carmen Callil. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the half title in pr...

A Collection of Travel Books on the Middle East

Various · 1930 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Ernest Benn, Limited; Naval Intelligence Division; Faber & Faber; Hodder & Stoughton; Collins; Longmans; Cassell & Co. 1930-1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of ten volumes on the Middle East, with historical commentary and illustrations throughout. Ten vo...

Eugenics and Education Reprinted from the "Eugenics Review" July, 1912

John Russell; Mrs. MacCoy Irwin · 1912 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Eugenics Education Society, c1912. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this pamphlet reprinted from the Eugenics Review of July 1912. Very scarce work. Two short essays reprinted rom the July 1912 issue of The Eugenics Review, a periodical acting as they official organ fo...

A History of the Island of St. Helena, from the Discovery by the Portuguese to the Year 1806

T. H. Brooke · 1808 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Black, Parry, Kingsbury, 1808. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this detailed history of the island of St. Helena, from British historian T. H. Brooke. First edition. With a frontispiece. A detailed history of Saint Helena, a volcanic and tropical isla...

Bradshaw&Apos;S Railway Almanack, Directory, Shareholders&Apos; Guide and Manual for 1848

Bradshaw's Railway Publications · 1848 · Rooke Books

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

London; Manchester, W. J. Adams; Bradshaw and Blacklock, 1848 . Cloth. An attractive example of this very scarce 1848 almanack and guide to the railways of Great Britain, intended to be of use to railway shareholders. The 1848 volume of this vanishingly scarce almanack, which ...

The Political and Military History of the Campaign of Waterloo

General Baron de Jomini; S. V. Benet [trans] · 1853 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

New York, J. S. Redfield, 1853. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first English edition of this work on the political and military history of the Campaign at Waterloo, complete with a folding map. The first edition, published previously only as an original manuscript fro...

Narrative of Events During the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Retreat of the French Army 1812

General Sir Robert Wilson; Rev. Herbert Randolph [editor] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, John Murray, 1860. First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound first edition of this historical account of the Napoleon's invasion of Russian by General Sir Robert Wilson, bound in lovely crushed half morocco. The first edition.Bound in lovely modern crushed moroc...

Operations Du 3rd Corps 1806-1807 Rapport Du Marechal Davout , Duc D&Apos; Auerstaedt

Marechal Davout [Louis-Nicholas Davout] · 1896 · Rooke Books

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

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1896. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the French Military commander Louis-Nicolas Davout's first hand report of the operations of the 3rd Corps during the Napoleonic wars, bound in crushed quarter morocco. The first edition. Illustrated ...

Atlas to Alison"S History of Europe

Alex Keith Johnston ; Sir Archibald Alison · 1875 · Rooke Books

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

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1875. Cloth. Alexander Keith Johnston's accompaniment to Sir Archibald Alison's renowned 'History of Europe', being an atlas of Europe depicting key historic battles and sieges. The library edition.Illustrat...

Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia

Bertram Thomas; T. E. Lawrence · 1932 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1932. Cloth. A smart illustrated first edition, second impression, of Bertram Thomas' account of his crossing the Rub' al Khali. The first edition, second impression of this work, reprinted in the same year as the first impression. Illustrated ...

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah: Vol. I. - El-Misr

Richard F. Burton · 1855 · Rooke Books

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

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the first volume from Richard Burton's groundbreaking travel work presenting his remarkable journey through Meccah and El-Medinah in the nineteenth century. The first edition. Boun...

The Real Malay. Pen Pictures.

Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham · 1900 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce account of "the real Malay", provided by Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham, the first Resident-general of the Federated Malay States. First edition. Very scarce work. Bound in t...

Wellington&Apos;S Battlefields Illustrated. Bussaco.

G. L. Chambers · 1910 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co; George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of George L. Chamber's scarce study of the 1810 Battle of Bussaco, complete with folding maps. The first edition of this scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto o...

Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army in the Western Pyrenees and South of France, in the Years 1813-14; Under Field-Marshal the Marquess of Wellington

Captain Robert Batty · 1983 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Jen Trotman; John Murray, 1983 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce, limited facsimile edition of this first-hand account of the latter stages of the Peninsular War, illustrated with numerous plates and fold-out map by the author. Bound in the publisher's original qua...

Bourne&Apos;S Great Western Railway

John C. Bourne · 1970 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

Newton Abbott, David & Charles Reprints, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully reproduced facsimile of John C. Bourne"s 1846 chronicle of the Great Western Railway, accompanied by numerous illustrations by John Cooke Bourne. In the publisher's original cloth binding.A...

Oriental Series: Japan and China Its History Arts and Literature Volume VIII

Captain F. Brinkley · 1902 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Boston; Tokyo, J. B. Millet Company, 1902 . Cloth. A very scarce, limited library edition, of volume eight in this series on Japan's history and literature, with this volume being devoted to ceramics, richly illustrated throughout with tissue-guarded photogravure plates a...

The Nightside of Japan

T. Fujimoto · 1926 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd. 1926 . Cloth. A scarce, second impression of this atmospheric and evocative travelogue of Japan at night, written in the second-person by Japanese author TaizÃÂ- Fujimoto, with forty illustrations in colour and tone. In the publisher's ...

The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth

Isaac Kimber · 1725 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, J. Brotherton and T. Cox, 1725 . Leather. The second edition of dissenting writer and biographer Isaac Kimber's sympathetic biography of Oliver Cromwell. A very scarce work. The second edition of Isaac Kimber's scarce and anonymously authored biography of Oli...

A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell

John Banks · 1742 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, J. Osborn and C. Davis and J. Hodges, 1742 . Cloth. The second edition of John Banks's scarce critical study of the life of Oliver Cromwell, in which he presents the remarkable figure as overly ambitious and concerned with personal power. The second edition of thi...

A History of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex

Dudley George Cary Elwes · 1876 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Longmans & Co, 1876. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Dudley George Cary Elwes' extensive illustrated history of Western Sussex, bound in quarter morocco. The first edition.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, folding tables, and forty-four illu...