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A Manual of Monumental Brasses

Rev. Herbert Haines · 1861 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Oxford and London, J. H. and Jas. Parker, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A first edition set of this informative work on monumental brasses from British clergyman Reverend Herbert Haines. Complete in two volumes. First edition. With a colour frontispiece to volume one and two hun...

An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Lancaster

1842 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, How and Parsons, 1842. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this illustrated nineteenth century history of the county of Lancaster. First edition. Illustrated with one hundred and seventy-nine images, nine of which are on plates, including the frontispiece. A det...

Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery

Captain E. Buckle; J. W. Kaye · 1852 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Wm. H. Allen & Co, 1852. First edition. Cloth. A scarce history of the Bengal Army, the first edition of this work penned by its former captain. The first edition of this scarce work.A study on the Bengal Army, a presidency army which existed from 1756 to 1908. At its ...

A New and Universal English Dictionary; Including Not Only an Explanation of Different Words and Technical Terms, in All Faculties and Professions.

James Barclay · 0 · Rooke Books

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

London, Thomas Kelly, c1843. Leather. A considerably enlarged edition of James Barclay's comprehensive English dictionary featuring a history of England, pronouncing guides and many detailed engravings throughout, bound in a smart half calf binding. The new and improved e...

Garibaldi and the Thousand, and, Garibaldi and the Making of Italy

George Macaulay Trevelyan · 1912 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1912. Cloth. Two of George Macaulay Trevelyan works lauding the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi, illustrated copies in their original dust wrapper. Each volume is in their original very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.Two historical studies on Giuseppe...

The British Classics, and Drake&Apos;S Essays

Richard Steele; Joseph Addison; Nathan Drake et al. · 1804 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.51 | $1,453.17 | ¥232,053)

London, C. Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1804-1813 . First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound straight grain morocco set of 'The British Classics', an impressive work compiling the major literary periodicals of the eighteenth century, and with the three volume firs...

Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence

Captain Francis Grose · 1811 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.61 | ¥121,300)

London, C. Chappel; J. Johnston , 1811 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the first retitled edition of Grose's colourful dictionary of slang and vulgar language, in a full morocco binding from Maltby's of Oxford. A first edition thus, being the retitle...

Vieilles Maisons, Vieux Papiers (Paris Revolutionnaire)

G. Lenotre [Theodore Gosselin] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Paris , Perrin et Cie , 1906. Leather. An attractive set comprising the first, second and third series of Theodore Gosselin's vivid French history. This set includes the first, second and third series of 'Vieillles Maisons, Vieux Papiers', a historical work whic...

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, of Spain

William H. Prescott · 1867 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1867. Leather. Two smartly bound volumes of this history of the unification of Spain, a new edition. Complete in two volumes. New edition, revised. With a frontispiece to each volume. A historical study of Ferdinand II, King of Aragon, and his ...

Le Bienheureux Fra Giovanni Angelico de Fiesole

Henry Cochin · 1924 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Paris, Librairie Victor Lecoffre, 1924. Leather. The seventh edition of this detailed study on the life and works of Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole, in the original French. French. Seventh edition. A detailed study of the life and works of Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and...

Winds of Change, and, the Blast of War

Harold Macmillan · 1966 · Rooke Books

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

London, Macmillan, 1966-67. First edition. Cloth. The first impression of the first two volumes in Harold Macmillan's autobiography, both volumes signed and with two letters from Macmillan. The first edition, first impressions.Signed by the author to the title pages.Two l...

The Young-Students-Library, Containing Extracts and Abridgements of the Most Valuable Books Printed in England, and in the Foreign Journals

John Dunton [ed.]; The Athenian Society · 1692 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Dunton, 1692 . First edition. Leather. A smart example of the very scarce first edition of this educational anthology of seventeenth century works, retaining the desirable engraved frontispiece. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece...

The Greville Memoirs (Third Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria

Charles C. F. Greville · 1887 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of two volumes of Charles C. F. Greville's personal journals, chronicling Queen Victoria's reign between the years 1852 and 1860. The two volume 1852 to 1860 first edition of this journ...

Twenty Years of the Chinese Republic: Two Decades of Progress

H. A. Van Dorn · 1933 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first UK edition of H. A. Van Dorn's fascinating study of China in the first part of the twentieth century, illustrated with photographic plates. The scarce first UK edition of this work, which was first pu...

A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea

Thomas Bell · 1874 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, John Van Voorst , 1874. Cloth. A very smart second edition of Thomas Bell's history of British quadrupeds, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. The second edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A charming history of British quadru...

Heaven & Hell

Aldous Huxley · 1956 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this companion volume to Huxley's book 'The Doors of Perception&apos. First edition. A companion volume to Huxley's challenging book 'The Doors of Perception', an autobiograp...

The History of the Pianoforte

Edgar Brinsmead · 1879 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Novello, Ewer & Co. 1879. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated edition of Brinsmead's history of the pianoforte. With a frontispiece, eleven plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed history of the pianoforte, including chapters on soun...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford

Horace Walpole; Mrs. Paget Toynbee [ed.] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.90 | ¥179,313)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903-1925 . First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound, complete set of Mrs. Paget Toynbee's illustrated edition of the letters of Horace Walpole, uniformly bound in straight grain morocco. A first edition thus. Present here is the complete set, ...

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill · 1948 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.14 | ¥146,615)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948-53. First edition. Cloth. The first American editions of Winston Churchill's epic six volume account of the Second World War, written from a first hand perspective, all in their original dust wrappers and from the collection of the r...

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Winston S. Churchill · 1956 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Cassell and Company Ltd , 1956-1958. First edition. Cloth. The complete first edition of Winston Churchill's comprehensive history of Britain and its people. First edition, published simultaneously with the "Chartwell" Edition. Complete in four volumes. In the pu...