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Histoire de Russie

Pierre-Charles Levesque · 1800 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)

Hambourg et Brunswick, Pierre-Francois Fauche et Compagnie, 1800. Leather. The eight volumes of Pierre-Charles Levesque's extensive and well respected history of Russia, written here in the original French. Volume I illustrated with a large folding map. In eight volumes. ...

The Book of the United Kingdom

Uncle John · 1840 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Darton and Clark, 1840. Leather. A very scarce children's work on the history of Britain, illustrated throughout by Samuel Williams, in a decorative leather binding. A very scarce work. A work on British history for children, being a compendium of the history of E...

Notes on the Ceremony of Installation

Henry Sadler · 1889 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, George Kenning, 1889. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of Henry Sadler's work on the yearly Ceremony of Installation within the Freemasons, illustrated with a frontispiece. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. Only held in five plac...

The Symbol of Glory; Shewing the Object and End of Freemasonry

Reverend George Oliver · 1850 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, Richard Spencer, 1850. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of these lectures on Freemasonry, discussing many aspects of Freemasonry, by Reverend Oliver, illustrated with a frontispiece. The first edition of this work. A scarce work. From the library of the Lod...

Book of the Centenary Including the Official Catalogue

Thomas Stuart · 1892 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Dublin, Wilson, Hartnell & Co, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this catalogue of the great centenary celebration of the Masonic Female Orphan School of Ireland, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work. This work cel...

Introductory Lectures on Modern History Delivered in Lent Term, Mdcccxlii. With the Inaugural Lecture Delivered in December Mdcccxli.

Thomas Arnold · 1885 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1885. Leather. A nicely bound collection of eight lectures on modern history, delivered by the noted Thomas Arnold at Rugby School. In a signed binding by J. C. Wilhee, Harrow. The seventh edition of this work. A collection of eight lectures on...

History of the Royal Astronomical Society

J.L.E. Dreyer; H.H. Turner; R.J. Tayler · 1987 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987. Cloth. An excellent two volume set chronicling the history of the Royal Astronomical Society. This wonderful two volume set chronicles the interesting and illuminating history of the Royal Astronomical Society from its founding ...

Expostulatory Epistle to the Welch Knight, on the Late Revolution in Politicks; and the Extraordinary Conduct of Himself and His Associates

Verax · 1745 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, J. Robinson, 1745. Disbound. A very scarce pamphlet that attacks Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn in the time of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. A very scarce work. The signatures for this work run as (-A1), A2-A5, B-D4. ESTC citation number T91394. Collated, complete. This pa...

Calendar of State Papers

Various · 1857 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-1879. Cloth. A seven volume library set collecting Domestic, Scottish, Foreign, and Spanish works from the Calendar of State Papers. This seven volume library set publishes a chronological account of state papers as pr...

Histoire de L&Apos;Eglise Et Des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques Du Seizie&Apos;Me Siecle

Louis Ellies Du-Pin · 1701 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Paris, Andre Pralard, 1701. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this comprehensive history of the church. The first edition first volume of this detailed history that became a five volume set in the years following, 'Histoire de l'Eglise' was written by n...

M Tullii Ciceronis Sex Orationum Partes Ante Nostram Aetatem Ineditae Cum Antiquo Interprete Ante Nostram Item Aetatem Inedito Qui Videtur Asconius Pedianus Ad Tullianas Septem Orationes. Accedunt Scholia Minora Vetera. Editio Altera Quam Ad Codices Ambrosianos Recensvit Emendavit Et Auxit Ac Descriptione Codicum CXLIX. Vita Ciceronis Aliisque Additamentis Instruxit Angelus Maius Ambrosiani Collegii Doctor

Cicero · 1817 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

Mediolani; [Milan], Regiis Typis, 1817. Paperback. A collection of legal speeches delivered by Cicero, the influential Roman statesman and philosopher. In the original Latin. A collection of speeches by Cicero, mostly his legal speeches. Including his 54 BC speech 'Pro Sc...

A History of Eton College 1440-1875

H C Maxwell Lyte · 1875 · Rooke Books

£800.00 (€959.07 | $1,057.09 | ¥168,824)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1875. First edition. Fine Binding. A very finely bound historical account of the prestigious English Public School for boys, Eton College. In a Bickers binding, with their binder's stamp to the front pastedown. In a beautiful gilt tooled binding,...

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R. S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reign of Charles II and James II. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B. Of St. John&Apos;S College, Cambridge, from the Original Short-Hand Ms. In the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from His Private Correspondence

Samuel Pepys; Richard Lord Braybrooke (ed) · 1825 · Rooke Books

£2,950.00 (€3,536.56 | $3,898.02 | ¥622,537)

London, Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition. Leather. The first printed edition of this famous diary, and therefore contemporaneous account of the fire of London. Edited by Lord Braybrooke using John Smith's transcription of the original diary. Illustrated, with a frontisp...

Views in Affghaunistaun &C. &C. &C. From Sketches Taken During the Campaign of the Army of the Indus

Keith Alexander Jackson · 1841 · Rooke Books

£9,900.00 (€11,868.44 | $13,081.48 | ¥2,089,193)

London, M. A. Nattali, [1841]. Leather. An excellent and exceptionally scarce first edition imprint of this profusely illustrated work regarding the first Afghan War, presented in the original silk moire boards and complete with highly informative tinted lithograph illustratio...

Le Duc de Wellington

L Galesloot · 1884 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

Gand, Vanderhaeghen, 1884. Cloth. A French language memoir of the Duke of Wellington and his time in Brussels. This copy has a fascinating association, and was bound by the German prisoners in Douglas during the First World War. With the library plate of Cefntilla Court to the...

Le Duc de Wellington Essai Sur L&Apos;Histoire Et Sur la Biographie Du Duc de Wellington

Jules Maurel · 1853 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.19 | $911.74 | ¥145,610)

Bruxelles, Meline, 1853. First edition. Cloth. An historical and biographical work regarding the Duke of Wellington and the Napoleonic Wars. With fascinating ownership, having belonged to a member of Wellington's own staff. Rebound, in a smart cloth binding. The original ...

Histoire de la Campagne de 1815 Waterloo

Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Charras · 1858 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Londres, Jeffs, 1858. First edition. Leather. The first London printing of this account of Waterloo by noted French military historian and War Minister, Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Charras. From the library of Cefntilla Court which belonged to Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan. Fol...

Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls

Frank Oates; C G Oates · 1889 · Rooke Books

£3,000.00 (€3,596.50 | $3,964.08 | ¥633,089)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1889. Leather. A profusely illustrated, beautifully bound copy of this scarce and important travelogue regarding South Africa. Taken from the letters and journals of British naturalist, Frank Oates. The second edition of this work. The first ed...

A Historical Survey on the Customs, Habits and Present State of the Gypsies Designed to Develope the Origin of This Singular People and to Promote the Amelioration of Their Condition

John Hoyland · 1816 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

York, Printed for the Author, 1816. First edition. Hardback. A first edition copy of the first English survey of Romani people by the English Quaker and author John Hoyland; often cited as the standard nineteenth century work on the subject. Examining gypsy lore and beliefs, t...

Archaeologia Aeliana or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity

C. H. Hunter Blair (ed.) · 1925 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Newcastle, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1925-1969 . Cloth. Twenty one fascinating volumes from the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne's monumental 'Archaeologia Aeliana&apos. The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne is the oldest...