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Disclaimers at the Heralds&Apos; Visitations. A List of Person Who Were Disclaimed As Gentlemen of Coat-Armour by the Heralds at the Visitation of the Various Counties of England; with an Introduction

John Paul Rylands · 1888 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

Guildford, Printed by Billing and Sons, 1888. Cloth. A scarce work of British genealogy, with an introduction by John Paul Rylands. Rebacked, with the original backstrip preserved. This interesting work of heraldic reference work documents each of the disclaimers at the Herald...

Inner Temple Readers Shields in the Hall

1927 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Not Stated, 1927-30. Cloth. A very scace copy of this work looking at the coat of arms found in the Inner Temple Hall in London, illustrated throughout. A very scarce work. A work showing the coats of arms of the readers at the Inner Temple in London. The Honourable So...

Figaro Illustre

Various Authors · 1891 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1891-4. First edition. Fine Binding. A beautifully bound collection of periodicals from the nineteenth century, mostly comprising of the colour-illustrated French magazine 'Le Figaro&apos. Le Figaro was founded in 1826 as a weekly satirical, takin...

A Pilgrimage to Nejd the Cradle of the Arab Race a Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir and &Apos;Our Persian Campaign&Apos;

Lady Anne Blunt · 1881 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Murray , 1881. Fine Binding. A lovely copy of this travelogue by influential and noted traveller of Arabia and the Middle East, Lady Anne Blunt. The second edition of this work, which has been bound together in a beautiful half morocco binding. Lady Anne Blunt fou...

Notices of Windsor in the Olden Time

John Stoughton · 1844 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, David Bogue, 1844. First edition. Cloth. A handsome first edition copy of this uncommon history of Windsor, by the renowned English Nonconformist minister and historian John Stoughton. Containing a fascinating array of lectures on the 'antiquities of Windsor'...

Ten Years&Apos; Wandering Among the Ethiopians; with Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Civilized and Uncivilized Tribes, from Senegal to Gaboon

Thomas J. Hutchinson · 1861 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A scarce work of travel writing by Thomas J. Hutchinson, documenting his observations from his time spent in Africa. In the publisher's original cloth binding, this work offers an interesting insight into...

Seven Letters on the Recent Politics of Switzerland

George Grote · 1847 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, T. C. Newby, 1847. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of George Grote's collection of letters focussing on politics in Switzerland. An author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the front pastedown. The first edition of this work. Inscribed b...

Die Moriscos in Spanien

A L Von Rochau · 1853 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

Leipzig, Avenarius & Mendelssohn, 1853. Leather. An historical look at the 'Moorish' invasions and influences in Spain, in the original German. Written by August Ludwig von Rochau, a nineteenth century German politician. He studied law, history and political science ...

The Prairie

Unamed · 1847 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

New York, Published by Carlton & Lanahan, 1847. Cloth. A very scarce work of American history from the early nineteenth century. Undated. No matches on Copac, dated from the preface. Anonymously published. Created as an educational tool, this work gave its readers an insight i...

Handbook of Co-Operative Congress at Paisley 1905

1905 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

Glasgow, Scottish Co-Operative Wholesale Society Ltd, 1905. Cloth. A very scarce copy of the thirty-seventh annual of the Co-Operative Congress, illustrated profile throughout. A very scarce work. The thirty-seventh annual handbook for the Co-Operative Congress which took plac...

History of South Africa

George McCall Theal · 1891 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1891-93. Cloth. Two volumes of George Theal's informative history of South Africa from the years 1795 to 1854, illustrated with multiple folding plates. In two volumes, comprising of Volumes III and IV of the five volume 'History of So...

Rides and Studies in the Canary Islands

Charles Edwardes · 1888 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1888. Cloth. An uncommon work of travel writing from the late nineteenth century by the noted writer Charles Edwardes. Profusely illustrated throughout. In the publisher's original cloth binding, this is a desirable work of travel writing from the...

History Mankind and His Story

Max Beloff; Various · 1948 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Odhams Press Ltd, 1948. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Max Beloff's work on the history of mankind, profusely illustrated throughout, in a smart signed binding by Zaehnsdorf. The first edition of this work. In a crushed morocco signed binding by Zaeh...

Rural Life, Described and Illustrated in the Management of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry, &C.

John Sherer · 0 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, London Printing and Publishing Company Limited, c1870. Cloth. A lavishly illustrated work on the management of various farm animals in rural England, written by John Sherer, illustrated by Edwin and Thomas Landseer. Illustrations include three folding plates. Complete ...

Le Pacte General de Renonciation a la Guerre Comme Instrument de Politique Nationale la Reception Des Plenipotentiaires a L&Apos;Hotel de Ville

Rene Weiss · 1929 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1929. Leather. An interesting work on a historical war pact, written in French by Rene Weiss, illustrated throughout. In the original French. This is a work describing the historical general pact for renunciation of war as national policy instrumen...

Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity.

Various · 1804 · Rooke Books

£2,350.00 (€2,817.26 | $3,105.20 | ¥495,919)

London, The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1804-1809. Cloth. Twenty two fascinating volumes from the Society of Antiquaries of London's monumental 'Archaeologia'; copiously illustrated throughout with in-text illustrations and plates, many of which are foldin...

A Charitable Remonstrance Addressed to the Wives and Maidens of France, Touching Their Dissolute Adornments, Together with Two Curious Elegies

F.A.E.M; William Rooke; [Frere Antoine Estienne Mineur] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Edinburgh, Privately Printed, 1887. First edition. Paperback. The first thus of this interesting limited edition translation of a Franciscan Friar's appeal to the women of France about their dress, translated into English by William Rooke. The first edition thus, being th...

Annals of English Drama 975-1700 an Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant or Lost, Chronologically Arranged and Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies, &C.

Alfred Harbage; S. Schoenbaum (Revised) · 1964 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1964. Cloth. A lovely example of this notable work of English theatrical history, charting eight centuries worth of English history. Written and revised by two notable Shakespearean and theatrical scholars of the twentieth century. A pleasing copy of ...

The Babees Book, Aristotle&Apos;S a B C, Urbanitatis, Stans Peur Ad Mensam, the Lytille Childrens Lytil Boke, the Bokes of Nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde&Apos;S Boke of Keruynge, the Booke of Demeanor, the Boke of Curtasye, Seager&Apos;S Schoole of Vertue, &C. &C. With Some French & Latin Poems on Like Subjects, and Some Forewords on Education in Early England

Frederick J. Furnivall · 1868 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.75 | $277.49 | ¥44,316)

London, The Early English Text Society, 1868. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this educational work on manners and meals provided through Early English, French, and Latin poetry, edited by Frederick Furnivall. The first edition of this work. A collection of Early ...

A Gladdening River

D. G. Manuel · 1914 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, A. & C. Black, Limited, 1914. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition copy of this fascinating study of the influence of the 'Young Men's Guild' of the Church of Scotland in the Eastern Himalayas. Featuring a tipped in presentation bookplate to t...