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The History of the Dress of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1625-1897.

Captain R. J. MacDonald · 1899 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Henry Sotheran & Co. 1899. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated work of military history, compiled and illustrated by Captain R. J. MacDonald Strictly limited to a printing of 1500 copies, with this particular volume appers to be one of the 300 volumes published for genera...

Notes Relative to the Late Transactions in the Marhatta Empire

Richard, Marquis of Wellesley · 1804 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.30 | $792.82 | ¥126,618)

London, John Stockdale, 1804. Leather. The first London edition of Richard Wellesley's first hand notes of the Marhatta war, in which he fought and led Britain to victory. Richard Wellesley fought in the Marhatta War in 1803, and led the British to victory against the Mar...

North the Nature and Drama of the Polar World

Kaare Rodahl · 1954 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

London, William Heinemann, 1954. Cloth. Described as 'half an adventure story and half a revelation', Kaare Rodahl's tale of his trip to the North Pole offers interesting insight into the natural and human life at the Pole. Kaare Rodahl took part in the Air Forc...

The Cradle of the North Wind

A S T Godfrey · 1938 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1938. Cloth. Arthur Godfrey's humorous book on his experience on an expedition to the Arctic, filled with anecdotes of isolation in the North. Arthur Godfrey was one of the men who went on the 1935 - 1936 Oxford University Arctic Expedition, bein...

Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the Request of the London Missionary Society Being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of That Country

John Campbell · 1822 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.66 | $1,519.57 | ¥242,684)

London, Francis Westley, 1822. First edition. Leather. A beautifully illustrated travel work from the nineteenth century on South Africa by missionary and traveller, John Campbell. With the bookplate of one John Ward to the recto of front endpaper, probably Reverend John Ward,...

The Life of Gordon Major-General, Turkish Field Marshal, Grand Cordon Medjidieh and Pasha, Chinese Titu, Yellow Jacket Order

Demetrius C Boulger · 0 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, T Fisher Unwin, c1896. Leather. A biography on Charles George Gordon, also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha and Gordon of Khartoum. The fourth edition. Illustrated, with a portrait frontispiece of Gordon and two further plates. Collated, complete. This biography i...

History of Rome

Thomas Arnold · 1857 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, T Fellowes et al, 1857. Leather. Two volumes of this historical work by Thomas Arnold, the head master of Rugby School. Comprising of volumes II and III only. Volume II covers the Gaulish invasion to the end of the first Punic War. Volume III is from the end of the fir...

The World in Colour: Spain and Portugal, South and Central Africa, North Africa

Dore Ogrizer [ed.] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1953-1955. Cloth. Three volumes of the profusely illustrated 'The World in Colour' series, providing historical, cultural and topographical accounts of locations in Africa, Spain, and Portugal. A three volume set.  The first e...

Foreigners; Muddling Through; How to Be Famous

Theodora Benson; Betty Askwith · 1935 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1935-1937 . First edition. Cloth. Humorously illustrated throughout by Nicolas Bentley, present here are first editions of three entertaining works of satire by Betty Askwith and Theodora Benson. The first edition, first impression of three works of hu...

An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Province, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China

Jan Nieuhof; John Ogilby [Trans.] · 1972 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

Menston; Harrogate, Scolar Press Limited; Palmyra Press, [1972] . Cloth. A smart folio facsimile of the first English edition of Nieuhof's celebrated illustrated account of the Dutch East India Company's embassy to Qing China. In the publisher"s original pale blue cl...

Le Proces Des Fleurs Du Mal

Charles Baudelaire; Ernest Pinard; Gaston Lebre [Ed.] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Paris, A. Chevalier-Marescq, 1885 . Cloth. The first collected publication of the surviving courtroom documents from Baudelaire's notorious 1857 Fleurs du Mal trial, extracted from volume III of Gaston Lebre's 1885 "Revue des grands proces contemporains." Rebound in ...

(1941) British Birds on Lake, River and Stream; (1943) Fishes of Britain&Apos;S Rivers and Lakes; (1943) the Poet&Apos;S Corner; (1944) English Ballet; (1944) Children As Artists; (1945) the Leaves of Southwell; (1945) the Bayeux Tapestry; (1945) Poisonous Fungi; (1946) Flowers of Marsh and Stream; (1947) Russian Icons; (1947) English Book Illustration: 1800-1900; (1947) a Selection of Engravings on Wood by Thomas Bewick; (1948) British Military Uniforms; (1948) Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer; (1948

Phyllis Barclay-Smith; J. R. Norman; Sir Max Beerbohm; Janet Leeper; R. R. Tomlinson; Nikolaus Pevsner; Eric Maclagan; John Ramsbottom; Iolo A. Williams; David Talbot Rice; Philip James; John Rayner; James Laver; T. D. Barlow; C. H. Gibbs-Smith · 1941 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London and New York, Penguin Books Limited, 1941-1957. Hardback. An attractive and highly illustrated collection of King Penguin Books, sixteen of which are first editions and five of which retain their original dust wrappers. A delightful collection of twenty-one "King Pengui...

Iceland

[ed. by Brian Birley Roberts] · 1942 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Cambridge, Naval Intelligence Division, 1942. Cloth. A scarce and fascinating handbook offering strategic intelligence on the Nordic country, an excellent resource on Allied perceptions of the Arctic during the Second World War. Iceland, a scarce handbook on the strategic inte...

The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors

Nancy Bell; Robert Manuel; Edward F. Strange; A. J. Rusconi et al · 1901 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Otto Limited, 1901-1905. First edition. Leather. Handsomely bound in quarter morocco, present here are the first twelve volumes of the profusely illustrated twentieth century antiquarian magazine 'The Connoisseur', with tipped in and folding plates. A handsom...

Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV

W.H. Wilkins [William Henry Wilkins] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a complete two volume biography on the scandalous love affair between George IV and Maria Fitzherbert, the first with access to the Fitzherbert papers. The first edition of Mrs. Fitzherbert and Ge...

The Giant Cities of Bashan; and Syria&Apos;S Holy Places

J. L. Porter [Josiah Leslie Porter] · 1867 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1867. Cloth. An early edition of an insightful travelogue on the historic Middle Eastern region, with beautifully engraved plates showing different ruins. An early edition of The Giant Cities of Bashan; and Syria's Holy Places, a travelogue on ...

Don&Apos;T Give Up the Ship" a Catalogue of the Eugene H. Pool Collection of Captain James Lawrence

Eugene H. Pool; Captain James Lawrence · 1942 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

Salem, Peabody Museum, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A first and limited edition of this very scarce illustrated collection catalogue; one of only 500 published. A very scarce first collection catalogue, with only one record on Jisc. Featuring nine monochrome plates throughout. ...

The Chronicles ofã‚â Fernãƒâ£O Lopes and Gomes Eannes de Zurara

Edgar Prestage, [Fernão Lopes, Gomes Eannes de Zurara] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Watford, Unknown, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first limited edition of a study into the two most famed state chroniclers of the Age of Discovery for the Kingdom of Portugal, among the first of their peers. The first and limited edition of The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes an...

The Byways of Montgomeryshire

John Bancroft Willans · 1905 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a very scarce exploration of the scenic county in the heart of Wales, written and signed by a national historian and philanthropist. The very scarce first edition of The Byways of Montgo...

Back to Montparnasse

Sisley Huddleston · 1931 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London; Bombay; Sydney, George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. 1931. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated look at the contemporary Paris social scene. A first edition, bound in the original smart navy cloth. With illustrated endpapers. Published as a sequel...