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Musketry Regulations Part I 1909

War Office · 1914 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, His Majesty's Stationery Office; Harrison and Sons , 1914. Cloth. A smart copy of Part I of this regulation guidebook to muskets, with folding plates. Revised edition, with amendments. In the original cloth binding. These regulations, issued by command of the Army...

China

Robert K. Douglas · 1887 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887. Cloth. A second edition of this detailed study of China and Chinese culture, with a folding map. Second edition, revised. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plates, numerous in-text images, and a colour folding map to ...

The Spanish Campaign of Sir John Moore & the Napoleonic Campaign of 1805

J. H. Anderson · 1905 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Hugh Rees, Ltd. 1905-1912. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition volumes of J. H. Anderson's histories of the Peninsular and Napoleonic wars. Two volumes. First editions. Written by J. H. Anderson, a British military historian. This set contains: The Spanish Cam...

History of the Campaign of the British, Dutch, Hanoverian, and Brunswick Armies, Under the Command of the Duke of Wellington, and of the Prussians, Under That of Prince Blucher of Wahlstadt, in the Year 1815: With a Plan of the Battle of Waterloo

C. De. M.; Sir John Sinclair · 1983 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Ken Trotman, 1983. Cloth. A very smart facsimile edition of this history of the campaign under the command of the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Facsimile edition. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number one hundred and ninety-ei...

Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

Paul Lacroix · 1874 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Bickers & Son , 1874. Leather. A brightly illustrated history of the military and religious life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance period, with fourteen chromolithographic plates. Illustrated with fourteen chromolithographic plates and four hundred engravings on wood....

Maps and Plans Illustrating Fortescue&Apos;S History of the British Army: Volume VII

Sir John William Fortescue · 1912 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1912 . First edition. Cloth. A superb collection of eighteen folding maps and plans illustrating John William Fortescue's History of the British Army, with the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition. Volume VII of Fortescue&a...

Trois Mois Au Pouvoir

M. de Lamartine [Alphonse de Lamartine] · 1848 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

Paris, Michel Lévy Frères,, 1848. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound, first edition of this political memoir by Alphonse de Lamartine, recalling the events of the February revolution and the critical early months of the Second Republic. Smartly bound in half calf binding ...

Around the World: Sketches of Travel Through Many Lands and over Many Seas

E. D. G Prime · 1872 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1872 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of this extensive, illustrated travel guide from the nineteenth century, by American journalist, writer, and travel writer, E. D. G. Prime. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.Thi...

History of the Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812

General Count Philip de Segur · 1900 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

New York, A. L. Fowle, 1900. Cloth. A very scarce A. L. Fowle edition of this two-volume account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, by Count Philip de Segur. A very scarce A. L. Fowle edition of this significant account of Napoleon's invasion. Complete in two volumes....

On the Road with Wellington: The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsular Campaigns

August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann; Anthony M. Ludovici · 1924 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, William Heinemann, 1924. Cloth. The first edition of this translated series of fascinating accounts, detailing a war commissary's services in the Peninsular campaign, with colour plates. First edition. Illustrated with a tipped in colour frontispiece and nineteen ...

The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy&Apos;S Retreat: A Study of an Obscure Part of the Waterloo Campaign

W. Hyde Kelly · 1905 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, John Murray, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of the Battle of Wavre, from historian W. Hyde Kelly. First edition. Illustrated with three folding maps. Collated complete. A detailed history of the Battle of Wavre, the final ...

Sketches of German Life and Scenes from the War of Liberation in Germany

Varnhagen Von Ense; Alexander Duff Gordon [Translator, Compiler] · 1847 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, John Murray, 1847 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first UK edition of this collection of memoirs by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, offering a vivid first-hand account of German society during the tumultuous period of the Napoleonic Wars. Rebound in blue cloth binding...

A Collection of Studies on French Wine Houses

Various · 1975 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London; Geneva, Times Books; Minerva; Mitchell Beazley; Dorling Kindersley; Gilbert & Gaillard, 1975-1994. First edition. Cloth. A collection of six smart volumes on the different wine regions of France, with illustrations throughout. Six volumes. Illustrated throughout. A col...

What About Wine?

Andre L. Simon · 1953 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Newman Neame, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. A charming guide to wine appreciation and oenology, with woodcut illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This volume is a first editi...

Histoire de la Suisse Depuis L&Apos;Origine Jusqu&Apos;a Nos Jours

M. De Marles · 1854 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Tours, A. Mame Et Cie, 1854. Hardback. A beautifully bound third edition of Marles' history of Switzerland, in a striking ornamental cartonnage binding. The third edition.In the original decorative cartonnage binding, with gilt details and a colour plate to the front boar...

The History of the Parish of Grittleton in the County of Wilts

Rev. J. E. Jackson; John Britton · 1843 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Wiltshire Topographical Society , 1843. First edition. Leather. A charming history of the parish of Grittleton, published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society. First edition. A compelling history of the small parish of Grittleton, Wiltshire, published by the Wiltshir...

A Collection of Studies on British Manufacturers by George Dodd

George Dodd · 1844 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Charles Knight & Co. 1844-1851. Cloth. Two volumes containing the complete six parts of George Dodd's study of British manufacturing from the mid-nineteenth century. Complete in six parts, bound in two volumes. Illustrated throughout. Written by George Dodd, an En...

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1958 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1958-1968. Cloth. A complete four volume set of this history from British statesman and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston S. Churchill. Complete in four volumes. Mixed editions with volume I being the second impression of ...

A History of Modern Europe

Charles Alan Fyffe · 1891 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Cassell & Company, 1891-1892 . Leather. A charmingly illustrated and fascinating account of the history of the European continent from between 1792 and 1878. Complete in three volumes.English historian and journalist Charles Alan Fyffe's illustrated study of the h...

Sixty Years a Queen: The Story of Her Majesty&Apos;S Reign

Sir Herbert Maxwell · 1897 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated history of the reign of Queen Victoria, from Scottish essayist Sir Herbert Maxwell. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and title page, with numerous in-text images. ...