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Dresses and Decorations of the Middles Ages

Henry Shaw · 1843 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, William Pickering , 1843. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this fantastically illustrated look into the fashion and decorations of the Middle Ages, with coloured plates. The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. Offering a comprehensive study...

Series of Prints of Roman History, Designed As Ornaments for Those Apartments in Which Children Receive the First Rudiments of Their Education Series of Prints from the Old Testament Scripture Lessons, Designed to Accompany a Series of Prints from the Old Testament

[Sarah Trimmer] · 1797 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, John Marshall; Baldwin and Cradock, 1797-1829. Leather. Three works by Sarah Trimmer, including two of her impressive plate volumes, exploring the history of Rome and the Old Testament. A set of three works by Sarah Trimmer, including her 'Series of Prints' o...

The Second World War

Winston Churchill · 1948 · Rooke Books

£840.00 (€1,007.02 | $1,109.94 | ¥177,265)

London, Cassell & Company, 1948-1954. First edition. Cloth. An smart example of the complete six volume first edition of Winston Churchill's monumental history of the Second World War, with each volume retaining the original dust wrapper. A collection of six first edition...

Stories Selected from the History of France, for Children

Anonymous · 1819 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Harris and Son, 1819 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this fascinating history of France, intended for young readers. A very scarce first edition.A very scarce example of the Harris and Son series of histories of various nations, aimed to be e...

A Collection of Works from Annales Du Service Des Antiquites de L&Apos;Egypte

Various · 1900 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.43 | $2,907.00 | ¥464,265)

Paris, Not Stated, c1900. Cloth. A smartly bound collection of twenty-three works on Egyptian antiquities and archaeological findings, in the original French. French. Twenty-three volumes or essays bound into one. The Annales du Service des Antiquités de L'Egypte is a res...

The Gretna Green Register

Robert Elliott; Rev. Caleb Brown [Intro.] · 1842 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.43 | $647.47 | ¥103,404)

London, Gretna Green Parson, 1842 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the memoirs of a prominent 'anvil priest' based in Gretna Green, in which he documents many of the thousands of marriages he conducted. The first edition of this scarce work, in the publis...

Japanese Temples and Their Treasures: Volume III

The Department of the Interior Imperial Japanese Government · 1910 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Tokyo , The Shimbi Shoin , 1910 . First edition. Cloth. Volume III of this exceptionally scarce collection of 197 beautiful plates, highlighting the beauty of Japan, compiled by the Department of the Interior Imperial Japanese Government. The first edition. Volume III only of ...

De Plantis Aegypti

Prosperi Alpini; Prospero Alpini · 1735 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.95 | $1,189.23 | ¥189,927)

Batavorum, Gerardum Potuliet, 1735. Leather. A scarce copy of Prospero Alpini's pioneering work on the botany and Egypt, a brilliant work, this edition lavishly illustrated with detailed plates. Prospero Alpini's important and scarce work, discussing the botanical li...

A Complete History of Algiers

J. Morgan · 1728 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, J. Bettenham, 1728. First edition. Leather. A scarce history of Algiers, the first edition of this exploration of the country by J. Morgan. The first edition of this scarce work.Volume I only, lacking Volume II. Six pages to the front listing subscribers.This work offe...

Grammaire Du Neo-Egyptian

M. Korostovtsev · 1973 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)

Moscow , Naouka , 1973. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon French study of neo-Egyptian grammar. First edition. A publication of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. In the original quarter cloth binding.M. Korostovtsev offers an impressively detailed breakdown of ne...

L&Apos;Age D&Apos;or Des Appareils Allemands 1930-1940

Bernard Vial · 1978 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Saint-Just-la-Pendue , L'Imprimerie Chirat , 1978. Paperback. A very scarce illustrated book of German cameras manufactured from 1930-1940. A very scarce guide to German photography devices from 1930-1940. In the original French. Copy number 509. In the publisher's w...

The Pax Britannica Trilogy

James Morris; Jan Morris · 1992 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, The Folio Society, 1992. Cloth. An attractive set of the Pax Britannica Trilogy, with illustrations throughout and the pictorial slipcase. The second printing of this set, uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding with the embossed gilt roundel to ...

The Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire: Being a Complete History of the Prince of Wales&Apos; Own Royal Regiment from the Time of Its Formation in 1794 to October, 1884.

Henry Graham · 1886 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Liverpool, D. Marples & Co, 1886. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated historical account of the Prince of Wales' regiment. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and three monochrome pl...

The Study of Man

Alfred C. Haddon · 1898 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, John Murray, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated anthropological study from Alfred Cort Haddon. First edition. Illustrated with eight plates and forty in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed anthropological study of man, with chapters...

The Adventures of a Pincushion

[Mary Ann Kilner] · 1780 · Rooke Books

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

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1788 . Hardback. An exceptionally scarce, early edition of this entertaining guide for young readers, offering moral lessons in the form of amusing tales. A well-loved copy of Mary Ann Kilner's most celebrated work, 'The Adventures of a Pincu...

A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands

Charlotte M. Yonge · 1866 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1866. Leather. A collection of true stories relating inspirational deeds, by novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge, in a lovely full calf prize binding. An early edition of this work from the Golden Treasury Series, in a full calf binding, with marbled end pa...

Domesday Studies: Papers Read at the Novocentenary Conference of the Royal Historical Society

J. C. Holt [editor] · 1987 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated papers on the study of the Domesday Book, from the Royal Historical Society. First edition. Illustrated with eight plates of images and sixteen maps. Collated complete. A collecti...

The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History

John Lothrop Motley · 1886 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1886 . Leather. An attractively bound set of this comprehensive work on the Dutch Republic by politician John Lothrop Motley. Complete in three volumes.A detailed history of the rise of the Dutch Republic, written after the author spent five years...

De Antiquis Legibus Liber: Cronica Maiorum Et Viceomitum Londoniarum Et Quedam, Que Contingebant Temporibus Illis Ab Anno MCLXXVIII Ad Annum MCCLXXIV

Thomas Stapleton · 1846 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London , Sumptibus Societatis Camdenensis [Camden Society], 1846. First edition. Cloth. The first printed appearance of this medieval history derived from the 'Liber de Antiquis Legibus', detailing the mayors and sheriffs of London. The first edition of this work, be...

Township and Borough: Being the Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in the October Term of 1897 Together with an Appendix of Notes Relating to the History of the Town of Cambridge

Frederic William Maitland · 1898 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Cambridge , University Press , 1898. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition containing lectures on townships and boroughs, delivered by distinguished historian Frederic William Maitland. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Containing the...