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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

Gilbert White · 1813 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, White, Cochrane, and Co, 1813. Leather. An early edition of Gilbert White's seminal topographical work on Selborne, illustrated, including with a folding plate, and a hand-coloured plate. An important Mitford edition, with the text corrected and expanded from the ...

Accounts of the Trusts and Funded Property Belonging to Devonshire Monthly Meeting

1861 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London , E. Newman, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce report on the financial monthly accounts of Devonshire house. First edition. Very Scarce. This book is a comprehensive financial report of Devonshire House in 1861. The report was prepared by a committee on the mont...

Life and Letters at Bath in the 18th Century

A. Barbeau · 1904 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , William Heinemann, 1904. First edition. Cloth. This first edition is a comprehensive illustrated history of Bath from the 17th to 18th century. The first edition.A comprehensive history of the historic city of Bath. A. Barbeau explores the history of Bath a centre of ...

The Relief of Chitral

Captain G. J. Younghusband; Captain Frank E. Younghusband · 1897 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1897. Cloth. An early edition of this illustrated work on the siege of Chitral by the Younghusband brothers. An early reprint of the original work published in 1895. In the original publisher's cloth with a gilt illustration to the front...

The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers a Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book Printed in England by William Caxton in 1477

William Caxton · 1877 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London , Elliot Stock , 1877. Leather. An example of one of the earliest printed books. This is a facsimile of the 1477 printed version produced in England. Originally written in Latin in 1350 but first translated into French and subsequently English in 1410. This work has bee...

Berlin 1910-1933

Eberhard Roters · 1982 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

New Jersey, The Wellfleet Press, 1982. First edition. Hardback. A very smart first edition of this history of art in Berlin from 1910 to 1933, with images throughout. First edition. Illustrated throughout with many colour images. Witness the explosion of creative, individualis...

Chelsea Old Church

Randall Davies · 1904 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Duckworth and Co. 1904. Cloth. A scarce limited edition of this illustrated work depicting Chelsea Old Church. In the original publisher's brown cloth binding, with gilt lettering to the front and to the spine.This is a limited edition of the work, with three hund...

The History and Antiquities of Gloucester, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

Thomas Rudge · 1811 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Gloucester, Hough and Pace, 1811 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this illustrated account of the history of Gloucester, by Thomas Rudge. The scarce first edition of this work, illustrated with a folding map frontispiece, a portrait plate, and one further pl...

Murderers!! or, an Abstract of the Bloody Massacre in Ireland. Acted by the Instigation of Romish Priests, and Executed by the Irish Papists

Anonymous · 1807 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Manchester, C. Wheeler and Son, 1807 . Paperback. A vanishingly scarce pamphlet discussing the Irish Rebellion of the mid-seventeenth century, and discussing the threat of 'Romish Conspirators&apos. A very scarce discussion of the Catholic-led uprising in 1640s Ireland wh...

City of Liverpool Handbook Compiled for the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health

E. W. Hope [editor] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Liverpool, Lee & Nightingale, 1903. Cloth. A very scarce handbook for the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health in Liverpool, with illustrations. Very scarce. Illustrated with frontispiece, eighty-two plates, and two folding colour maps. Collated complete. A handboo...

The Rag Rag

Various · 1925 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

Manchester, University of Manchester Student's Union, 1925-58. First edition. Paperback. A scarce to see set of the University of Manchester's rag magazine, a near-continuous run of twenty-six colourful issues from 1925 to 1958. Twenty-six issues of the rag magazine ...

Carvings and Sculptures of Worcester Cathedral

Elijah Aldis; John Noake · 1873 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Bemrose and Sons, 1873 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce study of Worcester Cathedral, illustrated with mounted albumen photographs. A wonderfully illustrated work.Illustrated with sixty-nine mounted albumen photographs, numbered I-XXXVII and I-X...

The Wonder Book of Wonders

Harry Golding [editor] · 1922 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1922. Cloth. A very scarce fourth edition of this illustrated collection of wonders of the world. Fourth edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with twelve colour plates and nearly three hundred illustrations. Collated complete. A detailed guide ...

Jungle by-Ways in India: Leaves from the Note-Book of a Sportsman and a Naturalist

E. P. Stebbing · 1911 · Rooke Books

£89.00 (€106.70 | $117.60 | ¥18,782)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1911. Cloth. A smart illustrated account of the author's observations during his time in India under British Colonial rule. Second edition published the same year as the first. Illustrated with half-title, frontispiece, title page, fi...

Memoirs Chiefly Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Northumberland

Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Charles Henry Hartshorne · 1858 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Bell and Daldy , 1858. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this important contribution to the history of Northumberland in two volumes, from the author's own library. Complete in two volumes. With half titles. With three maps, of which one folding, one in...

The Contemporary English View of Napoleon

F. J. Maccunn · 1914 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this historical work on Napoleon and the English view of his reign. First edition. A detailed commentary on the rise to power and reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, with reference to the height of his power...

The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G. , and His Times

Alexander Charles Ewald · 1881 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, William MacKenzie, 1881-83. First edition. Cloth. A bright set of this insightful biography on the life of Benjamin Disraeli, an illustrated work published shortly after his death. Complete as two volumes bound in five.Volumes II and V are the first edition.A detailed ...

Latomia Freimaurerische Vierteljahrs-Schrift

1842 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Leipzig, J. J. Weber, 1842-43. Leather. A scarce German quarterly on Freemasonry, an illustrated work exploring the history and philosophy of the institution. Two volumes of this scarce German masonic quarterly, 'Latomia&apos.Providing a detailed history of Freemasonry in...

From Pericles to Philip

T. R. Glover · 1918 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London , Methuen & Co , 1918. Cloth. A second edition copy of this Greek history work, scarce in the original dust wrapper. A second edition copy. This work studies the typical men and movements of Greek life, with chapters on Euripides and other great writers, exploring the t...

A History of the Anglo-Saxons

R. H. Hodgkin · 1939 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Oxford University Press, 1939-1952. Cloth. An interesting work on Anglo-Saxon history by Oxford historian Robert Howard Hodgkin. Illustrated, with over eighty plates and six folding maps. Robert Howard Hodgkin offers a history of the Anglo-Saxons in these two illustrat...