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The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire in the County of York

L. du Garde Peach · 1960 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Sheffield, Pawson & Brailsford, 1960. Leather. An interesting history of The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, a trade guild for cutlery-makers and other metalworkers, complete with a scarce dust wrapper. Comprising a historical summary, description of the Cutlers' Hall ...

Memorabilia Cantabrigiae or, an Account of the Different Colleges in Cambridge; Biographical Sketches of the Founders and Eminent Men; with Many Original Anecdotes; Views of the Colleges, and Portraits of the Founders

Joseph Wilson · 1803 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Printed for Edward Harding; Scott; Highley; and Deighton, 1803. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this early nineteenth century account on the history of the various colleges in Cambridge by Joseph Wilson. The first edition of this fascinating work, being a...

Cobbett&Apos;S Legacy to Parsons; or, Have the Clergy of the Established Church an Equitable Right to the Tithes, or to Any Thing Called Church Property, Greater Than the Dissenters Have to the Same? and Ought There, or Ought There Not, to Be a Separation of the Church from the State?

William Cobbett · 1835 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Not Stated, 1835. Leather. A lovely modern leather-bound second edition of Cobbett's important pamphlet discussing the Established Church. This work consists of six letters, addressed to the Church Parsons, questioning different ideologies.William Cobbett (1763-18...

Iron Road: The Railway in Scotland

P. J. G. Ransom · 2007 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Birlinn, 2007. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the history of the railway in Scotland, illustrated throughout. The first edition. The first edition of this volume. A lovely, bright copy of this volume detailing the history of railway in Scotland, beginning in th...

Au Pole Antarctique

Otto Nordenskjol; Charles Rabot · 1904 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1904. Leather. A beautifully bound illustrated account of polar exploration, translated into French and illustrated throughout. Otto Nordenskjold (1869-1928) was a Finnish-Swedish polar explorer and geologist remembered for leading in the 1901-1904 Sw...

Charcot Et Les Explorations Polaires

Henri Kubnick · 1940 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Paris, Maison Mame , 1940. Hardback. A scarce early edition of this volume documenting Charcot's polar expeditions, richly illustrated. An early edition of this work, originally published in c1938. The French edition and a scarce copy.Detailing Jean Baptiste Charcot'...

Les Prophetes de la Renaissance

Edouard Schure · 1920 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A first edition educational volume looking into the prophets of the Renaissance period, an original French work by Edouard Schure. In the original French.The first edition of this work.A unique study of the so-called 'prop...

Problems Omnibus

Hubert Phillips · 1960 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Arco Publications , 1960-1962. First edition. Cloth. An excellent set in two volumes of Hubert Phillips' Problem Omnibus, the first editions comprising word puzzles, inference, and mathematical problems. The first edition of these two volumes, published in 1960 an...

La Vieille Garde Imperiale

0 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Tours, Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, c1900. Leather. A colourfully illustrated history of Napoleon's Old Imperial Guard, and interesting look at the Napoleonic Wars. In the original French.A military history of France, looking at the Imperial Guard that was under the direct...

The Cinema in Education Being the Report of the Psychological Investigation Conducted by Special Subcommittees Appointed by the Cinema Commission of Enquiry Established by the National Council of Public Morals

James Marchant · 1925 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, George Allen and Unwin, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this uncommon title of this study on the psychology of cinema in education, in the extremely scarce dustwrapper. The first edition of this work, an uncommon title.An interesting study ed...

The Prisoner of Ham

Frederic T Briffault · 1846 · Rooke Books

£625.00 (€749.27 | $825.85 | ¥131,893)

London, T C Newby, 1846. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of this work detailing Napoleon III's attempt to seize power in 1840, and his subsequent capture and imprisonment in the fortress of Ham. A presentation copy with inscription to the recto of front past...

Queer Things About Japan

Douglas Sladen · 1904 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Limited, 1904. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated copy of Douglas Sladen's study on Japan, illustrated with eight lovely colour plates. The second impression of this work, published in the same year as the first.An extensive study into Japan a...

Les Races Jaunes Les Celestes

Edmond Plauchut · 1898 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, Schleicher Freres, 1898. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this French travel work on China, an interesting and vivid depiction of the country. Illustrated with colour plates. The first edition of this work.In the original French.Edmond Plauchut's explor...

Two Undergraduates in the East

W. Carey Jeffries · 1914 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Sports and Spotsmen, LTD, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The illustrated first edition of this travel account of time spent in the East, signed by the author. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the reverse of the title page, 'wish best wishes, fro...

New Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun

Samuel Mossman · 1873 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, John Murray, 1873. First edition. Cloth. The rare first edition of this beautiful work looking at Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, illustrated with a colour folding map. The first edition of this work.In the original publisher's boards. Rather hard to find in ...

Uganda and Its Peoples

J. F. Cunningham · 1905 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this highly illustrated study on the native people of Uganda, illustrated throughout with portraits. The first edition of this work.Hard to find in this condition. An insightful study into the anthropolo...

The Plans of War the General Staff and British Military Strategy C 1900-1916

John Gooch · 1974 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this comprehensive study on General Staff and the evolution of military strategy prior to the First World War. The first edition of this work. A comprehensive and thorough study co...

Army Records Society

Various · 1985 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)

London, The Bodley Head, Sutton Publishing, The History Press, Boydell Press, 1985-2021. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition eighteen volume set comprising records of the army throughout the years. First editions stated, comprising eighteen volumes with narratives...

British Antarctic Survey Air Operations Manual

D. N. Rowley · 1976 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Not Stated, British Antarctic Survey, 1976. Paperback. A very scarce aircraft manual, printed for use in polar research aircrafts and polar bases. Printed by and for the British Antarctic Survey, the UK's national polar research facility, which has five polar research sta...

The Mint a Day-Book of the R.A. F. Depot between August and December 1922 with Later Notes by 352087 a/C Ross

T. E. Lawrence · 1955 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.75 | $277.49 | ¥44,316)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in original dustwrapper of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force. First trade edition.In 1924, Lawrence enlisted in the British Royal Air Force. This volume compr...