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Home Life on an Ostrich Farm

Annie Martin · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, George Philp & Son Ltd. 1892. Cloth. A third edition of this illustrated account of the author's own experiences living on an ostrich farm. Third edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven images across seven plates. Collated complete. A personal narrativ...

The Custom of the Room: Early Wine-Books of Christ&Apos;S College, Cambridge

Anthony Bedford Steel · 1951 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, 1951. Cloth. A rare insight into collegiate traditions and societal nuances through Christ College's wine ledgers. In the publisher's original burgundy binding. With original clipped dust wrapper.Dated using copies on Jisc.This edition fe...

Champagne Bollinger 150e Anniversaire 1829-1979

1979 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Ay , Champagne Bollier, 1979. Brochure/Pamphlet. A vanishingly scarce historical pamphlet published for the 150th anniversary of Bollinger Champagne. Vanishingly scarce. In the publisher's white laminated wraps. This pamphlet offers a charming history of Bollinger, a pr...

The Story of Fort St. George

Col. D, M. Reid; H. E. Sir Arthur Hope · 1945 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

Madras, Diocesan Press, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of Fort St. George, of Chennai in India. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, two maps, one of which is folding, numerous in-text images, and two folding plates of ...

Slaveholding As a Religious Question

Anthony Schuyler · 1861 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

New York State, Not Stated, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce sermon by Anthony Schuyler discussing how the Bible condemns slave owners. The first edition.A vanishingly scarce work.A sermon by Anthony Schuyler, preached at his seat at Christ Church, Oswego, on the 3rd ...

My Early Life: A Roving Commission; the Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria Ian Hamilton&Apos;S March

Winston S. Churchill · 1989 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Leo Cooper, 1989. Cloth. A particularly scarce new edition of these two vivid autobiographies from Winston Churchill. These new editions published by Leo Cooper. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Offering two of Winston Churchill's popular autobiographica...

Letters of the Late Thomas Rundle to Mrs. Barbara Sandys

Thomas Rundle; Mrs. Barbara Sandys; James Dallaway [intro.] · 1789 · Rooke Books

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

Glocester, R. Raikes for T. Cadell, 1789 . First edition. Cloth. The two volume first edition of the Bishop of Derry's letters to the widow Barbara Sandys. A very scarce work. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work, complete in two volumes.Edited by the Rev. Pr...

With the Guards We Shall Go: A Guardsman&Apos;S Letters in the Crimea 1854-1855

Mabell, Countess of Airlie · 1933 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated record of the author's great-uncle, John Jocelyn, 5th Earl of Roden, through the Crimean War. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eighteen black-and-w...

History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore with an Enquiry Into Its Origin and Treatment: And Suggestions for the Prevention of Future Discontent in the Royal Navy

1842 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Thomas Tegg, 1842. Cloth. A smart copy of this fictional account of the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore, from William Johnson Neale. A fictionalised account of two important mutinies for the British Royal Navy. The Spithead and Nore mutinies were major mutinies by sa...

Refutation of Colonel Napiers Justification of His Third Volume

General Lord Viscount Beresford [William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford] · 1834 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, John Murray, 1834 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of William Carr Beresford's refutation of Sir William Napier"s account of his own actions in the Peninsular War. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with an engraved map plate.Beresford...

Records and Traditions of Deane Church, Village, and Parish in Lancashire A.D. 597 to 1904

James Boardman · 1904 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Not Stated, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this two volume set on the traditions of Deane in Lancashire, with illustrations. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Scarce work. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Volume t...

Famous Ocean Liners Photo Postcards

William H. Miller Jr; Stephen J. Card · 1988 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Toronto; London, General Publishing Company LTD; Constable and Company LTD, 1988. Paperback. A volume of twenty-four postcards depicting famous ocean liners, including four signed colour plates by Stephen J. Card. A unique volume comprising of twenty-four ready-to-mail postcar...

The Form and Order of the of the Service That Is to Be Performed and the Ceremonies That Are to Be Observed in the Coronation of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary

Anonymous · 1911 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.43 | $640.86 | ¥102,349)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1911 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first Eyre and Spottiswoode edition of this liturgical work outlining the religious and ceremonial proceedings of the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, in a signed straight grain morocco bind...

The King Emperor and His Dominions Souvenir of the Coronation Durbar of H.I. M. George V.

Frederick B. Power · 1911 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.60 | $455.87 | ¥72,805)

London, Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A souvenir publication, published in celebration of the coronation Durbar of King George V held in 1911, a very scarce work on the history of the British Empire and the Wellcome company. The first edition.Illustrated...

A Calendar of Court Minutes of the East India Company 1635-9, 1674-6, 1677-9

Ethel Bruce Sainsbury · 1907 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1907-38. First edition. Cloth. Three scarce volumes of records from the East India Company, with details on the court minutes from 1635 up to 1679. The first editions. A three volume set, featuring the records for the years 1635-1639, 1674-1676, and 1...

The Great War

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, George Newnes, Limited, 1933. Paperback. A collection of periodicals dealing with the scenes and various fronts associated with the First World War, in the original twenty-six fortnightly parts. Complete in twenty-six volumes of fortnightly parts. Illustrated with phot...

Specimens of Ancient Church Plate; Sepulchral Crosses; &C.

1845 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Cambridge; London, J. H. Parker, T. Stevenson; Rivingtons, and Burns, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A lovely and uncommon collection of ancient church relics found across Britain, illustrated with fifty engraved plates. The first and only edition of this work. Very scarce work. ...

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

Winston Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. Cloth. Winston Churchill's interesting historical work on the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Soudan, from the collection of Steve Forbes. The first cheap edition.From the collection of Steve Forbes, with loose bookplates inserted into ...

The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II

Henry Hallam · 1855 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, John Murray, 1855. Leather. A smart eighth edition of Henry Hallam's most famous work, an authoritative history of England's politics. Complete in three volumes. Eighth edition. A detailed and comprehensive study of the constitutional history of England, focu...

A History of Modern Europe from the Capture of Constantinople, 1453, to the Treaty of Berlin, 1878

Richard Lodge · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John Murray, 1906. Leather. A smartly bound fourth printing of the fourth edition of this insightful history of Europe from British historian Sir Richard Lodge. Fourth edition, fourth impression. A detailed and comprehensive history of Europe from the capture of Consta...