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Memoires de General Bon de Marbot

General Bon De Marbot · 1803 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, c1890. Leather. The thirty-second edition of the detailed memoirs of Marcellin Marbot, in the original French language. French. Complete in three volumes. Thirty-second edition. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. The memoirs of Jean-Ba...

The Life of John Kaspar Lavater & Jamaica Enslaved and Free

Anonymous; Benjamin Luckock · 1846 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, The Religious Tract Society , 1846-9 . First edition. Leather. A superbly bound volume containing two works published by the Religious Tract Society, one being a biography of Swiss poet and theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater, and the other being a history of Jamaica. Fir...

The British Classics: The Guardian

Richard Steele; Joseph Addison · 1814 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, C. Whittingham; John Sharpe, 1814-15. Leather. An illustrated edition of one of the periodicals founded by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison. Volumes XIII and XIV of 'The British Classics' series, of a total of thirty-four. These volumes contain the complete ...

Report on the Geology and Resources of the Region in the Vicinity of the Forty-Ninth Parallel

George Mercer Dawson · 1875 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Montreal; London; New York, Dawson Brother; Sampson Low & Co; B. Westermann & Co, 1875. First edition. Leather. A very scarce geographical study on Canada, along its 49th parallel, the first edition of this illustrated work. The first edition of this very scarce work.An in-dep...

The Officers and Nurses of Evacuation Eight: With a Complete Roster of All Those Who Served with the Unit

Arthur M. Shipley; Agnes T. Considine · 1929 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce supplement volume to Frederick A. Pottle's history of WWI's Evacuation Hospital No. 8, offering personal accounts. The first edition of this very scarce work.With the original unclipped dus...

Courts of Requests: Their Nature, Utility, and Powers Described, with a Variety of Cases

William Hutton · 1787 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason, 1787 . First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of William Hutton's account of the eighteenth century small claims court of Birmingham. A very scarce first edition. This work was reprinted in 1840, in an edition which ...

1850 the Capital of Scotland: A Twentieth-Century Contemplation on Edinburgh

Moray McLaren · 1950 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Edinburgh, Douglas and Foulis , 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Moray McLaren's illustrated historical study on Edinburgh, presented and inscribed by the author to his friend and actor Laurence Hardy, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition.The au...

Pride and Negligence: The History of the Boswell Papers

Frederick A. Pottle · 1982 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1982. Cloth. A remarkable look at the complex process behind Yale's publishing of James Boswell's private papers. The Research Edition of this work, published for the 'Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell&apos...

That Damn Y": A Record of Overseas Service

Katherine Mayo · 1920 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A first edition presentation copy of Katherine Mayo's biographical work on the life of Edward Clark Carter and the role of the Y.M.C.A during WWI, inscribed by the author. The first edition. A pre...

Nine Historical Works from the Folio Society

Ferdinand Columbus; Ronald Latham; Jean Le Bel Jean Froissart; Kenneth Fenwick; Charles Burney; et al. · 1958 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, The Folio Society, 1958-69. Cloth. A collection of historical works published by the Folio Society, all in their original slipcases and illustrated throughout. The first Folio Society editions, with 'Third Crusade' and 'Thomas Beckett' being second ...

A History of Tithes

Henry William Clarke · 1891 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co , 1891. First edition. Cloth. Henry William Clarke's scarce work on the history of tithes and their significance within Christianity. A new version, originally published in 1887, with the author stating that 'he re-wrote the previous ed...

Paris En 1789

Albert Babeau · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Paris , Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1892. Leather. A handsomely bound new edition of this Parisian social history from Albert Babeau, illustrated throughout. A new edition of this work. Bound in quarter crushed morocco. A charming overview of Paris in 1789, the year th...

Printing 1770-1970: An Illustrated History of Its Development and Uses in England

Michael Twyman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this in depth and heavily illustrated study on the history of printing in England, written by a professor and specialist in typography, Michael Twyman. The first edition. Illustrated throughout with...

High-Ways & Dry-Ways; Stokers and Pokers

Francis Bond Head · 1849 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John Murray, 1849-1850 . First edition. Leather. Two informative works from Sir Francis Bond Head, offering detailed accounts on the railway infrastructure of the British Isles in the Victorian era. Two mid-nineteenth century works by Francis Bond Head, bound in one ha...

Picture Post: Vol. 1, No. 6 (November 5 1938); Vol. 2, No. 13 (April 1, 1939); Vol. 5, No. 13 (December 30, 1939)

Stefan Lorant [ed.] · 1938 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Hulton Press, 1938-1939. First edition. Magazine. A selection of scarce issues of 'Picture Post', a pioneering British photojournalistic magazine. First edition. In the publisher's original wraps.This set includes three issues from the popular British m...

Command a King&Apos;S Ship

Alexander Kent [Douglas Reeman] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Hutchinson, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this novel from Douglas Reeman's popular 'Bolitho' naval war series. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'Comm...

Stories of the Royal Humane Society

Frank Mundell · 1896 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, The Sunday School Union, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce volume detailing significant events led by the Royal Humane Society, with illustrations. The first edition of this very scarce volume. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding.W...

The Path to Leadership

Field-Marshall Montgomery · 1961 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Collins, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Field-Marshall Montgomery's study of leadership qualities, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped d...

Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque, Volume I

G. Ebers; Clara Bell [trans.]; S. Birch [intro.] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1887. Cloth. Volume I of Georg Ebers' informative and illustrated history of Ancient Egypt, translated by Clara Bell, with notes by Samuel Birch. Volume I of a two-volume work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with picto...

Atlante Espanol O Descripcion General Geografica, Cronologica, E Historica de Espana

Bernardo Espinalt y García · 1779 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.78 | $2,510.59 | ¥400,956)

Madrid, Antonio Fernandez; Gonzalez, 1779-1787 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce set of eight first edition volumes of Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia's 'Atlante Espanol', giving geographical, historical, and chronological descriptions of 18th century Spain. In...