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Memoire Sur la Veritable Entree Du Monument Egyptien
Duc de Chaulnes; Louis Joseph d'Albert · 1783 · Rooke Books
£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)
Paris, Louis Jorry, 1783. Unbound. A vanishingly scarce monograph on a monument in Egypt, a tomb for animals, a French work illustrated with a folding map. A vanishingly scarce work.In the original French.The second edition, first published in 1777, as an extract from 'Jo...
The Thirteenth Century, 1216-1307; the Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558; the Whig Supremacy, 1714-1760
Maurice Powicke; J. D. Mackie; Basil Williams; Sir George Clark [ed.] · 1962 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1962. Cloth. A three-volume set from the 'Oxford History of England', illustrated with maps throughout. The second edition of each volume of this three-volume set, uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth binding.Previous ow...
A London Reverie
J. C. Squire · 1928 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of Joseph Pennell's stunning illustrations of London, with historical notes on the iconic city and in the scarce dust wrapper. The first edition.Illustrated by Joseph Pennell with...
The Management of War. In a Letter to a Tory-Member: First and Second Letters.
[Francis Hare] · 1711 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)
London, A. Baldwin , 1711 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of two letters written to "a Tory-Member" concerning the management of the War of the Spanish Succession. The first edition. Bound in paper covered boards, with renewed endpapers. Comprised of 'The Man...
Journal of a Visit to South Africa in 1815 and 1816 with Some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, Near the Cape of Good Hope
C. I. Latrobe; Frank R. Bradlow · 1969 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
Cape Town, C. Struik (PTY) Ltd. 1969. Cloth. A faithful facsimile of a Christian missionary's travels to South Africa, an interesting travel work complete with colour plates. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1818. A limited edition of one thousand copies, of whic...
An Historical Description of No. 4 Lilliput Alley (North Parade Passage) Bath Where Lived Sally Lun and Baked Her Famous Delicacies
1680 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
Bath, The Bon Marche Press, c1930. Paperback. A smart copy of this very scarce history of the famous Sally Lunn buns from Bath. Very scarce work. Illustrated with four plates. Collated complete. A detailed history of the house in which Sally Lunn lived in Bath, and the story o...
A Manual of British Historians to A.D. 1600
William Dunn Macray · 1845 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, William Pickering, 1845 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Dunn Macray's informative work on early historians making records prior to the year 1600. The first edition of English librarian, cleric and historian William Dunn Macray's work.A fa...
The Norman Kings
James Chambers · 1981 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson , 1981. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce historical work about the four Norman Kings, profusely illustrated with artwork and photographs. The first edition. A very scarce work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A ...
Axioms: A Novel
Sheila Macleod · 1984 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Quartet Books, 1984. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of Sheila Macleod's powerful feminist novel, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped d...
These Splendid Ships: The Story of the Peninsular and Oriental Line
David Divine · 1960 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Frederick Muller Limited , 1960. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this historical work exploring the development of the Peninsular and Oriental Line. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This wor...
Memoires Sur la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale
Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1952 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
Bruxelles, Editions Le Sphinx, 1952. Leather. A smart copy of the second volume of the memoirs of Sir Winston Churchill from the Second World War, in French. French. Volume II of a III volume set only. Illustrated throughout with numerous black-and-white figures and photograph...
Wayside and Woodland Ferns
Edward Step · 1908 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this profusely illustrated pocket sized guide to the ferns of Britain. The first edition.A fantastic pocket sized guide to the British ferns, club-mosses and horsetails by Edward Step, containing mu...
Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire
Henry Graves Bull · 1888 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London; Hereford, Hamilton, Adams & Co; Jakeman & Carver, 1888. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry Graves Bull's and the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club's study on the birds of Herefordshire. The first edition of this work.A study of the birds nat...
The Last Fight of the Revenge
Sir Walter Raleigh; Henry Newbolt · 1908 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1908. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated history following the last battle of the English race-built galleon Revenge. Illustrated with a title vignette, six colour plates, a facsimile of the original title page, and numerous in-text im...
The Great Enterprise: The History of the Spanish Armada
Stephen Usherwood [editor] · 1978 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)
London, The Folio Society, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of the Spanish Armada, with the original glassine wrap. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and thi...
A Tale of a Casualty Clearing Station
A Royal Field Leech [F. A. Symons] · 1917 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1917. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce autobiographical account of the author's experiences during WWI while being posted at a casualty clearing station. The first edition.In the publisher's original c...
Five Signed Travel Works by Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron · 1984 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London, Heinemann; Chatto and Windus , 1984-2006 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of five, signed travel works by Colin Thubron, surrounding his travels in Asia and Russia. Five travel works, each signed by the author. Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the original...
Letters of Edward John Trelawny
Edward John Trelawny; H. Buxton Forman [ed.] · 1910 · Rooke Books
£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)
London, Henry Frowde , 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this series of letters written by biographer Edward John Trelawny, best known for his friendship with Romantic poet Percy Shelley. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.Wi...
James I. And VI.
T. F. Henderson · 1904 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)
London, Goupil & Co. 1904 . First edition. Hardback. A richly illustrated biographical work on James I and VI, compiled by Scottish historian, Thomas Finlayson Henderson. Limited edition, with two-hundred copies printed on Japanese paper.Bound in the publisher's original ...
Notice Sur L&Apos;Ancienne Statue ãâQuestre Ouvrage de Daniello Ricciarelli & de Biard le Fils ãâLevãâ©E ãâ Louis XIII En 1639 Au Milieu de la Place Royale ãâ Paris Et Dãâ©Truite En Aoãâ»T 1792.
M. Anatole de Montaiglon · 1851 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)
Paris , J. B. Dumoulin , 1851 . First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. An exceptionally scarce pamphlet surrounding a grand statue of Louis XIII on horseback, erected in Paris in 1639, and subsequently destroyed in 1792. The first edition. Bound neatly in plain card, with 'St...