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Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer: 500 Maps in Colour, with Commercial Statistics and Gazetteer Index of 105,000 Names

0 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Carmelite House [Amalgamated Press], c1910. First edition. Leather. The first edition of a charming atlas with numerous colour maps illustrating the globe before the First World War, an excellent source for historians. The first edition of The Harmsworth Atlas and Gaze...

Shropshire. The Rodington Estate, Situate between Wellington and Shrewsbury, in the Parishes of Ercall Magna, Rodington, and Withington. Particular Plans and Conditions of Sale of a Valuable Freehold Estate

1911 · Rooke Books

£335.00 (€401.61 | $442.66 | ¥70,695)

Salop, Messrs. Barber & Son, 1911. Cloth. An interesting source of Shropshire history in the form of a very rare auction catalogue for the 1911 sale of Rodington Estate. Vanishingly scarce.  With the original wraps bound in, including the fly leaves and pockets. Accompanied w...

The Will of King Alfred with the Will of King Alfred, Reprinted from the Oxford Edition of 1788; with a Preface, and Additional Notes

[O. Manning, trans.]; [Sir Herbert Croft, ed.] · 1788 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Oxford; London, At the Claredon Press; W. Pickering, 1788-1828. First edition. Paperback. The first printed edition of King Alfred's will; translated from the original manuscript by Owen Manning and reprinted in 1828. The first printed edition of King Alfred's Will, ...

The Escapes of Captain O&Apos;Brien, 1804-1808

Donat Henchy O'Brien [intro. by A.J. Evans] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, The Bodley Head, 1932. Cloth. A new edition of O'Brien's gripping account of how he escaped imprisonment during the Napoleonic Wars, with illustrations by Wyndham Payne. A new edition of The Escapes of Captain O'Brien, written by Rear-Admiral Donat Hench...

An Historical Relation of Ceylon

Robert Knox · 1981 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Dehiwala; Sri Lanka, Tisara Prakasakayo Ltd. 1981. Hardback. A full calf facsimile of this account of Robert Knox's time held in Sri Lanka, with folding map. A full calf reproduction of the 1681 text, together with the introductory pages of an autobiography by Knox from ...

Memoirs of the CIVIL War in Wales and the Marches, 1642-1649

John Roland Phillips · 1874 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1874. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an account of Wales during the Great Rebellion, with volume II containing numerous historical sources, scarce as a complete two volume set. The first edition of Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales ...

Oral Exercises for Beginners in Latin Composition: Intended As a Companion for the Initia Latina

Joseph Edwards, William Cross · 1841 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, James Madden & Co. 1841. Cloth. A very scarce guide to beginner's Latin, including oral exercises and construction rules for beginners, with only one institutional copy available. Oral Exercises for Beginners in Latin Composition: Intended as a Companion for the I...

Illustrations of the Most Interesting of the Sculptured Crosses of Ancient Ireland

Henry O'Neill · 1857 · Rooke Books

£9,500.00 (€11,388.91 | $12,552.93 | ¥2,004,781)

London, Trubner & Co, 1857 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with thirty-six lithographs by Henry O'Neill, this is the impressive and very scarce first edition of this collection of illustrations of the ancient sculptured crosses of Ireland. The first edition of this ...

Skoob Address Book

Katherine H. Davies · 1981 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Skoob Books Ltd. 1981. Leather. A very scarce, illustrated address book of contemporary bookdealers from prominent London bookshop Skoob Books, smartly bound in the original full morocco soft covers. Very scarce.In the publisher's original full-morocco soft covers...

Cosmorama: The Manners, Customs, and Costumes of All Nations of the World

J. Aspin [Jehoshaphat Aspin] · 1834 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, John Harris, 1834. Cloth. A bright copy of the new edition of Aspin's richly illustrated nineteenth century study of clothing, culture and customs around the globe. With hand-coloured plates. A 'New Edition' of this work.Illustrated with twenty-three han...

County Genealogies, Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Hants

William Berry · 1833 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1833 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this exhaustive nineteenth century heraldic work tracing the genealogy of Hampshire's families from the 1530s to the 1830s The first edition of William Berry's extensive and imp...

R.P. Ionnis de Lugo Hispalensis, E Societate Iesv, in Collegio Romano Eiusdem Sociatatis Theologiae Professoris, Disputationes Scholasticae, Et Morales, de Virtve, Et Sacramento Poenitentiae. Item de Svffragiis, Et Indvlgentiis. Opus Confessariis Omnibvs Maxime Vtile.

John de Lugo · 1638 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

Lyon, Jacobi & Petri Prost, 1638. First edition. Leather. The incredibly scarce first edition of Spanish Jesuit and Cardinal, John de Lugo's treatise on the sacrament of penance. The first edition of John de Lugo's 1638 treatise on the virtue of penance, published in...

7 Vols British School of Archaeology in Egypt Excavation Reports

W. M. Flinders Petrie; J. Garrow Duncan; Ernest Mackay; Gerald Wainwright; J. W. Walker; Guy Brunton; Alan Gardiner · 1906 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

London, School of Archaeology in Egypt; Benard Quaritch, 1906-1928. First edition. Cloth. A substantial group of excavation reports, compiled chiefly by the "father of modern archaeology", W. M. Flinders Petrie, richly illustrated and central to the development of scientific E...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon · 1867 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Bell & Daldy , 1867-1870 . Leather. Six volumes of Edward Gibbon's influential historical account of the Roman Empire. A six volume set.Part of the Bohn's British Classics series.With various notes, including those of Guizot, Wenck, Schreiter, and Hugo.Volume...

1918 the Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe

George Abel Schreiner · 1918 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy of the first edition of this illustrated work on food shortages in Central Europe during the First World War by German-American war correspondent George Abel Schreiner. The first edition in the pub...

The Modern History of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa: A Select and Annotated Bibliography

Harold G. Marcus · 1972 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A scholarly bibliography on the modern history of the Horn Africa, hoped to be a great benefit for fellow and future researchers in African studies. The Modern History of Ethiopia and the Horn of Afric...

The Crescent and the Cross; or Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel

Eliot Warburton · 1845 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Henry Colburn, Publisher , 1845. Cloth. The complete third edition of Eliot Warburton's account of his travels in Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. Third edition. Complete in two volumes. In the original cloth binding.An account of the travels of Irish ...

The Official Records of the Guards&Apos; Brigade in South Africa

1904 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, J. J. Keliher & Co. Limited , 1904. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce historical record of the Guards' Brigade in the Second Boer War, with a folding sketch map and plates. Very scarce, "printed for confidential circulation among the officers of the Brigade of G...

Gleanings, Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland Route.

W. H. Bartlett [William Henry Bartlett] · 1851 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Hall, Virtue & Co. 1851 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Henry Bartlett"s illustrated antiquarian survey of Mediterranean sites connected with the eastern routes. In the publisher's original blind stamped cloth binding, bound by Westleys & Co.Â...

The Struggle of the Nations: Egypt, Syria, and Assyria

Gaston Maspero; A. H. Sayce [ed.]; M. L. McClure [trans.] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1925 . Cloth. A very scarce copy of this abundantly illustrated historical account of Egypt, Syria and Assyria by acclaimed Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. A reprint of the second edition.In publisher's original cloth bindin...