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Verkehrstechnik

Otto Schmidt [editor]; O. Willenberg; E Giese; G. Stommenger · 1941 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Berlin, Deutscher Verlag, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition issue of Verkehrstechnik, a rare window into wartime transportation engineering and innovation in Germany. This copy is a first edition. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding.Illustrat...

Literary and Historical Memorials of London, and London and Its Celebrities

J. Heneage Jessee · 1847 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London, Richard Bentley, 1847-50. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the first and second series of J. Heneage Jess's historical study of London, relating to its literary and historical memorials and noted figures, bound in full calf. A very rare to see heavily ...

The Illustrated London News Vol XXXIV January to June 1859

Herbert Ingram [ed.]; Various · 1859 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, George C. Leighton, 1859 . First edition. Leather. Volume XXXIV of the important weekly news magazine 'The Illustrated London News', with illustrated articles throughout. Volume XXXIV of this work, being the January to June 1859 issues of this periodical, whi...

A History of the Borough and Town of Calne and Some Account of the Villages, Etc. , in Its Vicinity

A. E. W. Marsh · 1904 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

Calne , Robert S. Heath, 1904. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this charming illustrated history of Calne. The uncommon first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-six plates, two o...

The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt: An Illustrated and Detailed Account of the Early Organisation and Work of the Australian Medical Units in Egypt in 1914-1915

Lieut.-Col. James W. Barrett; Lieut. P. E. Deane · 1918 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. 1918. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this illustrated account of the Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt, a review copy. First UK edition. Review copy with a contemporary ink stamp to the half-title. Illustrated with a front...

Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions.

John Brand; Henry Ellis · 1813 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington; et al. 1813. Leather. Henry Ellis' enlarged edition of John Brand's noted historical work, a brilliant study of old English customs, holidays, and ceremonies, in a lovely half calf binding. The revised edition, being the first extended...

A Calendar of Court Minutes of the East India Company 1674-1676

Ethel Bruce Sainsbury · 1935 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce calendar of records from the East India Company, providing historical insight into the proceedings of the company from 1674-76. The first edition.The records were first calendared up to 1634 W. Noel Sainsbury, ...

A Complete History of England

Tobias Smollett · 1758 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, James Rivington and James Fletcher; R. Baldwin, 1758-60. Leather. An illustrated early mixed edition set of the historical magnum opus of Tobias Smollett. In eight volumes of eleven, lacking Volumes I, II, and VII.A mixed set of the second and third edition of this imp...

The Life of the Bee

Maurice Maeterlinck; Alfred Sutro [trans.] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, George Allen, 1912 . Leather. The second impression of this illustrated edition of Maeterlinck's study of the bee, beautifully illustrated with colour plates by Detmold. First published in 1901, this work was re-set with Detmold's illustrations in 1911. This ...

The World Crisis

Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1933. Cloth. The coveted limited 'Sandhurst Edition' of Winston Churchill's historical account of the First World War. The limited 'Sandhurst Edition', privately printed for the Sandhurst Royal Military College where C...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell; Roger Ingpen [Ed.] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1907 . Leather. A smartly bound, complete pair of Boswell's landmark biography of Samuel Johnson, with this edition containing notes by Roger Ingpen and richly illustrated throughout. Bound in half calf with cloth boards. Complete in two v...

Les Massacres de Septembre

G. Lenotre [Louis Leon Théodore Gosselin] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Paris , Librairie Academique Perrin et Cie, 1907. Hardback. A handsome copy of this history of the French Revolution September Massacres by Louis Leon Theodore Gosselin. Eleventh edition. Bound in contemporary marbled boards, with leather spine title label. With the original ...

Man Makes His World

Patrick Lynch · 1959 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Edward Arnold Ltd , 1959. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce children's history of mankind's greatest inventions, discoveries and achievements. The first edition of this very scarce work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This is t...

A Dissertation Upon English Typographical Founders and Founderies

Edward Rowe Mores; John Nichols; D. B. Updike [ed.] · 1924 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

New York, The Grolier Club , 1924. Cloth. A pleasing limited edition of Edward Rowe Mores' important records on the history of English type-founding. One of an edition of two hundred and fifty copies.In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. This edition...

Station Amusements in New Zealand

Lady Barker [Mary Anne Barker] · 1873 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, William Hunt and Company , 1873 . First edition. Leather. A finely bound, first edition of this entertaining account of life on a sheep station in New Zealand, written by Lady Barker, an English woman who lived there with her husband in the mid nineteenth century. Firs...

Taken in;" Being, a Sketch of New Zealand Life

Hopeful" [Miss Campbell] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, W. H. Allen & Co. 1887 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of this fascinating and unusual account of a woman's trip to New Zealand in the late nineteenth century, in which she criticises New Zealand life and the propaganda encouraging Europeans to emi...

My Oxford; Oxford

Ann Thwaite; J. I, M. Stewart; Martin Amis; Nina Bawden; John Betjeman et al. · 1952 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Robson Books; Oxford University Press, 1952-1977 . First edition. Cloth. Two fascinating first edition works detailing life in Oxford and at Oxford University in the twentieth century. The first of these two volumes in Number I, Volume XII of the periodical 'Oxfor...

A New and Complete System of Practical Husbandry: Vol. I

John Mills · 1762 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Longman, J. Coote, J. Hinxman, W. Nicoll, and S. Davis. 1762 . First edition. Leather. The first volume of John Mill's informative guide to husbandry and the improvement of one's estate, the first edition, illustrated w...

The War Against Japan

Major-General S. Woodburn Kirby · 1957 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office , 1957-1969. First edition. Cloth. An excellent, first edition set of Major-General Woodburn Kirby's official history of the War against Japan, each volume richly illustrated and with its original, unclipped dust wrapper. First...

Deutschlands Armee in Feldgrauer Kriegs-Und Friedens-Uniform

Julius Ottomar Hermann Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken · 1916 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

Berlin, P. M. Weber, 1916. Cloth. A scarce German study on the feldgrau military uniforms introduced in 1915, complete with colour plates. A scarce work.In the original German.Complete as three booklets in one cloth folder.Illustrated with thirty-three colour plates. Collated,...