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The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii Ad 79

Raleigh Trevelyan · 1976 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, The Folio Society, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first illustrated edition of this study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii AD 79 from the Folio Society. First edition. Illustrated with ninety-four images, many of which are in colour. A detailed an...

Basel: Denkschrift Zur Erinnerung an Die Vor 2000 Jahren Erfolgte Grundung Der Colonia Raurica

1957 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Basel, Urs Graf-Verlag, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this memorial work on the foundation of Colonia Raurica, near Basel, Switzerland. In the original German. German. First edition. Illustrated with forty-seven tipped in colour plates and numerous photographs an...

Memoirs of the Verney Family

Frances Parthenope Verney; Margaret M. Verney · 1892 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892-99. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated exploration of the Verney family and their place in English history. The first edition.Complete in four volumes.An impressive history of the Verney family of Middle Claydon, l...

The Household of Sir Thomas More

Anne Manning · 1906 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1906. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated picture of the home life of Sir Thomas More. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, title vignette, and twenty-two colour plates. Collated complete. A picture of the home life of Sir Thomas More, an Englis...

The Principles of Political Economy

J. R. McCulloch · 1843 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Edinburgh, William Tait, 1843 . Leather. A smart example of J. R. McCulloch's most popular work on economics, in a full calf signed binding by Hayday. First published in 1825, this is an enlarged and corrected edition.Political economist David Ricardo described this work ...

History of the Anglo-Saxons

R. H. Hodgkin [Robert Howard Hodgkin] · 1939 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1939. Cloth. The complete two volume second edition of R. H. Hodgkin's illustrated history on the Anglo-Saxons. The second edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome vignettes, one coloured plate, five folding coloured ma...

Seven Letters from Charles Lamb to Charles Ryle of the East India House 1828-1832

Charles Lamb · 1931 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Oxford , Oxford University Press, 1931. Hardback. A limited copy of these seven letters sent from English poet, Charles Lamb, to the executor of his will, Charles Ryle. One of two hundred and fifty copies printed at the University Press, Oxford.In the publisher's original...

A Great Agricultural Estate: Being the Story of the Origin and Administration of Woburn and Thorney

The Duke of Bedford · 1897 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, John Murray , 1897. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this expanded argument on estate management, income and taxes. The author's presentation copy of the first edition. With a dated ink inscription to the front pastedown, "From the Aut...

Histoire Des Principaux Ecrivains Francais

Antonin Roche · 1898 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Paris, Librairie ch. Delagrave, 1898. Cloth. A smart two volume set of the tenth edition of this history of the principal French writers, in the original French. French. Complete in two volumes. Tenth edition. Scarce. A detailed and comprehensive history of the principal Frenc...

The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland During the Reign of K. James the Second

Henry Earl of Clarendon; Henry Hyde · 1765 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

Oxford; Dublin, Clarendon Press; Elizabeth Watts, 1765. Leather. A smart edition of the collected letters of Henry Hyde, the Earl of Clarendon, during the reign of James II> Complete in two volumes.The collected state letters of Henry Hyde, the 2nd Earl of Clarendon.Clarendon ...

British Waders

E. C. Arnold · 1924 · Rooke Books

£188.00 (€225.38 | $248.42 | ¥39,674)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated first edition of this ornithological study of British wader birds, written by E. C. Arnold. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A lovely work on the waders, or sho...

Art in Mediaeval France 987 - 1498

Joan Evans · 1948 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, New York, Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this comprehensive and richly illustrated work on French medieval art by Dame Joan Evans. The first edition of the work. Replete with a frontispiece in addition to 280 monochr...

The Hand Phrenologically Considered: Being a Glimpse at the Relation of the Mind with the Organisation of the Body

Anonymous · 1848 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1848. First edition. Cloth. A scarce work approaching the study of the hand phrenologically, the first edition, complete with plates. The first edition of this scarce work.An anonymously written study on the hand.This work approaches the hand phrenolo...

Illustrierte Sittengeschichte Vom Mittelalter Bis Zue Gegenwart

Eduard Fuchs · 1909 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

Munchen, Albert Langen, [1909-12]. First edition. Leather. The complete six volume collection of Eduard Fuchs' magnum opus, a detailed work on the history of manners, morals, and erotic art and behaviour, profusely illustrated with monochrome and colour plates and bound i...

International Rare Book Prices: The Arts and Architecture; Science and Medicine

Michael Cole [ed.] · 1989 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

York, England , The Clique , 1989. First edition. Hardback. A bright set of two scarce references, offering valuable pricing records of books from a range of fields. Two scarce titles from the annual 'International Rare Book Prices' series: 'Arts & Architecture&...

Abyssinia and Italy

Emile Burns · 1935 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this scarce work on the conflict between Abyssinia and Italy, with a folding map. First edition. Scarce work. With a folding map to the rear. A detailed commentary on lead up to the The Abys...

The History of the Universities&Apos; Mission to Central Africa

George Herbert Wilson · 1936 · Rooke Books

£42.00 (€50.35 | $55.50 | ¥8,863)

London, Universities' Mission to Central Africa, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work exploring a mission to Africa in the early twentieth century written by George Herbert Wilson. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen images ...

Harrods Illustrated

1906 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London, Harrods Limited, 1906. Cloth. A scarce catalogue for Harrods for the year 1906, an extensive and illustrated look at the products stocked at the department store during the Edwardian era. A scarce catalogue for Harrods for the year 1906, a wonderful look at the offerin...

Points of the Horse: A Familiar Treatise on Equine Conformation

M. Horace Hayes · 1897 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, W. Thacker & Co. 1897. Cloth. A second edition copy of this illustrated guide to the anatomy and various breeds of horses, by horse expert Horace Hayes. The second revised edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the f...

Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Collected by His Widow

Richard Jefferies · 1897 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1897. Cloth. A new edition of this posthumous work, containing the last essays of English nature writer, Richard Jefferies. A new edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a monochrome portrait frontispiece.A ...