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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years&Apos; Residence in the Interior of Africa

David Livingstone · 1857 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, John Murray, 1857. First edition. Cloth. A rebound first edition copy of David Livingstone's travelogue through South Africa, with a folding frontispiece, illustrations, and a folding map. First edition, rebound in blue cloth. Illustrated with a folding frontispi...

Your Days Are Numbered: A Manual of Numerology for Everybody

Florence Campbell · 1932 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Rider & Co. 1932. First edition. Cloth. An exciting first complete textbook of numerology, the scarce first UK edition. The scarce first UK edition of this work, preceded by an undated US edition by the same publishers. An exciting work, Your Days are Numbered by Flor...

Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography

Sir James Stephen · 1860 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. Cloth. A wonderful collection of biographical essays of key religious figures by Sir James Stephen, reprinted from his articles in the Edinburgh Review. A fourth edition copy of Sir James Stephen's 'Essays in Eccles...

Napoleon Et Son Temps, Sainte-Helene: La Captive de Napoleon Et la Mort de L&Apos;Empereur

Aubry Octave · 1935 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Paris, Flammarion, 1935. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of this work on the captivity and death of Napoleon Bonaparte of France, written by twentieth-century novelist and historian, Octave Aubry. Two volumes in one, handsomely bound in quarter morocco with gilt detailing to ...

Madame de Maintenon Et la Maison Royale de Saint-Cyr 1686-1793

Theophile Lavallee · 1862 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Paris, Henri Plon, 1862. Leather. An illustrated, early edition of this biography and historical account of the Madame de Maintenon the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis. Handsomely bound in half morocco by Hardy Mennil. A fascinating biography and historical account of Madame de M...

Southern Lights: The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition

John Rymill; A Stephenson; Hugh Robert Mill · 1939 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.36 | $48.89 | ¥7,808)

London, The Travel Book Club, 1939. Cloth. An early edition of John Rymill's account of the British Graham Land Expedition, illustrated with a folding map and plates. The British Graham Land Expedition took place to Antarctica between 1934 and 1937; led by Rymill, they su...

Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, During the Course of Polite Education with His Life and Miscellaneous Pieces to Which Is Appended a Copious Index

Philip Dormer Stanhope · 1833 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Philadelphia , Desilver , 1833 . Leather. A collection of over four hundred letters written by British statesman Philip Dormer Stanhope to his son during the courses of the eighteenth century. A collection of over four hundred letters exchanged between Philip Dormer Stanhope a...

Fridtjof Nansen&Apos;S &Apos;Farthest North&Apos;: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months&Apos; Sleigh Journey

Fridtjof Nansen · 1898 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, George Newnes, 1898. Leather. The second edition of Nansen's account of his extraordinary Fram expedition of 1893, two volumes in one. The second edition of this work by Fridtjof Nansen. Complete in two volumes bound in one, with half title. Comprising the story ...

Men Against the Arctic: The Adventures of Men Who Live and Die in the Polar Regions

Frank Illingworth · 1949 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Bath , Venturebooks Limited , 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce volume dedicated to Polar explorers, by Frank Illingworth, a bright copy in the unclipped dust wrapper. Frank Illingworth explores the story of the people who has battled against the har...

The London Gazette Published by Authority No 5247, the Death of Queen Anne

Unnamed · 1714 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.71 | $323.73 | ¥51,702)

London, The London Gazette, 1714. Cloth. A very scarce and incredibly well-preserved original London Gazette newspaper article from August 1714, detailing the death of Queen Anne. Nicely rebound in cloth binding. Presenting The London Gazette No. 5247, Published by Authority f...

Inventory of Parochial Documents in the Diocese of Bath and Wells and the County of Somerset

J. E. King [ed.] · 1938 · Rooke Books

£56.00 (€67.13 | $74.00 | ¥11,818)

Taunton, Harold King, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition reference work providing an inventory of the civil and ecclesiastical records held by each Somerset parish. Compiled by the Somerset County Council County Records Committee, this is a detailed first...

Macquarie Island

J. S. Cumpston · 1968 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Australia, Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs, 1968. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition detailing the rich history, nature and geography of Macquarie Island, complete with illustrations and an unclipped dust wrapper. Located between New Zealand an...

The Wonderland of Big Game: Being an Account of Two Trips Through Tanganyika and Kenya

A Radclyffe Dugmore · 1925 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Arrowsmith , 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated travel book concerning the hunting of big game. The first edition of this travel work by Arthur R. Dugmore, American naturalist and wildlife photographer. An account of two African trips rec...

Fur and Feather Series

Various · 1896 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1896-98. First edition. Cloth. A lovely set of three works relating to the natural history, hunting and preparation of the hare, the rabbit and the red deer, each illustrated throughout and presented in the delightful publisher's pictorial...

The Wounded Don&Apos;T Cry

Quentin Reynolds · 1941 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1941. Leather. An immensely scarce war memoir by Quentin Reynolds', his vivid first hand account of World War Two. From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. A very scarce work, this copy being the fourth edition, published in May 19...

University of Edinburgh: Charters, Statutes, and Acts of the Town Council and the Senatus 1583-1858

Alexander Morgan · 1937 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Edinburgh , Oliver and Boyd , 1937. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon copy of this study of the origin and growth of the university of Edinburgh, the first edition in its unclipped dust wrapper. An interesting study of the origin and development of the University of Edinburgh,...

The Lands of Cazembe: Lacerda&Apos;S Journey to Cazembe in 1798

Captain R.F. Burton · 1873 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, John Murray, 1873. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating work on Portuguese travels to remote Africa, including the original large folding map of the voyage. A very interesting publication of narratives and and information about Portuguese travels to remote areas of Afri...

Marie-Therese

Constantin de Grunwald; Karl Tschuppik · 1936 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1936. Leather. A lovely French biography on the Empress Maria Theresa, a fascinating volume bound here in a nice quarter calf binding. A fascinating biography on the formidable Maria Theresa, the important ruler of the Habsburg dominions for forty years...

George Selwyn

John Heneage Jesse · 1843 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Richard Bentley, 1843-44. Leather. A finely bound set of George Selwyn's memoirs. Compiled by John Heneage Jesse. The first edition. In a signed binding by J R Gray and Son, with their stamp to the front pastedown.  Former owner's book label to the front p...

Album Pittoresque de Bruges, Ou, Collection Des Plus Belles Vues Et Des Principaux Monuments de Cette Ville

Octave Delepierre · 1837 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Bruges, Chez Buffa, 1837. Leather. An extremely scarce, richly illustrated description of Bruges, bound in contemporary leather with plates by A. Tessaro. Written by Joseph Octave Delepierre, a Belgian antiquary and author who served as archivist of West Flanders, Bruges. He w...