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Village Communities in the East and West Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford

Sir Henry Sumner Maine · 1876 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, John Murray, 1876. Leather. A smart collection of six lectures on society in Eastern countries, including India. Third edition, to which are added other lectures and addresses. Bound by J. Low, with binders label to the rear pastedown. Sir Henry Sumner Maine, born in 1...

Handwritten Early Victorian Account Book

Anonymous · 1828 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Jn. Williams, 1828-68. Leather. A handwritten ledger for a Regency through to Victorian business. With later additions in another hand by a Miss M. Devenish. Written in two columns, containing addresses of customers (or suppliers) and amounts paid. Including date headi...

A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits,from Egbert the Great to the Present Time. Consisting of the Effigies of Persons in Every Walk of Human Life; As Well Those Whose Services to Their Country Are Recorded in the Annals of the English History, As Others Whose Eccentricity of Character Rendered Them Conspicuous in Their Day. With an Appendix, Containing the Portraits of Such Foreigners As Either by Alliance with the Royal Families of, or Residence As Visitors in This Kingdom, or by Deriving

Henry Bromley · 1793 · Rooke Books

£74.99 (€89.89 | $99.07 | ¥15,821)

London, T. Payne et al. 1793. First edition. Leather. A scarce edition of A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits,from Egbert the Great to the present time by Henry Bromley. First edition. Henry Bromley was the pseudonym of Anthony Wilson (c1750 - c1814). He was an English w...

Travels in the Interior of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco, from the Years 1781 to 1797; Through Caffraria, the Kingdoms of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Moncemugi, Muscgako, &C. Likewise Across the Great Desert of Sahara and the Northern Parts of Barbary

Frederick Christian Damberger · 1801 · Rooke Books

£474.00 (€568.16 | $626.22 | ¥99,999)

Dublin, P Wogan, 1801. First edition. Leather. One of the first editions in English of the incredible fabricated African travel narratives from the gentleman known as Zacharias Taurinius. A scarce Dublin imprint. In Two Volumes, Complete. Bound as One. With a fold-out map of A...

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Henry Hallam · 1847 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, John Murray, 1847. Leather. A third edition of this historical work on European literature by Henry Hallam. Volumes II and III only. Henry Hallam (1777-1859) was an English historian who was a fellow of the Royal Society and a trustee of the British Museum. In calf bin...

Johnson&Apos;S England an Account of the Life & Manners of His Age

A. S. Turberville (ed.) · 1965 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965. Cloth. A complete two volume set of 'Johnson's England', edited by A. S. Turberville Scarce in dustjacket. Copiously illustrated throughout both volumes, with one hundred and sixty illustrations, including two frontispieces. Samuel...

The March of Man a Chronological Record of Peoples & Events from Pre-Historic Times to Present Day

Lawrence H. Dawson (ed.) · 1935 · Rooke Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London, The Encyclopaedia Britannica Co. 1935. Cloth. An informative geographical and historical record of world events, copiously illustrated with plates, maps and timelines throughout. Collated, complete with ninety six full page colour maps, fold-out timelines of events in ...

Doreen Coasting with Some Account of the Places She Saw and the People She Encountered

Alys Lowth · 1912 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1912. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this account of the travels of Doreen through Africa. Illustrated throughout with many monochrome photographs. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. In a blue cloth binding. Externally, smart, though...

Textile London Its Records and Associations

J. Wells Thatcher · 1887 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, The Drapers' Record, Limited, c1895. Cloth. Textile London, Its Record and Associations with numerous black and white illustrations both full page and within the text from original drawings by W. Luker. With chapters covering various areas and streets in London an...

The Histories of Spain and Portugal from the Earliest Period to the Present Time Adapted for Youth Schools and Families

Miss Julia Corner · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , Thomas Dean and Son, c1850. Cloth. An historical work by Miss Julia Corner. From her Historical Library series. A new and enlarged edition, fifth thousand. Undated to title page, dated from Copac. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and folding map of Spain and Portugal....

The Widows&Apos; Fund Association (Established 1764) a Historical Sketch

H. McLachlan · 1937 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

London , Printed for Private Circulation, 1937. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon copy of The Widows' Fund Association (Established 1764) A Historical Sketch by H. McLachlan, printed for private circulation. First edition. "In the Historical Sketch which follows, an attem...

Military Drawings and Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen

A. E. Haswell Miller and N. P. Dawnay · 1970 · Rooke Books

£95.99 (€115.06 | $126.82 | ¥20,251)

London, Phaidon, 1970. Cloth. A nice clean copy of Miller and Dawney's Military Drawings and Paintings Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and clipped dustwrappers. With tipped in colour plates. First edition. Archibald Elliot Haswell Miller (1887-1979) was an artist w...

The Early Days of the Royall Colledge of Phisitians, Edinburgh the Extended Oration of the Harveian Society, Edinburgh, Delivered at the 114th Festival by the President.

Robert Peel Ritchie · 1899 · Rooke Books

£54.99 (€65.91 | $72.65 | ¥11,601)

London , George P. Johnston, 1899. Cloth. A history of the Royal College of Phisitians, Edinburgh. Illustrated with several portraits throughout. Divided into four parts: The Epoch of William Harvey, A Colledge of Phisitians in Scotland, The Early Days of the Royall Colledge, ...

Winston S. Churchill. Companion Volume I. Part 1, 1874-1896. Part 2, 1896-1900. In Two Volumes

Randolph S. Churchill · 1967 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London , Heinemann, 1967. First edition. Cloth. The first companion volume to the official biography of Britain's wartime Prime Minister, in two parts spanning over a quarter of a century. First Editions. Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between ...

Old Hicks the Guide or Adventures in the Camanche Country in Search of a Gold Mine

Charles W Weber · 1848 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London , Charles H Clarke, c1856. Cloth. A U.K Edition of Charles Webber's Old Hicks The Guide. Undated, dated from WorldCat which references the British Library's catalogue. This work was originally published in New York, 1848. Webber was a United States journalist ...

Report from the Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration): Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendices and Index

Select Committee on Nursing Homes · 1926 · Rooke Books

£132.00 (€158.22 | $174.39 | ¥27,848)

London , Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1926. Cloth. A scarce report by the Select Committee on Nursing Homes, providing an important record of the development of nursing home care. Including interview transcripts. From the Royal College of Surgeons of England Library. ...

The Universal Cambist and Commercial Instructor: Being a Full and Accurate Treatise on the Exchanges, Coins, Weights and Measures, of All Trading Nations and Their Colonies. By P. Kelly, Author of Several Works on Commercial and Astronomical Subjects, and Mathematical Examiner to the Trinity House. The Second Edition Corrected from Verified Standards, by Order and Aid of Government and the East India Company: And Kept Correct During Subsequent Alterations by a Series of Supplements, Comprising t

Unamed · 1835 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Printed for the Author and sold by Longman and Co, 1835. Cloth. An important economical work by Patrick Kelly which includes two maps of India to the rear and the half title page. Scarce. Two volumes bound in one. An important economical work by Patrick Kelly which inc...

Letters from the Peninsula 1808-1812

Lieut-Gen Sir William Warre; Edmond Warre (Ed) · 1909 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, John Murray, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A contemporary account of the Peninsula War, written by Lieut-Gen Sir William Warre. This first edition copy is handsomely bound in the publisher's original cloth binding. The first edition of this work. With a frontispiece...

Supplement to the Sources for the History of Education

Supplement to the Sources for the History of Education · 1976 · Rooke Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London, The Library Association, 1976. Cloth. A list of material added to the Libraries of the Institutes and Schools of Education, 1965-1974. Together with works from certain universities, edited by Dr. Higson a fomer librarian at the University of Leicester. In a cloth bindi...

The Complete Book of Fighters an Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every Fighter Aircraft Built and Flown

William Green; Gordon Swanborough · 1994 · Rooke Books

£47.99 (€57.52 | $63.40 | ¥10,124)

London, Salamander Books Limited, 1994. Cloth. A detailed and comprehensive record of every type of fighter aircraft ever flown. A first edition illustrated with colour and black and white illustrations throughout. William Green was an aviation and military author. During serv...