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Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Bronislaw Malinowski; Sir James George Frazer · 1953 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1953. Cloth. A smart fourth impression of this illustrated work on the Western Pacific. Scarce fourth impression, originally published 1922. Illustrated with sixty-five images on plates, five maps, three tables, and two in-text figures. Coll...

Naval Adventures During Thirty-Five Years&Apos; Service

Lieut. W. Bowers · 1833 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Leather. In this very scarce two volume set, Lieutenant W. Bowers' offers an exciting account of his naval adventures. A first edition two volume set in half calf bindings. Ink inscription to the title pages of both volumes. P...

The Mayors of Norwich 1403 to 1835: Being Biographical Notes on the Mayors of the Old Corporation

Basil Cozens-Hardy; Ernest A. Kent · 1938 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Norwich, Jarrold & Sons, Limited, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition historical and biographical account of the Mayors of Norwich from 1403 to 1835, with illustrations. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated compl...

The Story of the Iliad; Adventures of Odysseus; Andersen&Apos;S Fairy Tales; Tales of Travel and Exploration

F.S. Marvin; R. J. G. Mayor F. M. Stawell; Sir E. Shackleton; Hans Christian Andersen; Sir A. T. Quiller Couch ed. · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD. 1921-1928. Cloth. A varied collection of works published as part of The King's Treasuries of Literature series between 1921 and 1928. A collection of four works published as part of The King's Treasuries of Literature series. In cloth b...

South London in the Days of Our Grandfathers: A Series of Original Sketches

1927 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, Brixton and Camberwell Illustrated Press, [1927]. Paperback. A very scarce collection of sketches from nineteenth century London. A pictorial exploration of South London through a series of thirty-one sketches illustrative of Herne Hill, Kennington Common, Denmark Hill...

A Collection on Dr Johnson and Boswell

Various · 1963 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.30 | $101.73 | ¥16,245)

London; New York, William Heinemann Ltd; Thames and Hudson; Chatto & Windus; MacDonald & Co.; Edinburgh University Press; Patheon Books, 1963-1993. First edition. Cloth. Six smart volumes on Doctor Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Six volumes. A collection of works on the liv...

Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, Volume XV: Bishop Cranmer&Apos;S Recantacyons; Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Monckton Papers

Thomas Cranmer; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Sir Philip Monckton · 1874 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, The Philobiblon Society, 1874-1884 . Paperback. Three very scarce issues from volume XV of the 'Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society', bound in delightfully patterned modern paper wraps. Three very scarce issues from volume XV of the miscellanies of the Ph...

Earl Percy Dines Abroad: A Boswellian Episode

Harold Murdock · 1924 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition copy of this account of a dinner given in London by General Paoli, in honour of Earl Percy. The first edition, and no. 389 of 550 limited edition copies, of this work in the publisher's origin...

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

A S Turberville [ed] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, Clarendon Press, 1933-52. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating study of the times of Samuel Johnson edited by A S Turberville and complete in two volumes. Reprint of vol. I in the unclipped dust wrapper and first edition of vol II without the dust wrapper. Containing a ...

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond

Mrs. J. F. Bishop [Isabella Bird] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, John Murray, 1899 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Isabella Bird's account of her travels up the Yangtze river, illustrated throughout with photographic images. Illustrated with a folding colour map, and one-hundred and sixteen photographic plates. Col...

Hrafns Saga Sveinbjarnarsonar

Gudrun P. Helgadottir [ed] · 1987 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987. Cloth. A detailed edition of this Icelandic saga, edited by Gudrun P. Helgadottir. This work is a prime source of information about Iceland, its people and affairs from the 1180s to 1217 which is just at the beginning of the Strurlung Age. This a...

Good Queen Anne; or, Men and Manners, Life and Letters in England&Apos;S Augustan Age

W. H. Davenport Adams · 1886 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Remington & Co. 1886. First edition. Cloth. William Henry Davenport Adams offers cultural survey of the Augustan period in this uncommon two-volume work. A first edition of William Henry Davenport Adams' cultural survey of the Augustan period. The work opens with ...

Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland Under King James VI

Helena Minnie Shire · 1969 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work on the Scottish Renaissance court song. A first edition of this illustrated work on the arts in the court of King James VI. Found in the price-clipped dustwrapper, with four plates,...

The Love-Letters of William Pitt, First Lord Chatham

William Pitt; Ethel Ashton Edwards [Editor] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The romantic side of William Pitt the Elder is brought to life in this uncommon volume. A first edition, with a portrait and two facsimiles of his letters. A first edition of this uncommon volume containing the love-letters...

Chronique Parisienne Des Six Derniers Mois D&Apos;Empire

Paul Ginsty; M. Quatrelles l'Epine · 1912 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Paris, Pierre Lafitte & Cie, 1912 . Leather. A delightfully bound copy of the first edition of this scarce study of the final six months of the Napoleonic Empire. In the original French.In a half crushed morocco signed binding by H. Beenkens Rel, with the publisher's orig...

Where Four Worlds Meet: Hindu Kush 1959

Fosco Maraini; Peter Green [translator] · 1964 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this exciting account of mountain-climbing expeditions in the Himalayas, with photographs. First edition. Translated from the original Italian. Illustrated with one hundred and sixty-three photographs, man...

The Last Will and Testament of the Late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke Extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to Which Is Added a Copy of an Original Letter from His Lordship to a Noble Peer Giving His Reasons for Leaving the Kingdom in March 1715

None · 1752 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, James Crokatt, 1752. Disbound. A scarce copy of the Will of Lord Viscount Bollingbroke, including a letter from Bolingbroke regarding his reasons for leaving the U.K. Scarce work. The Last Will and Testament of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, an English politicia...

Reflexions Upon a Late Paper, Entitl&Apos;D an Expedient Propos&Apos;D. Shewing the Unreasonableness Thereof, and Particularly the Misrepresentations Concerning the Archbishop&Apos;S Schedule, with the Transmission & Intimation

[Edmund Gibson] · 1702 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, A. and J. Churchil, 1702. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce first edition pamphlet by Edmund Gibson, weighing in on the 1701 convocation controversy in a reply to an earlier work by William Binckes. The first edition of this very scarce work.ESTC citation number T...

An Historical Account of the Advantages That Have Accru&Apos;D to England by the Succession in the Illustrious House of Hanover

Matthias Earbery · 1745 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Not Stated, 1745. Disbound. A very scarce pamphlet on the advantages of the Hannoverian succession to England. A reprint of this very scarce work, disbound but intact. A reprint of this pamphlet 'An Historical Account of the Advantages that have Accru'd to En...

Chahar Maqala ("the Four Discourses") of Ahmad Ibn &Apos;Umar Ibn &Apos;Ali an-Nizami Al-Arudi As-Samarqandi

Mirza Muhammad · 1927 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Luzac & Co, 1927 . Cloth. A Persian copy of Chahar Maqala by Ahmad ibn Umar ibn AlÄ«. This is a copy of the student's cheap edition of this work, without notes and indices. This volume contains Chahar Maqala ("The Four Discourses") of Ahmad Ibn 'Umar Ibn &apo...