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Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. Being the Narrative of the Last Eleven Years Spent by the Author on the Zambesi and Its Tributaries; with an Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in That Country.

Frederick Courteney Selous · 1893 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London , Rowland Ward and Co. Limited, 1893. First edition. Cloth. Frederick Courteney Selous recounts eleven years of hunting game and gathering fauna specimens in this first edition of 'Travel and Adventure in South East Africa' A first edition of 'Travel and ...

Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia

Norman Douglas · 1912 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London , Martin Secker, [1912]. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Norman Douglas' Tunisian travelogue, complete with 15 photographic illustrations A first edition of this travelogue of Tunisia, with 15 illustrations, collated and complete. Alongside captivating des...

Traitã© de Chirurgie D&Apos;Armã©E

L. Legouest · 1872 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Paris, Librarie J.-B. Balliere et Fils, 1872. Cloth. A Treaty on Army Surgery by influential military surgeon Legouest, in French, with many illustrations. Rebound in cloth, with renewed endpapers. Stamp of the British Medical Library Association to the half title page, the ti...

Gordon in Central Africa 1874-1879

George Birkbeck Hill (ed) · 1899 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1899. Cloth. A fascinating account of travels and experiences of Colonel Gordon in Central Africa, with a folding map. A Macmillan edition of Gordon in Central Africa 1874-1879, from original letters and documents that have been edited by George Birk...

The Great Belzoni

Stanley Mayes · 1959 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London , Putnam, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this biography of the archaeological work of Giovanni Belzoni, with illustrations. A first edition copy of this work. Giovanni Battista Belzoni was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist ...

People of the Veil: Being an Account of the Habits, Organisation and History of the Wandering Tuareg Tribes Which Inhabit the Mountains of Air or Asben in the Central Sahara

Francis Rennell Rodd · 1926 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1926. First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of this study of the history of the wandering Tuareg tribes by Francis Rennell Rodd. The scarce first edition of this work. A study in the history of the wandering Tuareg tribes of Central Sahara by Fra...

The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Record of Modern Discovery

John Geddie · 1881 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1881. First edition. Cloth. A first edition travel work of Central Africa by John Geddie. The first edition of this work. Written by John Geddie, Scots-Canadian missionary known as the "father of Presbyterian missions in the South Seas." A record of...

Medical Portrait Gallery. Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians Surgeons, Etc. Etc. Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science

Thomas Joseph Pettigrew · 1838 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Fisher, Son & Co, 1838. First edition. Leather. Illustrated with thirty-six plates of portraits, this is an excellent copy of the first two volumes of Pettigrew's biographical memoirs of those individuals who have contributed to the advancement of medical science....

The Irish Witch

Dennis Wheatley · 1973 · Rooke Books

£215.00 (€257.71 | $284.05 | ¥45,358)

London, Hutchinson, 1973 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition, first impression of Dennis Wheatley's occult novel of Satanic worship. Signed by Wheatley to the title page, with the inscription 'For Michael Weeks, with all kind thoug...

The French Noblesse of the XVII Century

Marquise de Crequy; Mrs. Colquhoun Grant [translator] · 1904 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London , John Murray , 1904. Cloth. An attractive English translation of the memoirs of Marquise de Crequy. An English translated edition of this volume, translated from the French memoirs of Marquise de Crequy by Mrs. Colquhoun Grant. This volume is full of quaint stories and...

Romance of the Bourbon Chateaux

Elizabeth W. Champney · 1903 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition copy of this charming book exploring the French Bourbon Chateaux, with illustrations. A first edition copy. Romance of the Bourbon Chateaux (1903) explores Versailles as the par...

The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V

William Robertson · 1809 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Cadell and Davies, 1809 . Leather. The complete four volume eleventh edition of Scottish historian William Robertson's study of the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece to the start of each volume.A detailed biographical...

Spy in the U.S.

Pawel Monat; John Dille · 1964 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this gripping account of Monat's time as a communist spy in the U.S. First edition of Spy in the U. S. by Pawel Monat with John Dille in the original publisher's cloth bindin...

Queer Things About Egypt

Douglas Sladen · 1911 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincourt Company, 1911. Cloth. The first US edition of Douglas Sladen's study of Egypt, illustrated through with numerous plates and a folding map. An extensive study of people and culture of Egypt, discussing the society, ethnography, and topography...

The Fifty Years&Apos; Struggle of the Covenanters, 1638-88

James Dodds · 1860 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Edinburgh, Thomas Constable by Edmonston and Douglas, 1860. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of James Dodds's history of the seventeenth century Scottish religious and political movement of 'The Covenanters&apos. Detailing the history of the grou...

Prehistoric Remains of Caithness

Samuel Laing; Thomas H. Huxley · 1866 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London and Edinburgh, Williams and Norgate, 1866 . Cloth. An uncommon edition of this ancient historical and archaeological study into Caithness in northern Scotland. Early edition of Prehistoric Remains of Caithness by Samuel Laing in the original publisher's cloth bindi...

Journal de Sainte-Helene 1815-1818

General Baron Gourgaud · 1947 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Flammarion, 1947. Paperback. Gaspard Gourgaud's private journals written whilst accompanying Napoleon in exile on Saint Helena, a vivid descripition of life on the island. Complete in two volumes, a new edition, sixieme mille.In the original French.The Saint Helena...

The British Section of the Ravenna Cosmography by I.A. Richmond and O.G. S. Crawford. Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries

I. A. Richmond; O. G. S. Crawford · 1949 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Oxford, Privately printed, 1949. Paperback. A scarce and important work exploring the British section of the ancient Ravenna Cosmography. The British Section of the Ravenna Cosmography, from Archaeologia Vol. XCIII, written by I. A. Richmond and O. G. S. Crawford and read to t...

The Roads of England

R.M.C. Anderson; Sir William R. Morris · 1932 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Ernest Benn, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work on the transportation and roadways of England, with numerous illustrated maps throughout. A fascinating early twentieth-century work on transportation and roadways through England, including...

Recollections of an Old Soldier: A Biographical Sketch of the Late Colonel Tidy, C.B. , 24th Regt. With Anecdotes of His Contemporaries

Mrs. Ward; Harriet Ward · 1849 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Richard Bentley, 1849. First edition. Leather. A vanishingly scarce first edition biography on the Colonel Francis Skelly Tidy, a touching memorial penned by his daughter. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work, last sold at auction in 1964.A touching biogra...