Matematica e fisica

The Cinema in Education Being the Report of the Psychological Investigation Conducted by Special Subcommittees Appointed by the Cinema Commission of Enquiry Established by the National Council of Public Morals

James Marchant · 1925 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, George Allen and Unwin, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this uncommon title of this study on the psychology of cinema in education, in the extremely scarce dustwrapper. The first edition of this work, an uncommon title.An interesting study ed...

Sommario Di Tutte le Scienze Del Magnifico Messer Domenico Delfino, Nobile Vinitiano, Dal Quale Si Possono Imparar Molte Cose Appartenenti Al Uiuere Humano & Alla Cognition Di Dio. Con la Tauola, & le Postille Delle Cose Piu Notabili

Domenico Delfino; [Alfonso de la Torre] · 1568 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.27 | ¥253,148)

Venetia; [Venice], Francesco Sansovino, 1568. Vellum. A very scarce translation of Alfonso de la Torre's important humanist work on morals and human wisdom, here translated into Italian by Domencio Delfino, who was wrongly thought to be the sole author of this work. A ver...

Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

Honore de Balzac · 1874 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1874. First edition. Cloth. A smart first English language edition of this captivating and richly illustrated anthology. The first english translated edition.Includes a variety of tales, such as The Succubus, Bertha the Penitent and The Brothers-in-...

The Novels of P.D. James

P.D. James · 1989 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, Faber and Faber, 1989-2011. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of six novels from British literary figure P.D. James, including signed works, Children of Men, her autobiography, and those from her celebrated Adam Dalgleish series. The first editions of six brilli...

The Man Who Sold the Moon

Robert A Heinlein · 1950 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.42 | $561.45 | ¥89,657)

Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this science fiction novel from Heinlein's Future History series. With original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition, as stated to the verso of title page, alongside the copyright details fro...

The New Spirit Calculator Containing Rules and Examples Comprehending All Possible Cases for Reducing and Compounding Spirits

E. Arthur · 1829 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

Worcester, Office of Excise, 1829. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon first edition of E Arthur's 'The New Spirit Calculator&apos. Containing tables, formulae, and figures to demonstrate the appropriate strength for the distillation of spirits. Reportedly, this tex...

Ossian&Apos;S Ride Satellite E One

Fred Hoyle; Jeffery Lloyd Castle · 1959 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London; Melbourne; Toronto, Heinemann; Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959; 1954. First edition. Cloth. A pair of first edition mid-century science fiction titles, in original colour illustrated dust wrappers. A pair of mid-century science fiction titles, both first edition, volume 1 be...

Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures

Roger Cotes; Robert Smith [ed.] · 1775 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, J. Nourse, 1775 . Leather. An exceptionally bright example of the third edition of Cotes's posthumously published collection of lectures on hydrostatics and pneumatics, illustrated with five engraved plates. The third edition of this work, which was first publishe...

The Magazine of Science and School of Arts

1844 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, W. Brittain, 1844-47. Leather. Four volumes bound in two of this scarce periodical on the sciences and arts, illustrated throughout. A scarce periodical, here with four volumes bound in two, being Volumes VI, VII, VIII, and IX.Bound without the original wraps.An intere...

Home Life on an Ostrich Farm

Annie Martin · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, George Philp & Son Ltd. 1892. Cloth. A third edition of this illustrated account of the author's own experiences living on an ostrich farm. Third edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven images across seven plates. Collated complete. A personal narrativ...

Famous Ocean Liners Photo Postcards

William H. Miller Jr; Stephen J. Card · 1988 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Toronto; London, General Publishing Company LTD; Constable and Company LTD, 1988. Paperback. A volume of twenty-four postcards depicting famous ocean liners, including four signed colour plates by Stephen J. Card. A unique volume comprising of twenty-four ready-to-mail postcar...

The Schoolmasters Assistant

Thomas Dilworth · 1938 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Not Stated, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1938. Hardback. A facsimile of Thomas Dilworth's educational mathematical work, from the library of David Singmaster. A faithful facsimile of the 1762 eleventh edition of 'The Schoolmasters Assistant', issued by Scott For...

Possible Tomorrows: Five Stories

Isaac Asimov; Kingsley Amis; J. T. McIntosh [James Murdoch MacGregor]; James H. Schmitz; F. L. Wallace; Groff Conklin [editor] · 1972 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this collection of short stories, edited by American science fiction writer Groff Conklin. First UK edition. A collection of five fascinating short novels probing into the possible futures ...

Science and Sorcery, a Collection of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories.

Garret Ford [compiler; pseud. for William L. Crawford]; Stories by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Cordwainer Smith [pseud. for Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger]. · 1953 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

California, Fantasy Publishing Company, 1953. First edition. Cloth. This uncommon limited first edition of an illustrated science fiction anthology compiled by William L. Crawford with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work, which according to the d...

Wayside and Woodland Ferns

Edward Step · 1908 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this profusely illustrated pocket sized guide to the ferns of Britain. The first edition.A fantastic pocket sized guide to the British ferns, club-mosses and horsetails by Edward Step, containing mu...

Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire

Henry Graves Bull · 1888 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London; Hereford, Hamilton, Adams & Co; Jakeman & Carver, 1888. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry Graves Bull's and the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club's study on the birds of Herefordshire. The first edition of this work.A study of the birds nat...

The Revolt of Man

Walter Besant · 1882 · Rooke Books

£1,700.00 (€2,037.69 | $2,245.80 | ¥358,627)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. First edition. Cloth. Walter Besant's science fiction novel set in a future where women rule, the author's own copy, with his bookplate to the front paste down. The first edition of this uncommon work.Author&apo...

The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus

Wilfrid Blunt · 1971 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Collins, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated biography of Carl Linnaeus, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page, dated 1973. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, reverse of the fronti...

The Concept of Mental Maturity

T. H. Pear · 1944 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Manchester, The Manchester University Press, 1944 . Paperback. British psychologist Tom Hatherley Pear's vanishingly scarce essay on the mental maturity of youth, from the library of science-fiction author Brian Aldiss. A vanishingly scarce work, reprinted from the '...

The Artificial Mother

G. H. P.; George Haven Putnam · 1894 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

New York; London, G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this curious sci-fi novel revolving around robots, an illustrated and scarce work. The first edition of this scarce work.A science fiction novel, in which a ro...