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Flower Decoration in the House

Gertrude Jekyll · 1907 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Covent Garden, Country Life," Ltd.; George Newnes, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A richly illustrated, scarce first edition, detailing a variety of flower arrangements to be displayed in the home. A scarce first edition, in publisher's original blue cloth binding, with gilt...

The English Flower Garden

W. Robinson · 1883 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

London; New York, John Murray; Scribner & Welford, 1883. First edition. Cloth. A smart and heavily illustrated and highly influential horticultural title, very scarce in the first edition. A scarce title, very scarce in the first edition, with no other copies earlier than 1889...

Among British Birds in Their Nesting Haunts

Oswin A. J. Lee · 1897 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1897-1899 . First edition. Cloth. Fourteen parts of the very scarce first edition of Oswald A. J. Lee's charmingly illustrated study of British nesting birds, illustrated with photogravure plates. The first edition of this very scarce work from O...

Rural Bird Life

Charles Dixon · 1880 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1880. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition of a book on the different species of birds populating the British countryside, in decorative green cloth. The first edition of Rural Bird Life, Being Essays on Ornithology with Instructions ...

The New Naturalist Three Volumes

E M Nicholson et al · 1945 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London , Collins, 1945-1951. First edition. Cloth. A three volume set of volumes of the New Naturalist. All first editions. Three of a wider series totalling over 100 between 1945 and the present day. Titles are: Butterflies by E B Ford London's Natural History by R S R F...

Our Common Sea-Birds Cormorants, Terns, Gulls, Skuas, Petrels and Auks

Percy R. Lowe · 1913 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, The Offices of Country Life, 1913. Vellum. An attractively-bound work on the sea birds of the British Isles. Illustrated throughout with many photographs. Dated using Copac. Percy Roycroft Lowe (2 January 187018 August 1948) was an English surgeon and ornithologist. Re...

Reports of the Delegates of the Hope Museum and Rothney Collection

Anon · 1904 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1904-12. Leather. Various reports of the Oxford University Natural History Museum. Including the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1903) and the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University M...

An Introduction to Botany

John Lindley · 1835 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman. 1835. Cloth. A scarce edition of An Introduction to Botany by the eminent English botanist John Lindley Illustrated with six copper-plates and numerous wood-engravings. The second edition, with corrections and numerous addi...

Parasitism Organic and Social

Jean Massart and Émile Vandervelde · 1907 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London , Swan Sonneschein and Co. Limited, 1907. Cloth. Parasitism Organic and Social by Jean Massart and Émile Vandervelde. Translated into English by William Macdonald and revised by J. Arthur Thomson. Second edition. With a preface by Prof. Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932) who...

The Grouse: Being a Collection of Notes for the Use of the Local Correspondents of the Committee.

Various; A. S. Leslie [Ed.] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

[Edinburgh], Board of Agriculture and Fisheries , [1906]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this concise official study of grouse disease, habitat management, and ecology, illustrated with fourteen plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First ed...

Dollar&Apos;S Veterinary Surgery

J. J. O'Connor · 1930 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1930. Cloth. An informative, very scarce, and richly illustrated guide to veterinarian practice and care. A highly scarce title, seen here in the second edition.In original green cloth binding, with gilt decoration to spine.An informative, c...

Books on Bees

Herbert Mace; J.M. Dunning; D'Arcy Chapman; Karl von Frisch [ed. by Nathaniel Tarn] · 1921 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London; Oxford, Hutchinson and Co.; Kingsgate Press; Basil Blackwell; Jonathan Cape, 1921-1968. First edition. Cloth. A lovely little set on Bees, largely concerning their behaviours, their scientific attributes and their important role in our ecosystem. A lovely little group ...

The Natural History of Domestic and Wild Animals: Their Structure, Habits, Localities, Distribution, and Influence on Human Society

Robert Mudie · 1839 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Charles Griffin and Company, [1839]. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Robert Mudie's illustrated natural history, surveying domestic and wild animals and their relationship to human life. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition...

Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood

Lord Lilford [Thomas Littleton Powys] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£168.00 (€201.37 | $221.95 | ¥35,443)

London, R. H. Porter, 1895 . First edition. Vellum. A charming first edition, two-volume ornithological study of Northamptonshire birdlife by Lord Lilford, richly illustrated with photogravures, woodcuts, and a folding map, smartly bound in quarter vellum. Bound in a handsome ...

The Farrier&Apos;S Dispensatory

William Gibson · 1725 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, J. Osborn and T. Longmans, 1725 . Leather. An attractive example of the second edition of William Gibson's guide to veterinary care for horses. A scarce work in all editions. The second edition of this work, which is scarce in all editions.William Gibson offers a ...

The Dominion of Man

Rev. J. G. Wood · 1889 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, Bentley and Son, 1889 . First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing copy of the first edition of this very scarce, illustrated study of man and animal throughout history, bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with gilt wolf, with numerous animal illustrations. Th...

British Salt-Water Fishes

F. G. Aflalo; R. B. Marston · 1904 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Hutchinson and Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this survey of British salt-water fishes, complete with twelve beautiful colour plates. First edition. From the Woburn Library of Natural History series, edited by His Grace the Duke of Bedfor...

British Beetles: An Introduction to the Study of Our Indigenous Coleoptera

E. C. Rye; Canon Fowler · 1890 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, L. Reeve & Co. 1890. Cloth. An uncommon second edition of this illustrated entomological study of British beetles from English natural historian Edward Caldwell Rye. Second edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen colour plates to the rear and n...

The Eastern Arboretum, or Register of Remarkable Trees, Seats, Gardens, &C. In the County of Norfolk.

James Grigor · 1847 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847 . Cloth. The second edition of this scarce work exploring the remarkable selection of trees found in Norfolk, written by James Grigor and richly illustrated. Second edition. First published in 1841. Bound in the publisher's...

Every Mother&Apos;S Book

1949 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Sussex, Alfred Fennings, 1949. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very smart copy of this illustrated guide for mothers from Alfred Fennings chemist. Scarce work. With illustrations throughout. A charming pamphlet from the chemist Alfred Fennings, who established Fennings Pharmaceuticals in...