Storia naturale

Insect Transformations

Anonymous [James Rennie] · 1857 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Nattali & Bond, c1838. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this scarce work on insects and their transformation in the life cycle, with illustrations. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout. Dated from the British Library. A comprehensive study on insects and their various t...

The Birds of Scotland Their History, Distribution, and Migration

Evelyn V. Baxter; Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul · 1953 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Edinburgh; London, Oliver and Boyd, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Baxter and Rintoul's extensive study on Scottish ornithology, a unique copy with two signed letters from the authors, addressed to fellow ornithologist Dr. Ian Pennie. The first edition.C...

Field Observations on British Birds

Fergus Menteith Ogilvie; Henry Balfour [ed]; Mrs. John Massie · 1920 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Selwyn & Blount, [1920]. Cloth. The new edition of this illustrated work on British Birds by Fergus Menteith Ogilvie. The new edition. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper to the boards. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignettes and nine plates ...

Wild England of to-Day and the Wild Life in It

C. J. Cornish · 1895 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Seeley and Co. Limited, 1895 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this exploration of the British countryside and wildlife, with illustrations. First edition, in the publisher's original green cloth binding, with bird motif in gilt to the front board. This w...

A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist

T. Baron Russell · 1905 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.23 | $759.66 | ¥121,307)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1905 . First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A signed first edition of this vanishingly scarce work in which the author makes predictions about society one hundred years in the future. The first edition of this very scarce work. A US edition, also very sca...

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks · 1973 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

London, Duckworth, 1973 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Oliver Sacks's Hawthornden Prize winning account of his treatment of the survivors of the sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's ori...

Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young Persons

E. Atkinson · 1878 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878 . Leather. A delightfully bound, educational scientific work for young readers, in a full tree calf prize binding by Riviere. The third edition of this work, illustrated with two colour plates, and with numerous vignette illustrations thro...

Dear Monkey

Charlotte Truepenny · 1963 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A true story about a Vervet monkey which was adopted on an African farm, from the library of zoologist Desmond Morris. The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the orig...

Einfuhrung in Die Metaphysik

Martin Heidegger · 1957 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Tubingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1957 . Cloth. The second edition of this brief introduction to metaphysics from German philosopher Martin Heidegger. In the original German.The second edition of this introductory work, first published in 1953 from a lecture course given by Heide...

Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum

Heinrich Zoller Martin Steinmann and Karl Schmid · 1972 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

Zurich, Urs Graf-Verlag. Hardback. A stunning three volume set of this German history of plants, with lovely watercolour illustrations. Three volumes of Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum, or Conrad Gesner's History of Plants. The volumes are facsimile limited edition co...

Planterigets Naturhistorie Til Skolebrug

Baupell · 1873 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Rjobenhaun, C. M. Reikels Forlag, 1873. Leather. A detailed work on the natural history of plants, intended for school use. In the original Danish language. Danish language. Scarce work. Illustrated with many in-text images. A detailed history of the plant kingdom, with refere...

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jeffries

Richard Jefferies · 1889 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1889. First edition. Leather. A scarce limited edition of this collection of the last essays of Richard Jefferies. Scarce edition. Large paper, limited to only two hundred copies. This is copy number nine. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait...

New and Easy Introduction to Universal Geography; in a Series of Letters to a Youth at School

Rev. Richard Turner · 1792 · Rooke Books

£540.00 (€647.28 | $713.42 | ¥113,923)

London, S. Crowder, 1792 . Leather. A bright copy of the fifth edition of Richard Turner's educational guide to geography of the world and universe, illustrated throughout. The fifth edition of this popular work, first published in 1780. Turner's work reached its thi...

An Account of the Genus Meconopsis

George Taylor · 1934 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, New Flora and Silva Ltd, 1934. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this study of the Genus Meconopsis a flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, twelve maps, and twenty-nine plates from photographs. Collated...

A Natural History of British Moths: Accurately Delineating Every Known Species, with the English As Well As Scientific Names, Accompanied by Full Descriptions, Date of Appearance, List of Localities They Haunt, Their Food in the Caterpillar State, and Other Features of Their Habits and Modes of Existence, Etc. , Etc.

Rev. F. O. Morris · 1891 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, John C. Nimmo , 1891. Cloth. A scarce set of works on the identification and habits of British moths. Illustrated with numerous hand-painted plates. The scarce third edition. Held institutionally in only one UK library. Complete in four volumes. Uniformly bound in the ...

Birds of Southern Spain

F. C. R Jourdain · 1936 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Not stated, Not stated [Ibis], 1936-1937 . Cloth. A very scarce collection of two works by F. C. R. Jourdain from the Ibis journal on ornithology. Birds of Southern Spain by F. C. R. Jourdain, two articles on ornithology collected and rebound together in cloth. From Ibis jour...

The Writings of John Burroughs

John Burroughs · 1904 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1904-13. Leather. A beautiful fifteen volume set of the works of John Burroughs in uniform morocco bindings. Fifteen volumes of the works of John Burroughs bound in uniform half morocco with spine details in gilt. The Riverby edi...

Departures

E. L. Grant Watson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Pleiades Books Limited, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by biologist E. L. Watson in the original publisher's dust wrapper with illustrations. The first edition of Departures by E. L. Grant Watson in the original publis...

Profitable Wonders: Some Problems of Animal and Plant Life

E. L. Grant Watson · 1949 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Country Life Limited , 1949. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this work concerning some natural wonders by E. L. Grant Watson and C. F. Tunnicliffe. The first edition of this work. Concerning the animal and plant life and natural life wonders. Written by E. L. Gr...

Romance of Low Life Amongst Plants. Facts and Phenomena of Cryptogamic Vegetation.

M. C. Cooke · 1893 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of Cooke's study of botany and natural science regarding vegetation. First edition of Romance of Low Life Amongst Plants by M. C. Cook, in original publisher's cloth...