Storia naturale

A History of the British Sessile-Eyed Crustacea

C. Spence Bate, J.O. Westwood · 1863 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, John Van Voorst, 1863-1868. Cloth. A complete set of a collaborative study into the natural history of the British Sessille-Eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate and John Obadiah Wood. Two insightful volumes on the History of the British Sessille-Eyed Crustacea, writte...

A Conchological Dictionary of the British Isles

William Turton · 1819 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, John Booth, 1819 . First edition. Cloth. Featuring 28 lovely plates, this resourceful conchological dictionary explains the essential elements for conchologists in the British Isles. First edition.Rebound in red cloth.Featuring 28 monochrome plates of shells with helpf...

The Fauna of the Deep Sea

Sydney J. Hickson · 1894 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1894 . First edition. Cloth. A rare and pleasing copy of the first edition of this illustrated deep-sea study in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. The first edition of this very scarce deep-sea study in the publisher&...

A Collection of Ten Articles on Dew-Ponds

Edward A. Martin · 1907 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, King, Sell, & Olding, Ltd; South-Eastern Union of Scientific Studies et. al. 1907-1910. Cloth. A scarce collection of articles on dew-ponds by Edward A. Martin, this copy containing three signed letters from the author. Author's presentation copy, with three signe...

The Glory of the Tree

Dr. B. K. Boom; H. Kleijn · 1966 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

New York, Doubleday & Company, 1966 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with colour plates, this is a fine example of the first edition of this wonderful celebration of the 'glory' and beauty of trees. The first edition, first impression of this work.In a handsome ...

A History of British Fishes

William Yarrell · 1836 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, John Van Voorst, 1836. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Yarrell's natural history work on British fishes, beautifully illustrated with detailed woodcuts. The first edition. The work was originally serialised in nineteen parts in 1835, and then he...

Butterflies and Moths at Home and Abroad

H. Rowland-Brown · 1912 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this popular work on butterflies and moths from English entomologist Henry Rowland-Brown, colourfully illustrated throughout. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-one colour plates, plate III is dis...

Actinologia Britannica a History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals

Philip Henry Gosse · 1860 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.21 | $779.47 | ¥124,472)

London, Van Voorst, 1860. First edition. Cloth. The first and only edition of this stunning work regarding British sea anemones and coral, illustrated in colour throughout. Widely considered Gosse's best work. 'Erratum in Part III' tipped in to preface. With a l...

Beautiful Shells Their Nature, Structure, and Uses Familiarly Explained with Directions for Collecting, Cleaning, and Arranging Them in the Cabinet and Descriptions of the Most Remarkable Species.

H. G. Adams · 1855 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1855. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated and very scarce first edition of this guide to the science, history, and artistry of shells, from collecting to classification. In the publisher's original pictorial red cloth.This copy is...

Synopsis of Quadrupeds

[Thomas Pennant] · 1771 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)

Chester, J. Monk, 1771. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Thomas Pennant's scarce study of four legged animals, a comprehensive natural history study from the noted naturalist and antiquarian, bound in full calf. The first edition of this scarce work. Illustra...

A Naturalist in North Celebes

Sydney J. Hickson · 1889 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, John Murray, 1889 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Sydney J. Hickson's account of his 1880s expedition to northern Sulawesi, in which he offers his observations on zoology, botany and ethnology. A first edition.Illustrated with a chromolithographic fro...

Nature Rambles in London

Kate M. Hall; Beatrice Harraden · 1908 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of guides to finding nature in the city of London from Kate M. Hall. First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with ninety-four images including a frontispiece, forty...

Fur and Feather or Fur, Feather and Fin Series

Alfred E. T. Watson [editor] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1894-1913. Cloth. A collection of eleven volumes of the Fur and Feather or the Fur, Feather and Fin series, edited by British journalist Alfred Edward Thomas Watson. Eleven volumes of a twelve volume set. A series written to present monographs, as...

Navy (Health). Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy

Algernon Egerton; C. Inigo Thomas; O. Murray et al. · 1869 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, HMSO, 1869-1915 . First edition. Paperback. Six fascinating and very scarce volumes of Royal Navy medical reports and statistical health data, offering insight into the health of the navy between 1869 and 1915. Six very scarce 19th and 20th century reports of the healt...

Lundy: Its History and Natural History

Lewis R. W. Loyd · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1925. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon natural history of the English island of Lundy, complete with plates and a folding map. First edition. In the original navy cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nineteen monochrome plates and ...

The Oyster & Dredgers of Whitstable

Allan Ovenden Collard · 1902 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Joseph Collard, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated study of the oysters and dredgers of Whitstable, a town on the north coast of Kent, England. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images including a doub...

Natural History Rambles: Underground

J. E. Taylor · 1880 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880. Leather. A smartly bound early edition of this study of natural history from British writer and editor John Ellor Taylor. Early edition, first published in 1879. Natural History Rambles series. Illustrated throughout. An...

The Family Herbal, or an Account of All Those English Plants, Which Are Remarkable for Their Virtues, and of the Drugs Which Are Produces by Vegetables of Other Countries; with Their Descriptions and Their Uses, As Proved by Experience.

Sir John Hill · 1820 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

Bungay, C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, [1820]. Leather. A smartly bound copy of John Hill's popular guide to botanical remedies, bound in full calf and illustrated with beautiful hand coloured plates. An illustrated edition.Illustrated with fifty-four hand coloured plates...

Familiar Wild Flowers

F. Edward Hulme · 1877 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Cassell and Company, 1877-1885. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the first five series of F. Edward Hulme's beautifully illustrated study of the wild flowers of Great Britain. A first edition set of the first five volumes of this work, which ultimately...

The Book of the Havana Cigar

Brian Innes · 1983 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Orbis Publishing, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated compendium about the "king of cigars" from member of The Temperance Seven, Brian Innes. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.An intriguing history o...