Storia naturale

The Fowler in Ireland or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl Including Instructions in the Art of Shooting and Capturing Them

Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey · 1882 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Jan Van Voorst, 1882. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Ralph Payne-Gallwey's sporting work on hunting wildfowl and seafowl with notes on their habitats, beautifully illustrated and bound in crushed half morocco. The first edition. Illustrated with a m...

The Oyster: A Popular Summary of a Scientific Study

William K. Brooks · 1905 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1905. Cloth. A smart second edition of this study of the oyster from American zoologist William Keith Brooks. Second edition, revised. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. A scientific and practical study of the American oyste...

The New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts

Edward Maunde Thompson; George Frederick Warner; Frederic George Kenyon; Julius Parnell Gilson · 1903 · Rooke Books

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

London, Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press, 1903-1912 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout with facsimile plates, present here are the first two volumes of the first series of this impressive publication from the New Palaeographical Society, bound in four vol...

Sport in Wildest Britain

H. Hesketh Prichard · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, William Heinemann, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated account of H. Hesketh-Prichard's experiences hunting in Britain. The first edition.'Sport in Wildest Britain' recounts the author's experiences of bird ...

Gilpin&Apos;S Forest Scenery

William Gilpin; Francis George Heath [editor] · 1879 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879. Cloth. A scarce copy of this illustrated work on English woodlands and forestry. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A commentary on English woodlands and forests, with cha...

Great International Fisheries Exhibition

1883 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Stockholm; Christiania; Washington, Kongl. Boktryckeriet; H. Aschehoug & Co; Government Printing Office, 1883. Leather. Three very scarce volumes produced for the Great International Fisheries Exhibition, on Sweden, Norway, and the United States. Three very scarce works bound ...

An Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies and Moths

Edward Newman · 1874 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, William Glaisher, 1874. Cloth. Extensive and illustrated guides to British butterflies and British moths by Edward Newman, bound together in one volume, with illustrations by George Willis. Two works bound in one volume, in the publisher's original cloth binding, ...

La Vie Des Insectes: Morceaux Choisis Extraits Des Souvenirs Entomologiques

J. H. Fabre · 1911 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris , Librairie Ch. Delagrave , 1911. Leather. A lovely early edition of this French study of the life of insects by Jean-Henri Fabre, with plates. Undated, dated from an identical copy held institutionally. First edition 1910. Bound in quarter crushed morocco, with marbled...

La Vie Des Abeilles

Maurice Maeterlinck · 1901 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Paris, Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1901. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this essay on the life of a bee from Belgian playwright and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck, in the original French. French. Fourth thousand. An essay on the life of a bee, being a philosophical and literary ...

Morphological Notes

Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer · 0 · Rooke Books

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

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1903 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, limited print run collecting together articles originally published in Annals of Botany, written by botanist and third director of Kew Gardens, William Thiselton-Dyer, and signed by another of the directors, ...

Contraception (Birth Control): Its Theory, History and Practice

Marie Carmichael Stopes · 1927 · Rooke Books

£158.00 (€189.39 | $208.74 | ¥33,333)

London, John Bale, Sons & Danielson, 1927 . Cloth. An excellent copy of the "new and enlarged" second edition of Marie Stope"s enormously influential guide to the use of contraception, illustrated with plates. First published in 1923, this is the enlarged second edition, with ...

New and Correct Tables of Interest

John Bettesworth · 1778 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Alex Hogg, 1778. First edition. Cloth. A scarce mathematical volume presenting various interest rates through accessible tables, the first edition of this work by John Bettesworth. The first edition of this scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, depicting the Ban...

Recollections of Edward Bury

Priscilla Susan Bury · 1860 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.26 | $1,710.88 | ¥273,205)

Windermere, John Garnett, 1860. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching memoir on the life of locomotive manufacturer Edward Bury, a very scarce work written by his widow. The first edition of this very scarce work.Original wraps are bound in.Illustrated with ...

Elementos de Zoologia

Laureano Perez Arcas · 1863 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Pinto, Gabriel Alhambra, 1863. Leather. The second edition of this Spanish zoological treatise by Laureano Perez Arcas, illustrated with many detailed engravings. The second edition.In the original Spanish.An important treatise on zoology by the Professor of Zoology at the Uni...

The Natural History of Selborne

Rev. Gilbert White; Sir William Jardine; Edward Jesse · 1861 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1861 . Leather. A lovely full calf edition of this important work of natural history from Gilbert White, illustrated with forty engraved plates. First published in 1789, this important work has been in print continuously since that date.Illustrated with ...

Rhopalocera Africae Australis; a Catalogue of South African Butterflies

Roland Trimen · 1862 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Cape Town, W. G. Mathew, 1862-1866. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this record of the butterflies of South Africa from British-South African naturalist Roland Trimen. First edition. Both part one and two bound into one volume. Lacking the original plates, being one...

De Crostacei E Degli Altri Marini Corpi Che Si Truovano Su Monti

Anton Lazzaro Moro · 1987 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Sala Bolognese, Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1987. Cloth. A facsimile of Anton-Lazzaro Moro's influential eighteenth century work on crustaceans and marine geology, with the original dust wrapper. A facsimile of the original 1740 edition. Written in the original Italian. In th...

Elements of Botany

R. J. Thornton · 1812 · Rooke Books

£2,450.00 (€2,936.71 | $3,236.79 | ¥516,874)

London, Printed for the Author, 1812. First edition. Leather. A profusely illustrated two-volume botanical guide, compiled by physician and botanist, Robert John Thornton. The first edition. Bound without a title page, dated using Jisc, from a copy held at the British Library ...

The Practical Measurer; or, Tradesman and Wood Merchant&Apos;S Assistant: Containing a Variety of Tables, Showing the Superficial and Solid Content of Round, Square, and Unequal Sided Timber or Stone; Designed for the Use of Artificers, Wrights, Carpenters, Sawyers, Plasterers, Glaziers, Builders, Masons, Bricklayers, Wood Merchants, Painters, Ditchers, Causeway-Layers, Etc.

Alexander Peddie · 1833 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Glasgow , Blackie and Son, 1833. Leather. An impressive practical measuring guide, intended for tradesmen and wood merchants, from Scottish physician Alexander Peddie. This work of metrology comprises a series of tables, showing the contents of round, square and unequal sided ...

Manual of British Botany, Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns Arranged According to the Natural Orders

Charles Cardale Babington · 1851 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, John Van Voorst, 1851. Cloth. A third edition of this concise manual to British botany from English botanist Charles Cardale Babington. Third edition, with additions and corrections. A detailed and comprehensive manual to British botany, with records of all flowering p...