Storia naturale

Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day

Hon. Ralph Abercromby · 1907 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1907. Cloth. A smart copy of this detailed study on the changes of weather from the International Science Series. Sixth impression. The International Science Series. A detailed and comprehensive study of weather and its change...

The Pinetum, Report on the Unusual Intensity of the Frost of December 1860

George Gordon; Duncan Forbes · 1867 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London; Aberdeen, Henry G. Bohn; Simpkin Marshall & Co; Geo. Clark & Son, 1867-80. Leather. Two arboricultural works bound in one volume, by George Gordon and Duncan Forbes, Forbes' work being signed. Bound by Henderson & Bisset. Two volumes bound in one. 'Report o...

On the Track of the Mail-Coach: Being a Volume of Reminiscences Personal and Otherwise

F. E. Baines · 1895 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charming collection of reminiscences from coach journeys on the mail-coach. First edition. With a frontispiece. A charming collection of reminiscences from the author's own adventur...

The Dew-Drop and the Mist: An Account of the Phenomena and Properties of Atmospheric Vapour in Various Parts of the World

Charles Tomlinson · 0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c1860. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce scientific work on vapours from different parts of the world. Scarce work. With a frontispiece and many engravings. A detailed scientific work on the nature, properties, and dangers of...

The Hawks of North America: Their Field Identification and Feeding Habits

John Bichard May · 1935 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

New York, The National Association of Audubon Societies, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated ornithological study on the hawks of North America. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty images, many of which are...

Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy

John Hunter · 1792 · Rooke Books

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

London, G. Nicol; J. Johnson, 1792. Leather. The second edition of this important and illustrated work by John Hunter, presenting his observations on animal anatomy. The second edition of this work.A detailed treatise on animal anatomy, an important and early work on the subje...

A Waterhen&Apos;S Worlds

Eliot Howard · 1940 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Cambridge, University Press, 1940. First edition. Cloth. Eliot Howard's detailed study on waterhens, a signed first edition copy. The first edition.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, 'Gilbert Ashton, from E. H. May 1940&apos.Illustrated with two...

British Entomology; Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects Found in Great Britain and Ireland

John Curtis · 1824 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, Printed for the Author, 1824-1825 . First edition. Leather. The first editions of the first two volumes of John Curtis's monumental work of entomology, beautifully illustrated with hand-coloured plates. The first edition of the first two volumes of Curtis's m...

The Birds of Somersetshire

Cecil Smith · 1869 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, John Van Voorst , 1869. First edition. Cloth. A first edition ornithological work into the birds of Somerset. The first edition of this work.Contemporary ink inscription dated 1870 to the front endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding.A comprehensive s...

The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life

[Richard Jesfferies] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1880. Cloth. The first illustrated edition of this work on natural history and agriculture, with illustrations throughout by Charles Whymper. The first illustrated edition. First published in 1878 by the same publisher. Illustrated with a monochrome...

Indoor Studies

John Burroughs · 1895 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Cloth. A smart new Riverside edition of this collection of essays from American naturalist John Burroughs. New Riverside edition. Scarce. A collection of essays on subjects including: science and literature, Henry D. Thoreau, Matthe...

Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign

Thomas Laslett · 1875 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1875. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce work exploring timber and timber trees. First edition. Scarce work. With illustrations throughout. A handy book and botanical treatise on home and foreign timber for ship and ho...

Heredity and Hybridism: A Suggestion, and Spiritualism Answered by Science; with the Proofs of a Psychic Force

Edward W. Cox · 1875 · Rooke Books

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

London, Longman and Co, 1875 . First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of English lawyer Edward W. Cox's biological study of heredity and hybridism, bound with the second edition of his vanishingly scarce work on spiritualism. Two vanishingly scarce w...

Flies of the British Isles

Charles N. Colyer; Cyril O. Hammond · 1951 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated entomological work on British flies, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and plates and forty-seven col...

River Gardens; Being an Account of the Best Methods of Cultivating Fresh-Water Plants in Aquaria, in Such a Manner As to Afford Suitable Abodes to Ornamental Fish, and Many Interesting Kinds of Aquatic Animals.

H. Noel Humphreys · 1857 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co. 1857. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work on river gardens by H. Noel Humphreys, with beautiful colour plates. The first edition of this scarce work. In the publisher's original gilt cloth, re-backed. Illustrated w...

My Friend Toto: The Adventures of a Chimpanzee and the Story of His Journey from the Congo to London

Cherry Kearton; Sir Gilbert Parker · 1925 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Arrowsmith, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart first of this illustrated story of a chimpanzee who travelled from the Congo to London. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-two photographs across sixteen plates. Collated complete. The story of Toto the chimpanzee, wh...

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Charles Darwin · 1871 · Rooke Books

£4,500.00 (€5,393.96 | $5,945.13 | ¥949,360)

London, John Murray, 1871. First edition. Leather. The first edition of one of the most important scientific works to ever be published, Charles Darwin's introduction to his theory of evolution. The first edition, Volume I is the first issue, with 'transmitted' ...

Flora Neotropica Monograph No 9 Chrysobalanaceae

Ghillean T. Prance · 1972 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

New York, Hafner Publishing Company, 1972 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce first edition of Ghillean Prance's illustrated botanical study, published as part of the Flora Neotropica series of monographs. First edition, in the publisher's original paper wraps. Scar...

Flowering Plants: Smartweeds to Hazelnuts (the Illustrated Flora of Illinois)

Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Paul M. Thomson · 2009 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Carbondale , Southern Illinois University Press, 2009 . Cloth. A very scarce, illustrated copy of this study of the flora of Illinois, brand new in the original protective plastic wraps. Brand new and unopened in protective plastic. In the publisher's original cloth bindi...

Natural History of British Butterflies

F. W. Frohawk · 1924 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1924. Cloth. Frohawk's extensive and beautifully illustrated study on British butterflies, complete with sixty colourful plates. In the original uncommon unclipped dust wrappers.Complete in two volumes.An impressive study on the varieties of Briti...