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The System of the World

Le Marquis de Laplace · 1830 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

Dublin , Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830. Cloth. A scarce early edition of this fascinating educational work, detailing universal gravitation and astronomy. 'Translated from the French and elucidated with explanatory notes by the Reverend Henry H. Harte&apos. V...

Scientific Lectures

Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock · 1890 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1890. Cloth. An edition of Scientific Lectures by the Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock. Second edition. The Right Honourable John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury MP FRS DCL LLD (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 unti...

The Woodland Life

Edward Thomas · 1897 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1897. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Edward Thomas' first book - Woodland Life. Scarce. Thomas was just 19 when it was published. Second and only normally seen state of the cover with the decorative panel. Phil...

A Monograph of the British Marine Annelids Volume III Part I - Text Polychaeta Opheliidae to Ammocharideae

William Carmichael McIntosh · 1915 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Ray Society, 1915. Cloth. A scarce work on annelid worms from William Carmichael McIntosh. Illustrated throughout with many diagrams in the text. Published for the Ray Society. The Ray Society is a scientific text publication society founded in 1844. It was named after...

Practical Animal Husbandry

William C. Miller; E. D. S. Robertson · 1947 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Edinburgh; London, Oliver and Boyd, 1947. Cloth. A lovely and incredibly scarce revised edition of this work, thoroughly illustrated, with photographic and folding plates. An incredibly scarce example of the 5th edition of this work, which has been revised and enlarged from it...

1889-1956 Agriculture, Veterinary and Farming Works

Aubrey john Spencer; J.F. Craig; George Gresswell; J.J. O'Connor · 1889 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Stevens and Sons Limited; Bailliere, Tindall and Cox; W.H. Allen & Co. 1889-1956. Cloth. - A fantastic four volume set of agricultural works.In full cloth bindings.Including:1889 The Diseases and Disorders of the Ox With Some Account of the Diseases of the SheepA work ...

Haunts of the Wild Flowers

Anne Pratt · 1863 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London; New York, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. First edition. Cloth. An incredibly scarce colour illustrated first edition of this title by British botanical artist and writer Anne Pratt. An incredibly scarce first edition of this already very scarce title.Features a...

A Compendium of Veterinary Art

James White [ed. by W.C. Spooner] · 1851 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. Cloth. An uncommon edition to a popular book on the veterinary practice of horses, including details on their physiology and diseases. The eighteenth edition of A Compendium of The Veterinary Art: Containing Plain and Concise ...

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

Richard Jefferies · 1880 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1880 . Cloth. A smart copy of the first illustrated edition of this work on natural history and rural life. The first illustrated edition of the work, first published in 1878 by the same publisher.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and numero...

The Modern Veterinary Adviser an Authoritative and Popular Guide to the Attainment and Preservation of Health, the Cure of Disease, and the Treatment of Ailments and Accidents in the Horse with Sections Dealing with Dogs, Cows, Sheep, Poultry, Pigs, Cage Birds, Etc.

Professor Gerald Leighton [ed.] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London, Caxton Publishing Company Ltd. 1910. Cloth. A very scarce complete five volume set of illustrated veterinary guides from the early twentieth century. A lovely five volume set of early twentieth century works on modern veterinary. Complete in five volumes, this set is a...

Inorganic Chemistry, for Science Classes

Fearnside Hudson · 1865 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London; Manchester, Whittaker & Co.; Galt & Co. 1865. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this educational tool, in original binding. An incredibly scarce first edition title.In original binding, with gilt lettering to spine.Written as an accessible teaching a...

Gleanings in Natural History; with Local Recollections to Which Are Added Maxims and Hints for an Angler

Edward Jesse · 1832 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, John Murray, 1832 . Cloth. Volume one of a three part series on natural history by animal enthusiast Edward Jesse. Volume I of a three volume series by Edward Jesse, an English writer on natural history. In full cloth binding.As a surveyor for the Office of Works, Jess...

A History of Infusorial Animalcules, Living and Fossil

Andrew Pritchard · 1852 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)

London, Whittaker and Co. 1852. Cloth. A new enlarged edition of this scarce history of animalcules by Andrew Pritchard, complete with twenty-four plates of figures. A new edition, enlarged.Illustrated with twenty-four engraved plates to the rear, each containing numerous figu...

An Introduction to Conchology; or, Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous Animals

George Johnston · 1850 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, John Van Voorst, 1850 . First edition. Cloth. A very good copy of the first edition in the publisher's original cloth, with numerous woodcut illustrations throughout. The first edition in the publisher's original cloth.With numerous in-text woodcut illustrati...

La Vie Et Les Moeurs Des Animaux: Zoophytes Et Mollusques

Louis Figuier · 1866 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Paris, Hachette, 1866 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout, this is the highly informative first edition of Louis Figuier's scientific analysis of zoophytes and molluscs. In the original French.The first edition of this work, part of the 'Tableau de le Natu...

British Zoophytes

Arthur S. Pennington · 1885 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, L. Reeve & Co. 1885 . First edition. Cloth. First edition of this beautifully illustrated, comprehensive guide to British hydroida, actinozoa and polyzoa from Arthur S. Pennington. First edition.In publisher's original maroon cloth binding with gilt detail.Featuri...

The Fauna of the Deep Sea

Sydney J. Hickson · 1894 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

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&...

Seaside Divinity

Robert W. Fraser · 1861 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, James Hogg and Sons, 1861. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Seaside Divinity by Robert W. Fraser, which later became the more popular Seaside Naturalist in its third edition. The very scarce first edition of Seaside Divinity, written by Robert W...

The Dinoflagellates of Northern Seas

Marie V. Lebour · 1925 · Rooke Books

£56.00 (€67.12 | $73.98 | ¥11,811)

Plymouth, The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1925. Cloth. An informative study into the strange water organisms, carried out by marine biologist Marie Lebour. An informative study into the strange yet intriguing Dinoflagellates of the Northern Seas, writt...

Living Trees of the World

Thomas H. Everett · 1968 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. in association with Chanticleer Press, 1968. First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. A smartly bound first edition of Everett"s richly illustrated global survey of tree species, offering an authoritative study of their form, habitat, and culti...