Scienza e natura

An American Emperor: The Story of the Fourth Empire of France

Louis Tracy; M. P. Shiel · 1897 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.40 | $129.46 | ¥20,676)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1897 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Louis Tracy's thrilling future war science fiction novel, illustrated by E. S. Hope. The first edition of this exciting novel.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates by E. S. Hope. Col...

The Caves of Treasure

Roy Norton · 1925 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.75 | $158.52 | ¥25,317)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce novel in which a lost Mayan world is discovered. The first edition. First published in 'Red Magazine' 1919 and 1920 as two serials. In the publisher's original blind st...

The Man Who Ended War

Hollis Godfrey · 1910 · Rooke Books

£124.00 (€148.54 | $163.80 | ¥26,161)

London , Ward, Lock & Co. Limited , 1910. Cloth. An attractive edition of this widely regarded ingenious scientific novel, with monochrome plates. A scarce edition of this work.With an illustrated monochrome frontispiece and three illustrated monochrome plates. Collated comple...

A Romance of Two Centuries

Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie · 1919 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€592.98 | $653.90 | ¥104,433)

Alpine, New Jersey, Platonist Press, [1919]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce Near Future science fiction novel set in 2025, by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie. The first edition of this very scarce work.Review copy, with a stamp to the title page.'A Rom...

The Supreme Mystery

J. H. Symons · 1917 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.18 | $521.80 | ¥83,336)

London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1917. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce time travel science fiction novel by J. H. Symons. The first edition of this very scarce work.A thrilling science fiction novel in which a scientist sends the spirit of a medium into va...

The Virgin of the Sun

H. Rider Haggard · 1922 · Rooke Books

£42.00 (€50.31 | $55.48 | ¥8,861)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this thrilling adventure novel set in South America by the popular author H. Rider Haggard. The first UK edition of this work in the publisher's original tan cloth binding, with brow...

The Wanderer&Apos;S Necklace

H. Rider Haggard · 1914 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.87 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel concerning Norseman Olaf in the eighth century. The first UK edition of this work in the scarce variant brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to th...

The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization

John Ruskin · 1886 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.71 | $184.94 | ¥29,537)

Kent , George Allen, 1886 . Leather. A smartly bound early edition of John Ruskin's lectures on geology and minerals to a girls school. Bound in a smart, half calf, with marbled boards. An early edition of this work. Comprised of lectures given by John Ruskin, honorary st...

The Flora of Louisiana

Lowell Urbatsch · 1991 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.61 | $250.99 | ¥40,086)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press , 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work on the flowers in Louisiana with Margaret Stones' beautiful watercolour illustrations. The first edition, First printing, with a complete numberline. Illustrated by...

Heavy Horses Breeds and Management

Herman Biddell; C. I. Douglas; Thomas Dykes; Dr George Fleming; Archibald Macneilage; gilbert Murray; W. R. Trotter · 1905 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.84 | $99.08 | ¥15,823)

London, Vinton & Company, Ltd, 1905. Cloth. An informative and useful guide to horses, with illustrations and a folding pedigree chart. The fourth edition. Part of the 'Live Stock Handbook' series. Illustrated with thirty-one monochrome plates and a folding pedigre...

Yet in My Flesh

M. E. Mitchell · 1933 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.61 | $250.99 | ¥40,086)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this science fiction novel pondering eugenics, by M. E. Mitchell. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This intriguing science fiction novel follows a...

Stardance

Spider Robinson; Jeanne Robinson · 1979 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.89 | $72.66 | ¥11,604)

New York, The Dial Press/James Wade, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this dance based science fiction novel by husband and wife Spider and Jeanne Robinson. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, by Larry Kresek and Holly ...

The Santaroga Barrier

Frank Herbert · 1970 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.91 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Rapp + Whiting, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of this alternative society science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. The first U.K. edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An alternative society / culture novel by Frank Herber...

British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species with an Account of Butterfly Development, Structure, Habits, Localities, Mode of Capture, and Preservation

W. S. Coleman · 1888 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.83 | $105.68 | ¥16,878)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1888. Cloth. A smart copy of this beautifully illustrated study of British butterflies. Illustrated with sixteen plates, fourteen of which are in colour, and many in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed study of British butterflies with r...

A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation

Thaddeus William Harris; Charles L. Flint [ed.] · 1862 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.68 | $204.76 | ¥32,701)

New York, Orange Judd and Company, 1862. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated 'enlarged and improved' edition of Thaddeus William Harris's entomological work, with hand-coloured illustrations. An American entomologist and librarian, Harris's work was first publ...

The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism

J. H. Jeans · 1911 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.50 | $317.04 | ¥50,634)

Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press, 1911. Cloth. A very smart second edition of Jeans' mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism. Second edition. Scarce work. With figures and mathematical formulae throughout. A detailed study on the divisions of electrom...

The Birds of Yorkshire

T. H. Nelson · 1907 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.18 | $521.80 | ¥83,336)

London, A. Brown and Sons, 1907 . First edition. Leather. The beautifully bound first edition of Thomas Hudson Nelson illustrated study of the native avifauna of Yorkshire. The two volume first edition of this work by British ornithologist Thomas Hudson Nelson.Nelson had an ex...

Glaucus or the Wonders of the Shore

Charles Kingsley · 1903 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.92 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1903. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's influential natural history work. The fifth edition, ninth impression of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Illustrated with eleven colour plate...

Consider Her Ways & Others

John Wyndham · 1961 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.64 | $231.18 | ¥36,921)

London, Michael Joseph, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A well presented first edition of this work comprised of six short stories by John Wyndham. A first edition of these works published together in this manner. Consider Her Ways was published originally in 1956. It has been rep...

A Plunge Into Space

Robert Cromie; Jules Verne · 1891 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.29 | $455.75 | ¥72,787)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, [1891]. Cloth. The second edition of Robert Cromie's famous Utopian novel, this second edition with a preface by Jules Verne, and a frontispiece. The second edition, with a preface by Jules Verne.This issue without preliminary leaves, the f...