Scienza e natura

The Book of Nature Study

J. Bretland Farmer · 1908 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, The Caxton Publishing Company , [1908-13]. Cloth. An uncommon complete collection of this fully illustrated study of natural history by John Bretland Farmer, in the original uniform bindings. Uncommon complete set of six volumes in the original uniform bindings. A full...

New Naturalist Monographs: The Badger; the Redstart; the Yellow Wagtail

Ernest Neal; John Buxton; Stuart Smith · 1948 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, Collins , 1948-50. First edition. Cloth. Three first editions from the Naturalist Monographs series complete with dust wrapper, containing studies of the badger, redstart, and yellow wagtail. Three volumes from Collins' 'New Naturalist Monographs' series...

The Diary of a Norwich Hospital Medical Student 1858-1860

Shephard T. Taylor · 1930 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Norwich, Jarrold and Sons, 1930. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Shephard T. Taylor's very scarce medical student journal from 1858 to 1860, a lovely first edition. The first edition, first impression of this work. A very scarce copy, rarely seen on the market.Shephard ...

Gãƒâ©Ographie Illustrãƒâ©E Des Ardennes

Albert Meyrac; A. Chuquet · 1900 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Charleville , Edouard Jolly , 1900. First edition. Leather. A sweeping volume exploring the history and geography of Belgian Ardennes, a bright first edition of this work. The first edition of this work. A pictorial exploration of the geography and history of Ardennes, Belgian...

Clone

Richard Cowper · 1972 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1972. First edition. Cloth. An uncorrected proof copy of Cowper's science fiction novel, which centres around four human clones in the year 2072. Uncorrected proof copy. In the publisher's paper wraps, with a price-clipped dust wrapper.Â...

The Shadow of Heaven

Bob Shaw · 1991 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, Victor Gollancz , 1991. Cloth. The uncommon first Gollancz edition of this science fiction by Bob Shaw, an excellent copy. The first edition thus by Gollancz featuring the author's revisions. a fast-moving science fiction thriller by Bob Shaw following the disappe...

The Annals of the Heechee

Frederik Pohl · 1987 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Victor Gollancz , 1987. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of the uncommon first UK edition of this Heechee novel by Frederik Pohl, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition of this science fiction by Frederick Pohl, preceded by the true ...

Testimony of Light

Helen Greaves · 1970 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Great Britain, The World Fellowship Press Ltd. 1970. Cloth. A remarkable autobiographical work describing the author's telepathic encounter's with her deceased friend. Exploring the telepathic relationship between the living and the dead, in this case, the author and...

Footprints of the Creator, of the Asterolepis of Stromness

Hugh Miller · 1870 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1870. Cloth. A lovely later impression of Hugh Miller's exploration into geology and its relationship to the Bible, bound in decorative cloth. Written by Hugh Miller, a prominent Scottish geologist.This work first appeared in 1850, with this b...

Tracts on the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables

Abbe Spallanzani; John Graham Dalyell [trans.] · 1803 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Edinburgh, Printed or William Creech ad Archd. Constable , 1803. Leather. The first volume of this scarce treaty of natural history by Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani, the second edition. The second edition of this work. A scarce copy. The first volume of two of this stu...

Transport Pioneers of the Twentieth Century

Sir Peter Allen; Graham Robson · 1981 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Cambridge, Patrick Stephens, 1981. Cloth. An excellent limited edition collection of interviews with pioneers of transport, presented in a slipcase and lavishly illustrated throughout. Containing interviews with Thomas Sopwith, Robert E. Dicker, C. Hamilton Ellis, Leo Villa, S...

British Spiders

G. H. Locket; A. F. Millidge · 1952 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Not Stated, Ray Society, 1952-74. First edition. Cloth. A complete collection of this work on arachnology by Locket and Millidge for the Ray Society, each with an unclipped dust wrapper. Written by George Hazelwood Locket and Alfred Frank Millidge, British arachnologists who s...

John Ray; Synopsis Methodica Stirpum Britannicarum; Carl Linnaeus: Flora Anglica

John Ray; Carl Linnaeus · 1973 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, The Ray Society , 1973. Cloth. A lovely facsimile edition of the 1724 edition of John Ray's ;'Synopsis Methodica' and of Carl Linnaues' 'Flora Anglica' of 1754 and 1759. One volume comprising two facsimiles of important works of natural sc...

Science and Government

C. P. Snow · 1961 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Oxford University Press, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition political essay by English novelist C. P. Snow, presented in an unclipped dust wrapper. This essay examines the differences between governments and scientists when it comes to having soci...

The Road to Corlay

Richard Cowper · 1978 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Richard Cowper's exciting science fiction novel, the first novel in a series, in the iconic original yellow Gollancz dust wrapper. Set a thousand years into the future, Britain has become seven ...

La Grande Aventure Des Baleines

Georges Blond · 1959 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Strasourg, Selection des Amis du Livre Strasbourg, 1959. Leather. A beautiful and scarce French work detailing the life and history of whales, illustrated with photographs throughout. This work contains four chapters, including on topics such as whales and man and whalers in t...

The Museum of Science and Art

Dionysius Lardner · 1854 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Not Stated, Walton & Maberley, 1854. Leather. Numerous editions of Lardner's 'Museum of Science and Art' bound together in leather and richly illustrated. The 'Museum of Science and Art' was published in twelve volumes between 1854 and 1856.This set co...

Five Science Fiction Novels

Martin Greenberg · 1952 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

New York, Gnome Press, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this fantastic collection of science fiction novels, with works by van Vogt, Leiber and Norman L. Knight. Contains 'The Chronicler' by A. E. van Vogt, 'Destiny Times Three' by Fritz Leibe...

Swords of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1948 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

California, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, 1948. Cloth. A lovely 1948 reprint of the eighth Barsoom novel, an exciting science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A 1948 reprint of this work, though 1936 is stated to the edition page; this is the 1948 reprint as the cloth is a t...

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Henry Walter Bates · 1864 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.47 | $515.21 | ¥82,273)

London, John Murray, 1864. Cloth. The second edition of Henry Walter Bates' important work regarding his trip to the Amazon Basin. An influential work, referred to by Charles Darwin as the best book of Natural History travels ever published. With a folding plate to the re...