Scienza e natura

The Quickening of Caliban: A Modern Story of Evolution

J. Compton Rickett · 1893 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, [1893]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of J. Compton Rickett's only science-fiction novel, surrounding the evolution of a new species of human. The first edition of this scarce work.In the publisher's original green ...

English Forests and Forest Trees, Historical, Legendary, and Descriptive

Anonymous · 1853 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co, 1853. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this charming study of the forests and forest trees of England, with an array of lovely illustrations throughout. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding. ...

A Woman of the Ice Age

L. P. Gratacap · 1906 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

New York, Brentano's, 1906. First edition. Hardback. A scarce science fiction novel set in the Ice Age by Louis Pope Gratacap, the first edition of this thought provoking work. The first edition of this scarce work.'A Woman of the Ice Age' is a science fiction n...

Scenes Et Tableaux de la Nature

Louis Figuier · 1892 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1892. Leather. The sixth edition of this illustrated French work on natural disasters and geography by Louis FIguier. The sixth edition.In the original French.Bound by the Relfe Brothers.An interesting volume on geography and natural disasters.With chap...

Taking Notes on Nature&Apos;S Wild Inventions

Conrad Hilberry · 1999 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.94 | ¥12,446)

Indiana, Printed by Snowy Egret, 1999. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this limited work from Conrad Hilberry, signed by the author with a letter to friends. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies signed by the author of which this is number three hun...

The Loafers of Refuge

Joseph Green · 1965 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of the first U.K. edition of Joseph Green's first full-length sci-fi novel. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, in the original wraparound. 'The Loafers of ...

The Bitter Pill

A. Bertram Chandler · 1972 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Melbourne, Wren, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this brilliant sci-fi novel by A. Bertram Chandler, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Bitt...

Zoological Recreations

W. J. Broderip · 0 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1848 . Cloth. A well-presented, early edition of this zoological study written by English lawyer and naturalist, William John Broderip. Bound in contemporary full cloth, with original spine labels reattached. Bound without the title page, edition page ...

The Birds of Surrey

John A. Bucknill · 1900 · Rooke Books

£238.00 (€285.28 | $314.41 | ¥50,208)

London, R. H. Porter, 1900 . First edition. Leather. A handsome copy of the first edition of Sir John Strachey's illustrated ornithological study of the birds of Surrey. The first edition of this work by British lawyer and Judge John Alexander Strachey Bucknill, who serve...

The White King of Manoa

Joseph Hatton · 1899 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon historical sci-fi novel, featuring Sir Walter Raleigh, a smart author's presentation copy. The first edition of this uncommon work.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the fro...

The End of It All

Jack Danvers [Camille Auguste Marie Caseleyr] · 1962 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, William Heinamann, 1962 . First edition. Cloth. An uncorrected proof copy of Jack Danvers's very scarce thriller, set in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. An uncorrected proof of this very scarce work, with the publication date and intended price handwritten t...

Communication Among Social Bees

Martin Lindauer · 1971 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1971. Cloth. A smart third printing of this behavioral study on social bees. Third printing. Scarce work. Harvard Books in Biology, Number 2. Illustrated with eighty-one in-text figures. A detailed study on communication between social ...

Upland Kenya Wild Flowers: A Flora of the Ferns and Herbaceous Flowering Plants of Upland Kenya

A. D. Q. Agnew · 1974 · Rooke Books

£128.00 (€153.43 | $169.10 | ¥27,002)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on the ferns and flowering plants of upland Kenya. First edition. Illustrated throughout with various figures and maps. A detailed and comprehensive study into the ferns...

A California Flora with Supplement

Philip A. Munz; David D. Keck · 1973 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

Berkley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1973. Cloth. A smart copy of this combined edition of works on the flora of California, USA. Combined edition. This volume contains A California Flora, originally published 1959, with the Supplement to A California Flora...

The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland

H. J. Elwes (Henry John Elwes); A. H. Henry (Augustine Henry) · 1969 · Rooke Books

£296.00 (€354.80 | $391.03 | ¥62,443)

Yorkshire, S. R. Publishers; The Royal Forestry Society, 1969-72. Cloth. The complete, republished seven volume set of H. J. Elwes and A. H. Henry's work on British and Irish trees, in their original dust wrappers. Republished. Originally published privately by R. & R. Cl...

Doctor Therne

H. Rider Haggard; Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting science fiction novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Following a smallpox epidemic that sweeps across England. Written as an attack on the anti-v...

A Demigod

[Edward Payson Jackson] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this science fiction novel which looks into eugenics, an uncommon work written by Edward Payson Jackson. The first edition of this uncommon work.'A Demigod' follows aa Eugenics programmes f...

Les Robinsons Lunaires

G. Le Faure · 1893 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

Paris, E. Dentu, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling late nineteenth century science fiction novel about a lunar voyage, illustrated throughout by Fernand Fau. In the original French.The first edition of this science fiction novel, in which a famil...

The Prince of Atlantis

Lillian Elizabeth Roy · 1929 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

New York, The Educational Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition science fiction novel by Lillian Elizabeth Roy, concerning the flight of Atlanteans from a destroyed Atlantis. The first edition of this uncommon work.'The Prince of Atlantis' is a...

The Great Prince Shan

E. Phillips Oppenheim · 1922 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of E. Phillips Oppenheim's thrilling science fiction novel, set in the near future. The first US edition, first printing, published in March 1922. The first edition in book form; this work ...