Scienza e natura

Tiny Toilers and Their Works

G. Glenwood Clark · 1931 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, J. Coker & Co. 1931. Cloth. A smart scientific work for juveniles relating the activities and lives of various insects, illustrated throughout and with a bright dust wrapper. Written by Graves Glenwood Clark, a Professor of American Literature.Award to Dorothy Liley fo...

Old Stones: Notes of Lectures on the Plutonic, Silurian, and Devonian Rocks in the Neighbourhood of Malvern

W.S. Symonds · 1855 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, H.W. Lamb, Royal Library, 1855. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of W.S. Symonds work on geology, bound decoratively by Bone & Son. A lovely copy of W.S. Symonds's series of lectures on geology. Beautifully bound in red cloth by Bone & Son; their binder&...

Assorted Works on Palestine&Apos;S Climate

Various · 1933 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Various, Various, c1936. Cloth. A collection of various journals and essays regarding Palestine's geology and climate, bound together in one volume. Comprising 'Climatic Conditions in Palestine and the Neighbouring Countries During the Month of April' from 1933,...

The Power and the Fire Worm

Ian Watson · 1987 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,594)

London, Headline; Victor Gollancz , 1987-1988. First edition. Cloth. A collection of two first edition novels by the sci-fi author Ian Watson. An assorted collection of two novels by Ian Watson. Including: The Power, first edition of 1987, following the wake of the Power aft...

The Birds of Natal and Zululand

P A Clancey · 1964 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Edinburgh and London, Oliver and Boyd , 1964. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this fantastic volume exploring the avifauna of Natal and Zululand by P A Clancey. P A Clancey explores the avifauna of Natal and Zululand and all its immediately adjacent territo...

The Wild Flowers of Repton

William Wyatt; C. G. Thornton · 1866 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Bemrose and Sons, 1866. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce study of the flora of Repton, illustrated with a folding map. The very scarce first edition of this work.A study of the natural wild flora of Repton, a village in South Derbyshire, on t...

Cloak of Aesir

John W. Campbell Jr. · 1952 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1952. Cloth. A first edition of John W. Campbell Jr.'s short science fiction story collection. Containing seven of Campbell's short stories: 'Forgetfulness', 'The Escape', 'The Machine', 'The Invaders&apo...

The Structure and Classification of Birds

Frank E. Beddard · 1898 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detailed study on bird anatomy, from the library of a noted zoologist, L. Harrison Matthews. The first edition of this work.Prior owner's ink inscription to the half-title, 'L. Har...

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess · 1962 · Rooke Books

£7,500.00 (€8,989.81 | $9,907.96 | ¥1,582,177)

London, Heinemann , 1962. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, signed, first edition copy of Anthony Burgess' celebrated novel, his jeu d'espirit, 'A Clockwork Orange&apos. A first edition, first issue of this canonical novel. A novel known for its use of 'Nadsa...

Synonymy of the British Non-Marine Mollusca (Recent and Post-Tertiary)

A. S. Kennard; B. B. Woodward · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, The British Museum, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Kennard and Woodward's index on British mollusca, an extensive and informational index. The first edition of this work.An extensive index of the several species of the British non-marine Mollusca...

Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geology British Museum

J W Gregory · 1899 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Longmans and Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. A complete first edition set of this uncommon work regarding the Fossil Bryozoa in the British Museum. Bookplate to the front pastedown of all volumes 'Presented by the Trustees of The British Museum' and to the re...

The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century. Two Lectures Delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th 1884

John Ruskin · 1884 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.76 | ¥32,698)

Kent, George Allen, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of two of John Ruskin's lectures on the phenomena of storm clouds. The first edition of this work. 'The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century' is a collection of two lectures, which were delivered...

Dissertation Sur L&Apos;Histoire Naturelle Et Chimique de la Coque Du Levant (Menispermum Cocculus). Examen de Son Principe Veneneux Considere Comme Alcali Vegetal, Et D&Apos;Un Nouvel Acide Particulier a Cette Semence

Pierre-Francoise-Guillaume Boullay · 1818 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

Paris, L. Coas, 1818. Disbound. A very scarce French thesis on the Levant hull, a plant growing only in tropical Asia, which grows a fatal fruit. Written by Pierre-Francoise-Guillaume Boullay. A very scarce work. In the original French. Collated, complete. Collated from Jisc f...

A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda Based on the Collections in the British Museum (Natural History)

G. C. Robson · 1929 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, The British Museum, 1929-32. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of these volumes by G. C. Robson on the twentieth century discoveries in the Cephalopod family, illustrated throughout. The first edition of these works. This work is a look at the contemporary recent...

Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society&Apos;S Proceedings, 1875. Vol XXI. [and] Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society&Apos;S Proceedings, 1876. Vol XXII. [and] Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. General Index to Vols I. To XX. Of the Society&Apos;S Proceedings and Index to Wells Chapter Records.

Unamed · 1876 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Taunton, Frederick May, 1876-7. Leather. Three volumes bound in one, charting the proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Three volumes bound in one. The volume includes Vol XXI, Vol XXII, General Index to Vols I to XX. The proceedings of t...

Scientific Instruments

Harriet Wynter; Anthony Turner · 1975 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Studio Vista, 1975. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this profusely illustrated work detailing the history and variety of scientific instruments, presented in excellent condition in the original dustwrapper. In the original price clipped dustwrapper. The firs...

Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson Seton · 1926 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1926 . Cloth. A delightfully illustrated collection of animal stories from Ernest Thompson Seton. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Illustrated with thirty plates and numerous further examples in the text from drawings by...

Quicksee: Port to Port

Ernest J. Quick · 1954 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Sussex, Ernest J. Quick, c1950. Cloth. The very scarce fourth edition of Ernest J. Quick"s extensive maritime reference, providing nearly 150,000 port-to-port distances alongside practical speed and voyage-time tables. In the publisher's original cloth binding.  Fourth e...

The Catechism of Nature for the Use of Children

Doctor Martinet [Joannes Florentius Martinet] · 1809 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Nottingham, C. Sutton, 1809. Cloth. A Nottingham-printed new edition of Martinet"s influential natural-history catechism for children. Rebound in a modern full red cloth binding, endpapers renewed. A new edition of John Hall"s abridged English translation, first published in 1...

Cassell&Apos;S Popular Natural History Volume I: Mammalia; Cassell&Apos;S Popular Natural History Volume II: Mammalia; Cassell&Apos;S Popular Natural History Volume III: Birds; Cassell&Apos;S Popular Natural History Volume IV.

0 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Paris, and New York, Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, c1865. Leather. The complete four-volume set of this extensively illustrated natural history work, handsomely bound in two half-calf volumes. The complete set. Four volumes bound in two.Contemporary half-calf binding, reb...