Scienza e natura

Actinologia Britannica a History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals

Philip Henry Gosse · 1860 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.20 | $779.43 | ¥124,465)

London, Van Voorst, 1860. First edition. Cloth. The first and only edition of this stunning work regarding British sea anemones and coral, illustrated in colour throughout. Widely considered Gosse's best work. 'Erratum in Part III' tipped in to preface. With a l...

Beautiful Shells Their Nature, Structure, and Uses Familiarly Explained with Directions for Collecting, Cleaning, and Arranging Them in the Cabinet and Descriptions of the Most Remarkable Species.

H. G. Adams · 1855 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1855. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated and very scarce first edition of this guide to the science, history, and artistry of shells, from collecting to classification. In the publisher's original pictorial red cloth.This copy is...

Synopsis of Quadrupeds

[Thomas Pennant] · 1771 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.90 | ¥179,313)

Chester, J. Monk, 1771. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Thomas Pennant's scarce study of four legged animals, a comprehensive natural history study from the noted naturalist and antiquarian, bound in full calf. The first edition of this scarce work. Illustra...

A Naturalist in North Celebes

Sydney J. Hickson · 1889 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, John Murray, 1889 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Sydney J. Hickson's account of his 1880s expedition to northern Sulawesi, in which he offers his observations on zoology, botany and ethnology. A first edition.Illustrated with a chromolithographic fro...

Nature Rambles in London

Kate M. Hall; Beatrice Harraden · 1908 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of guides to finding nature in the city of London from Kate M. Hall. First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with ninety-four images including a frontispiece, forty...

Fur and Feather or Fur, Feather and Fin Series

Alfred E. T. Watson [editor] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1894-1913. Cloth. A collection of eleven volumes of the Fur and Feather or the Fur, Feather and Fin series, edited by British journalist Alfred Edward Thomas Watson. Eleven volumes of a twelve volume set. A series written to present monographs, as...

A Key to the Complete Practical Arithmetician

Thomas Keith · 1813 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, C. Law; J. Walker; et Al. 1813 . Leather. The third edition of Thomas Keith's popular and highly reprinted mathematics reference work, very uncommon to see in an early edition. The third edition. Bound in full calf, with the boards rebacked and a new spine. An ear...

Navy (Health). Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy

Algernon Egerton; C. Inigo Thomas; O. Murray et al. · 1869 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, HMSO, 1869-1915 . First edition. Paperback. Six fascinating and very scarce volumes of Royal Navy medical reports and statistical health data, offering insight into the health of the navy between 1869 and 1915. Six very scarce 19th and 20th century reports of the healt...

The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere

Dr. G. Hartwig · 1886 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated guide to the world's atmosphere by Dr. G. Hartwig, with a folding map. A new edition of this work. In the original decorative cloth binding, with gilt fore-edge. Illustrated with eight chromoxylogra...

Lundy: Its History and Natural History

Lewis R. W. Loyd · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1925. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon natural history of the English island of Lundy, complete with plates and a folding map. First edition. In the original navy cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nineteen monochrome plates and ...

The Oyster & Dredgers of Whitstable

Allan Ovenden Collard · 1902 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Joseph Collard, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated study of the oysters and dredgers of Whitstable, a town on the north coast of Kent, England. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images including a doub...

Natural History Rambles: Underground

J. E. Taylor · 1880 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880. Leather. A smartly bound early edition of this study of natural history from British writer and editor John Ellor Taylor. Early edition, first published in 1879. Natural History Rambles series. Illustrated throughout. An...

The Family Herbal, or an Account of All Those English Plants, Which Are Remarkable for Their Virtues, and of the Drugs Which Are Produces by Vegetables of Other Countries; with Their Descriptions and Their Uses, As Proved by Experience.

Sir John Hill · 1820 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

Bungay, C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, [1820]. Leather. A smartly bound copy of John Hill's popular guide to botanical remedies, bound in full calf and illustrated with beautiful hand coloured plates. An illustrated edition.Illustrated with fifty-four hand coloured plates...

Familiar Wild Flowers

F. Edward Hulme · 1877 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Cassell and Company, 1877-1885. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the first five series of F. Edward Hulme's beautifully illustrated study of the wild flowers of Great Britain. A first edition set of the first five volumes of this work, which ultimately...

The Book of the Havana Cigar

Brian Innes · 1983 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Orbis Publishing, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated compendium about the "king of cigars" from member of The Temperance Seven, Brian Innes. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.An intriguing history o...

The Fowler in Ireland or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl Including Instructions in the Art of Shooting and Capturing Them

Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey · 1882 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Jan Van Voorst, 1882. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Ralph Payne-Gallwey's sporting work on hunting wildfowl and seafowl with notes on their habitats, beautifully illustrated and bound in crushed half morocco. The first edition. Illustrated with a m...

The Oyster: A Popular Summary of a Scientific Study

William K. Brooks · 1905 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1905. Cloth. A smart second edition of this study of the oyster from American zoologist William Keith Brooks. Second edition, revised. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. A scientific and practical study of the American oyste...

The New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts

Edward Maunde Thompson; George Frederick Warner; Frederic George Kenyon; Julius Parnell Gilson · 1903 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.27 | ¥253,148)

London, Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press, 1903-1912 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout with facsimile plates, present here are the first two volumes of the first series of this impressive publication from the New Palaeographical Society, bound in four vol...

Sport in Wildest Britain

H. Hesketh Prichard · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, William Heinemann, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated account of H. Hesketh-Prichard's experiences hunting in Britain. The first edition.'Sport in Wildest Britain' recounts the author's experiences of bird ...

The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

Hugh Miller · 1857 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co. 1857. Cloth. A smart seventeenth thousand of this illustrated collection of studies on natural history and geology. Seventeenth thousand. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one hundred and fifty-two in-text figures. A collection of natural ...