Scienza e natura

Jay Young&Apos;S Amazing Pop-Up Science Flea Circus

Jay Young; Chris Oxlade · 2002 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, Chrysalis Books, Big Fish, 2002 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this thrilling children's pop-up flea circus, that aims to simultaneously entertain and educate, in its discussion of mechanics, energy, and light phenomena. The first edition of this ...

Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day

Hon. Ralph Abercromby · 1907 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1907. Cloth. A smart copy of this detailed study on the changes of weather from the International Science Series. Sixth impression. The International Science Series. A detailed and comprehensive study of weather and its change...

The Pinetum, Report on the Unusual Intensity of the Frost of December 1860

George Gordon; Duncan Forbes · 1867 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London; Aberdeen, Henry G. Bohn; Simpkin Marshall & Co; Geo. Clark & Son, 1867-80. Leather. Two arboricultural works bound in one volume, by George Gordon and Duncan Forbes, Forbes' work being signed. Bound by Henderson & Bisset. Two volumes bound in one. 'Report o...

On the Track of the Mail-Coach: Being a Volume of Reminiscences Personal and Otherwise

F. E. Baines · 1895 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charming collection of reminiscences from coach journeys on the mail-coach. First edition. With a frontispiece. A charming collection of reminiscences from the author's own adventur...

The Man Who Was Seven Times God

John George Shaw · 1936 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Rich & Cowan LTD, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce science fiction novel, following a man who declares himself a god in seven places, the first edition. The first edition of this very scarce work.'The Man Who Was Seven Times God' is a curious sci-fi ...

The Moon Gods

Edgar Jepson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930. First edition. Cloth. An exciting Lost Race novel by Edgar Jepson, the first edition of this very scarce work. The first edition of this very scarce work.'The Moon Gods' is a science fiction novel, in which a Lost race is discov...

The Dew-Drop and the Mist: An Account of the Phenomena and Properties of Atmospheric Vapour in Various Parts of the World

Charles Tomlinson · 0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c1860. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce scientific work on vapours from different parts of the world. Scarce work. With a frontispiece and many engravings. A detailed scientific work on the nature, properties, and dangers of...

The Hawks of North America: Their Field Identification and Feeding Habits

John Bichard May · 1935 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

New York, The National Association of Audubon Societies, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated ornithological study on the hawks of North America. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty images, many of which are...

The Quickening of Caliban

J. Compton Rickett · 1893 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, [1893]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce sci-fi novel by Joseph Compton Rickett, following the discovery of a lost race in Africa. The first edition of this scarce work.A Lost World sci-fi novel, in which a "more mode...

Peace Under Earth

Paul Beaujon; [Beatrice Warde] · 1938 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Megaw, 1938. First edition. Hardback. A scarce science fiction novella set in the near future, the first edition of this work by Beatrice Warde. The first edition of this scarce work.In the original glassine wrap.A short science fiction novella, comprising of dialogues...

Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy

John Hunter · 1792 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.61 | ¥121,300)

London, G. Nicol; J. Johnson, 1792. Leather. The second edition of this important and illustrated work by John Hunter, presenting his observations on animal anatomy. The second edition of this work.A detailed treatise on animal anatomy, an important and early work on the subje...

A Waterhen&Apos;S Worlds

Eliot Howard · 1940 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Cambridge, University Press, 1940. First edition. Cloth. Eliot Howard's detailed study on waterhens, a signed first edition copy. The first edition.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, 'Gilbert Ashton, from E. H. May 1940&apos.Illustrated with two...

Zero to Eighty

Akkad Pseudoman; [Edwin Fitch Northrup] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

New Jersey, Scientific Publishing Company, 1937. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated science fiction novel by American inventor Edwin Fitch Northrup, the first edition. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An intriguing sci-fi novel, comp...

War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction

Richard Toronto; Earl Kemp · 2013 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Jefferson and London, McFarland & Company, 2013 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition of Toronto's fascinating guide to the 1940s 'Shaver Mystery', with a loosely inserted typed review from American science fiction editor Earl Kemp. The first edition of ...

Brigands of the Moon

Ray Cummings · 1931 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.40 | ¥39,027)

Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this exciting space opera by Ray Cummings, a nice association copy with the bookplate of Donald Allen Wollheim. The first edition of this work.'Brigands of the Moon' follows the adventurous...

Ten Times One Is Ten: The Possible Reformation

Frederic Ingham; [Edward Everett Hale] · 1871 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1871. First edition. Cloth. Edward Everett Hale's haunting sci-fi novel, the first edition of this curious tale. The first edition of this work.'Ten Times One Is Ten' is the first novel in a sequence by Edward Everett Hale, writing unde...

British Entomology; Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects Found in Great Britain and Ireland

John Curtis · 1824 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.46 | ¥209,902)

London, Printed for the Author, 1824-1825 . First edition. Leather. The first editions of the first two volumes of John Curtis's monumental work of entomology, beautifully illustrated with hand-coloured plates. The first edition of the first two volumes of Curtis's m...

Science Fantasy No. 67, 68 and 69

Burnett Swann; Rudyard Kipling et al. · 1964 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Roberts & Vinter Ltd, 1964-5. First edition. Paperback. Three volumes of the 'Science Fantasy' periodical, filled with science fiction and fantasy short stories by a host of noted authors such as Rudyard Kipling. Three volumes of the 'Science Fantasy&apo...

If All Else Fails

Craig Strete · 1980 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1980 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of science-fiction short stories from Craig Strete, with notes and ownership stamps of noted science-fiction literary agent, Leslie Flood. The first US edition. First publishe...

Hector Servadac: Anomalous Phenomena, and, Homeward Bound

Jules Verne; I. O. Evans · 1965 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Arco Publications, 1965. Cloth. A smart set of the exciting sci-fi novel following a comet which picks up a group of people, originally written in French by Jules Verne. Jules Vernes' brilliant science fiction novel 'Hector Servadac', published as two pa...