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The National Geographic Magazine Index Volume LXIII January - June

Various · 1933 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Washington, National Geographic Society , 1933. Leather. A smartly bound collection of issues from The National Geographic Magazine between January and June, 1933. With illustrations throughout. Volume LXIII, containing six issues of the magazine being Number One - January to ...

The Leopidopterist&Apos;S Guide Intended for the Young Collector, Containing Full Instructions for the Collecting, Management, Observation, Preservation, of Lepidoptera, in All Their Stages.

H. Guard Knaggs · 1869 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, John Van Voorst , 1869. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce entomological work on butterflies and moths by H. Guard Knaggs. The very scarce first edition of this scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth. This entomological work was writt...

Divide and Rule

L. Sprague de Camp · 1948 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Pennsylvania, Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of two thrilling science fiction novellas set in the Earth's future, a signed limited edition. The first edition of this work, a limited edition of five-hundred copies, of which ...

Next of Kin

Eric Frank Russell · 1959 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this military themed comical sci-fi novel by Eric Frank Russell. The scarce first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Next of Kin' is a comical sci-fi novel, ...

Sporting Wildfowl of the British Isles: Studies in Words and Pictures

Brian P. Martin · 1999 · Rooke Books

£3,500.00 (€4,195.24 | $4,623.71 | ¥738,349)

Holt, Norfolk, Fine Sporting Interests Ltd, 1999 . First edition. Leather. A sumptuous study of the wildfowl of the British Isles, one of only twelve review copies, sent to sporting and countryside author John Humphreys. Signed by the author and illustrator. A very scarce limi...

Far As Human Eye Could See

Isaac Asimov · 1988 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Grafton Books, 1988 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this collection of essays about science fiction, from iconic science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov. The first UK edition, first impression. First published in the US the year prior.In the publisher&apo...

The Rhine from Its Source to the Sea

G. C. T. Bartley (Trans); Karl Stieler; H. Wachenhusen; F. W. Hacklander · 1878 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Bickers and Son , 1878. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this detailed, profusely illustrated work on The Rhine, one of Europe's major rivers. The first UK edition. Translated from the original German by G. C. T. Bartley.Illustrated with sixty monoch...

Sub-Coelum a Sky-Built Human World

A. P. Russell · 1893 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon utopian novel by American author Addison Peale Russell, the first edition. The first edition of this uncommon work.'Sub-Coelum' is an early utopian novel by Addison Peale Russ...

The Slave of the Lamp

William North · 1855 · Rooke Books

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

New York, H. Long & Brothers, 1855. First edition. Cloth. A scarce novel by William North, a semi-autobiographical romantic Lost World tale, the first edition. The first edition of this scarce work, in the even more scarce variant red cloth.'The Slave of the Lamp' fo...

Forty Thousand in Gehenna

C. J. Cherryh · 1983 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Michigan, Phantasia Press, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition copy of one of the popular Alliance-Union sci-fi novels by C. J. Cherryh, signed the author. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page, 'For Robert, Best Regards! ...

The City in the Clouds

C. Ranger Gull · 1921 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of C. Ranger's Gulls's fantastical novel about a floating city over London. The first edition, first impression of this very scarce work. In the publisher's original unc...

The Difference Engine

William Gibson; Bruce Sterling · 1990 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1990. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of this alternative history set in a steampunk Victorian Britain. The first U.K. edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A brilliant novel of alternative history, 'The...

A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds

F. O. Morris · 1859 · Rooke Books

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

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1859-63. Leather. A beautifully illustrated set of Morris' expansive study on the nests and eggs of birds native to Britain, colourfully illustrated. Complete in three volumes. Volume I dated 1859, Volume II 1861, Volume III 1863.An immense h...

Dartmoor

L. A. Harvey; D. St Leger-Gordon · 1953 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Collins, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work by L. A. Harvey and D. St Leger-Gordon on the moorlands of Dartmoor, illustrated throughout by E. H. Ware. The first edition. Part of the 'New Naturalist' series. In the publisher's or...

The Caterpillars of the British Butterflies Including the Eggs, Chrysalids, and Food-Plants

W. J. Stokoe · 1944 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1944. Cloth. A smart copy of this colourfully illustrated study on the caterpillars of British butterflies. Based upon "The Butterfield of the British Isles" by Richard South. Illustrated with three hundred and forty-eight images, sixty-eight of...

The Fishes of the British Isles Both Fresh Water and Salt.

J. Travis Jenkins · 1925 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated work from the 'Wayside and Woodland' series on Fishes from the British isles by J. Travis Jenkins, in the scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. Part of th...

Wayside Weeds

Spencer Thomson · 1864 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1864 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first edition of this illustrated study of wild plants found on the wayside, by Spencer Thomson. First edition, in the publisher's original green cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Very scarce. Wri...

Norsk Ornithologisk Tidsskrift

H. Tho. L. Schaanning [ed] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.01 | ¥200,409)

Stavenger , Aktietrykkeriet, 1926-30. Cloth. The complete four volumes of this scarce illustrated Norwegian journal on ornithology, bound over two volumes. Four volumes containing numbers 1-15 bound over two volumes. Complete. Bound in full cloth. Illustrated with diagrams, ...

The Wonders of the Insect World

Edmund Selous · 1921 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Seeley, Service, & Co. Limited. 1921 . Cloth. A well presented copy of this illustrated study of insects, by British ornithologist and writer, Edmund Selous. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. The third edition of the work. First published in 1911....

The Love of Wild Life

Mary Maughan · 1977 · Rooke Books

£585.00 (€701.21 | $772.82 | ¥123,410)

None, None, 1977-79. Leather. A very unique hand-produced journal, recounting ornithological and zoological tours undertaken by a Mary Maughan, compiled with original photographs and drawings. A beautiful and unique hand-produced ornithological and zoological journal. With on...