Scienza e natura

The Flying Saucer Vision

John Michell · 1974 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Abacus, 1974. Paperback. The Abacus edition of this exciting work exploring flying saucers and space travel. Illustrated throughout including 15 photographs on 8 plates. Collated complete. Chapters include: 'The Flying Saucer Age', 'Another Race on Earth...

The Birds of the British Isles

T. A. Coward; A. W. Boyd (ed) · 1850 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London and New York, Frederick Warne and Co. 1850-1855. Cloth. Two smart volumes exploring the birds of the British isles, with illustrations. Two volumes of three of The Birds of the British Isles, including the second and third volumes. The second volume, reprinted in 1955,...

Tide&Apos;S Ending

B. B. · 1950 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Hollis & Carter, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this study on tideways, saltings and creeks. First edition. In the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Highly illustrated throughout with 16 coloured plates. Collated complete. Written by "B. B...

Geography Made Interesting

James J. Gaskin · 0 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Dublin, McGlashan & Gill, c1864. Cloth. A very scarce volume of interesting geography quiz questions, with a folding map. A new edition copy of Geography Made Interesting which contains a series of general quiz questions on Europe, Asia, Africa and America. With a folding map...

Nature Near London

Richard Jefferies · 1883 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. Cloth. An interesting first edition guide to natural places and wildlife within and around London. The first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. A guide to nature, in and around the city of London. Wi...

Manual of the New Zealand Flora

T. F. Cheeseman · 1906 · Rooke Books

£94.00 (€112.67 | $124.18 | ¥19,830)

New Zealand , John MacKay, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this charming manual to New Zealand Flora by T.F. Cheeseman. First edition of this work. An uncommon manual guide to New Zealand flora by New Zealand botanist Thomas Cheeseman, with a history ...

Recreations in Natural History; or, Popular Sketches of British Quadrupeds

Anonymous · 1815 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, William Clarke, 1815. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this charmingly illustrated study of British quadrupeds, featuring twenty-four engraved plates, and in a smart straight grained morocco binding. The first edition of this scarce early nineteenth ...

A Natural History of British Moths

The Rev. F. O. Morris · 1861 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.78 | $1,182.35 | ¥188,806)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts , 1861-70. First edition. Leather. Morris's natural history of the British moths, the scarce first edition complete in four volumes. The scarce first edition of this work, complete in four volumes. Francis Orpen Morris's h...

British Moths and Their Transformations

J. O. Westwood; H. N. Humphreys · 1854 · Rooke Books

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

London, Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1854 . Leather. Beautifully illustrated with bright hand coloured lithographs, this is a pleasing copy of H. N. Humphreys and J. O. Westwood's exhaustive study of the British moth. The 1854 new and revised two volume edition of H. N. Humphreys a...

Amid the High Hills

Sir Hugh Fraser · 1923 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,915)

London, A. & C. Black , 1923. First edition. Cloth. A charming topographical work concerning natural history by Hugh Fraser, with plates both in colour and in black and white. A charming work of natural history containing a series of articles contributed by Sir Hugh Fraser to ...

Bacteria As Friends and Foes of the Dairy Farmer

Wilfrid Sadler · 1912 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Methuen & Co. 1912. First edition. Fine Binding. A scarce, early twentieth-century work on bacteria and its uses in agriculture, handsomely bound in full calf prize binding. A fascinating, early twentieth-century work on bacteria and its involvement in dairy farming, i...

Animal Life of the British Isles

Edward Step · 1921 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

London, Frederick Warne, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fascinating illustrated work on animal life in the British Isles, formerly owned by noted taxidermists and naturalists, Pratt & Sons. A fascinating and comprehensive work on animal life in the Briti...

The Black Flame

Stanley G. Weinbaum; Sam Moskowitz · 1995 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

San Francisco, Tachyon Publication, 1995. Cloth. The 'Newly Restored Edition' of Weinbaum's popular post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First Edition Thus, being the 'Complete Restored Edition&apos. In the unclipp...

Universal Magnetism: A Private Training Course in the Magnetic Control of Others

Edmund Shaftesbury · 1942 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Marple, Cheshire, Psychology Publishing Co. Ltd, 1942. Cloth. A remarkable work on mind-control by Edmund Shaftesbury, published for the Psychology Publishing Co. A fascinating work on mind control, detailing realms seven through ten, on control of individuals, the estate of s...

Yorkshire Geological Society Vol. XVI, Part III. The Carboniferous Rocks

T. McKenny Hughes · 1908 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Leeds; London, Chorley & Pickersgill, Ltd.; The Electric Press, 1908. Paperback. A well presented article on Ingleborough's Carboniferous Rocks by T. McKenny Hughes, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society in 1908. A well presented article on In...

The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

Ralph O'Connor · 2007 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2007. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first impression of this sweeping book of geology by Ralph O'Connor, complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. Ralph O'Conn...

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley · 1893 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1893. Leather. A lovely later edition of Thomas Henry Huxley's scientific collection of essays, bound in smart full leather. With chapters on the improvement of natural knowledge, emancipation, scientific education, criticisms of 'On the Ori...

Lettres D&Apos;Un Mineur En Australie

Antoine Fauchery · 1859 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1859. Paperback. A very scarce collection of letters by Antoine Fauchery noting his experiences as a gold miner in Australia, the second edition of this work. A second edition of this very scarce work.In the original glassine wrap.In the or...

Hours of Gladness

Maurice Maeterlinck; A. Teixeira de Mattos · 1912 · Rooke Books

£330.00 (€395.55 | $435.95 | ¥69,616)

London and New York, George Allen & Co. Ltd, 1912. Cloth. A delightful illustrated collection of Maeterlinck's essays on nature, with plates in colour by E. J. Detmold. Containing essays including 'The Wrath of the Bee', 'News of Spring', 'Perfume...

A Guide to the Quadrupeds and Reptiles of Europe

Lord Clermont · 1859 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, John Van Voorst, 1859. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition, being a handy concise guide to European vertebrates. Written by Thomas Fortesque, the 1st Baron Clermont, a historian and politician. This work has been compiled from the writings of numerous aut...