Scienza e natura

Curiosities of Natural History. First Series.

Francis T. Buckland · 1890 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. Leather. A lovely leather bound copy of this fascinating work by Francis T. Buckland, the renowned English surgeon, zoologist, popular author and natural historian. Rebound in a lovely full polished calf binding with gilt crest of Ellesme...

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

Hugh Miller · 1857 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Edinburgh; London, Thomas Constable & Co.; Shepherd & Elliot; Hamilton, Adams, & Co. 1857 . First edition. Cloth. A smart, illustrated first edition of this fascinating nineteenth-century geology work. The first edition. Eighteenth thousand. In the publisher's original re...

Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference

[eds. by Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder] · 1993 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. Cloth. The second edition of an extensive record listing the thousands of different mammal species discovered up to 1993, with details of distribution and locality interspersed. The second edition of Mammal Species of the World:...

L&Apos;Art Francais Dans le Livre D&Apos;Oiseaux (Elements D&Apos;Une Iconographie Ornithologique Francaise)

René Ronsil · 1957 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Paris, Société Ornithologique de France et de L'Union Française, 1957. First edition. Leather. The first edition of a celebration of bird painting and ornithological artists over French history, with beautiful plates throughout. The first edition of L'art Francais...

Ellison Wonderland

Harlan Ellison · 1979 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Millington, 1979 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this entertaining collection of seventeen short stories from New Wave speculative fiction author Harlan Ellison. The first UK edition, first impression of this work. In the publisher's original uncli...

Monographie Und Ikonographie Der Orchidaceen-Gattungen (Serapias, Aceras, Loroglossum, Barlia; Dactylorhiza)

Erich Nelson · 1968 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

Chernex-Montreux , Verlag E. Nelson, 1968-1976. First edition. Cloth. A desirable botanical set, comprising all text and plate volumes issued for Erich Nelson's study of orchids and offering upwards of 100 fine colour plates. First edition.  A pleasing set including the ...

Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, Illustrative Principally of Their Habits of Life, Instincts, Sagacity, and Uses to Mankind. Arranged According to the System of Linnaeus

The Rev. W. Bingley [William Bingley] · 1809 · Rooke Books

£385.00 (€461.48 | $508.61 | ¥81,218)

London, Darton and Harvey; J. Walker; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme et. al. 1809. First edition. Leather. A richly engraved natural history of quadrupeds by English cleric and naturalist, William Bingley, complete with seventy-one plates. The first and only edition of this un...

The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and the Naturalist&Apos;S Calendar

Gilbert White [add. William Jardine], [ed. by Edward Jesse] · 1888 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.84 | ¥31,433)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1888. Leather. A charmingly illustrated edition of the parson-naturalist's iconic work, with colour plates and in full calf. A lovely illustrated edition of The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and Th...

The Natural History of Selborne; with Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and the Naturalist&Apos;S Calendar

Rev. Gilbert White; William Jardine; Edward Jesse · 1861 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1861 . Cloth. A profusely illustrated edition of Gilbert White's collection of letters and naturalist findings. A later edition, first published in 1789 by the author's brother. In the original Henry Bohn Illustrated Library green cloth bindin...

1898 the Fishes of North and Middle America: Part II; 1927 Citrus Products: Part II; 1931 Flora of the Lancetilla Valley Honduras; 1936 the Forests and Flora of British Honduras; 1936 Index of American Palms, and Fossil Palms; 1937 the Genus Bidens: Part I; 1937 the Genus Bidens: Part II.

David Starr Jordan; Barton Warren Evermann; James B. McNair; Paul C. Standley; Samuel J. Record; B. E. Dahlgren; A. C. Noe; Earl Edward Sherff · 1898 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.63 | ¥46,411)

Washington; Chicago, Government Printing Office; Field Museum of Natural History, 1898-1937. First edition. Paperback. A scarce seven-volume collection of highly illustrated botanical and natural history first editions from the Field Museum of Natural History and the United St...

Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands

Charles St John; Sir Herbert Maxwell · 1919 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London; Edinburgh, T. N. Foulis, 1919. Cloth. Wonderfully illustrated natural history volume on the Scottish Highlands by Charles St John. In publisher's original cloth binding.Profusely illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-eight plates in colour and black and white an...

British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800 Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Earliest Times Until 1800

Blanche Henrey · 1975 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London , Oxford University Press, 1975. Cloth. A history of British gardening literature published before the nineteenth century. With many illustrations throughout, many of which are coloured. Volume I: The Sixeenth and Seventeenth Century Volume II: The Eighteenth Century Hi...

Born of Man and Woman

Richard Matheson · 1954 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.51 | $475.58 | ¥75,944)

Philadelphia, The Chamberlain Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of gripping science fiction works. This is the first anthology of Matheson's works, named after the first story in this book and his first published short story 'Born...

Renaissance

Raymond F. Jones · 1951 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

New York, Gnome Press, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this pulp-era science fiction novel by Raymond Jones, with the original dustwrapper. The blurb explains: "In the distant future, a strange plan for civilisation is being followed by man. Two different planet...

Hoppus&Apos;S Tables for Measuring or Practical Measuring Made Easy

E. Hoppus · 1837 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Longman & Co.; J. Richardson; Baldwin & Co. etc, 1837. Leather. A copy of Edward Hoppus' Tables of Measuring. Bound in diced leather with gilt decoration to the spine. With Alexander Davis' ink signature on the front pastedown. Edward Hoppus (d. 1739), was a ...

Memoirs of the Royal Society; Being a New Abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions Volume X

Mr Baddam · 1741 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.51 | $475.58 | ¥75,944)

London, G. Smith, 1741. Leather. A scarce copy of Memoirs of the Royal Society Vol. X by Mr. Baddam. Illustrated with a Great Variety of Copper Plates. Giving an Account of the Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Learned and Ingenious in many considerable Parts of the Wo...

Interest at One View, Calculated to a Farthing

Richard Hayes · 1789 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London, J. Johnson G. G. J. et al. 1789. Leather. An early book of interest tables. Bound in morocco leather with gilt bands. Uncommon. Richard Hayes was an accountant. In a full morocco binding. The binding is tight and firm. The boards are attached by the cords only. There i...

Modern and Ancient Geophysical Sedimentation

R. H. Dott and Robert H. Shaver · 1974 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London , Society for Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 1974. Cloth. A fascinating study into geosynclinal sedimentation, illustrated with diagrams throughout. Featuring a photographic frontispiece of Marshall Kay. Special publication, number nineteen. In original clo...

Catalogue of Hardy Trees and Shrubs, Growing in the Grounds of Syon House, Brentford

A. Bruce Jackson · 1910 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,915)

London, West, Newman and Co. 1910. Cloth. A list of the trees and shrubs from the gardens and grounds of Syon House in Brentford. Syon House, and its 200 acre (80 hectare) park, is in west London. It belongs to the Duke of Northumberland and is now his family's London res...

Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

W. J. Bean · 1921 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London , John Murray, 1921. Cloth. A scarce copy of this work on the indigenous trees and shrubs of Britain. Third edition. Illustrated throughout with numerous vignettes and photographic plates. Volume I covers A-K, and volume II covers L-Z. Complete in two volumes. In green ...