Scienza e natura

Terrestrial Vegetation of California

Michael G. Barbour and Jack Major · 1977 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

New York, London, Sydney and Toronto, John Wiley and Sons , 1977. First edition. Cloth. A highly informative scarce text, exploring vegetation within California. First edition. Illustrated throughout with diagrams, tables, and photographic plates. Featuring original illustrate...

Life in Its Lower, Intermediate, and Higher Forms or Manifestations of the Divine Wisdom in the Natural History of Animals

Philip Henry Gosse · 1857 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,710)

New York, Robert Carter and Brothers , 1857. Cloth. A scarce American printing of this work of natural history. Featuring several plates, including a frontispiece of the Great Ant-Eater. Philip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist who popularised natural science. In a cloth b...

Chapters in Popular Natural History

The Right Hon. Lord Avebury · 0 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.37 | ¥4,850)

London , National Society's Depository, c1905. Cloth. A charming little volume of natural history, condensed from the lectures of Lord Avebury. "Arranged as an advanced reading book for use in elementary and high schools." With lovely illustrations and decorative head and...

The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire

J. W. Carr · 1916 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London , Nottingham Naturalists' Society, 1916. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this catalogue of Nottinghamshire fauna. Arranged by family, and containing distribuition, blooming dates, and common locations. In a blue cloth binding. Externally, generally smart...

Nature and Human Nature

Thomas Chandler Haliburton · 1859 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1859. Cloth. A bright copy of Nature and Human Nature by Thomas C. Haliburton. Bound by Leighton Son and Hodge, with a bookbinder's label on the rear pastedown. Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1796 – 1865, was one of the first major Canadian autho...

A Complete Treatise on Practical Land-Surveying

A. Nesbit, Miles Bland · 1893 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1893-1843. Leather. Handsomely rebound. Scarce. Collated, complete. Rebound in quarter morocco with gilt lettering. Miles Bland's Geometrical Problems is a first edition. Anthony Nesbit (1778-1859) was a schoolmaster and land s...

L&Apos;Enseignement Scientifique

C Grill; P Le Floch · 1937 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Paris, Librairie L'Ecole, 1937. Paperback. An educational scientific manual, covering topics from natural science to cosmology. In French. A scientific manual, explaining areas such as meteorology, optics and light. Also covers the human body and animal and plant life.Wri...

Lehrbuch Der Theorie Der Periodischen Functionen Einer Variabeln

Otto Rausenberger · 1884 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1884. Leather. A scarce German mathematical work from astronomer Otto Rausenberger In the original German.A scarce work.Otto Rausenberger's important mathematical work.With in-text formulas and diagrams. In a half-calf binding. Externally, sound, t...

Documenti Arimmetici Necessariia a Buoni Professori, E Maestri Per Facilitare Lo Scioglimento Di Varie Domande

P. Alessandro Maria di S. Matteo Romano · 1724 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.48 | $502.00 | ¥80,164)

Rome, S. Michele, 1724. Vellum. A very scarce work on mathematics written by Alessandro Maria di S. Matteo Romano. Intended for use in teaching. Written in the Italian language. Bound in its contemporary vellum binding. With the decorative bookplate of 'Festina Lente&apos...

Markham&Apos;S Maister-Peece Containing All Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-Leech, Touching the Curing of All Diseases in Horses

Gervase Markham · 1651 · Rooke Books

£2,100.00 (€2,517.15 | $2,774.23 | ¥443,009)

London, William Wilson, 1651. Leather. A very scarce seventeenth-century copy of this work on equestrian care from Gervase Markham. Illustrated with two full-page illustrations, decorative head-and-tail pieces, and two marginal diagrams. Seventh edition, according to Copac. Un...

Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions.

John Evelyn · 1664 · Rooke Books

£5,000.00 (€5,993.21 | $6,605.30 | ¥1,054,784)

London, John Martyn and James Allestry, 1664. First edition. Leather. An uncommon first edition of this important work on Forestry. Sylva was first presented in 1662 as a paper to the Royal Society and then published in book form in 1664. It is recognised as one of the most in...

Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display&Apos;D. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History As Were Though Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth

[Noel Antoine Pluch]; Mr. Humphreys [trans.] · 1736 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, J. Pemberton, 1736. Leather. Two scarce second edition volumes from Noel-Antoine Pluche's popular work of natural history, illustrated with many copper plates. Second edition. Vol II and Vol. III only of this six-volume work. Bound in contemporary full calf. Both...

Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor; or, a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Horned Cattle, and Sheep

Francis Clater; D. McTaggart · 1861 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Milner and Company, Limited, [1861]. Cloth. An uncommon copy of this scientific veterinary treatise on cattle, by British farrier and writer, Francis Clater. The revised edition.In full green cloth binding. A work by Francis Clater, a British farrier and writer....

Epping Forest

Edward North Buxton · 1911 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Edward Stanford, 1911 . Cloth. A scarce copy of this geological account of Epping Forest, with multiple folding maps and plans. Th eighth edition, revised.In publisher's original green cloth binding. Illustrated with 6 folding coloured maps and plans. Collated, c...

The Inheritance of Fecundity in Fowls

Oscar Smart · 1921 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, The City and South London Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. 1921. Cloth. A very scarce copy of the second edition of this illustrated study examining heredity and selective breeding in poultry at the dawn of modern agricultural science. Rebacked in a quarter cloth, with...

Illustrated Agricultural and Farming Works

Dr. A. B. Frank; John W. Paterson [trans.]; Laura Rose; Michael Graham; Sir E. John Russell [preface] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood and Sons; T. Werner Laurie; Faber and Faber Ltd. 1898-1943. Cloth. An abundantly illustrated set of works on farming and agriculture. A lovely three volume set of agricultural works.Comprising of:1898 A Manual of Agricultural BotanyFrom the...

Highways and Bridges & Aerodromes Newspaper Technical Weekly

1940 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.49 | ¥295,340)

Not Stated, Newspaper Technical Weekly , 1940-1946. Cloth. A very scarce collection of consecutive weekly newspaper periodicals on highways and bridges from 1940-1946. A six volume set of this collection of very scarce periodicals titled Highways and Bridges & Aerodromes.Inclu...

The Miniature Fruit Garden of the Culture of Pyramidal and Bush Fruit Trees

Thomas Rivers · 1870 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870. Cloth. A very scarce and well-illustrated horticultural title by influential nurseryman Thomas Rivers. A very scarce copy of the 16th edition.This popular and informative horticultural work was written by British nurseryman Thom...

The Flora of Warwickshire

James E. Bagnall; W. B. Grove · 1891 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London; Birmingham, Gurney & Jackson; Cornish Brothers, 1891. Cloth. An uncommon signed limited edition of this title, featuring a folding map of Warwickshire. An uncommon limited edition, signed by the author to the limitation page.One of a limited print run of 500 copies, of...

In Nature&Apos;S Workshop

Grant Allen · 1901 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, George Newnes Ltd. 1901 . Cloth. A lovely copy of the second edition of this exciting work on strange natural phenomena, with one hundred black and white illustrations by Frederick Enock.  The second edition. With one hundred black and white illustrations by Frederic...