Scienza e natura

The New Spirit Calculator Containing Rules and Examples Comprehending All Possible Cases for Reducing and Compounding Spirits

E. Arthur · 1829 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

Worcester, Office of Excise, 1829. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon first edition of E Arthur's 'The New Spirit Calculator&apos. Containing tables, formulae, and figures to demonstrate the appropriate strength for the distillation of spirits. Reportedly, this tex...

Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest [Parts 2 & 4]

C. Leo Hitchcock et al. · 1959 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, University of Washington Press, 1959-1964. First edition. Cloth. Two biological texts investigating ferns, fern-related and seed-bearing plants. Part two deals with Salicaecea to Saxifragacea and part four with Ericacea through Campanulacea. By C. Leo Hitchcock, Arthur...

Flora of Gloucestershire Phanerogams, Vascular Cryptogams, Charophyta

H.J. Riddelsdell et al · 1948 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Cheltenham, The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work on the flora of Gloucestershire. With two related items by J.H. Burkhill loosely inserted, one being an unpublished proof, both with Burkhill's signature. Als...

Die Lehre Von Der Entstehung Des Menschen Oder Schopfung Und Zeugung.

Paul Gleisberg · 0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Dresden, Berlag der Buchhandlung und Buchdructerie von Fr. Littel, c1869. Leather. A very scarce German language scientific study. Focusing on the theory of the origin of man, as well as creation and procreation, there are thirty illustrative plates to the rear of the book, as...

Ossian&Apos;S Ride Satellite E One

Fred Hoyle; Jeffery Lloyd Castle · 1959 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London; Melbourne; Toronto, Heinemann; Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959; 1954. First edition. Cloth. A pair of first edition mid-century science fiction titles, in original colour illustrated dust wrappers. A pair of mid-century science fiction titles, both first edition, volume 1 be...

English County ; a Planning Survey of Herefordshire

West Midland Group on Post-War Reconstruction and Planning · 1946 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. Cloth. A copiously illustrated planning survey of Herefordshire, with many coloured maps and plans. In the original green cloth binding. A copiously illustrated planning survey of Herefordshire, a ceremonial county in the West Midland...

The Elements of Natural Philosophy

Peter Van Musschenbroek; John Colson [trans.] · 1744 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.51 | $475.58 | ¥75,944)

London, J. Nourse, 1744 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with twenty-six folding engraved plates, this is the very scarce first English language edition of Peter Van Musschenbroek's study of natural philosophy. The very scarce first English language translation of th...

Natural History, General and Particular, by the Count de Buffon, Illustrated with Above Six Hundred Copper-Plates. The History of Man and Quadrupeds Translated, with Notes and Observations, by William Smellie

Count de Buffon [Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]; William Smellie; William Wood · 1812 · Rooke Books

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

London, T. Cadell and W. Davies , 1812. Cloth. A copiously illustrated new edition of this encyclopaedic natural history, complete here in twenty volumes. A new edition, carefully corrected and considerably enlarged by many additional articles, notes, and plates. With an accou...

That&Apos;S It or Plain Teaching

[Robert Kemp Philip] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Houlston & Wright, 1860 . Leather. A very scarce illustrated mid nineteenth century informative volume by Robert Kemp Philip. A very scarce work.In full green straight grain morocco.Illustrated in text throughout with more than one thousand wood engravings. A work by ...

The Natural History of the County of Stafford

Robert Garner · 1844 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, John Van Voorst, 1844. Cloth. The first edition of a comprehensive record of Staffordshire's meteorology, geology, and zoology, celebrating nature and natural observation. The first edition of The Natural History of the County of Stafford, written by fellow of the...

The Birds of Breconshire

E. Cambridge Phillips · 1899 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

Brecon, Edwin Davies, 1899 . First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this detailed account of the birds of the Brecons by naturalist Edward Cambridge Phillips. The first trade edition of the work, originally published in 1882 for private circulation.In publisher'...

The Marine Plankton; with Special Reference to Investigations Made at Port Erin, Isle of Man During 1907-1914

James Johnstone; Andrew Scott · 1924 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Liverpool, The University Press of Liverpool Limited, 1924 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this illustrated guide to the plankton of the sea. The scarce first edition of the work.In a smart full brown cloth binding. With the original paper wrap tipped i...

Home Doctoring of Animals

Harold Leeney · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Macdonald & Martin, [1921]. Cloth. The new and revised edition of this comprehensive guide to the ailments of animals. The revised and enlarged edition. In full green cloth binding. Illustrated in text throughout.Undated, dated from the preface.A comprehensive work o...

Fungi and How to Know Them

E. W. Swanton · 1909 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Methuen & Co. 1909 . First edition. Cloth. Intuitive first-edition scientific guide to fungi, profusely illustrated with forty-eight plates, sixteen in colour. First edition.In publisher's original green cloth binding.Illustrated with forty-eight plates, sixteen o...

Tillage a Substitute for Manure, Illustrated by the Principles of Modern Agricultural Science

Alexander Burnett · 1859 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Whittaker & Co. 1859. First edition. Cloth. An incredibly scarce first edition title, in original pictorial boards. An incredibly scarce first edition, in original green pictorial boards, with gilt lettering to the front board and spine.An informative and engaging titl...

The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White [eds. by Edward Blythe, Robert Mudie] · 1850 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, WM. S. Orr and Co. 1850. Cloth. A scarce revised edition of Gilbert White's pioneering book that celebrates natural observation, with notes by Edward Blyth and a description of Selborne by Robert Mudie. A scarce revised edition of The Natural History of Selborne, ...

Compendium of the Veterinary Art

James White; W.C. Spooner · 1842 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 . Cloth. A very scarce seventeenth edition of this guide to the nineteenth century veterinary arts, with a coloured frontispiece. A very scarce work.The seventeenth edition of the work.Originally written by James White, a veter...

Corals and Coral Islands

James D. Dana · 1875 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.74 | ¥67,506)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875 . Cloth. A very pleasing copy of the second edition of this fascinating work of biology in the original, highly pictorial cloth, with numerous black and white illustrations The illustrated second edition in the publisher's ...

Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the Shore

Charles Kingsley · 1859 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1859 . Cloth. The first illustrated edition of Kingsley's charming seaside study in the publisher's original cloth with pictorial gilt designs, with twelve coloured plates.  The first illustrated edition in the publisher's original clo...

The Wonders of the Microscope, or, an Explanation of the Wisdom of the Creator in Objects Comparatively Minute

None Stated [Sir Richard Phillips] · 0 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Darton and Clark, c1823 . Cloth. A very scarce copy of this charming Victorian popular-science title attributed to Sir Richard Phillips, illustrated with fold-out plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding.New edition. Undated. Dated here using Jisc, from ...