Scienza e natura

Blackburn&Apos;S Birds

Rob Fairley [ed] · 1993 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

Edinburgh, Canongate Press, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this charming collection of bird paintings by Jemima Blackburn. The first edition, first impression. Illustrated by Jemima Blackburn with a colour frontispiece and many vignette and full pag...

British Spiders

G. H. Locket; A. F. Millidge · 1951 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Ray Society, 1951-1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart complete three volume set of this detailed work on the spiders of the British Isles, with illustrations. Complete in three volumes. First edition. With a colour frontispiece to volume one and many in-text images and...

Shells and Their Inmates

Anonymous · 1841 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1841 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated guide to British shells and 'their inmates&apos. A first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and a number of monochrome vignettes.Arranged in ten chapters, ...

The Geographical Journal Vol. LXX No. 4 & Vol. LXXI No. 4

Various · 1927 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, The Royal Geographical Society, 1927-1928. Paperback. Two smart issues of the Geographical Journal from the Royal Geographical Society, with illustrations and folding plates. Two volumes. The Geographical Journal, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of the Royal...

The Oxford Book of Invertebrates

David Nichols; John A. L. Cooke · 1971 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this brightly illustrated scientific work on invertebrates, signed by the author. First edition. Signed to the title page. Illustrated with ninety-six colour plates. Collated complete. A...

Iconographia Mendeliana to the Memory of Gregor Johann Mendel

1965 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Brno, Moravian Museum, 1965. Paperback. An excellent series of photographs and illustrations in memory and celebration of George Mendel, the founder of the modern science of genetics. First edition. In the publisher's wraps. This work, compiled with photographs and othe...

Science in Egyptology: Proceedings of the &Apos;Science in Egyptology&Apos; Symposia

A. Rosalie David [ed.]; A. T. Sandison; E. Strouhal; et al. · 1986 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this collection of lectures from the 'Science in Egyptology' symposia in Manchester. The first edition, first impression of this scarce work in the publisher's origina...

The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus

Wilfrid Blunt · 1971 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Collins, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated biography of Carl Linnaeus, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page, dated 1973. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, reverse of the fronti...

The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans

Andrew Byatt; Alastair Fothergill; Martha Holmes · 2001 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, BBC Worldwide Limited, 2001. Cloth. A lovely copy of BBC's book accompaniment to the popular television series 'Blue Planet', lavishly illustrated throughout. The third impression of this large work. With the original unclipped dust wrapper in excellent...

Biology

Dr. Charles Letourneau; William Maccall [translator] · 1878 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1878. First edition. Cloth. The first English translated edition of work exploring various principles of biology, from French anthropologist, Charles Letourneau, illustrated throughout. The first English edition.A very scarce copy of this biological ...

The Concept of Mental Maturity

T. H. Pear · 1944 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Manchester, The Manchester University Press, 1944 . Paperback. British psychologist Tom Hatherley Pear's vanishingly scarce essay on the mental maturity of youth, from the library of science-fiction author Brian Aldiss. A vanishingly scarce work, reprinted from the '...

The Artificial Mother

G. H. P.; George Haven Putnam · 1894 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

New York; London, G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this curious sci-fi novel revolving around robots, an illustrated and scarce work. The first edition of this scarce work.A science fiction novel, in which a ro...

The Red Snow

F. Wright Moxley · 1930 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Frank Wright Moxley science fiction novel in which humanity faces extinction due to the mass sterilization of women. The first edition of this work, first printing.The novel takes place in a world ...

Across England in a Dog-Cart: From London to St. David&Apos;S and Back

James John Hissey · 1891 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated travel guide across England in a Dog-Cart. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen plates, and a fold out map to the rear. Collated complete. A chronicle of a...

Far Boundaries: Twenty Science-Fiction Short Stories

August Derleth [ed.]; Nelson Bond; Ray Bradbury; Carl Jacobi et al · 1951 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this impressive collection of twenty science-fiction tales, selected by American writer and anthologist August Derleth. The first edition, first printing. In the publisher's original unclipped...

The Geographical Magazine Volume II, III, & IV

Michael Huxley [editor] · 1936 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, The Geographical Magazine, 1936-1937. Cloth. A smart set of three volumes of The Geographical Magazine, with illustrations throughout. Three volumes. Founded in 1935, Geographical (formerly The Geographical Magazine) is the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society wi...

The Man Who Would Not Be King

Sidney Dark · 1913 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1913. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this dystopian work, by English journalist and author, Sidney Dark. The first edition of the work. Very scarce.Written by Sidney Dark, an English journalist and author. Dark was a p...

Variation on a Theme

John Collier · 1935 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Grayson & Grayson, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of this amusing supernatural story by British author and screenwriter John Collier. No. 143 of 250 numbered and signed Limited Edition copies of the first edition, in the publisher's original ...

The Hitch Hiker&Apos;S Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams · 1979 · Rooke Books

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

London, Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this incredibly popular science fiction novel, a smart copy in the original second state dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. Uncommon to see the first U.K. edition. In the original ...

Autour de la Lune, le Docteur Ox

Jules Verne · 1863 · Rooke Books

£365.00 (€437.50 | $482.19 | ¥76,999)

Paris, Bilbiotheque d'Education et de Recreation; J. Hetzel et Cie, c1880. Leather. Two popular works by Jules Verne together in one volume, early French illustrated editions. Two popular works by Jules Verne bound in one volume, both early French editions. In the origin...