Scienza e natura

The Argonauts of the Amazon

C. R. Kenyon [Charles Richard Kenyon] · 1901 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.08 | ¥55,904)

London, W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this adventure story by C. R. Kenyon, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham. The first edition of this work in the second state coral pink pictorial cloth binding with grey end papers (Ri...

Wild Flowers of the Pacific Northwest from Alaska to Northern California

Lewis J. Clark · 1976 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Sidney , Gray's Publishing Limited , 1976. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this photographic book on wild flowers by Lewis Clark in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. Illustrated profusely with vibrant full colour photographs by the author. In the ...

Color Atlas: Medicinal Plants of Japan

Jisuke Takatori · 1966 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Tokyo, Hirokawa Publishing Company, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this colour atlas of the medicinal plants of Japan, with a dust wrapper and slip case. First edition. Volume one of two volumes. Illustrated with eighty colour tipped in plates. Collated c...

Marigold: A Story

[Edith Allonby] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, Greening & Co. Ltd, 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce science fiction novel written by Edith Allonby. The first edition. Very scarce. This work was written anonymously by English writer and teacher, Edith Allonby. This work and her fir...

Living Free: The Story of Elsa and Her Cubs & Forever Free: Elsa&Apos;S Pride

Joy Adamson · 1961 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Collins & Harvill Press, 1961-1962. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition copies of these illustrated works exploring the author's life raising a lion named Elsa. Two volumes. Written by Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson, an Austria-Hungary-born naturalist...

Flora Neotropica Monograph No 9 Chrysobalanaceae

Ghillean T. Prance · 1972 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

New York, Hafner Publishing Company, 1972 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce first edition of Ghillean Prance's illustrated study of the chrysobalanaceae family of flowering plants. First edition, in the publisher's original paper wraps. Scarce. This work was publi...

Birds in My Indian Garden

Malcolm MacDonald · 1960 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Jonathan Cape , 1960. First edition. Hardback. A beautiful book on Indian Garden birds by Malcolm MacDonald and Christina Loke. The first edition. In the original clipped dust wrapper. This book captures the birds found in Malcolm MacDonald's Indian Garden. The b...

The Tutor&Apos;S Assistant; Being a Compendium of Arithmetic, and a Complete Question-Book

Francis Walkingame · 1808 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, R. & W. Dean, 1808. Leather. Francis Walkingame's standard textbook on arithmetic, which remained the standard text on the subject for a century after its first publication. An essential compendium on arithmetic.'The Tutor's Assistant' was first pub...

A New System of the Natural History of Birds

Anonymous · 1792 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

Edinburgh; London, Peter Hill; Thomas Cadell, 1792. Leather. A very scarce eighteenth century study on ornithology, an illustrated volume, including a chapter focusing on dodos. This is Volume II in 'A New System of the Natural History of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and In...

A Collection of Modern Works on the Theme of Sex and Biology

Various · 1963 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London; New York, Asia Publishing House; Tavistok Publications; Andre Dutsch; Macmillan; Peter H. Wyden; Doubleday; Columbia University Press, 1963-1992. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and diverse collection of scientific works on sexual biology in humans and animals. Seve...

North American Mammals Fur-Bearing Animals of the United States and Canada

Roger A. Caras · 1967 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

New York , Meredith Press, 1967. First edition. Cloth. An extensive volume on North American mammals with colour illustrations. A first edition copy. Roger A. Caras was a well known wildlife photographer and writer and within this volumes he presents a striking and vivid acco...

New Worlds and the Rose

J. G. Ballard; Charles L. Harness; Various · 1966 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Compact Books, Roberts & Vinter LTD, 1966. Paperback. Two vivid science fiction paperbacks, containing short stories by eminent authors such as J. G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, and Charles L. Harness. Two smart 'Compact Sci-Fi' paperbacks.'New Worlds&apo...

Red Sap

John Easton · 1930 · Rooke Books

£138.00 (€165.41 | $182.31 | ¥29,112)

London & New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce 'Lost Race' sci-fi novel by John Easton, a murder mystery science fiction novel. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Signed by the auth...

Country Works by J.H. B. Peel

J. H. B. Peel · 1973 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Robert Hale, 1973-1984. First edition. Cloth. A four volume set of works on the countryside by Peel, with illustrations throughout. Four volumes. First editions. Written by John Hugh Brignal Peel, a British journalist, author and poet, who wrote about farming and the c...

Fungi of the New Forset a Mycota

Gordon Dickson; Ann Leonard · 1996 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London , British Mycological Society , 1996. First edition. Paperback. A first edition, signed copy of this record of fungi in the New Forest. A first edition copy of Fungi of the New Forset A Mycota edited by Gordon Dickson and Ann Leonard.Signed by the authors to the reverse...

The White Whale

Henry Lee · 1878 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, R. K. Burton & Co. 1878. First edition. Paperback. The only edition of Henry Lee's detailed account of the white Beluga whale. First and only edition of this work. An uncommon work. A careful account of the first Beluga Whale to be successfully transported to Eng...

Ferns and Fern Allies of Canada

William J. Cody; D. M. Britton · 1989 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Ontario, Research Branch Agriculture Canada, 1989. Paperback. A scarce and detailed illustrated study on the ferns of Canada. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with photographs and sketches. A study of ferns and fern allies found in Canada, including reference to: lycopodiac...

Cocker&Apos;S Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method, Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country

Edward Cocker; John Hawkins · 1712 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.42 | $561.45 | ¥89,657)

London, Eben. Tracy, 1712. Cloth. A scarce early edition of the monumentally popular mathematics textbook by Edward Cocker, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. A scarce work, the fourteenth edition of this oft-reprinted work.ESTC citation number T30868.Illustrated with a...

A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides

John Alexander Harvie-Brown; Thomas Edward Buckley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.66 | ¥51,684)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1892. First edition. Cloth. An interesting work about the animals of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides. With 15 illustrations and a colour folding map. A fascinating work about the animals of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides by naturalists John Alexander Har...

On the Management of Landed Estates: A General Work; for the Use of Professional Men: Being an Abstract of the More Enlarged Treatise on Landed Property, Recently Published.

William Marshall · 1806 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this scarce early 19th century work on the management of landed estates. The first edition of this scarce work. Stamp from The Lawes Agricultural Trust to the front paste downs. T...