Scienza e natura

A Naturalist in North Celebes - a Narrative of Travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut Islands, with Notices of the Fauna, Flora and Ethnology of the Districts Visited

Sydney J Hickson · 1889 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.20 | $779.43 | ¥124,465)

London, John Murray, Albemarie Street, 1889. First edition. Leather. A first edition school binding of Hickson's A Naturalist in North Celebes. Hickson's narrative of his travels is exceedingly detailed and rich in observation, and accompanied by several maps and ill...

The out-Door World

W. Furneaux · 1900 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1900. Leather. A natural history work from W. Furneaux, covering the world of insects, the seashore, the vegetable world, and more. With sixteen coloured plates, and hundred of illustrations in the text. Originally a science teacher, William Fur...

A New Complete and Universal Body or System of Natural History Being a Grand, Accurate and Extensive Display of Animated Nature Containing Accurate Descriptions and Faithful Histories of All the Several Classes of Animals

George Henry Millar · 0 · Rooke Books

£1,350.00 (€1,618.17 | $1,783.43 | ¥284,792)

London, Alex Hogg, c1785. Leather. A natural history work by George Henry Millar. Undated, dated from Copac. Collated, complete with all plates stated to the binder's instructions to the rear. A comprehensive work, which is divided into several books covering; Quadrupeds;...

The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand

David Alexander Brown · 1952 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)

London , The British Museum, 1952. Cloth. A first edition of this work on marine invertebrates. Illustrated throughout with 296 figures in the text. David Alexander Brown was a geologist who played an important role in developing the study of Geology in Australia. Brown was th...

British Rhaetic Flora

Thomas Maxwell Harris · 1938 · Rooke Books

£17.99 (€21.56 | $23.77 | ¥3,795)

London , British Museum , 1938. Cloth. A highly detailed study into plants found within British Rhaetic rocks. Featuring five plates to the rear, and twenty-six illustrations throughout the text. By Professor of Botany in the University of Reading, Thomas Maxwell Harris. In or...

Balancing for Expert Book-Keepers

George Pepler Norton · 1894 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London , Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1894. Cloth. A scarce work on book keeping With a test journal balancing book and specimen accounts Sir George Lionel Pepler (1882 – 13 April 1959) was a British town planner who was influential in the development of town plann...

A Collection of Thirty-Nine Botanical Pamphlets

Various · 1879 · Rooke Books

£510.00 (€611.31 | $673.74 | ¥107,588)

N/A, N/A, 1879-1900. Cloth. A fascinating collection of thirty-nine botanical pamphlets or extracts, some of which have come with their author's regards, with compliments, or signed to the title pages. The title given on the spine is: Botanical Pamplets, Phanerogams I. Wi...

Botanical Rambles

Rev. C. A. Johns · 0 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c1846. Cloth. A nicely illustrated Victorian guide to botany. Featuring an illustrated frontispiece. Contains numerous illustrations in the text. With a bookbinder's stamp for S. Curtis to the front pastedown. Rev. C. A. ...

Ants Bees and Wasps a Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera

Sir John Lubbock · 1929 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1929. Cloth. An illustrated copy of this work of natural history. With four colour plates. The original work by Sir John Lubbock, a banker, politician, scientist and polymath. He wrote several works on Hymenoptera, insects, the in...

Refocus on New Zealand Birds

G. J. H. Moon · 1967 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

Wellington, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of G. J. H. Moon's book on New Zealand birds. First edition. With 137 colour plates and 91 black and white plates. Geoff Moon (1915-2009) was a world renowned New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist...

Live Stock in Health and Disease Sections 2-5

L. H. Archer; Professor J. Prince-Sheldon [ed.] · 1902 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London; Paris; New York; Melbourne, Cassell & Company, Limited, c.1902. Hardback. A very scarce colour illustrated collection of works, published for subscribers, on the health and care of livestock. A very scarce set of 4 out of 5 volumes, published for subscribers.An informa...

A Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera: Volumes I and II

W.F. Kirby [William Forsell Kirby] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Edward Lloyd, Limited, 1896. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of two charming volumes on the characteristics, behaviours and different species of butterflies, including lovely colour plates. The first edition of A Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera, containing bo...

Animal and Vegetable Physiology

Peter Mark Roget · 1834 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, William Pickering, 1834 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Peter Mark Roget's impressive and charmingly illustrated introductory guide to the physiology of vegetables and animals, complete in two volumes. The first edition of this work from British phy...

The Fresh and Salt-Water Aquarium

J.G. Wood [John George Wood] · 1868 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1868. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an engaging guide to aquariums, illustrated with colour plates, and written by popular parson-naturalist John George Wood. The first edition of The Fresh and Salt-Water Aquarium, an informative...

The Book of Nature

John Mason Good · 1831 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

New York, J. and J. Harper, 1831. Leather. An early edition of a comprehensive and insightful series of lectures on nature and humanist by awarded medical scientist John Mason Good. An early edition of the Book of Nature, a series of lectures on nature and humanity, by medical...

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin · 1902 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, John Murray, 1902. Paperback. An uncommon softcover copy of Darwin's most famous work, printed in 1902. An uncommon, paper-bound copy of Charles Darwin's world famous title.40,000th to 47,500th in this form, of the corrected copyright edition.Charles Darwin, ...

The Book of Trees. Descriptive of the Principal Timber Trees, and the Larger Species of Palms.

Anonymous · 1839 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, John W. Parker , 1839. Cloth. A very scarce 1839 copy of this uncommon work, published anonymously, and beautifully illstrated. An unusual pocket-sized second edition of this anonymously published and illustrated title.Bound in original blue cloth pictorial boards, wit...

The Sessile Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U. S National Museum; Including a Monograph of the American Species

Henry A. Pilsbry · 1916 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Washington D. C. Washington Government Printing Office, 1916. Cloth. A smart 1916 copy of Henry A. Pilsbry's illustrated title. A smart brown cloth copy of this 1916 title.Henry A. Pilsbry was a noted biologist with specialisms in molluscs and crustaceans, who published m...

Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the Shore

Charles Kingsley · 1855 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1855. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Kingsley's charming seaside study in the publisher's original green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration. The first edition in the publisher's original green cloth with pictorial gilt dec...

Seaside Studies in Natural History

Elizabeth C. Agassiz; Alexander Agassiz · 1865 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1865 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of this coastal study of Massachusetts in the publisher's original green cloth, with numerous black and white illustrations. The first edition in the publisher's original gree...