Scienza e natura

Natural History of British Fishes; Their Structure, Economic Uses, and Capture by Net and Rod

Frank Buckland · 1906 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1906. Cloth. A smart edition of this illustrated commentary on the fish of Britain. Reprint. Illustrated throughout. This study of British fishes contains information on various fish species, fisheries of both sea and river an...

Histoire Naturelle Des Mineraux

Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon · 1783 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.14 | ¥146,615)

Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1783-88. First edition. Leather. Comte de Buffon's important natural history work, these nine volumes focusing solely on the history of minerals, a nice set in the original French. The first edition.Complete in nine volumes.In the original...

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton

Rev. Gilbert White; E. T. Bennett; James Edmund Harting · 1875 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Bickers and Son, 1875. Leather. Gilbert White's seminal natural history work, revised by James Edmund Harting, and bound in a full calf Bickers binding. An illustrated work in a full calf binding, with gilt detailing to the spine and marbled end papers and edges. ...

Curiosities of Natural History

Francis T. Buckland · 1861 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Richard Bentley, 1861-1868. Cloth. Two smart volumes of Buckland's extensive work on natural history, from the second and third series. Two volumes. Written by Francis Trevelyan Buckland, an English surgeon, zoologist, and natural historian born to a noted family ...

A Sequel to Looking Backward, or, "Looking Further Forward

Richard Michaelis · 1888 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, William Reeves, c1891. Hardback. One of the many unofficial sequels to Bellamy's important sci-fi novel 'Looking Backward', this being the fourth edition of Richard Michaelis' contribution. The fourth edition.An intriguing sequel to Edward Bellamy&a...

A Cityless and Countryless World

Henry Olerich · 1893 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

Iowa, Gilmore & Olerich, [1893]. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition utopian novel by Henry Olerich, a brilliant science fiction foray in which a Martian comes to Earth, a superior copy of this novel. The first edition of this uncommon work.Illustrated with a foldi...

Mammals in Hawaii: A Synopsis and Notational Bibliography

P. Quentin Tomich · 1969 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this interesting work on mammals. With an inscription by the author to zoologist Desmond Morris. A signed copy of Quentin Tomich's work on Hawaiian Mammals, signed by the author. With several in...

The Dynasty of Abu

Ivan T. Sanderson · 1963 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London , Cassell and Company, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. An interesting, illustrated history of the elephant, in its first edition and from the library of Desmond Morris. A first edition copy. Abu is Sanderson's name for the entire kingdom of the elephant and within thi...

Wildfowl & Waders Nature & Sport in the Coastlands

Hugh B. C. Pollard · 1940 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London , Country Life, 1940. Cloth. A bright popular edition of Wildfowl & Waders Nature & Sport in the Coastlands with colour plates. A copy of the popular edition. This volume explores nature and sport in the coastlands, detailing duck shooting, game birds, wild geese and du...

Notes on the Birds of Rutland

Charles Reginald Haines · 1907 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

London, R. H. Porter, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this lovely ornithological work on Rutland in the East Midlands. First edition of Notes on the Birds of Rutland by Charles Reginald Haines in the original publisher's cloth binding. An uncomm...

The Life-Story of the Partridge

S. L. Bensusan · 1914 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1914. Paperback. A very neat illustrated booklet on the life of the partridge. Scarce work. Illustrated with cover, frontispiece and six plates from photographs. Collated complete. A charming children's tale of the life of a partridge from hatchin...

Agriculture-Pratique Des Differentes Parties de L&Apos;Angleterre

M. Marshal [William Humphrey Marshall] · 1803 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Paris, Chez Gide; Chez Levrault, 1803. First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first French language edition of this account of the agricultural experiments William Marshall conducted in farms across England in the late eighteenth century. A French language translation of thi...

Medical Portrait Gallery. Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians Surgeons, Etc. Etc. Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science

Thomas Joseph Pettigrew · 1838 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Fisher, Son & Co, 1838. First edition. Leather. Illustrated with thirty-six plates of portraits, this is an excellent copy of the first two volumes of Pettigrew's biographical memoirs of those individuals who have contributed to the advancement of medical science....

The Roads of England

R.M.C. Anderson; Sir William R. Morris · 1932 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Ernest Benn, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work on the transportation and roadways of England, with numerous illustrated maps throughout. A fascinating early twentieth-century work on transportation and roadways through England, including...

Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss. Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Steam-Engine.

Samuel Smiles · 1865 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, John Murray, 1865 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this biography of two steam-engine engineers from the nineteenth century with illustrations. First edition, in full calf binding of Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho MSS. Compr...

Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the Tissues and Handbook of Micro-Technic

William Chase Stevens · 1910 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, J. & A. Churchill , 1910 . Cloth. A very scarce second edition of this technically illustrated biological study on plants. Second edition in original publisher's cloth binding of this botanical study by William Chase Stevens from the early twentieth century.This s...

The Nature Diaries and Note-Books of Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies; Samuel J. Looker · 1948 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, The Grey Walls Press Ltd , 1948. First edition. Cloth. First edition of the botanical diaries and note-books of nature writer Richard Jefferies, complete with dust wrapper. First full transcription of Jefferies's field diaries, notable for his acute observations o...

The Birds of the British Isles: First and Second Series; the Moths of the British Isles: First Series; the Caterpillars of the British Butterflies; the Butterflies of the British Isles

T. A. Coward; Richard South · 1933 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Frederick Warne & Co. 1933-61. Cloth. A collection of five volumes exploring the natural history of the British Isles, some later editions. A collection of five volumes from Frederick Warne's series exploring the natural history of the British Isles.The present gr...

The Sea-Trout: A Study in Natural History

Henry Lamond · 1916 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Sherratt & Hughes , 1916. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of the natural history of the Sea-Trout by Henry Lamond. The first edition of this work. An extensive, large paper study concerning the sea-trout, with much useful information for anglers, including...

The Mammoth and the Flood

Sir Henry H. Howorth · 1887 · Rooke Books

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

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 1887. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first edition copy of this scarce geological work by British political, historian, and geologist, Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth. A very smart and comprehensive late nineteenth-century geological work that a...