Carte geografiche e topografia

Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

William Outram Tristram · 1859 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1859. Cloth. A limited edition, large paper copy of this informative travel book. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. With 214 vignette illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railto...

Stranger&Apos;S Guide and Complete Directory to Altrincham, Bowdon, Dunham, Timperley, Baguley, Ashley, Hale, and Bollington

Charles Balshaw · 1977 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

Manchester , E. J. Morten, 1977. Cloth. A facsimile edition of a directory first published in the 1850s. First edition thus. With a fold-out map of the area. Covering Altrincham, Bowdon, Dunham, Timperley, Baguley, Ashley, Hale, and Bollington. Illustrated with numerous black ...

A London Reverie Fifty-Six Drawings

Joseph Pennell · 1928 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London , Macmillan and Co, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A charming book of drawings of London landmarks. First edition. Joseph Pennell (July 4, 1857 – April 23, 1926) was an American artist and author. In a pictorial cloth covered binding. Externally, sound with bumping to ext...

The Year-Book of the Country; or, the Field, the Forest, and the Fireside

William Howitt · 1850 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Henry Colburn, 1850. Cloth. A copy of The Year-Book of the Country; or, the Field, the Forest, and the Fireside. A copy of The Year-Book of the Country; or, the Field, the Forest, and the Fireside. By William Howitt, Author of The Book of the Seasons, Rural Life of Eng...

Bacon&Apos;S New Half-Inch Maps for Cyclists and Motorists: South Wales, with Index

G. W. Bacon (Printer) · 1870 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

Aberdare, T. E. Smith, c1912. Cloth. A pull-out map for cyclists and motorists for South Wales. From Bacon's series of new half-inch maps. With an alphabetical index to towns. A lovely work of cartography, by the American mapmaker, George Washington Bacon. A entrepreneur ...

The Book of Wellington the Story of a Market Town

Robin Bush & Gillian Allen · 1981 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Buckingham , Barracuda Books Limited, 1981. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this book on Wellington by Robin Bush and Gillian Allen. The Book of Wellington 1981 has been published as a Limited Edition of which this is Number 90. A complete list of the Num...

Shrines and Homes of Scotland

Sir John Stirling Maxwell · 1937 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.22 | ¥7,381)

London , Alexander Maclehose and Co. 1937. Cloth. A study of interesting and historical houses and other buildings of Scotland. With two hundred illustrations. Containing chapters on Castles, The Romanesque Period, Collegiate Churches and more. In a cloth binding. Externally, ...

The Alleged Vandalism at Stratford on Avon

Sidney Lee · 1903 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.67 | ¥16,874)

London, Archibald Constable and Co, 1903. Cloth. A detailed account on the remodelling of Henley Street, in the beautiful town of Stratford upon Avon, which is most notable for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare. Neatly inscribed by the author to the half title, dated...

Tales About Great Britain and Ireland

Peter Parley [Samuel Griswold Goodrich] · 1836 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Thomas Tegg and Son, 1836. First edition. Paperback. A book for children describing the author's travels around Britain and Ireland. First edition. With a map and numerous vignette illustrations throughout. Written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, who wrote under the ...

The King Holds Hayling Dudley As It Was and As It Is to-Day the Battle of Britain Oxford Life

F. G. S. Thomas; G. Chandler; I. C. Hannah; Edward Bishop · 1961 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

Havant; London; New York; Toronto; Sydney, Pelham; B T Batsford Ltd.; George Allen and Unwin Ltd;, 1961; 1949; 1960; 1957. Hardback. A collection of illustrated local history titles, in original illustrated, and unclipped, dust wrappers. A collection of 4 illustrated history t...

London and Its Environs

Karl Baedeker · 1900 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

Leipsic, Karl Baedeker, 1900. Cloth. A charming travel guidebook for touring the iconic city of London, with colour folding maps and with a tailored focus towards galleries and museums. The revised twelfth edition of London and Its Environs, an informative and charming guidebo...

Baedeker&Apos;S Great Britain I, II, and III

Karl Baedeker · 1966 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Freiburg, Karl Baedeker, 1966-1970. Cloth. A copiously illustrated three volume set of 10th editions of the famous Baedeker Guide Books to Britain, including numerous folding maps throughout. A very smart three volume set of Baedeker's guides to Great Britain.In the publi...

Shropshire Word-Book, a Glossary of Archiac and Provincial Words, Etc. , Used in the County

Georgina F. Jackson · 1982 · Rooke Books

£63.00 (€75.51 | $83.23 | ¥13,290)

Shrewsbury, John Thornhill, 1982 . Cloth. A smart modern reissue of Georgina F. Jackson"s important dialect glossary, originally compiled in the late 19th century from extensive fieldwork across Shropshire. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First published in 18...

History of the Parishes of East and West Ham

Katherine Fry; G. Pagenstecher [ed.] · 1888 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1888. First edition. Cloth. An incredibly scarce first edition illustrated local history by Katharine Fry, daughter of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. An incredibly scarce first edition work, on the history of East and West Ham, as narra...

The Pageant of London Volume I.B. C. 40 to A.D. 1500 the Pageant of London Volume II. A.D. 1500-A.D. 1900

Richard Davey · 1906 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Methuen & Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this work across two volumes, richly illustrated in colour. An uncommon two volume set dedicated to the long and storied history of London, in original blue cloth binding, with gilt decoration.Both ...

The Home Counties Magazine

Various · 1899 · Rooke Books

£435.00 (€521.41 | $574.66 | ¥91,766)

London, F. E. Robinson & Co.; Reynell & Son, 1899-1912 . Cloth. A richly illustrated and uniformly bound fourteen-volume run of "The Home Counties Magazine", recording the topography, history, and antiquities of London and its surrounding counties at the turn of the twentieth ...

London

Walter Jerrold · 1933 · Rooke Books

£53.00 (€63.53 | $70.02 | ¥11,181)

London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son Limited, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this account of London, with a coloured frontispiece and 47 coloured plates. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original quarter cloth binding with...

Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers

K. Baedeker; [J. F. Muirhead] · 1897 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Leipsic , Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1897. Cloth. A very smart fourth edition of Baedeker's handbook to Great Britain, complete with folding maps and plans. Fourth edition. In the original cloth binding. Illustrated with sixteen maps (seven folding) thirty plans (two pl...

Hogarth&Apos;S Frolic: The Five Days&Apos; Peregrination Around the Isle of Sheppey of William Hogarth and His Fellow Pilgrims, Scott, Tothall, Thornhill, and Forrest

William Hogarth · 1872 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1872. Cloth. A charming illustrated account of a five-day trip around the Isle of Sheppey made by William Hogarth and his companions. A new edition. Undated, dated from several institutional copies. In the original decorative cloth binding. This ...

Our Lady of Batersey

John George Taylor · 1925 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, George White, 1925 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the original cloth with gilt lettering, with forty-two illustrative plates and maps, including three folding. The first edition in the publisher's original cloth with gilt lettering.With forty-two ill...