Carte geografiche e topografia

A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Including the Borough of Gateshead: Volume I.

E. Mackenzie · 1827 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

Newcastle upon Tyne , Mackenzie and Dent , 1827. First edition. Leather. A handsome first edition of this comprehensive local history of Newcastle upon Tyne, complete with engraved plates. First edition. Complete in two volumes, bound in one. Bound in full polished calf, with ...

The Bedfordshire Standard: The New Conservative County Paper.

Various · 1883 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

Bedford, Bedfordshire Standard, 1883-1884. First edition. Leather. A complete year of the Bedfordshire Standard in large folio, bound in half morocco, documenting provincial politics, commerce, and daily life in late-Victorian England. In a red half morocco binding with marble...

The Montagu Motor Book

G. C. Sherrin · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. [1920] (Undated, dated from a co. Cloth. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. [1920] (Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library, corroborated by insciption). Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Not Stated. A very scarce, and illustrate...

The Book of British Topography

John P. Anderson · 1881 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, W. Satchell & Co. 1881 . First edition. Cloth. Smart first edition of this comprehensive catalogue of topographical works relating to Great Britain and Ireland held by the British Museum. First edition.Informative catalogue of the complete British topographical works h...

Paterson&Apos;S Roads; Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with Part of the Roads of Scotland

Edward Mogg · 1832 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1832. Leather. The eighteenth edition of Edward Mogg's extensive road guide to England and Wales, bound in full calf fitted with metal clasps. Eighteenth edition, with appendix.In a handsome full calf bin...

Manwood&Apos;S Treatise of the Forest Laws

John Manwood; William Nelson [ed] · 1741 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

In the Savoy, Henry Lintot, 1741 . Leather. A bright example of the fifth edition of William Nelson's expansion of John Manwood's 16th century account on the forest laws of England. Originally published in 1598 as 'A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the fo...

3vols Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales: Their Legendary Lore and Popular History

John Timbs; Alexander Gunn (ed.) · 1925 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, [1925]. Cloth. A pleasing set of the new compact edition of this work in the original red cloth, complete in three volumes, with a total of thirty-two photographic plates. The new compact edition of this work, complete in three volumes. Uni...

Modern Athens! Displayed in a Series of Views: Or Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century

Mr. Thomas H. Shepherd; John Britton · 1829 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Jones & Co, 1829 . First edition. Leather. The impressively illustrated first edition of Thomas H. Shephard's collection of engraved views of Edinburgh and Scotland, in a handsome half calf binding. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated study of Edinbu...

Excursions in the County of Surrey: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations; Together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller & Tourist

[Thomas Cromwell] · 1821 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; , 1821. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound and beautifully illustrated topographical account of Surrey from Thomas Cromwell, with many engravings and bound in half calf. The first edition. Illustrated with fifty engravings, i...

A New an Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales

Daniel Paterson · 1794 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, T. N. Longman, 1794. Leather. A smartly bound extended edition of Daniel Paterson's comprehensive guide to English and Welsh roads, bound in modern half calf. The tenth edition, with the addition of near ninety pages, including considerable improvements in the dir...

My Secret London

Maud Bigge · 1932 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1932. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this detailed travel guidebook of interwar period London, from Maud Bigge. First edition. A vanishingly scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plates, and eight in-text images. Col...

Saint Pancras Past and Present: Being Historical, Traditional and General Notes of the Parish, Including Biographical Notices of Inhabitants Associated with Its Topographical and General History

Frederick Miller · 1874 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Abel Heywood & Son, 1874. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of the history and topography of the parish of Saint Pancras, previously owned by the renowned furniture designer, Ambrose Heal. The first edition.Previously owned by Ambrose Heal with hi...

An Historical and Topographical Account of Fulham; Including the Hamlet of Hammersmith

Thomas Faulkner · 1813 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London, T. Egerton, 1813. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this topographical account of Fulham and Hammersmith, illustrated with engravings and bound in half calf. The first edition.Re-backed in half calf with contemporary marbled boards.Illustrated with a monochr...

Cries of London

Stanford Rayner [intro.] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, The Art Publishing Co. 1929 . First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated with tipped in colour plates, this is the first Stanford Rayner edition of Francis Wheatley's 'Cries of London' series of paintings. The first edition of this work to feature a l...

Things Seen in the Channel Islands

Clive Holland · 1929 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Seeley & Co. Limited, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated description of the charming Channel Islands, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated wi...

Shakespeare&Apos;S Country

Bertram C. A. Windle · 1899 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1899. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to Stratford, the birthplace of William Shakespeare. First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirteen plates, and mapped endpapers to the front of the ...

History of Worksop

Edwin Eddison · 1854 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Longman and Co, 1854. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Edwin Eddison's very scarce history of Worksop and Sherwood Forest. The first edition of this very scarce work.An insightful history on the Nottinghamshire market town Worksop, as well as an explorat...

Fellwanderer: The Story Behind Guide Books

A. Wainwright · 1966 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Kendal, Westmorland Gazette , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first‑edition of this personal memoir by A. Wainwright, offering insight into the man and mind behind the legendary Lakeland Pictorial Guides. In the publisher's original yellow cloth binding, com...

Oxford

Edward Thomas · 1903 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, A. & C. Black, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated limited edition de luxe of this narrative history of the city of Oxford. A limited edition de luxe, published alongside the first trade edition, being one of three hundred copies signed by the publish...

The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol

William Barrett · 1789 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Bristol; London, William Pine; G. Robinson and Co; et al, 1789. First edition. Leather. The first edition of William Barrett's interesting history of the city of Bristol, an intriguing work with many folding plates. The first edition.Illustrated with one folding map, sixt...