Carte geografiche e topografia

A London Reverie

J.C. Squire (intro.) · 1928 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London , Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928. Cloth. A fantastic first edition of this collection of illustrations by artist Joseph Pennell, with a coloured frontispiece and 55 further plates. The first edition of the work.In publisher's original decorative brown cloth bindin...

Wonderful London Volume I & II

[St. John Adcock] · 0 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

[London], [The Fleetway House], c1926. Leather. Lovely half-morocco essay collection from various significant writers on the subject of London. With over 1200 in-text and full-page photographs. Bound in half morocco with red cloth boards.Including Volume I and II of the three-...

Rural England; Loiterings Along the Lanes, the Common Sides, and the Meadow-Paths

L. G. Seguin · 1881 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Strahan and Company Limited, 1881 . First edition. Vellum. Beautifully illustrated throughout and in the publisher's vellum binding, this is a scarce limited edition study of rural England and the British countryside. The edition de luxe of this scarce work, print...

The Thames: From Chelsea to the Nore

Thomas R. Way and Walter G. Bell · 1907 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, The Bodley Head, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition, limited to 310 copies, of this scarce topographical work on the London Thames in the publisher's original cloth binding with thirty-one lithographic plates by Thomas R. Way. The firs...

London and Its Environs

Karl Baedeker · 1930 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1930. Cloth. A very smart London handbook from prominent German publisher Karl Baedeker, complete with folding maps. Nineteenth revised edition. In the original cloth binding.Illustrated with forty-eight maps and plans (fourteen of which are...

London a to Z

John Metcalf · 1953 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1953. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this guide to the city of London from airports to zebra crossings the soft cover version. The first edition in soft cover version. With decorations and in-text images throughout. Published in 1953,...

Map of the Environs of London Drawn and Arranged Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1826 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Edward Stanford, c1840. Cloth. A smart pocket-zed map of the environs of London presented by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. A large folding map of the environs of the city of London, England, in colour with railways and stations highlighted. Drawn a...

Holborn: The Official Guide

Holborn Borough Council · 1953 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Cheltenham , Ed. J. Burrow and Co. Ltd. Publishers , 1953. Cloth. A pleasing copy of this very scarce guidebook to Holborn, with a folding street plan. The eighth edition of this very scarce guide. In the original cloth binding. With numerous advertisements fixed to the front ...

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Suffolk

Secretary to the Board [Arthur Young] · 1797 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, B. Macmillan , 1797 . First edition. Leather. An uncommon, first edition of Arthur Young's agricultural study relating to Suffolk, complete with a hand coloured folding map and two additional folding plates. The first edition. Illustrated with a hand coloured fold...

London in the Company of Painters

Richard Blandford · 2017 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2017. First edition. Cloth. A vibrant first edition, richly illustrated with works from Canaletto to Kossoff, Richard Blandford"s history charts London"s shifting cityscape and the evolving responses of artists across the centuries. In the...

Hampshire; Buckinghamshire and Berkshire

Rev. Telford Varley; G. E. Mitton · 1909 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1909-1920. First edition. Cloth. A handsome pair of first edition guides to Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Hampshire, both adorned with colour plates. The first editions of these charming British county guides published by Adam and Charles Blac...

8 Vols Our Beautiful Homeland

Walter Jerrold; R. Murray Gilchrist; Sidney Heath; Arthur L. Salmon; Charles Edwards; F. D. How; George Morley; Edward Thomas; Canon Danks; George Benson; A. G. Bradley; G. E. Mitton; J. A. Nicklin; John Geddie; George Eyre Todd · 0 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd. c1921. Cloth. A beautiful illustrated eight volume collection of works from the Our Beautiful Homeland Series. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.These copies are undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies hel...

Bacon&Apos;S Motoring and Cycling Road Map: Bristol District

0 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Norwich, G. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd. c1910. Cloth. A very scarce folding cycling and motoring map of Bristol from Bacon's Half-Inch Series. Very scarce work. From the Half-Inch Series. Pocket-sized folding map. A large folding map of the Bristol district, to aid with planning ...

Borough of Southwark. List of Streets and Tenement Buildings in the Borough.

Arthur Harrison · 1924 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Tee & Whiten and J. Mead LTD, 1924. Cloth. A very scarce reference work by Arthur Harrison, in which he lists the streets and buildings of Southwark. A very scarce reference work, listing the streets and tenement buildings in the London borough of Southwark. A useful r...

The King&Apos;S England Series: Suffolk & Norfolk

Arthur Mee [editor] · 1942 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1942-1959. Cloth. Two smart later impressions of these detailed histories of the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, from The King's England series. Two volumes. The King's England Series, a topographical and historical book series totaling...

A History of Lancashire

Henry Fishwick · 1894 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Elliot Stock, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A scarce history of the county of Lancashire, by the politician and antiquary Henry Fishwick, the first edition. The first edition of this scarce work.A comprehensive history of the whole county of Lancashire, by Lieutenant-Col...

A Concise History of Trowbridge

James Bodman · 1814 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Bristol, Philip Rose, 1814. First edition. Leather. A very scarce study on the history of Trowbridge by James Bodman, the first edition. The first edition.A very scarce work.A concise history on the Wiltshire town Trowbridge, which has a long history as a market town.This volu...

The New Forest: Its History and Scenery

John R. Wise · 1863 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1863. First edition. Cloth. A rebacked first edition of this illustrated history of the New Forest, England, written by John Richard de Capel Wise. First edition. Illustrated with sixty-three images and two maps, one of which is folding. Collated co...

Historical Antiquities, in Two Books. The First Treating in General of Great-Britain and Ireland. The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire

Peter Leycester · 1673 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, W. L. For Robert Clavell, 1673. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this important and early county history of Cheshire by Peter Leycester. The first edition.Collated, bound without the folding map, as is usual, and the final blank. With woodcut and engraved v...

London Holiday

Austin Reed · 0 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Austin Reed; Curwen Press [Printer], c1930. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce copy of this humorous guide to London, charmingly illustrated throughout. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Published with compliments from Austin Reed at Regent ...