Viaggi e geografia

Chronicles of the Devizes, Being a History of Castle, Park and Borough of That Name

James Waylen · 1839 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Printed for the Author by Longman and Co, 1839 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this nineteenth century chronicle of the history of Devizes. The first edition of James Waylen's study of Devizes.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two full pag...

Chateau and Country Life in France

Mary King Waddington · 1908 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A smart UK first edition of this personal memoir depicting charming chateau and country life in France, with illustrations throughout. The scarce first UK edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illust...

Voyage of the "Parma": The Great Grain Race of 1932

A. J. Villiers · 1933 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

London, Geoffrey Bles, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of the ship the Parma, and its place in The Great Grain Race of 1932. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty photographs by the author across fifteen plates....

The History of the Borough of Chesterfield with Some Account of the Hundred of Scarsdale. Reprinted from the "Feudal History of Derbyshire

John Pym Yeatman · 1890 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Derby, Edward Clulow, 1890. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of British barrister John Pym Yeatman's study of the Borough of Chesterfield. The scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and three further plates. Collated, complete.A ...

Furness Abbey

R. O'Neill Pearson · 1907 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Ulverston, James Atkinson, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce essay on Furness Abbey, by R. O'Neill Pearson, the first edition of this work, signed by the author. The first edition of this very scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper.R. ...

The White Road Westward

BB [Denys Watkins-Pitchford] · 1961 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Nicholas Kaye, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Denys Watkins-Pitchford illustrated account of his travels in the English countryside. The first edition, first impression of this richly illustrated travel work from 'BB', Denys Watkin...

Far Off; or, Asia Described. Part I.

Favell Lee Mortimer · 1875 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Hatchards, 1875 . Cloth. The forty-third thousand of British Evangelical Favell Lee Mortimer's guide to Asia, illustrated with a colour folding map. The 1875 forty-third thousand of this work, which was first published in 1849. A second part, discussing Australia,...

Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry

William Howitt · 1840 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.99 | $1,981.71 | ¥316,453)

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1840-1842. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the first and second series of Howlitt's topographical work, extra-illustrated and bound in four full morocco Riviere volumes. Volumes I and II contain the first editio...

Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry

William Howitt · 1840 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1840 . First edition. Leather. An extra illustrated example of the first series of Howitt's guide to the scenery of England, in beautiful half morocco bindings by Zaehnsdorf. The first edition of the first series of William ...

A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby

Joe Moshenska · 2016 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, William Heinemann, 2016. First edition. Hardback. A very smart first edition, first impression of this detailed work on English courtier and diplomat Sir Kenelm Digby. First edition, first impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece, three double-paged maps, and many i...

The Collected Works of Lt. -Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin

Lt.-Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin · 1930 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1930-1931. Cloth. A smart group of four volumes from the Collected Edition of the works of Lt.-Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin. Four volumes out of a total of ten. Four volumes of a ten volume set. Containing volumes one, three, nine, and ten ...

A Tourist in Africa

Evelyn Waugh · 1960 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London , Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this travel book by English writer Evelyn Waugh, with monochrome plates throughout. The first edition, first impression of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates. Collated compl...

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Doctor Samuel Johnson · 1775 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.35 | $640.75 | ¥102,320)

Dublin, A. Leathley; J. Exshaw; H. Saunders; D. Chamberlain; et al, 1775. Leather. An unauthorised Dublin edition of this popular travel work by Samuel Johnson, complete in two volumes bound in one. An unauthorised Dublin edition of this work, published in the same year as the...

A Tour in Scotland

1790 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Benjamin White, 1790. Leather. The fifth edition of this detailed and illustrated travel work of Scotland by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant, complete in three volumes. The fifth edition of this three-volume work in half calf bindings, with marbled boards and end p...

London Underground Booklets

Charles White · 1915 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Underground Railways; General Omnibus Company, 1915-16. Cloth. Twelve very scarce booklets promoting London and the city's surrounding areas, illustrated pamphlets produced by the Underground and the LGOC. A collection of twelve very scarce promotional travel book...

Local Records; or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events, Which Have Occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and Berwick-Upon Tweed

John Sykes · 1833 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

Newcastle, John Sykes, 1833. Cloth. An expanded edition of this detailed topographical study on Northern England by John Sykes. Complete in two volumes.An extensive study by John Sykes on Northumberland, Durham, Newcastle, and Berwick-Upon Tweed. Sykes explores the local recor...

History of the Foundations in Manchester of Christ&Apos;S College, Chetham&Apos;S Hospital, and the Free Grammar School

Samuel Hibbert · 1834 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London; Manchester, William Pickering; Thomas Agnew and Joseph Zanetti, 1834. Leather. An uncommon topographical work on the history of Manchester by Samuel Hibbert-Ware, this volume focusing on the Manchester Cathedral. An uncommon work.Volume I only of a total of four volume...

The Antiquities of Furness

Thomas West; William Close [ed.] · 1805 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Silverston, George Ashburner, 1805 . Hardback. A 'New Edition' of Thomas West's illustrated discussion of the history if the Furness peninsula. A New Edition of this work, expanded by William Close.Collated, illustrated with a frontispiece, map, and six plates, ...

An Account of the Great Floods of the Rivers Tyne, Tees, Wear, Eden, &C. In 1771 and 1815; the Siege of Newcastle; Des Chemins de Fer En Angleterre

William Garret; William Lithgow; M. De Gallois · 1818 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Paris, Emerson Charnley; Madame Huzard, 1818-1820 . First edition. Cloth. Three very scarce works about Newcastle, including an account of flooding in the region, a reprint of a seventeenth century work about a siege of the city, and a French language disc...

Courts and Camps in India

Yvonne Fitzroy · 1926 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Methuen & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this very scarce first edition work from Socialite, theatre actress and volunteer nurse Yvonne Fitzroy. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper 'G. Aldridge - in [..] of my forgive...