Viaggi e geografia

A Lonely Summer in Kashmir

Margaret Cotter Morison · 1904 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Duckworth & Co, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Margaret Cotter Morison's personal account of a summer spent in Kashmir. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with fifty-one photographs on plates. Collated, complete.Author Margaret Cotter Mo...

Comment on Parle a Paris or French As Spoken in Paris

Madame De Peyrac · 1864 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1864. Leather. Madame de Peyrac's study of the French language, bound in half calf. Later edition. First published in the U.S in 1857. Bound in half calf with cloth to the boards. This language study was written by Madame de Peyrac. T...

Pen and Pencil Pictures of Old Bradford

William Scruton · 1889 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

Bradford, Thomas Brear & Co, 1889 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of William Scruton's beautifully selected collection of plates illustrating Old Bradford. The first edition of this work, in a lovely half crushed morocco binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece...

Westminster; East London; London

Sir Walter Besant · 1902 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1902-1904. Cloth. Three illustrated travel works concerning London and its surrounding areas, by the novelist and historian Sir Walter Besant. New editions of these works in the publisher's original cloth bindings.Illustrated with a frontispiece a...

Murder in the Westcountry

Colin Wilson; Various · 1975 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Cornwall, Bossiney Books, 1975. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this fascinating work looking into different murder cases of the West Country, inscribed by author Colin Wilson. The first edition of this uncommon work.Signed by Colin Wilson to the title page, &ap...

A Topographical and Historical Description of the Parish of Tixall, in the County of Stafford

Sir Thomas Clifford; Arthur Clifford · 1817 · Rooke Books

£875.00 (€1,048.83 | $1,156.00 | ¥184,598)

Paris, M. Nouzou, 1817. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition history on the civil parish Tixall, and illustrated volume by brothers Thomas and Arthur Clifford. The first edition of this scarce work.A detailed topographical history on the parish of Tixall, a small vil...

A Historical and Picturesque Guide to the Isle of Wight; a Companion in a Tour Round Southampton

John Bullar · 1819 · Rooke Books

£365.00 (€437.51 | $482.22 | ¥77,004)

Southampton, Baker and Son; Simpkin and Marshall; T. Baker and T. Fletcher, 1819-1827 . Leather. Two topographical works by John Bullar bound in one volume, and describing early nineteenth century Southampton and the Isle of Wight. Two scarce works by John Bullar.The first wor...

The New Lancashire Gazetteer

Stephen Reynolds Clarke · 1830 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Henry Teesdale, 1830. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Stephen Reynolds Clarke's guide to the County Palatine of Lancaster. The first edition of this work of local history and topography.'Collected from the most Authentic Sources, and Alphabetically...

Highways and Hedges

Herbert A. Morrah · 1911 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1911. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated work on highways and hedges with paintings by Berenger Benger. The first edition. Illustrated by Berenger Benger with a tipped in colour frontispiece and nineteen ti...

The English Lakes

W. T. Palmer · 1908 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1908. First edition. Cloth. The second edition of this beautifully illustrated work on English lakes by artist Heaton Cooper. The second edition. First published in 1905, Illustrated by A. Heaton Cooper with full page map a colour frontispiece...

The Clyde: River and Firth

Neil Munro · 1907 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated work on the River Clyde. Signed presentation copy from both of the illustrators. First edition. Signed presentation copy from both of the illustrators. Illustrated wi...

A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England, in the Summer of 1835

Sir George Head · 1836 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, John Murray, 1836. First edition. Hardback. A first edition study of the manufacturing cities of Northern England during 1835, an interesting topographical work by George Head. The first edition of this work.This work follows Sir George Head on his tour of the manufact...

The Cottages and the Village Life of Rural England

P. H. Ditchfield · 1912 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1912. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this beautifully illustrated tour of the cottages and villages of rural England. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. A lovely early twentieth-century g...

Cambridge

M. A. R. Tuker · 1907 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this colourfully illustrated work on Cambridge, with a folding map. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seventy-six colour plates, and a folding map. Collated complete. A ch...

A Persian Journey: Being an Etcher&Apos;S Impressions of the Middle East

Fred Richards · 1931 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this travelogue with illustrations by the author throughout. First edition. Illustrated with forty-eight plates. Collated complete. A detailed travelogue from the author's experiences in Persia, w...

Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time

Daniel Wilson · 1872 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Edinburgh, Thomas C. Jack, 1872 . Cloth. A beautifully illustrated late nineteenth century study of Edinburgh, by archaeologist, ethnologist and author Sir Daniel Wilson. An 1872 edition of this work, which was first published in 1848.This work is notable in its record of Edin...

Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Israelites

W. H. Bartlett [William Henry Bartlett] · 1849 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1849. Leather. A richly illustrated account of William Henry Bartlett's journey through Israel and Egypt, in a contemporary imitation walnut binding. This work is the account of the author's travels through the Middle East, following the Bibli...

Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood, Illustrated by a Series of Etchings, and Historical Descriptions

Paul Amsinck · 1810 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, William Miller and Edmund Lloyd, 1810 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this beautifully engraved study of the town of Tunbridge Wells, with plates engraved by Letitia Byrne. The first edition of this work.Collated, illustrated with six vignettes, and twel...

The Quest for Cathay

Sir Percy Sykes · 1936 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1936. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated work discussing European exploration of China in the Middle Ages. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, sixteen plates, and nine maps, four of which are folding. Collat...

Honourable and Peculiar Ways

Peh Der Chen; Ernest Bramah [forward] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interesting perspective on life in England, in the scarce dust wrapper and signed by the author. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. The first edition of the work in the scarce original...