Viaggi e geografia

Bantu Heritage

H. P. Junod · 1938 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Johannesburg, Hortors Limited for the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Swiss missionary H. P. Junod's study of the Bantu ethnolinguistic group of southern Africa, illustrated throughout with photographic plates. The first editi...

The Highlands of Aethiopia

Major W. Cornwallis Harris · 1844 · Rooke Books

£725.00 (€869.03 | $957.83 | ¥152,952)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 . Cloth. A smart second edition of William Cornwallis Harris's account of his three year mission in Ethiopia in the first part of the nineteenth century. In the publisher's original cloth. The scarce second edition of...

Thyme and Bergamot

Christopher Sandeman · 1947 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, The Dropmore Press , 1947. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition first issue of this account of a travelling botanist, with illustrations by John O'Connor. A Limited Edition, first issue. This is number 139 of 550 copies printed. In full blue cloth binding with ...

Journal of a Tour in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Winefred, Lady Howard of Glossop · 1897 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1897. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Lady Howard of Glossop's account of her late nineteenth century travels in the Americas. Illustrated with thirty-seven full page and vignette photographic illustrations. Collated, com...

Hampshire

Rev. Telford Varley · 1909 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London , Adam & Charles Black , 1909. First edition. Cloth. A charming and wonderfully illustrated copy that celebrates the county of Hampshire, in its first edition. A first edition, first impression copy of this work. A charming volume that explores the antiquity, history, ...

Our Village

Mary Russell Mitford · 1893 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London and New York, Macmillan and Co. 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The first illustrated edition, second impression of Mary Russel Mitford's collection of literary sketches with illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The first illustrated edition, second impression of Our Villag...

Seven Topographical Studies on Oxfordshire

J. A. Giles; E. Marshall; S. Spencer Pearce; F. E. Howard; H. E. Salter; Robert Bridges · 1840 · Rooke Books

£355.00 (€425.52 | $469.00 | ¥74,894)

Oxford; London, J. H. Parker; J. R. Smith; James Parker and Co; Alden & Co, LTD; Oxford Architectural & Historical Society; Clarendon Press, 1840-1921. Cloth. A fascinating collection of seven topographical studies on Oxfordshire bound in one volume, illustrated with many plat...

A History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Attached to the University of Oxford. Including the Lives of the Founders

Alex Chalmers · 1810 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Oxford, Collingwood and Co, 1810. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition history on the University of Oxford, a brilliantly detailed history complete with illustrations. The first edition of this uncommon work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and ...

The Oxfordshire Record Society

Various · 1921 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Oxford, Oxfordshire Record Society, 1921-1974. First edition. Paperback. A collection of works from the Oxfordshire Record Society, in the original paper wraps. A ten volume collection of the Oxfordshire Record Society, containing: Newington Longeville Charters, published in 1...

The Marn&Apos;LL Book; Some Particular History, Some General Topography, a Number of Photographs, and Some Maps, of the Blackmore Vale

Anonymous · 1952 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Gillingham, Dorset, The Blackmore Press, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition study of the Dorsetshire parish of Marnhull, and the surrounding Blackmore Vale. The first edition of this topographical study of the Blackmore Vale of North Dorset, in the publisher&...

Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock Volume XII of a History of the County of Oxford

Alan crossley · 1990 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990 . First edition. Cloth. First edition, first impression of Volume XII of A History of the County of Oxford in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression of Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock edited by Ala...

The Scouring of the White Horse; or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk.

Thomas Hughes · 1859 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Cambridge, Macmillan and Co. 1859. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Hughes's popular work concerning the Uffington White Horse, with lovely illustrations by Richard Doyle. The first edition of this work, in a half calf binding. Bookplate to the front paste dow...

The Burford Records a Study in Minor Town Government

R. H. Gretton · 1920 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this study into a minor town government in the early twentieth century using the Burford Records, with illustrations. First edition of The Burford Records, A Study in Minor Town Government by R. ...

Leading Events in the History of the Port of Bristol

W. N. Reid; W. E. Hicks · 1877 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Bristol, W. C. Hemmons; W. and F. Morgan, 1877. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition work focusing on the Port of Bristol and its history, an interesting work illustrated with a folding plate. The first edition of this uncommon work.A collection of articles by W. N....

The Cheltenham Literary Annual. A Gift-Book and Remembrancer.

William Byrne; S. H. Bradbury; Rev. F. J. Perry; et al · 1857 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Cheltenham, Not Stated, 1857. Cloth. A lovely literary annual on the subject of the town of Cheltenham. In original cloth binding. All edges gilt. Frontispiece depicts 'Cheltenham in the Olden Time' by W. Willis. A collection of literature on the town of Cheltenham f...

Kelly&Apos;S Directory of Cumberland and Westmorland

A. Lindsay Kelly [ed.] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, Kelly's Directories LTD , 1925. Cloth. Informative topographical study of Cumberland and Westmorland by Kelly's Directories, complete with coloured map. Kelly's directory for Cumberland and Westmorland. Including every parish in the counties and providin...

Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland the Counties of Chester, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, and Rutland

T. Rose; T. Noble · 1832 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson; Fisher, Son & Co, 1832-36. Leather. Two beautiful topographical works looking at the Midlands and Northern Counties of England, complete with over one hundred plates across these two volumes. Four volumes bound in one, with three vol...

The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

Baldwin Spencer; F.J. Gillen · 1904 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fascinating ethnographic work on the Northern Tribes of Central Australia, copiously illustrated with numerous plates. A comprehensive ethnographic and anthropological work on the Northern Tribes o...

A Topographical Dictionary of England

Samuel Lewis · 1831 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London , S. Lewis and Co, 1831. Cloth. A smart complete four volume set of A Topographical Dictionary of England, with folding maps. A first edition copy of this work. A complete four volume set of A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, that comprises of the s...

Coarse Fish, with Notes on Taxidermy Fishing in the Lower Thames, Etc.

Charles H. Wheeley · 1897 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. 1897 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated guide to coarse fishing with illustrations. First edition of Coarse Fish, With Notes on Taxidermy Fishing in the Lower Thames, Etc. by Charles H. Wheeley in the original publis...