Viaggi e geografia

Angling Travels in Norway

Fraser Sandeman · 1895 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

London, Chapman & Hall, LD. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A well illustrated first edition copy of Sandeman's travels and experience with fishing in Norway, with numerous photographs and coloured illustrations by the author. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, f...

The Thames Valley from Cricklade to Staines: A Survey of Its Existing State and Some Suggestions for Its Future Preservation

The Earl of Mayo; S. D. Adshead; Patrick Abercrombie · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, University of London Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition survey of the Thames Valley from Cricklade to Staines, with plates and colour folding maps. First edition, uncommon. This beautifully illustrated study of the Thames Valley ...

Antiquities of Shropshire Vols. II, III, VI, IX, XI, XII.

R. W. Eyton · 1855 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.30 | $693.60 | ¥110,759)

London, John Russell Smith , 1855-60. First edition. Leather. Six volumes of Robert W. Eyton's study of the antiquities of Shropshire, with numerous illustrations. In uniform bindings. The first edition of this work, limited to three hundred copies printed, rebound in uni...

Motor Trips out of Bristol

1922 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith, [1922]. First edition. Paperback. A lovely copy of this very scarce first edition illustrated guide to motor trips out of Bristol. A very scarce work, held institutionally by one library only. Dated from the copy at the British Library, first and onl...

Views of Camden 1733-1875

Anon · 1971 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

London, London Borough of Camden Libraries and Arts Department, 1971-2. Brochure/Pamphlet. A delightful collection of twenty colour views of Camden, London, presented in paper wraps. Two volumes, being: 'Twelve Views of Camden 1733-1875' and 'Eight Views of Camd...

Londres Et Ses Environs, Ou Guide Des Voyageurs

M.D.S.D.L [Alphonse de Serres de la Tour] · 1788 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Paris, Chez Buisson, 1788. First edition. Leather. Illustrated with five folding plates, this is a charming and scarce French language guide to the London of the late eighteenth century. In the original French.Volume I only of Alphonse de Serres de la Tour's scarce two vo...

Harrow in Prose & Verse

George Townsend Warner · 1913 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated copy of prose and verse from alumni and notable figures associated with Harrow School, with tipped-in colour plates. First and only edition.A comprehensive history of Harrow School, along with ...

The London Year: A Book of Many Moods

H. V. Morton · 1926 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London, Methuen & Co. 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fascinating work of British topography, narrating of what one could do during a year in the city of London, beautifully decorated by A. E. Horne. Journalist and travel author H. V, Morton takes his rea...

Guide to the English Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland

Adam and Charles Black · 1873 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1873. Paperback. An early printing in the original publisher's wraps of Black's guide to the English lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland. An Adam and Charles Black's guide to the Lake District of Cumbria, proposing various itiner...

Black&Apos;S Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes Including an Essay on the Geology of the District

Adam and Charles Black; John Phillips · 1850 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1850. Cloth. The fifth edition of Black's guide to the English lakes, adorned with lovely plates in black and white, and complete with two folding maps. The fifth edition of this work. An Adam and Charles Black's guide to the English ...

Hampshire

Rev Telford Varley · 1909 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Adam and Charles Black , 1909. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this volume tracing the history of the English county of Hampshire, depicted with some lovely coloured plates. The first edition, first impression of this work. A lovely copy exploring the So...

Blackwall Tunnel

Sir Benjamin Baker · 1891 · Rooke Books

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

London, Jas. Truscott & Son, 1891. Brochure/Pamphlet. A fascinating report on the construction of Blackwall Tunnel, which opened in 1897 and remains today the busiest crossing of the River Thames. This work consists of once confidential documents accompany the Report of the Br...

Country Sketches for City Dwellers

Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley [Alice Julia Rawnsley] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908 . First edition. Cloth. An attractively bound first edition study of the English countryside, illustrated throughout with the charming colour plates of the author. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated celebration of the English...

Edinburgh: Ordnance Survey Sheet 74

1945 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Chessington, Ordnance Survey, 1945 . Cloth. A very scarce large colour map of Midlothian and Edinburgh, published by the Ordnance Survey in 1945. A very scarce 1945 Ordnance Survey map of Edinburgh, Sheet 74 of the Ordinance Survey's 'One Inch Map of England and Wale...

Bygone Suffolk

Cuming Walters · 1900 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, A. Brown & Sons, Ltd. 1900. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition relating to the history of Suffolk by Cuming Walters, from the library of zoologist Leonard Harrison Matthews. This work closely examines the church and Suffolk, the monasteries, parish churches, a...

Map of England and Wales

None · 0 · Rooke Books

£99.00 (€118.67 | $130.79 | ¥20,886)

Oxford, The Chart Publishing Co. c1920. Cloth. Two bright and large maps of England and Wales printed by G. W. Bacon and Co. With one map covering northernmost England and the main roads out of London, and the other south England and Wales, with a table of distances by road.Ma...

Curiosities of Bristol and Its Neighbourhood

J.K.R. Wreford; Joseph Mathews · 1853 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Bristol, M. Mathews, 1853. Cloth. A fascinating nineteenth-century periodical guidebook for Bristol, written by J.K.R. Wreford and printed locally. An early printing of this local interest periodical about the goings-on and places of interest in Bristol. Containing description...

How to See Bristol (with Map) a Guide for the Excursionist, the Naturalist, and the Archaeologist

J F Nicholls · 1893 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Bristol, J W Arrowsmith, 1893. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this guide to Bristol, bound in with the original wraps and complete with its folding map of the city. The sixth edition of this work, a very scarce volume in all editions. A charming guide to Bristol for excursionist...

A Collectanea Relating to the Bristol Friars Minors and Their Convent

G. E. Weare · 1893 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Bristol, W. Bennett, 1893. Cloth. An uncommon work on the Friars Minors of the city of Bristol, with a note from the author pasted into the work. The Friars Minors of Bristol owned an obscure and little documented convent in the city. Founded by Francis, the son of Pietro Bern...

The Roman Forts on the Bar Hill Dumbartonshire

George Macdonald; Alexander Park; Thomas Ross · 1906 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Glasgow, James Maclehose and Sons, 1906. First edition. Leather. A Maclehose bound first edition copy of this topographical work on Roman forts discovered in Dumbartonshire, an association copy presented from the man who owned the land on which the forts were discovered. The f...