Viaggi e geografia

The Iconography of the Battery and Castle Garden

William Loring Andrews · 1901 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

New York, Charles Scriber's Sons, 1901. Cloth. A fascinating history of this verdant public park located in Manhattan, complete with a slipcase. Formerly known as Battery Park, the Battery is a 25 acre public park at the southernmost tip of Manhattan Island, New York. It ...

20 Vues de L&Apos;Exposition Des Arts Decoratifs

None · 1937 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Paris, A. Noyer, 1937. Paperback. A lovely collection of postcards depicting the romantic city of Paris in the first half of the twentieth century. With beautiful views of Les Invalids, Grand Palais, the gardens of Paris and the Eiffel Tower.Complete with all twenty original p...

A Chateau in Brittany

Mary J, Atkinson · 1910 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

New York, James Pott & Co. 1910. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating memoir of the author's travels from Paris to Brittany, illustrated throughout, and in the original decorative blue cloth Written by Mary J. Atkinson. In this work, the author tells the story of her trai...

Old Court Life in France

Frances Minto Elliot · 1893 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893 . Leather. A scarce two volume Limited Edition of Frances Elliot's illustrated study of courtly life in France. A Limited Edition of Frances Minto Elliot's history of court life in France. No. 93 of one hundred copies printed ...

Belgian Life in Town and Country

Demetrius C. Boulger · 1904 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Cloth. A very scarce illustrated edition of this charmingly bound early twentieth century study of Belgium. A very scarce edition of English author Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger's guide to Belgium. Boulger discusses social...

The Book of Austria

Ernst Marboe; GER Gedye [trans.] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Vienna , Osterreichische Staatsdruckerei , 1948. First edition. Cloth. A charming book exploring the history and traditions of the country of Austria, the first English edition. A charming volume exploring the history and customs of Austria, the first English edition. Compiled...

Canhenho Dum Vagamundo: Impressoes de Viagem

Ricardo Jorge · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Lisboa, Empresa literaria Fluminense , [1924]. Leather. A scarce travelogue by Ricardo Jorge, who shares his impressions and observations upon his travels around Europe. The second edition of this work, dated from the preface and Jisc 1924. The first edition appeared in 1923. ...

Cambridge and Its Story

Charles William Stubbs · 1903 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1903. Cloth. A beautiful history of the picturesque city of Cambridge, with tinted lithographs by Herbert Railton. Detailing the University's origins, Cambridge during the Norman days, the earliest colleges, the Royal foundations, and the ancient ...

Bath Characters or Sketches from Life

Peter Paul Pallet · 1807 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, G Wilkie and J Robinson, 1807. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition copy of Peter Pallet's series of satirical dialogues mocking Bath and those that stay there. From the library of Thomas Fuller, a Bath born architect. With his bookplate to the fr...

A History of Aylesbury with Its Borough and Hundreds, with the Hamlet of Walton, and the Electrical Division

Robert Gibbs · 1885 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Aylesbury , Privately Printed by the Author , 1885. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this historical and topographical work of Aylesbury by Robert Gibbs. The first and only edition of this extensive work by Robert Gibbs, exploring the history and topography ...

Holidays in Home Counties

Edward Walford · 1884 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, W.H. Allen & Co. 1884. Cloth. A handsomely bound, very scarce copy of this work on travels in Great Britain, written by Edward Walford. A charming work on travels locally in Great Britain. Including chapters on Chiswick, Burnham Thorpe (birthplace of Vice Admiral Horat...

In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country : A Record of Travel and Discovery in Central Africa

A. B. Lloyd · 1907 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

London, T. FIsher Unwin, 1907. Cloth. An account of late nineteenth century travels through Africa, illustrated throughout and with folding maps. The third impression of this first person account of the travels of author A. B. Lloyd through Central Africa, what the author term...

Scotland&Apos;S Industrial Souvenir a Pictorial Descriptions of the Principal Cities & Places of Historical, Industrial, & General Interest in Scotland

Alan J. Woodward · 1905 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, Bemrose & Sons, 1905. Cloth. A charming volume on industrial Scotland, an interesting work on the beauties of the country, illustrated with colourful plates throughout. A very scarce work. With important Chromolithographs documenting the industrial history. In colours ...

Graphic Illustrations of British Antiquity

1817 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, W. Smith, 1817. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce first edition work on the lovely antiquities of Britain, a beautiful volume illustrated with elegant engravings throughout. A vanishingly scarce first edition of this work, only one record of this being intuiti...

My African Journey

Winston Churchill · 1910 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. Paperback. The first 'cheap' edition of Winston Churchill's documentation of his 1907 five month long trip to Africa. The uncommon first cheap edition of this work, published as part of Hodder and Stoughton's 'Sixpenny...

Georgian Mansions in Ireland

Thomas U. Sadleir; Page L. Dickinson · 1915 · Rooke Books

£790.00 (€946.94 | $1,043.70 | ¥166,665)

Dublin, Ponsonby & Gibbs, 1915. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition study of the Georgian architecture of Ireland, signed by the author Thomas U. Sadlier. The author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto to the front endpaper, 'With T. U. Sadleir's kin...

Eastern England from the Thames to the Humber

Walter White · 1865 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition. Fine Binding. A handsomely bound, first edition copy of 'Eastern England' by Walter White, in full calf. Two volumes in one. A handsomely bound, first edition set of these books on eastern English topography. Two volumes...

A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Hereford, Worcester, the New Forest and the Thames

Anonymous · 1919 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Melbourne and Toronto, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1919-1927. Cloth. A delightful set of topographical works regarding English regions in the south, illustrated and complete with folding maps. Volume I, 'Hereford and the Wye Valley', is a revised sixth edition,...

A Lecture on Pre-Adamite London

Edwin Nash · 1879 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Blades, East and Blades, 1879. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition lecture by Edwin Nash, ruminating on the pre-Adamite hypothesis. The first edition of this very scarce work.A fascinating lecture on pre-Adamite London by Edwin Nash, an elementary treatis...

Station Studies

Lionel Portman · 1902 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

1902, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of a British Colonialist administrator's time in Uganda at the start of the twentieth century. The first edition of this work, part biography, part travelogue and cultural study. ...