Viaggi e geografia

Japanese Masters of the Colour Print a Great Heritage of Oriental Art

J. Hillier · 1954 · Rooke Books

£83.99 (€100.68 | $110.96 | ¥17,719)

London, Phaidon, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of J. Hillier's fascinating study of Japanese colored prints. In a charming decorative full cloth binding in the original publisher's decorative dustwrapper. This is a first edition illustrated with nu...

Labrador the Country and the People

Wilfred T. Grenfell · 1909 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,970)

New York, Macmillan Company, 1909. Cloth. A fascinating study of the easternmost province in Canada, Labrador. Labrador is the distinct, northerly region of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It comprises the mainland portion of the province, separated from th...

The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive

Rev. Joseph Nightingale; Edward Wedlake Braylet et. al. · 1801 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, Printed for Vernor and Hood, Longman and Rees; J. Harris; Longman and Co.; J. Walker; R. Baldwin et. al. 1801-1814. First edition. Leather. Twelve volumes of this encyclopaedic topographical survey of England and Wales, embellished with engraved plates throughout. Firs...

A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Including the Borough of Gateshead: Volume I.

E. Mackenzie · 1827 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

Newcastle upon Tyne , Mackenzie and Dent , 1827. First edition. Leather. A handsome first edition of this comprehensive local history of Newcastle upon Tyne, complete with engraved plates. First edition. Complete in two volumes, bound in one. Bound in full polished calf, with ...

Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century Displayed in a Series of Engravings

Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd; James Elmes · 1827 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Jones & Co. 1827. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lavishly illustrated history of London from Thomas H. Shepherd and James Elmes. First edition. In a full cloth binding, with leather spine label. Renewed endpapers.Illustrated with an engraved title page...

The Bedfordshire Standard: The New Conservative County Paper.

Various · 1883 · Rooke Books

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

Bedford, Bedfordshire Standard, 1883-1884. First edition. Leather. A complete year of the Bedfordshire Standard in large folio, bound in half morocco, documenting provincial politics, commerce, and daily life in late-Victorian England. In a red half morocco binding with marble...

Histoire Physique, Civile Et Morale de Paris

J. A. Dulaure · 1829 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Paris, Guillaume, 1829 . Leather. Illustrated with five folding partially hand coloured maps, this is the atlas volume of J. A. Dulaure's illustrated history of the city of Paris. In the original French.The atlas volume only of the ten volume fourth edition of this detail...

The Shame of a City an Inquiry Into the Vice of London

Ex-Det. Supt. John Gosling; Douglas Warner · 1960 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, W. H. Allen, 1960. First edition. Cloth. An incredibly scarce expose of the mid-century London underworld of drugs and prostitution. An incredibly scarce first edition title, exposing the realities of London's crime scene.Written as a collaboration between retired...

The Montagu Motor Book

G. C. Sherrin · 1920 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. [1920] (Undated, dated from a co. Cloth. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. [1920] (Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library, corroborated by insciption). Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Not Stated. A very scarce, and illustrate...

The Year Book and Guide to Southern Africa

A. Gordon-Brown (Ed) · 1959 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Robert Hale Limited, 1959. Cloth. An uncommon, well-illustrated guide book to Southern Africa, featuring original colour folding map and numerous adverts. An uncommon title, offering the buyer a well-informed tool with which to navigate a trip to Southern Africa.This w...

The Book of British Topography

John P. Anderson · 1881 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, W. Satchell & Co. 1881 . First edition. Cloth. Smart first edition of this comprehensive catalogue of topographical works relating to Great Britain and Ireland held by the British Museum. First edition.Informative catalogue of the complete British topographical works h...

Paterson&Apos;S Roads; Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with Part of the Roads of Scotland

Edward Mogg · 1832 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1832. Leather. The eighteenth edition of Edward Mogg's extensive road guide to England and Wales, bound in full calf fitted with metal clasps. Eighteenth edition, with appendix.In a handsome full calf bin...

Southern Germany Northern Germany the Rhine

Karl Baedeker · 1914 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Leipzig; London; New York, Karl Baedeker; T. Fisher Unwin; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914; 1904; 1926 . Cloth. A richly illustrated collection of Baedeker's popular travel guides to Germany, with many folding colour maps. A very smart collection of Baedeker's pop...

Travels in European Turkey in 1850, Through Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thrace, Albania, and Epirus; with a Visit to Greece and the Ionian Isles

Edmund Spencer · 1851 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,210)

London, Colburn and Co. Publishers, 1851. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition account of Spencer"s extensive travels through the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, with a large fold-out map of European Turkey, complete in two volumes. Bound in a full calf bindi...

China Pictorial, Descriptive and Historical with Some Account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam

Miss Corner [Julia Corner] · 1853 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1853. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon illustrated first edition, primarily written by children's educational author Miss Julia Corner. An uncommon first edition, in original binding.Features a frontispiece map of China, and frequent vignette illus...

The Books of the City and Hampstead

Ian Norrie [ed.]; Mavis [ed.] · 1961 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, High Hill Books, 1961-1968. Cloth. An illustrated two volume set of historical accounts on London and Hampstead, edited by Ian Norrie. A lovely two volume set of works edited by Ian Norrie.In the original cloth bindings. In the original dust wrappers.This set includes ...

Paris: Ville de Province Et Capitale Des Arts

Louis Gillet · 1942 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

St. Felicien (Ardèche), Au Pigeonnier, 1942. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of a loving work into why Paris is a great cultural beacon, by an art historian who has spent his life there. The first edition of Paris: Ville de Province et Capitale des Arts (Paris: Pro...

Les Environs de Paris

Louis Barron · 1849 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

Paris, Maison Quantin, c1884. Leather. A charming topographical survey of the districts surrounding Paris, illustrated with five hundred of Gustave Fraipont"s atmospheric engravings, bound in half morocco. Bound in a pleasing blue half morocco binding with marbled paper boards...

The Heart of London

H. V. Morton · 1926 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1926. Cloth. Charming illustrated view into contemporary London from well-known journalist H. V. Morton. Fourth edition. First published in June 1925.In publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt detail.Signature dated 1929 to half-title...

Manwood&Apos;S Treatise of the Forest Laws

John Manwood; William Nelson [ed] · 1741 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

In the Savoy, Henry Lintot, 1741 . Leather. A bright example of the fifth edition of William Nelson's expansion of John Manwood's 16th century account on the forest laws of England. Originally published in 1598 as 'A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the fo...