Viaggi e geografia

A Concise History of Trowbridge

James Bodman · 1814 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Bristol, Philip Rose, 1814. First edition. Leather. A very scarce study on the history of Trowbridge by James Bodman, the first edition. The first edition.A very scarce work.A concise history on the Wiltshire town Trowbridge, which has a long history as a market town.This volu...

The New Forest: Its History and Scenery

John R. Wise · 1863 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1863. First edition. Cloth. A rebacked first edition of this illustrated history of the New Forest, England, written by John Richard de Capel Wise. First edition. Illustrated with sixty-three images and two maps, one of which is folding. Collated co...

A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan

Robert Orme · 1803 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, F. Wingrave, 1803. Leather. Robert Orme's exploration of the conflicts the British were involved in during the Carnatic Wars, illustrated with folding maps. In two volumes, Volumes I and II only of a total of three volumes.Volume I is illustrated with eight foldin...

Index Villaris: Or, an Exact Register, Alphabetically Digested, of All the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or Other Division of Each County

John Adams · 1690 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, T. Sawbridge and M. Gillyflower, 1690 . Leather. The very scarce expanded and enlarged second edition of cartographer John Adams's detailed and informative gazetteer. First published a decade prior, this is the very scarce second edition, with 'elaborate addi...

Our Native Land Its Scenery and Associations

1879 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Marcus Ward & Co. 1879. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this brightly illustrated collection of stunning water-colour sketches from eminent British artists. First edition. Illustrated with numerous engravings in text and thirty-six chromolithograph water-col...

Indian India, As Seen by a Guest in Rajasthan

C. W. Waddington · 1933 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Jarrolds, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of C. W. Waddington's charmingly illustrated account of his travels in twentieth century India. The first edition of this work.With illustrations by the author, including a frontispiece, twenty-eight monochr...

Twelve Years in Canterbury, New Zealand

Mrs. Charles Thomson · 1867 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1867 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fascinating first hand account of twelve years spent by an Englishwoman in the Canterbury Settlement of New Zealand. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a tinted frontispi...

Number One; or, the Way of the World

Frank Foster [Daniel Puseley] · 1862 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1862 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this mid-nineteenth century novel set in Australia and New Zealand, inspired by the author's own experiences in the region. The scarce first edition of this work from Frank Foster, th...

Gringo, Watch out!

Hans Koester · 1936 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. 1936. Cloth. A very scarce copy of Hans Koester's autobiographical reminiscences of his adventures in South America, with plates. A very scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with eight monochrome p...

Historical Antiquities, in Two Books. The First Treating in General of Great-Britain and Ireland. The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire

Peter Leycester · 1673 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, W. L. For Robert Clavell, 1673. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this important and early county history of Cheshire by Peter Leycester. The first edition.Collated, bound without the folding map, as is usual, and the final blank. With woodcut and engraved v...

Flash-Lights of India Past & Present

Capt. L. H. Niblett · 1930 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Allahabad, Pioneer Press, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. An association copy of the first edition of Captain L.H. Niblett's scarce and informative account of diverse aspects of life in India in the first decades of the twentieth century. A scarce first edition.Illustrated w...

The Statistical Account of Edinburghshire

The Ministers of the Respective Parishes · 1845 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1845 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this informative guide to the parishes in and around Edinburgh. An uncommon first edition.Illustrated with a double page engraved map.A detailed statistical guide to twenty-nine Scot...

Chepstow

Ordnance Survey · 1912 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Southampton, Ordnance Survey Office, 1912 . Unbound. A very scarce Ordnance Survey Map showing Bristol and the River Severn, showing the railways of the region and with the routes of the Severn Tunnel and Severn Bridge added by a later hand. A very scarce 1912 Ordnance Survey ...

London Holiday

Austin Reed · 0 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Austin Reed; Curwen Press [Printer], c1930. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce copy of this humorous guide to London, charmingly illustrated throughout. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Published with compliments from Austin Reed at Regent ...

The Spirit of London & the Heart of England

Paul Cohen-Portheim; Ivor Brown · 1950 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1950-1951. Cloth. Two smart later editions of these illustrated works on London from the British Heritage Series. Two volumes. The British Heritage Series. This set contains: The Spirit of London, 1950. Third edition, revised. Illustrated with a col...

Travelling Sketches on the Sea-Coasts of France

Leitch Ritchie · 1834 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Leitch Ritchie's account of his travels through the coast of France, beautifully illustrated by Clarkson Stanfield and bound in full morocco. The first edition. Boun...

The Wild Sports of Southern Africa

William Cornwallis Harris · 1841 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.45 | $2,510.17 | ¥400,841)

London, William Pickering, 1841. Leather. The third and preferred edition of this travels in South Africa, strikingly illustrated with hand-coloured plates. The third edition of this work. This is the preferred edition, being the first edition to be adorned with hand-coloured ...

The Expedition of Colonel Fabvier to Chios, Described in Contemporary Diplomatic Reports

Philip P. Argenti · 1933 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Argenti's account of Colonel Fabvier's attempt to liberate the Greek island of Chios, with the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. A very scarce first edition.I...

The British Islands and Their Vegetation

A. G. Tansley [Arthur George Tansley] · 1965 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press, 1965. Cloth. A two volume set of illustrated works on the vegetation of the British islands by Arthur George Tansley. The fourth impression. First published in 1939, with this being a new edition published in two volumes. Illustrat...

Lizars&Apos; Scottish Tourist: A Guide to the Picturesque Scenery, Antiques, Etc.

W. H. Lizars [editor] · 1850 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars, 1850. Cloth. The sixteenth edition of this tourist's guide to Scotland from the Lizars map-making and publishing family. Sixteenth edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, five folding maps, one folding plate, forty-seven plates, ...