Viaggi e geografia

Feet of Fines for Essex Part XIX (Being Part I of Vol. III) to Part XXVII (Being Part IX of Vol. III)

Robert Copp Fowler · 1929 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Colchester, The Society at the Museum in the Castle/The Essex Archaeological Society, 1929-1949. First edition. Paperback. A smart collection of nine volumes of records of the Feet of Fines for Essex, compiled by Robert Copp Fowler. Nine volumes. Containing Part XIX (Being Par...

Pictorial Relics of Liverpool

W. G. Herdman · 1878 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)

Liverpool, Published for Brown, Barnes & Bell by Gilbert G. Walmsley , 1878. First edition. Leather. A wonderfully illustrated historical study of Liverpool, compiled by W. G. Herdman and complete in two volumes. The first edition.Complete in two volumes. Bound in half morocco...

Philips&Apos; Handy Atlas of the Counties of England

George Philip · 1887 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, George Philip & Son, 1887. Cloth. A colourful atlas of the counties of England, a useful reference work. An atlas of the counties of England, including maps of Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.Illustrated with forty-five colour maps.The maps in  this vol...

Examples of the Architecture of the Victorian Age, and Monthly Review of the World&Apos;S Architectural Progress

1862 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Darton and Hodge, 1862. First edition. Leather. A very scarce contemporary study on Victorian architecture, an illustrated work with chromolithographs. The first edition of this very scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven chromolithographs, and eleven mono...

Friends of Yesterday

A. M. Wilson · 1903 · Rooke Books

£33.00 (€39.56 | $43.60 | ¥6,962)

London, A. H. Bullen, 1903. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce series of reminiscences about village life in in Sedgbrook, with charming plates of photographs. The first edition of this scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with an il...

The Voyages of Captain Scott

Charles Turley; J. M. Barrie [Intro.] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1914 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated biography of the life and ground-breaking Polar voyages of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The first edition of this work.An exciting work recounting the voyages of Captain Robert Scott...

Philips&Apos; Handy Volume Atlas of London: A Series of Fifty-Five Sectional Maps of the County of London

1921 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, George Philp & Son Ltd. 1921. Cloth. A smart eighth and revised edition of this pocket-sized atlas of the city of London. Eighth and revised edition. A detailed pocket-sized atlas of the city of London on a scale of three inches to the mile. Includes a comprehensive in...

Lincolnshire Exhibition, 1887. Catalogue.

1887 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Lincoln, Akrill, Ruddock, & Keyworth, 1887. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce catalogue for Lincolnshire's 1887 Exhibition of Art Treasures. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work. Held institutionally only at the University of Nottingham.Original wraps are bound in....

We Didn&Apos;T Mean to Go to Sea

Arthur Ransome · 1965 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1965. Cloth. The seventh book from Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons' series of beloved sailing children's stories, with the smart unclipped dust wrapper. A later impression of this beloved children's adventure novel. Illus...

Liverpool Mercury

1816 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Liverpool, Smith & Galway, 1816. Unbound. A very scarce Regency era newspaper for Liverpool, an interesting look at life in the city. A very scarce newspaper for Liverpool, being Volume V, No. 243, for Friday February 23rd, 1816.'Liverpool Mercury' was founded in 181...

Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Bristol

Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland · 1853 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; George Bell, 1853 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this illustrated guide to the history of Bristol. The scarce first edition of this production of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain...

Pilgrimages to English Shrines

Mrs S. C. Hall; Anna Maria Hall · 1850 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co, 1850. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated exploration of various shrines of historical figures in England by Anna Maria Hall. The first edition.Originally published as a serial in 'The Art Journal&apos.A work by Anna Maria Hall i...

A Tourist in Africa

Evelyn Waugh · 1960 · Rooke Books

£72.00 (€86.30 | $95.12 | ¥15,190)

London, Chapman and Waugh, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Evelyn Waugh's travel diary on his time in Africa, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and nine plates of monochrome photog...

Journey to Khiva

Philip Glazebrook · 1992 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Harvill, 1992. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression, of this travelogue describing Philip Glazebrook's travels to Khiva, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression with a complete numberline. Illustrated with a...

The History of London, and, Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London

William Gray Fearnside; Thomas Harral; William Edward Trotter · 1838 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Orr and Co; Simpkin Marshall and Co, 1838-39. Cloth. Two topographical volumes on London and its surrounding areas bound in one, an extensively illustrated volume. Two volumes bound in one.These two volumes offer a vivid history of London, looking at the great capital ...

Round About My Peking Garden

Mrs. Archibald Little · 1905 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. Cloth. A smart second impression of this fascinating work on gardening in China from British writer Alicia Little. Second impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eighty-five black-and-white images across sixty-seven plates. With a ...

Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands

Charles St. John; Sir Herbert Maxwell · 1927 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Gurney and Jackson, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of the sports of the Highlands in Scotland. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty-nine illustrations over thirty-nine plates, twenty-eight of whi...

Holland House

Princess Marie Henrietta Adelaide of Liechtenstein · 1874 · Rooke Books

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

London, Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition. Leather. An extra-illustrated example of first edition of Marie Fox's brilliant history of Holland House, her own family own, in sumptuous signed bindings by Bayntun Riviere. The first edition of this work, complete in two vo...

A Survey and Record of Woolwich and West Kent

C. H. Grinling; T. A. Ingram; B. C. Polkinghorne [general editors] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Woolwich, Labour Representation Printing Co. Ltd. 1909. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce collection of surveys on Woolwich and West Kent. First edition. Scarce work. A collection of comprehensive records and surveys on the areas of Woolwich and West K...

A Topographical Account of the Hundred of Bosmere in the County of Southampton

Charles John Longcroft · 1857 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, John Russell Smith, 1857. Leather. An uncommon illustrated work on the topography of the hundred division of Bosmere, Southampton. Uncommon work. Illustrated with a map frontispiece and nineteen plates, one of which is folding. Collated complete. A detailed commentary ...