Viaggi e geografia

History of Llanyblodwel

Isaac Watkins · 1905 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Oswestry , Woodall, Minshall, Thomas & Co. 1905 . Cloth. A scarce privately printed history of Llanyblodwel, rich in Welsh genealogy, border antiquities, Offa"s Dyke, and the cultural history of the Welsh Marches. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. A very scar...

Eastern Branch of the Watling Street, in the County of Northumberland

Henry MacLauchlan · 1864 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Printed for private distribution, 1864 . First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy from the Duke of Northumberland of the very scarce first edition of Henry MacLauchlan's illustrated survey of Roman remains in Northumberland. The very scarce first edition...

Our Village

Mary Russell Mitford · 1891 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1891 . Leather. A smartly bound copy of this idyllic collective of sketches depicting rural life, featuring the illustrations of W.H.J. Boot and C.O. Murray. A later edition, first published as a collection in 1879.In a full red morocc...

Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Chrsitians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians

Austen Henry Layard · 1850 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, John Murray, 1850. Cloth. The fifth edition of Austen Henry Layard's best-selling account of the excavation of Nineveh, complete with folding plans and folding map. Fifth edition. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's cloth binding. Volume I illustrat...

Vers le Nil Francais (the French Nile)

Charles Castellani · 1898 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1898. Leather. The illustrated edition of an account from the colonial Marchand Mission, the French imperial attempt to explore and expand into north east of Africa, in half morocco decorative blue cloth. The illustrated edition of Vers le Nil Francai...

Picturesque Sketches of Greece and Turkey in Two Volumes.

Aubrey de Vere · 1850 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1850. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing two-volume first edition of de Vere's grand tour through Greece and Turkey, with ephemera from a previous reader. A superb first edition of Aubrey ...

Libyan Notes

David Randall Maciver; Anthony Wilkin · 1901 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. First edition. Cloth. An impressive first edition of Randall-Maciver and Wilkin's anthropological study of the North African Berber Tribes. The first edition of Libyan Notes, produced by British explorers David Randall-Maciver and ...

Recording Britain

Arnold Palmer · 1946 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Oxford , Oxford University Press, 1946. Cloth. An illustrated collection printed in association with the Pilgrim Trust, recording the changing face of Britain, each volume covering a different area of England with watercolour drawings in colour and monochrome of places and bui...

Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present

Thomas Baines · 1867 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, William Mackenzie, C1870. Cloth. A four volume set of this noted work by Thomas Baines. Collated: Complete. With eighteen full page plates of views, plans and technology taken from original drawings by H. Warren, with a series of seven engraved portraits. A history and...

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge

Various · 1959 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1959. Cloth. An extensive records of important historical buildings and sights in Cambridge. Illustrated with hundreds of plates, including folding maps and plans Including details of the college buildings, ecclesiastical build...

Oxford in 1710 from the Travels of Zacharias Conrad Von Uffenbach

Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach · 1928 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1928. Cloth. A lovely edition of German book collector Uffenbach's 'Oxford in 1710&apos. Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683–1734) was a German scholar, bibliophile, book-collector, traveller, palaeographer, and consul in Frankfurt am Main ...

The Counties of Bedford and Huntingdon Homes of Bunyan and Cromwell

Arthur Mee · 1951 · Rooke Books

£36.99 (€44.34 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. Cloth. An interesting book on the topography of Beford and Huntingdon. Illustrated with sepia frontispiece and further plates throughout including folding map. Part of the Series "The King's England", county by county covering 10,000 to...

Derbyshire Returns to the 1851 Religious Census

Margery Tranter · 1995 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Derbyshire, Derbyshire Record Society, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A detailed picture of the state of religion throughout the county of Derbyshire at the beginning of the Victorian era. Volume XXIII of the Derbyshire Record Society. First edition. Edited by Margery Tranter in ...

Autumns in Skye Ross & Sutherland

T. Ratcliffe Barnett · 1946 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

London, John Grant , 1946. Cloth. A detailed work of travel, exploring the Glens, Castles and towns within Skye, Ross and Sutherland. New and revised edition. Featuring photographic plates throughout, illustrated maps to the endpapers, and the original dustwrapper. In original...

Saunterings in and About London

Mac Schlesinger · 1853 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Nathaniel Cooke, 1853. Leather. A personal account of Schlesinger's tour of London. Translated from the German by Otto Wenckstern. Illustrated with several plates by the Dalziel brothers. Rebound in half-morocco. Externally, smart, with just some light sunning to ...

The Topographical Dictionary of England and Wales in Two Volumes

E.L. Blanchard (Ed) · 1860 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, L.Tallis, 1860. Leather. A scarce set of this valuable topographical text, edited E.L. Blanchard. Complete in two volumes. An edition of England and Wales delineated by Thomas Dugdale which is published in parts. Volume I contains parts I and II, Volume II contains par...

Old and New Paris Its History, Its People and Its Places

H. Sutherland Edwards · 1893 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1893-4. Leather. A first edition two volume set of the history and local interest work on Paris. First Edition, in two volumes. A history of the people, and the places of the 'New and Old Paris', France's energetic capital. W...

Salopia Antiqua, or an Enquiry from Personal Survey Into the "Druidical", Military, and Other Early Remains in Shropshire and the North Welsh Borders

Charles Henry Hartshorne · 1841 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, John W. Parker, 1841. First edition. Leather. The first and only edition of this fascinating archaeological synopsis of Shropshire, in a lovely leather binding. First Edition. Beautifully illustrated, with an extensive glossary of the local dialect. "With Observations ...

The Cambrian Traveller&Apos;S Guide, in Every Direction Containing Remarks Made During Many Excursions in the Principality of Wales and Bordering Districts

George Nicholson · 1813 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Leather. A comprehensive guide to Wales and its surrounding districts. The Second Edition. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Greenly, born at Titley Court, H...

The Manor of Gawsworth Cheshire

Raymond Richards · 1974 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

Manchester, E. J. Morten , 1974. Cloth. A fascinating insight into the manor of Gawsworth within Cheshire. Featuring various photographic plates and several illustrations. With the original unclipped dustwrapper. "The book tells the story of the manor since the feudal times of...