Viaggi e geografia

The Rhine and Its Environs from Schaffhausen to the North Sea

1869 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Mayence , David Kapp, 1869 . First edition. Hardback. A vanishingly scarce topographical work on the Rhine, with descriptions of surrounding towns, castles, monuments and railways, accompanied by an exquisitely detailed folding map of the entire stretch. The first edition. Ver...

A Journey Through Scotland

[John Macky] · 1732 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, J. Pemberton, 1732. Cloth. An extra-illustrated copy of John Macky's volume detailing his travels through Scotland. The second edition.An extra-illustrated copy, with a frontispiece, and eleven plates, bound in by a prior owner.Volume III only, of a total of three...

Japanische Vogelstudien

None · 1895 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Wien; [Vienna], K. K. Osterreichischen Handels-Museum, 1895. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce and striking volume of twelve plates of Japanese birds. The first edition of this scarce work.In German. A portfolio of twelve striking plates, depicting stud...

Post-Office Edinburgh and Leith Directory 1848-9

1848 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

Edinburgh, Johnstone, Ballantyne & Co, 1848. Cloth. A very scarce and detailed directory for Edinburgh and Leith, containing a wealth of information on the area. A very scarce edition of the Post-Office's directory for Edinburgh and Leith, this volume for 1848-9 being the...

Photo Pictures in East Anglia

Annie Berlyn · 1897 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Ashstead, The Studio: Art Photo Works, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A richly illustrated guide to East Anglia, with photographs by the successful landscape photographer John Payne Jennings. The first edition of this work, bound upside down in the publisher's original cloth...

Street-Lore of Bath, a Record of Changes in the Highways and Byways of the City

R. E. M. Peach · 1893 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London; Bath, Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; E. R. Blackett, 1893. First edition. Cloth. Peach's nineteenth century history of the development of the streets and architecture of the beautiful city of Bath. The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original...

Oceana or England and Her Colonies

James Anthony Froude · 1886 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co , 1886. Cloth. An attractive early edition of this insightful chronicle of James Anthony Froude's travels from Cape Town to Australia and New Zealand. A new edition of this work, published in the same year as the first.  In the publisher&...

Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 22 & 23

Irene Wyatt; M. A. Faraday · 2008 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Bristol, The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2008-2009. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes from the Gloucestershire Record Series. Two volumes. First edition. An annual hardback volume of records relating to the history of Gloucestershire...

Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns

Rupert H. Morris · 1893 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

Not Stated, Printed for the Author, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated history of Chester during the the Plantagenet and Tudor reigns. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, three plates, one folding plate, and numerous images. Collated co...

Pacific Island Records Fish Hooks

Harry G. Beasley; Thomas A. Joyce · 1980 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, John Hewett, 1980. Cloth. A scarce illustrated limited edition work on the fish hooks used across the Pacific Islands. A very scarce facsimile reprint limited edition of five hundred copies, this copy is out of series.In the original glassine.Originally published in 19...

Wreyland Documents

Cecil Torr · 1910 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

Cambridge, John Clay at the University Press, 1910. Cloth. A very scarce limited edition, privately circulated topographical and historical account of Wreyland, a village in Devon. A limited edition, with this being number 29. For private circulation only. Illustrated with tw...

Hebridean Island: Memories of Scarp

Angus Duncan; A. Duncan [ed.] · 1995 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Scotland , Tuckwell Press , 1995. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of these touching memoires of boyhood on the Island of Scarp, illustrated throughout with coloured photographs. The first edition.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Angus Dunc...

The Natural History of Orkney

R. J. Berry · 1985 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Collins, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the first volume to be published on the natural history of Orkney, an illustrated volume from 'The New Naturalist&apos. The first edition, first impression, in the second state lighter green cloth bindi...

Westminster Abbey

Henry John Feasey; J. T. Micklethwaite; Edward Bell · 1899 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, George Bell & Sons, 1899. Vellum. A scarce limited edition work on the beauty and history of Westminster Abbey, an illustrated volume. A limited edition of three hundred and sixty copies, of which this is numbered one hundred and fifty seven, a scarce work.Illustrated ...

The History, Topography, and Antiquities of Highgate, in the County of Middlesex

John H. Lloyd · 1888 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Highgate, Printed by Subscription, 1888. First edition. Leather. A smart limited edition copy of this illustrated historical and topographical study of Highgate, Middlesex. First edition. Number three hundred and eight of an unspecified limited edition. Illustrated with a fron...

Diagrams of the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensington

1847 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Brompton, A. Peers, 1847. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce topographical study on the parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensington. The first edition of this very scarce volume of diagrams, laying out the parish of Saint Mary Abbots in Kensington, London...

London As It Is; Being a Series of Observations on the Health, Habits, and Amusements of the People

John Hogg · 1837 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, John Macrone, 1837. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating and very scarce study revealing the culture and health of London inhabitants at the start of the Victorian era. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding. A comprehe...

Folk Lore of East Yorkshire

John Nicholson · 1890 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London; Hull; Driffield, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co; et al, 1890. First edition. Leather. A scarce work on the local legends and folklore of East Yorkshire, the first edition of this illustrated work. The first trade edition of this scarce work.John Nicholson&apos...

London Scenes, or a Visit to Uncle William in Town; Containing a Description of the Most Remarkable Buildings and Curiosities in the British Metropolis

John Harris · 1825 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, John Harris, 1825. Leather. A scarce guide to late Georgian-era London, illustrated with copperplate engravings. An illustrated work in a quarter morocco binding with pictorial paper boards. Illustrated with seventy-six copperplate engravings. Lacking the frontispiece....

The Lincoln and Lincolnshire Cabinet and Annual Intelligencer of Public Business, &C for 1827; with a Monthly Retrospect of the Principal Events and Occurrences of the County, for 1826

Anonymous · 1827 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Lincoln, J. W. Drury, 1827 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first edition of this guide to the businesses operating in Lincolnshire in 1827, and of the principal events taking place in Lincolnshire in that year. A very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a frontisp...