Viaggi e geografia

Cary&Apos;S Traveller&Apos;S Companion, or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales

John Cary · 1814 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, John Cary, 1814 . Leather. A wonderfully illustrated copy of Cary's Traveller's Companion for England and Wales, with forty-two hand coloured maps. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Cary's Traveller's Companion was a compilation of maps illust...

The New Statistical Account of Scotland

Sir John Sinclair · 1845 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1845 . Cloth. The new edition of Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, scarce to see as a complete set of fifteen volumes. The new edition of this work. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-...

The Old Deeside Road (Aberdeen to Braemar) Its Course, History, and Associations

G. M. Fraser · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Aberdeen, The University Press, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this history of the route from Aberdeen to Braemar, an illustrated work by G. M. Fraser. The first edition.A study of the 'old deeside road', a long road which ran from Aberdeen to Braem...

Select Views on the River Clyde

John M. Leighton · 1830 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Glasgow; London, Joseph Swan; Moon, Boys & Graves, 1830. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this charming volume of forty-two plates, showing the beautiful scenes along the River Clyde. The first edition.Bound by W. H. Balton. Illustrated with an engraved title, and...

Typus Orbis a Ptol. Descriptus

Sebastian Munster · 1545 · Rooke Books

£1,190.00 (€1,426.61 | $1,572.42 | ¥251,125)

[Basileæ], [Henricum Petrum], 1545. Disbound. A very scarce map extracted from the 1545 edition of Sebastian Munster's 'Geographia Universalis', drawn from the written observations of Ptolemy. A single map from the very scarce 1545 edition of Munster's f...

Surrey

A. R. Hope Moncrieff · 1906 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.53 | $76.64 | ¥12,240)

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1906. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this volume on Surrey by A. R. Hope Moncrieff, with stunning colour plates by Sutton Palmer. First edition. Illustrated with seventy-five colour plates and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. ...

Our River

George D. Leslie · 1881 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1881 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of British genre painter, author and illustrator George Dunlop Leslie's charmingly illustrated study of the Thames. The scarce first edition of this work.Victorian era painter George Dunlo...

Select Views in London and Westminster

Anonymous · 1800 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, Colnaghi and Co Pall Mall, 1800. Leather. Thomas Medland's very scarce collection of seventeen engraved views of London and Westminster in the late eighteenth century. A very scarce work.As stated by the British Library, this work originally appeared as eight plat...

Touraine and Its Story

Anne Macdonell · 1906 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, J. M Dent & Co, 1906. Cloth. A wonderful historical exploration of Touraine, illustrated with beautiful colour plates throughout. A smart copy of this study into one of the traditional provinces of France. Bound in the publisher's original green decorated cloth.U...

England and Wales, from Drawings by J.M. W. Turner

J.M.W. Turner · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Glasgow, Maclure & Macdonald, c1900 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce volume in which descriptive passages about locations in England and Wales are accompanied by plates from prominent English painter J.M.W. Turner, best known for his violent marine paintings. A single vol...

Rowland Ward&Apos;S Records of Big Game

Rowland Ward; Gerald A. Best; et al · 1962 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Rowland Ward LTD, 1962. Cloth. Rowland Ward's influential and detailed record of big game, an illustrated eleventh edition. Ward's 'Records' was a valuable resource for hunters as field guides, providing a detailed handbook for knowing what mammals ...

Northward over the "Great Ice

Robert E. Peary · 1898 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Methuen & Co, 1898 . First edition. Cloth. The two volume first UK edition of this fascinating autobiographical work by American Arctic explorer Robert Peary. The two volume first UK edition of this work of polar exploration, first published earlier in the same year in...

La Pendule Francaise

Various · 1962 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

Paris, Tardy, 1962-1967. Paperback. Three scarce volumes of this illustrated work on the French clock, in the original French. French. Complete in three volumes. Scarce. A historical study of the French clock from its origins to the present day, with reference to the mechanics...

Hispanic Furniture from Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Century

Grace Hardendorff Burr · 1964 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

New York, The Archive Press, 1964. Cloth. A very smart second edition of this comprehensive history of Hispanic furniture. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two hundred and two in-text figures. Collated complete. A historical study of Hi...

London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25

Iain Sinclair · 2002 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Granta Books, 2002 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of Iain Sinclair's travelogue, with a signed letter from the author to famed science-fiction bibliographer George Locke. A limited edition, with this being number sixty-five of one-hundred signed ...

The Face of London: The Record of a Century&Apos;S Changes and Development

Harold P. Clunn · 1933 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Simpkin Marshall Ltd. 1933. Cloth. A fascinating fourth edition of The Face of London, with illustrations throughout. Fourth edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one hundred and seven plates. Collated complete. The volume attempts to present a bird's-eye v...

Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places

Walter Thornbury; Edward Walford · 1851 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880. Leather. A smart six volume set on the city of London, with illustrations throughout. Complete in six volumes. No edition remarks. A charming work on the history and people of the city of London. Each volume is illustrated with a fro...

Domestic Annals of Scotland

Robert Chambers · 1874 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Edinburgh and London, W. & R. Chambers , 1874. Leather. An impressive history of Scotland as it was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by the noted publisher Robert Chambers. The third edition of this work.Complete in three volumes.'Domestic Annals of Scotland&ap...

The Wabash

William E. Wilson · 1940 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first printing of William E. Wilson's best known work, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original ...

Free Russia

William Hepworth Dixon · 1870 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1870 . First edition. Leather. The two volume first edition of William Hepworth Dixon's study of nineteenth century Russia. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes.Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece to each volum...