Viaggi e geografia

An Essay Towards a History of Hexham

A. B. Wright · 1823 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Alnwick, W. Davison, 1823. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon topographical essay on the northern market Town Hexham. The first edition of this uncommon work.A. B. Wright's concise exploration on the history of Hexham.Hexham is a market town in North...

Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Durham

George Alexander Cooke · 1822 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1822 . Paperback. A charming and very scarce topographical guide to Durham, illustrated with a folding map and plates. A later edition of this very scarce work, which was first published in 1810.Illustrated with a frontispiece, folding map, and...

Kenilworth Illustrated; or, the History of the Castle, Priory, and Church of Kenilworth

Anonymous · 1821 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Chiswick, C. whittingham; for Merridew and Son; John Merridew et al, 1821 . First edition. Leather. A first edition, illustrated study of Warwickshire's Kenilworth Castle and its surroundings. The first edition of this illustrated study of the Warwickshire town of Kenilwo...

The Stranger&Apos;S Companion in Chester; a Visit to the Cathedral Church of Chester

Anonymous · 1821 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Chester, G. Batenham, c1821. Hardback. A scarce guide to Chester, featuring the anonymously authored works 'The Stranger's Companion in Chester' and 'A Visit to the Cathedral Church of Chester&apos. A scarce work, in the publisher's original paper cove...

The Stranger in Liverpool; or, an Historical and Descriptive View of Liverpool and Its Environs

Anonymous · 1829 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Liverpool, T. Kaye, 1829 . Leather. The ninth edition of this scarce guide to Liverpool and its history, illustrated with a folding map and a number of plates. The ninth edition of this work.Illustrated with a folding map and twelve plates.With discussion of winds, soil, chari...

The Spirit of Paris

Paul Cohen Portheim · 1937 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this authentic account of the city of Paris by Paul Cohen Portheim, with photographs throughout. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper desig...

Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860

J. R. Abbey · 1953 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. Cloth. A smart limited edition of this brightly illustrated bibliographical catalogue of artwork exploring life in England. Limited to five hundred copies of which this is number seventy-one. Illustrated with a colour fronti...

The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

Sir Walter Raleigh · 1829 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.49 | $1,711.16 | ¥273,283)

Oxford, The University Press, 1829 . First edition. Leather. A scarce, first edition of this collection of the works of Sir Walter Raleigh, uniformly bound in full calf. First edition of this collection of the works of Sir Walter Raleigh. Uniformly bound in full tree calf with...

The Clyde: River and Firth

Neil Munro · 1907 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated work on the River Clyde, with a folding map. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, sixty-six colour plates, and a folding map to the rear. Collated c...

The Ornamental Arts of Japan

George Ashdown Audsley · 1882 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882-84. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lavishly illustrated work exploring the beauties of Japanese art, colourfully illustrated with chromolithographs. The first edition of this work.An uncommon work.Four pa...

The Book of Austria

Ernst Marboe; G.E.R. Gedye [trans.] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Vienna, Osterreichische, 1948 . First edition. Leather. The first English language edition of Ernst Marboe's beautiful celebration of the history of Austria, in a full crushed morocco binding. The first English language edition of this work, translated by G.E.R. Gedye.In ...

Picturesque Old Bristol

John Taylor · 1885 · Rooke Books

£1,850.00 (€2,217.84 | $2,444.52 | ¥390,405)

Bristol, Frost and Reed, 1885. Leather. A very scarce limited edition study on the beauties of old Bristol, one of one-hundred and twenty-five copies of this illustrated work. A very scarce work.The Unlettered Proof Edition, a limited edition of one-hundred and twenty-five cop...

My Years in Germany

Martha Dodd · 1939 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A smart third impression of this detailed account of the author's time living in and travelling around Germany. First edition, third impression. Printed the same year as the first. A detailed account of the author&a...

Switzerland: The St. Gothard Railway, Territet, Neuester Fukrer Durch Innsbruck Und Umgebung, & Guide to Salzburg and Its Environs

George L. Catlin; Two Swiss Mountaineers; Carl Landsee; G. Jung · 1882 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Zurich; Innsbruck; Salzburg, Art Institute Orell Fussli; A. Edlinger's Verlag; G. Jung, 1882-1901. Cloth. A collection of four travel volumes for Switzerland and Austria, bound into one. Four volumes bound in one. A charming collection of informative travel guides to Swit...

Views of Gibraltar

0 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Philip G. Hunt, c1900 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce copy of this collection of photographs depicting Gibraltar at the end of the nineteenth century. First edition.Bound in the publisher's boards with a string tie. This scarce work is provides an intere...

Voyage to, and Travels Through the Four Principal Islands of the African Seas; Gleanings of a Wanderer, in Various Parts of England, Scotland, & North Wales

J. B. G. M. Bory de St. Vincent · 1805 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, Richard Phillips, 1805 . First edition. Cloth. Two first edition travelogues bound together, and including the first edition of J. B. G. M. Bory de St. Vincent's very scarce account of the islands of the African Seas. Two first edition works bound together, with i...

California Life Illustrated

Rev. William Taylor · 1868 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, c1868 . Cloth. A very scarce UK edition of Rev. William Taylor's guide to life in mid nineteenth century California. A scarce UK edition of this exploration of the scenes and history of California as it was during the Victorian era.The thirty...

A New Picture of Brussels, and Its Environs

J. B. Romberg · 1820 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Samuel Leigh, 1820 . Hardback. The second edition of this vanishingly scarce 'stranger's guide' to early nineteenth century Brussels. The second edition of this very scarce work.Illustrated with eight plates - five of which are folding - and with a foldi...

The Medway River and Valley: The Story of the Medway, Aspects of Life on the Medway, Journeyings on the Medway

William Coles Finch · 1929 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, The C. W. Daniel Company, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on the Medway River, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Scarce work. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrappe...

Wonderful Britain: Its Highways, Byways & Historic Places Described and Pictured by Expert Writers & Photographers

Charles G. Harper; A. G. Bradley; J. E. Morris; J. A. Hammerton [ed.]; et al. · 1928 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Educational Book Co. Ltd. 1928-1929. Cloth. An illustrated four-volume guide to the history and topography of Britain, with contributions by notable writers. A four-volume work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings. Each volume is illustrated with a...