Viaggi e geografia

Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield & District

Lieut. Colonel Colby [Thomas Frederick Colby] · 1876 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Ordnance Survey Office, 1876. Cloth. A very scarce Ordnance Survey map depicting Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield, and the surrounding region, completed by cartographer Thomas Frederick Colby. This copy of this very scarce map was electrotyped in 1876, from a map first engr...

Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Quondam Lincolniensis Epistolae

Robert Grosseteste; Henry Richard Luard · 1861 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. Leather. A volume of the letters by the medieval Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Grosseteste, signed by the editor, Henry Richard Luard. Signed by the editor to the half-title.A collection of the letters written by Robert Grossetes...

The Diary and Consultation Book of the Agent Governor and Council of Fort St George

Arthur T. Pringle · 1894 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

Madras, Superintendent Government Press, 1894-5. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce collection of administrative diaries of the Agent Governor at Fort St. George, Streynsham Master, transliterated from the original manuscripts by Arthur T. Pringle. The first edition in boo...

Eton of Old, 1811-1822

W. H. Tucker · 1892 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited, [1892]. First edition. Leather. A very scarce illustrated look at Eton College from 1811 to 1822, a smartly bound copy. A very scarce work.A charming history of Eton College, looking in particular at the College as it was in 1811 t...

A Memoir of Central India, Including Malwa, and Adjoining Provinces

Sir John Malcolm · 1832 · Rooke Books

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

London, Parbury, Allen & Co, 1832 . Leather. Handsomely bound in full calf, present here is the two volume third edition of Sir John Malcolm"s account of the political, military, and cultural landscape of Central India in the early 1800s. The third edition, complete in two vol...

Motoring Guide of India

Dr Rajendra Prasad [ed.]; Automobile Association Of Eastern India · 1961 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Calcutta, Automobile Association Of Eastern India, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this fascinating guide to motoring and car journeys in India, illustrated with folding maps. The very scarce first edition of this work. Many editions were subseque...

Memories of the Old College of Glasgow

David Murray · 1927 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

Glasgow, Jackson, Wylie and Co, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of David Murray's impressive and richly illustrated history of the University of Glasgow. The first edition.A fascinating history of the University of Glasgow, offering insight to its buildings...

Travels in New Zealand

Ernest Dieffenbach · 1843 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

London, John Murray, 1843. First edition. Leather. An elegantly bound, two volume set of this early travel work documenting Ernest Dieffenbach's time spent in New Zealand, illustrated with plates. First edition. Complete in two volumes. Smartly bound in a contemporary hal...

The Australasian Federal Directory of Commerce, Trade, and Professions.

J. W. F. Rogers · 1888 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

Melbourne and Sydney , J. W. F. Rogers, 1888-9 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce federal directory of commerce, trades and professions in Australasia in the years 1888-1889, with fourteen colour maps. First edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. Vanishingl...

Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated

J. Britton; E. W. Brayley · 1832 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1832. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated topographical study on Devonshire and Cornwall, complete as two volumes bound in one. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a map, vignette title page, and forty-seven p...

Skelton&Apos;S Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire

Joseph Skelton · 1823 · Rooke Books

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

London, J. Skelton, 1823. First edition. Leather. A large paper copy of the first edition of this impressive collection of fifty engravings of Oxfordshire antiquities. Engraved by the author, Joseph Skelton, after the work of Frederick Mackenzie. The first edition of English e...

Cronica de la Provincia de Cadiz

D. Jose Bisso · 1868 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Madrid, Rubio, Grilo Y Vitturi, 1868. First edition. Leather. An uncommon first edition of this illustrated history of Cadiz, in the original Spanish. Spanish. First edition. Uncommon. Illustrated with eight plates and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. From the autho...

Ancient Egypt: Sources of Information in the New York Public Library

Ida A. Pratt · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, The New York Public Library , 1925. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of this impressive bibliography, detailing books from the New York Public Library on ancient Egypt. The first edition. Handsomely rebound in a quarter cloth, with marbled paper cov...

Orientalische Bibliographie

Dr August Muller; Ernst Kuhn; Lucian Scherman · 1887 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Berlin, H. Reuther's Verlagsnuchhandlung; Reuther & Reichard, 1887-98. Leather. An eleven volume scarce set of the 'Oriental Bibliography', an annual bibliography on Asian literature, bound in crushed quarter morocco. Eleven volumes of the 'Orientalische Bi...

Thomas Platters Des Jungeren Englandfahrt IM Jahre 1599

Hans Hecht [editor] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Halle/Saale, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1929. Cloth. A smart copy of this record of the travels of Thomas Platter the Younger across England in 1599, in the original German. German. Illustrated throughout. The travels of Thomas Platter the Younger, a Swiss-born physician, traveller ...

Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 20 & 27

C. R. Elrington · 2006 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Bristol, The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2006-2013. 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...

Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society & Title Page and Index to the Essex Archaeological Society

Various · 1924 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Colchester, The Society at the Museum in the Castle/The Essex Archaeological Society, 1924-1958. Paperback. A collection of eight volumes from the Essex Archaeological Society from the original record of transactions. Eight volumes. New series. With illustrations throughout. F...

A History of the Highlands, and of the Highland Clans

James Browne · 1860 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Edinburgh and London, A. Fullarton, 1860 . Leather. Volumes I and II only of this history of the Highlands of Scotland, illustrated with engravings and woodcuts. Volumes I and II only of a four volume work.Volume I is illustrated with a folding map, and twelve plates, five of ...

Dresden Und Die Dresdener Ein Lustiges Vademecum

Freiherrn von Schlicht (Wolf Graf von Baudissin) · 1908 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

Dresdener Verlagsanstalt, Dresden und Leipzig, 1908. Leather. The very scarce humorous travel guide to Dresden by Wolf Graf von Baudissin, a central figure in the establishment of the Bundeswehr, in half crushed morocco leather binding. The second edition of the work, with cor...

Pacific Island Records Fish Hooks

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

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

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...