Rooke Books

Travel & Exploration: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine: Vol I. January to June 1909

S. Carter Gilmour [ed.] · 1909

£65.00 (€77.85 | $87.43 | ¥13,814)

London, Witherby & Co. 1909 . Cloth. A fascinating compilation of travelogues from January to June 1909 of the Travel & Exploration Monthly Illustrated Magazine, with many black and white photographs.   In the publisher's original cloth.Illustrated throughout with black...

The Hastings Road and the "Happy Springs of Tunbridge

Charles G. Harper · 1906

£65.00 (€77.85 | $87.43 | ¥13,814)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated topographical guide to the Hastings Road. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seventeen plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A topographical guide to the H...

Wonders of World Aviation: The Conquest of the Air in Story and Picture

Clarence Winchester; J. Laurence Pritchard · 1938

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

London , The Amalgamated Press, [1938]. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful complete collection in two volumes of the full publication of this magazine regarding aviation edited by Clarence Winchester and J. Laurence Pritchard A complete set of all forty issues of this weekly ma...

Longmans&Apos; Geographical Reader for New Zealand

Robert Lee [ed.] · 1895

£70.00 (€83.84 | $94.15 | ¥14,876)

London; New York, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, well-illustrated guide to contemporary New Zealand - its sights, people, and history - with colour maps. A very scarce first edition travelogue offering an insightful look into contemporary N...

The Sailor&Apos;S Sea-Book a Rudimentary Treatise on Navigation

James Greenwood · 1894

£65.00 (€77.85 | $87.43 | ¥13,814)

London , Crosby Lockwood & CO, 1894. Cloth. A bright edition of The Sailor's Sea-Book A Rudimentary Treatise on Navigation, with colour plates. A later edition of The Sailor's Sea-Book A Rudimentary Treatise on Navigation. This volume guides the reader on finding th...

Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North

Peter Freuchen · 1936

£45.00 (€53.90 | $60.53 | ¥9,563)

London; Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Cloth. A very smart copy of this illustrated autobiographical account of Freuchen's Arctic expeditions. A very smart copy of this autobiographical account. Seen here in an early edition, the first edition having been published...

Paterson&Apos;S Roads Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales with Part of the Roads of Scotland

Edward Mogg · 0

£180.00 (€215.59 | $242.11 | ¥38,253)

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, Longmans etc., c1832. Cloth. A comprehensive look at the roadways of Great Britain in the nineteenth century, with several folding maps. The eighteenth edition. Illustrated with a monochrome folding map frontispiece, and eight folding plat...

A Paper on the Hampshire Inn Signs and Their Probable Origin

Joseph Stevens · 1879

£90.00 (€107.80 | $121.06 | ¥19,127)

Winchester, Jacob and Johnson, 1879. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this study of Hampshire inn signs from Hampshire Local Councilmember Joseph Stevens. Very scarce work. A paper read before the members of the Winchester and Hampshire Scientific and Literary Society at the G...

The Wayside Book: A Book for Ramblers, Campers, and All Wayfarers

Heather White [ed]; R. Francis Foster [ed] · 1932

£30.00 (€35.93 | $40.35 | ¥6,376)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce and charming little guide for campers and ramblers, with illustrations by Margot Folliott. The first edition.Illustrated with monochrome vignettes by Margot Foster. In the publisher&a...

Carte Campbell En 4 Couleurs: Les Operations Militaires No. 2 Nord Et Belgique

None · 0

£45.00 (€53.90 | $60.53 | ¥9,563)

Paris, Blondel La Rougery, c1920. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce coloured map of military operations in Northern France and Belgium. Scarce work. A large folding map of Northern France and Belgium, in four colours. Intending to display the areas of military operations in fifteen ...

My Lively Lady

Alec Rose · 1968

£95.00 (€113.78 | $127.78 | ¥20,189)

Lymington; London , Nautical Publishing Company; George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. 1968. Leather. A signed, limited edition copy of this popular sailing book describing Alec Rose's circumnavigation of the globe. A limited edition. Published in the same year as the first edi...

Paterson&Apos;S Roads, Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales

Edward Mogg · 1822

£295.00 (€353.33 | $396.79 | ¥62,693)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. Leather. A fascinating account of the roads of Britain in the 1820's, in a smart full calf binding and illustrated with a number of folding maps. The 1822 sixteenth edition of 'Paterson's Roads', the work ...

An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries

Sir John Narbrough; Abel Tasman; Tancred Robinson [ed.] · 1711

£2,900.00 (€3,473.44 | $3,900.68 | ¥616,306)

London, D. Brown, 1711. Leather. The very scarce second edition of these first hand accounts of four important seventeenth century voyages, featuring extracts from Captain Tasman's journal as he discovers New Zealand and Tasmania. The very scarce second edition of Sir Joh...

Navigazioni Di Cook Pel Grande Oceano E Intorno Al Globo

Captain James Cook · 1816

£11,000.00 (€13,175.10 | $14,795.69 | ¥2,337,711)

Milano, Sonzogno e Comp, 1816. First edition. Fine Binding. A beautifully illustrated Italian language edition of James Cook's global voyages. The first edition with these illustrations. Very rare and collated complete with all illustrations. In Italian. Captain James Co...

The Art of Travel

Francis Galton · 1867

£150.00 (€179.66 | $201.76 | ¥31,878)

London, John Murray, 1867 . Cloth. Lovely compact copy of Galton's resourceful guide to travelling. Fourth edition.In the publisher's original green cloth binding.Featuring useful in-text illustrations.With publisher's advertisements to the front and rear endpap...

Cruchley&Apos;S County Maps of England for Cyclists and Tourists: Middlesex

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£49.00 (€58.69 | $65.91 | ¥10,413)

London and Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis, c1894. Cloth. A smart copy of Cruchley's folding pocket map of the county of Middlesex. Scarce work. A folding map of the county of Middlesex, an area of South East England now mainly within the ceremonial county of Greater London. Int...

Country Walks: First and Second Series

Charles White · 1936

£110.00 (€131.75 | $147.96 | ¥23,377)

London, London Transport , 1936 . First edition. Paperback. Two first edition walking guides by Charles White, a series of country walks around England embellished with maps and photographs to help guide the reader to various noted landmarks and locations. The first edition.Il...

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Robert Macfarlane · 2012

£160.00 (€191.64 | $215.21 | ¥34,003)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 2012. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this fascinating work from British writer Robert Macfarlane, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page, with the original Hatchar...

The Cambridge Ely and King&Apos;S Lynn Road the Great Fenland Highway

Charles G. Harper · 1902

£60.00 (€71.86 | $80.70 | ¥12,751)

London , Chapman and Hall , 1902. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of The Cambridge Ely and King's Road, richly illustrated. Charles George Harper was an English author and illustrator who wrote many self-illustrated travel books such as The Cambridge Ely...

Moore&Apos;S Navigation Improved; Being the Theory and Practice of Finding the Latitude, the Longitude, and the Variation of the Compass, by the Fixed Stars and Planets. To Which Is Prefixed, the Description and Use of the New Celestial Planisphere

Thomas Kerigan · 1835

£425.00 (€509.04 | $571.65 | ¥90,321)

London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1835. Leather. The scarce second edition of this important improvement upon the navigational charts of Moore, by Thomas Kerigan. The second edition of this scarce work.An improvement on the tables of John Henry Moore, innovative tables for converti...