Rooke Books

Biographie Medicale Par Ordre Chronologique D&Apos;Apres Daniel Leclerc, Eloy, Etc.

Bayle and Thillaye · 1967

£98.00 (€117.38 | $131.82 | ¥20,827)

Amsterdam, N. V. Boekhandel & Antiquariat, 1967. Cloth. A set of Bayle and Thillaye's edited medical biography. A set of Bayle and Thillaye's edited medical biography. Complete in two volumes. Put in a new order; revised and supplemented. Including Daniel LeClerc, a ...

Farm Book-Keeping: The Principles and Practice of Book-Keeping Applied to Agriculture for Agricultural Colleges, Extension Classes, Evening Classes and Practical Farmers

John Kirkwood · 1922

£44.00 (€52.70 | $59.18 | ¥9,351)

Edinburgh, W. Green & Son Ltd. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive study into business of farming and bookkeeping, a guide to the everyday economics of the working farm. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition.A practical instructional manual app...

The Crustacea of Devon and Cornwall

Canon A. M. Norman; Thomas Scott · 1906

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

London, William Wesley And Son, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy, in original binding, featuring 24 monochrome plates. A 1906 first edition copy, in original green cloth, with gilt lettering to spine.Written by Thomas Scott, and Alfred Merle Norman - a cl...

Natural History

J G Wood · 1853

£90.00 (€107.80 | $121.06 | ¥19,127)

London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, c1900. Cloth. A lovely, and very scarce example of 20th Century cover to this title, designed by artist Jessie M. King. Bound in its original blue cloth.One of many natural history titles by the prolific Rev. J. G. Wood, originally p...

British Wildflowers in Their Natural Haunts

A.R. Horwood [Arthur Reginald Horwood] · 1919

£125.00 (€149.72 | $168.13 | ¥26,565)

London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The complete set of A.R. Horwood's detailed study on wild flowers and plants across the British Isles, with accompanying illustrations by J.N. Fitch. The first edition of Arthur Reginald Horwood's Br...

Every Mother&Apos;S Book

1949

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

Sussex, Alfred Fennings, 1949. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very smart copy of this illustrated guide for mothers from Alfred Fennings chemist. Scarce work. With illustrations throughout. A charming pamphlet from the chemist Alfred Fennings, who established Fennings Pharmaceuticals in...

The Plundered Forests

John Blower · 2007

£69.00 (€82.64 | $92.81 | ¥14,664)

Kinloss, Moray, Librario , 2007. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce signed copy of this compelling account of the author's mission to save endangered forests across South-East Asia. Signed by the author to the half title. First edition, first impression. A very sca...

Essai Sur L&Apos;Enseignement Philosophique Du Magnetisme

Le Baron Du Potet de Sennevoy [Jules Denis] · 1845

£350.00 (€419.21 | $470.77 | ¥74,382)

Paris, A. René et Cie, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Jules Denis' essay on the philosophical teaching of magnetism, in the original French. A very scarce work. The first edition of this very scarce work in a half cloth binding with marbled boards. P...

Physiognomy; or, the Corresponding Analogy between the Conformation of the Features, and the Ruling Passions of the Mind

Johann Kaspar Lavater; Samuel Shaw · 1792

£75.00 (€89.83 | $100.88 | ¥15,939)

London, H. D. Symonds, [1792]. Leather. An English translation of the one of the important works on physiognomy by Johann Kaspar Lavater, illustrated. An English translation of an important work on physiognomy by Johann Kaspar Lavater, a work which helped to popularise the sci...

Two Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of a New Transmitter of Radio Free Europe Beamed to Hungary

Frederic R. Dolbeare; Gyula Dessewffy · 1951

£125.00 (€149.72 | $168.13 | ¥26,565)

Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1951. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce program and record of the two addresses spoken at the ceremony inaugurating the new service of Radio Free Europe for Hungary. First edition. Limited to three hundred copies. A program and reco...

The British Islands and Their Vegetation

A. G. Tansley · 1949

£75.00 (€89.83 | $100.88 | ¥15,939)

Cambridge , At the University Press, 1949. Cloth. A very smart study of British vegetation, including a comprehensive look at the environment and history of the British Islands. A new edition issued in two volumes with corrections. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in ...

Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait

Anton Reiser [Rudolf Kayser]; Albert Einstein · 1931

£170.00 (€203.62 | $228.66 | ¥36,128)

London, Thornton Butterworth Limited , 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition, later state binding of Anton Reiser's biography on the celebrated theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein, with a foreword by the incredible scientist himself. The very scarce first UK...

The Birds of Yorkshire

T. H. Nelson · 1907

£395.00 (€473.11 | $531.30 | ¥83,945)

London, A. Brown and Sons, 1907 . First edition. Leather. The beautifully bound first edition of Thomas Hudson Nelson illustrated study of the native avifauna of Yorkshire. The two volume first edition of this work by British ornithologist Thomas Hudson Nelson.Nelson had an ex...

Tools and Machinery Catalogue No. 214 with Price List

Gardiner, Sons & Co. · 1952

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

Bristol, Gardiner, Sons & Co. Ltd. 1952. Cloth. A scarce catalogue from Gardiner, Sons & Co. for their tools and machinery with illustrations. Scarce work. Catalogue No. 214. A detailed account of all tools and machinery parts available from Gardiner, Sons & Co. with illustrat...

The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man

Sir Charles Lyell · 1863

£770.00 (€922.26 | $1,035.70 | ¥163,640)

London, John Murray, 1863. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of Charles Lyell's important scientific work which helped to establish the new science of prehistoric archaeology in Great Britain. A very important nineteenth century scientific work whi...

The Spas of England and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Northern Spas, Southern Spas, and Midland Spas

A. B. Granville · 1841

£385.00 (€461.13 | $517.85 | ¥81,820)

London, Henry Colburn, 1841 . First edition. Cloth. The complete three volume first edition of A. B. Granville's illustrated guide to the spas and sea bathing places of England. Volume I, 'Northern Spas', is illustrated with a folding linen map, eight plates, an...

Beetles of the British Isles

E. F. Linssen · 1959

£45.00 (€53.90 | $60.53 | ¥9,563)

London & New York, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the first series of this guidebook for Beetles in Britain with colour plates and in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Beetles of the British Isles by E. F. Linssen in the ...

The Diary of a Norwich Hospital Medical Student 1858-1860

Shephard T. Taylor · 1930

£175.00 (€209.60 | $235.39 | ¥37,191)

Norwich, Jarrold and Sons, 1930. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Shephard T. Taylor's very scarce medical student journal from 1858 to 1860, a lovely first edition. The first edition, first impression of this work. A very scarce copy, rarely seen on the market.Shephard ...

Testimony of Light

Helen Greaves · 1970

£45.00 (€53.90 | $60.53 | ¥9,563)

Great Britain, The World Fellowship Press Ltd. 1970. Cloth. A remarkable autobiographical work describing the author's telepathic encounter's with her deceased friend. Exploring the telepathic relationship between the living and the dead, in this case, the author and...

Footprints of the Creator, of the Asterolepis of Stromness

Hugh Miller · 1870

£190.00 (€227.57 | $255.56 | ¥40,379)

Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1870. Cloth. A lovely later impression of Hugh Miller's exploration into geology and its relationship to the Bible, bound in decorative cloth. Written by Hugh Miller, a prominent Scottish geologist.This work first appeared in 1850, with this b...