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The Diary of the Right Hon. William Windham 1784 to 1810
Mrs. Henry Baring · 1866 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1866. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of these diaries from Whig politician William Windham. The first edition. Scarce. This copy bearing the bookplate of the Laurence family to the front pastedown. With a familial connection to thi…
English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art (Vol X, No. 250-253 & 260)
Various; Ebeneezer J. Kibblewhite [ed.] · 1870 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
Middlesex, E. J. Kibblewhite, 1870. First edition. Magazine. A pleasing set of scarce issues from this illustrated popular-science magazine, 'The English Mechanic and Mirror of Science&apos. First edition. Comprising five issues from Vol. X of 'The English Mechanic an…
A Collection of Natural History Studies from T & a D Poyser
Nigel Dunstone; Nigel Reeve; Ernest Neal; Chris Cheeseman; Richard A. Griffiths; Mark Young · 1993 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, T & A D Poyser, 1993-1997. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of five first edition natural history studies from T & A D Poyser, with illustrations throughout. Five volumes. First edition. Newts and Salamanders of Europe is signed by the illustrator Bas Teunis to t…
Avian Survivors & the Blue Tit
Clive Finlayson; Martyn Stenning · 2011 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, T & A D Poyser, 2011-2018. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of ornithological studies on the history of palearctic birds and the blue tit, from T & A D Poyser. Two volumes. First edition, first impression. Illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, figures…
Early Printed Books
E. Gordon Duff · 1893 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study on early printing and the earliest printed books from British bibliographer Edward Gordon Duff. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten p…
153 Letters from W. H Hudson
W. H. Hudson; Edward Garnett (ed.) · 1923 · Rooke Books
£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)
1923, The Nonesuch Press, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition copy of the letters of Anglo-Argentine author, W.H Hudson. A limited edition of this work, being copy seven hundred and forty four of one thousand numbered copies. In the original publisher's brown clot…
The Child&Apos;S Companion and Juvenile Instructor. January, 1852.
The Religious Tract Society · 1852 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
London, Religious Tract Society, 1852. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of the very scarce January 1852 issue of the children's periodical 'The Child's Companion and Juvenile Instructor&apos. A very scarce single issue, in the publisher's original …
The Queen&Apos;S Matrimonial Ladder; the Political House That Jack Built; a Parody on the Political House That Jack Built
William Hone; M. Adams · 1819 · Rooke Books
£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)
London, William Hone; Chapple, 1819-1820 . Paperback. Two very scarce political parodies by William Hone, illustrated by George Cruikshank, present alongside a very scarce response to Hone's satire on the Peterloo Massacre. The first of these works is the 1820 sixth edition…
The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa
David Livingstone; Horace Waller · 1880 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
London, John Murray, 1880 . First edition. Leather. The collected final journals of explorer David Livingstone, edited by his close friend, and illustrated with plates and folding maps. The tenth thousand of this work.Complete in two volumes, bound in one. In a full calf signed …
Bird-Hunting Through Wild Europe
R. B. Lodge [Reginald B. Lodge] · 1908 · Rooke Books
£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)
London, Robert Culley, [1908]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Reginald Lodge's account of his quest to find and photograph rare birds across Southern and Eastern Europe. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome photographic frontispiece, and one hundred…
Memoirs of Fanny Hill
John Cleland · 1889 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
Cosmopoli, Privately Printed, 1889. Leather. A reproduction of the rare first edition of Cleland's popular erotic novel Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. A genuine reprint of the rare edition of 1749, being a privately printed reproduction of the first edition.…
The Ages of Man
Charles Sayle · 1916 · Rooke Books
£335.00 (€401.61 | $442.66 | ¥70,695)
London, John Murray, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of quotations from Charles Sayle, with the publisher's compliments. First edition. With the publisher's blind stamp "With Mr. Murray's Compliments" to the title page. With a …
The Avicultural Magazine: Being the Journal of the Avicultural Society for the Study of British and Foreign Birds in Freedom and in Captivity
R. I. Pocock; Marquess of Tavistock; David Seth-Smith · 1922 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)
Hertford, Stephen Austin, 1922-1926. Cloth. Three smart volumes of The Avicultural Magazine produced by the The Avicultural Society, with illustrations. Three volumes. Being Third Series Vol XIII and Fourth Series Vols III and IV only. The Avicultural Magazine is a journal of th…
Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary June 1944 - April 1945
Robert Boscawen · 2001 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
Yorkshire, Leo Cooper, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated war diary from British Conservative politician, Robert Thomas Boscawen, signed by the author with a letter. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. With a handwritten lett…
Sturdy and Strong
G. A. Henty · 1888 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
London, Blackie & Son, 1888 [1887]. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this lesser known novel by Henty, complete with plates. The very scarce first edition, with the 1888 date to the title page, though the work was published on the 27th July 1887, as stated …
Everychild: A Book of Verses for Children
Holbrook Jackson; Various · 1905 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)
Leeds; London, J. W. Bean & Son; SImplin, Marshall & Co, 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce anthology of verse for children, collected from the works of the most eminent poets. The first edition, the cloth variant.A very scarce work.The third publi…
The Rockingdown Mystery
Enid Blyton · 1950 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)
London, Collins, 1950. Cloth. A signed adventure novel for children by Enid Blyton, complete with illustrations by Gilbert Dunlop. Signed by the author to the half-title.The third impression, published one year after the first.'The Rockingdown Mystery' is the first boo…
Annals of Scottish Printing
Robert Dickson; John Philip Edmond · 1890 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)
Cambridge, Macmillan & Bowes, 1890 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this limited edition study of historical Scottish printing, signed by the co-author and editor John Philip Edmond. A limited edition work, with this copy being number 344 of 500 copies printed on sma…
The Inheritors
William Golding · 1955 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)
London, Faber and Faber, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of William Golding's second novel, a work of prehistoric fiction following the extinction of a Neanderthal tribe. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper…
Ordeal by Battle
Frederick Scott Oliver · 1915 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1915. Leather. Frederick Scott Oliver's political essay about the beginning of the First World War, in a handsome half morocco signed binding by Hatchards. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first edition.In a half m…