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The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
Sir Samuel W. Baker · 1872 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1872. Cloth. A new edition of this detailed work on the Nile and its tributaries, with a folding map. New edition. Illustrated with a map frontispiece, one folding map, and twenty-four plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive wor…
The Hastings Road and the "Happy Springs of Tunbridge
Charles G. Harper · 1906 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
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 Has…
Tratie de la Devotion
Pierre Jurieu · 1675 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)
Rouen, Jean Lucas, 1675. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce devotional treatise by French Protestant figure Pierre Jurieu. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original French.An interesting traise on devotion by the French Protestant Pier…
The Cosmic Doctrine
Dion Fortune [Violet Mary Firth] · 1957 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, The Aquarian Press, 1957 . Cloth. The second edition of Dion Fortune's very scarce posthumously published occult work, consisting of 'teachings which were received from the Inner Planes&apos. The very scarce second edition of this work, which was first publishe…
Don Juan, Cantos I and II
Lord Byron · 1819 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)
Paris, Galignani, 1819. First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first Paris edition of Cantos I and II of Lord Byron's celebrated epic, 'Don Juan&apos. The very scarce first Paris edition of the first two cantos of Lord Byron's satirical epic poem, following the…
Cleopatra
H. Rider Haggard · 1926 · Rooke Books
£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)
London , George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. 1926. Cloth. A smart reprint H. Rider Haggard's historical fantasy novel, with scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A 1926 reprint of H. Rider Haggard's historical fantasy novel. First published by George G. Harrap & Company…
Wonders of World Aviation: The Conquest of the Air in Story and Picture
Clarence Winchester; J. Laurence Pritchard · 1938 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
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 maga…
Fungus the Bogeyman
Raymond Briggs · 1977 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London , Hamish, 1977. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this brightly illustrated book from Raymond Briggs. First edition. Illustrated with forty pages of colour images, by Raymond Briggs. A day in the life of Fungus the Bogeyman, a working class bogeyman with the m…
When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
H. Rider Haggard · 1919 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this exciting adventure novel from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with two leaves of black and white star charts. Collated, complete. Following the adventu…
Smith and the Pharaohs and Other Tales
H. Rider Haggard · 1920 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, 1920. Cloth. An early edition of this short story collection from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. T. Werner publishing information pasted over the original J. Arrowsmith details to the title page. A collection of short sto…
Rosmarine a Story of Twenty-Five Years and a Sequel, Being a Chronicle of S. Etheldreda&Apos;S School, Pretoria
Sir H. Rider Haggard · 1913 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London, A. R. Mowbray & Co LTD, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce study on one of the oldest schools in Pretoria, the first edition of this illustrated work which features a preface by H. Rider Haggard. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work. Only two r…
Kemlo and the Star Men
E. C. Eliott; [Reginald Alec Martin] · 1955 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, Thomas Nelson and Sons LTD, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of this popular Kemlo novel, part of the children's science fiction series. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper.The seventh nov…
The Scapegoat
Jocelyn Brooke · 1948 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this novel ruminating on childhood by Jocelyn Brooke, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this post-war novel exploring themes of childhood and masculinity. This work, whi…
Chaka: An Historical Romance
Thomas Mofolo; Sir Henry Newbolt; F. H. Dutton · 1931 · Rooke Books
£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)
Oxford; London, International Institute of African Languages & Cultures; Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first English language edition of this great Sesotho novel, a fictionalised account of the rise and fall of the Zulu Emperor Shaka.…
The Virgin of the Sun
H. Rider Haggard · 1922 · Rooke Books
£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this thrilling adventure novel set in South America by the popular author H. Rider Haggard. The first UK edition of this work in the publisher's original tan cloth binding, with brown …
The Wanderer&Apos;S Necklace
H. Rider Haggard · 1914 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel concerning Norseman Olaf in the eighth century. The first UK edition of this work in the scarce variant brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the …
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the Christian Aera.
Abbe Barthelemy · 1816 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, W. Green, 1816-1817 . Leather. The first four volumes only of the seven volume seventh edition of this work. With all four volumes bound in one. The first four volumes only of the seven volume seventh edition of this work. An additional atlas volume was also published to…
Hobbinol, Field Sports, and the Bowling Green
William Somervile · 1813 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)
London, William Bulmer and Co for R Ackermann, 1813 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first illustrated edition of this volume of poetry by William Somervile, with illustrations on India paper by Charlton Nesbit and John Thurston. A first edition thus. This is the uncommon fi…
A Floating City, and the Blockade Runners
Jules Verne · 1874 · Rooke Books
£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874 . First edition. Leather. The first UK edition of these two thrilling tales from Jules Verne, illustrated throughout and in a bright calf prize binding. The first UK edition of these two popular science-fiction adventure novels f…
Prince Darling and Other Stories: Based on the Tales in the &Apos;Blue Fairy Book&Apos;
Andrew Lang · 1890 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this collection of short stories taken from Andrew Lang's 'Blue Fairy Book&apos. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work, published the year after the '…