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A Year Amongst the Persians
Edward G. Browne · 1893 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Edward G. Browne's detailed account of his time in Persia in the 1880s. The scarce first edition of this work by British Iranologist Edward Granville Browne.Illustrated with a colour fo…
The Lawson History of the America&Apos;S Cup
Winfred M Thompson; Thomas Lawson · 1986 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
Southampton, Ashford Press Publishing, 1986. Cloth. A lovely limited edition facsimile edition of this fascinating work regarding the famous sailing competition, The America's Cup. A limited edition of one thousand five hundred copies of which this is number one thousand on…
The Ascent of Everest
John Hunt · 1954 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London , Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. Cloth. The fourth impression of this illustrated account of the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest by their leader John Hunt, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The fourth impression. In the publisher's original cloth with th…
Nunhead Cemetery and the Battle of Waterloo
Jeffrey M. Hart · 2018 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London, Friends of Nunhead Cemetery , 2018 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce historical work documenting the Waterloo campaign veterans who are buried at All Saints Cemetery in Nunhead. First edition, in the publisher's original paperback binding, with pictorial des…
Down Dublin Streets 1916
Eamonn Mac Thomais · 1965 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
Dublin, Irish Book Bureau , 1965 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of this work commemorating the Golden Jubilee of the 1916 Easter Week Rising. First edition, in the publisher's original paperback binding. This fascinating work presents the Easter Ris…
In the Clink: The Story of England&Apos;S Oldest Prison
E. J. Burford · 1977 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, New English Library, 1977. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of E. J. Burford's fascinating historical study of the oldest "clink" in England. First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper.This…
Breaking the Record & the Romance of the South Pole
M. Douglas; G. Barnett Smith · 1898 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1898-1900 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce pair of first editions documenting dangerous and thrilling Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, accompanied by illustrations. First editions, in the publisher's original pictorial binding. Comprise…
Fables
T. F. Powys · 1929 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A superb copy of these collected fables of T. F. Powys, a signed limited edition copy illustrated by Gilbert Spencer. Signed by the author to the limitation page.The first limited edition work, limited to 750 copies, of which …
The History of Cheltenham, and Account of Its Environs
Thomas Frognall Dibdin · 1803 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)
Cheltenham, H. Ruff; Payne, Faulder et al, 1803 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Thomas Frognall Dibdin's study of Cheltenham, in an attractive half calf binding. The first edition of this work by Dibdin.A history of Cheltenham, and its natural mineral waters.…
Souvenirs Sur Les Croix de Bois
Roland Dorgeles · 1929 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Paris, A La Cite Des Livres, 1929. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this important work on World War I, from French novelist Roland Dorgeles. In the original French. French language. First edition. Copy number 355 of 1000. A moving study on life during the First W…
Book of Plans of the London Theatres H.J. Adams
H. J. Adams · 0 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, Albert Clarke & Co. Ltd, c1920 . First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce and fascinating work illustrating the plans of London theatres, by H. J. Adams. First edition, in the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper wraps. Compiled by H. J. Adams. T…
The Essays of Elia
Charles Lamb · 1910 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1910. Leather. Charles Lamb's delightful collection of essays, smartly bound in a half calf Bumpus binding. A 'Books of the Verulam Club' edition of this work in a half calf binding with marbled boards and end papers. Binder's stamp of…
A Complete Memoir of Richard Haines (1633-1685), a Forgotten Scottish Worthy
Charles Reginald Haines · 1899 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Harrison and Sons, 1899 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Charles Reginald Haines's memoir of his ancestor, 'forgotten Sussex worthy' Richard Haines. The scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plate…
From Folly to Follies Discovering the World of Gardens
Michel Saudan; Sylvia Saudan-Skira · 1997 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
Italy , Evergreen, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of this profusely illustrated work on gardens by Michel Saudan and Sylvia Saudan-Skira, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. With illustrated endpapers, a monochrome frontispiece and c…
The Great Within
Maurice Collis · 1941 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this episodic sketch of Chinese dynastic history, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates and three maps, one of which is folding. Collated …
The Suburban Child
James Kenward · 1955 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955 . First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this interesting autobiographical work surrounding 'Suburbia' by James Kenward, illustrated throughout by Edward Ardizzone. First edition, in the publisher's original paper c…
The Southern World. Journal of a Deputation from the Wesleyan Conference to Australia and Polynesia: Including Notices of a Visit to the Gold Fields
Robert Young · 1854 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co, 1854. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interesting study on Australia and New Zealand when they were still colonies, providing a religious commentary on the countries. The first edition.An interesting travelogue recounting the auth…
The Realms of Gold; the Ice Age; the Middle Ground
Margaret Drabble · 1975 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975-1980. First edition. Cloth. Three first editions of works by the award-winning novelist and biographer Margaret Drabble. The first editions of these three works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dus…
Grace Howard and the Family at Glen Luna
1852 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this very scarce novel by the American author Susan Warner. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding, with renewed end papers. Susan War…
The Good-Natured Bear
R. H. Horne · 1874 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
London, Alexander Strahan, [1874]. Paperback. A very scarce edition of this festive moral story, notably illustrated throughout by Ernest Griset. Dated from the advertisements. Very scarce.With two leaves of tipped in advertisements to the front of the work and two to the rear o…