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Astro-Meteorologica, or Aphorisms and Discourses of the Bodies Coelestial
John Goad · 1686 · Rooke Books
£2,850.00 (€3,416.18 | $3,765.25 | ¥601,262)
London, Obadiah Blagrave, 1686. First edition. Leather. John Goad's scarce late seventeenth-century meteorological and astrological work on weather prediction and celestial bodies, previously owned by Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale. A fascinating and curious late …
Sword of Wisdom: Macgregor Mathers and &Apos;the Golden Dawn&Apos;
Ithell Colquhoun · 1975 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Neville Spearman, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this occultist book about 'The Golden Dawn' secret society. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper, desi…
Conservative Science of Nations, (Preliminary Instalment,) Being the First Complete Narrative of Somerville&Apos;S Diligent Life in the Service of Public Safety in Britain
Alexander Somerville · 1860 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
Montreal, John Lovell, 1860. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alexander Somerville's entertaining autobiography about his early life in England, between 1811 and 1857. The first edition of this autobiography by Alexander Somerville, a British Radical journalist an…
The Aborigines of South-Eastern Australia As They Were
Aldo Massola · 1971 · Rooke Books
£57.00 (€68.32 | $75.30 | ¥12,025)
Melbourne, Heinemann, 1971. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition copy of The Aborigines of south-eastern Australia As They Were, with illustrations. A first edition copy of this work. Aldo Massola, an anthropologist with a specialism in tribal life and customs of t…
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tom Wolfe · 1966 · Rooke Books
£129.00 (€154.63 | $170.43 | ¥27,215)
London, Jonathan Cape , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this first collection of essays by Tom Wolfe, the first British edition. The first UK edition, preceded by the true first US edition of 1965. An anthology of essays by Tom Wolfe originally published in Esquire …
Short Studies on Great Subjects
James Anthony Froude · 1898 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. Leather. Essay collections by James Anthony Froude in beautiful uniform half calf bindings. Vols I and II of this collection of short essays concerned with a variety of topics, from history, to culture, philosophy, religion, literature, ant…
The Wood Beyond and Killing the Lawyers
Reginald HIl · 1996 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996-1997 . First edition. Cloth. Two first edition, first impression works by crime fiction writer Reginald Hill. Two works by Reginald Hill in the original publisher's cloth binding and dust wrappers. The first editions, first impressions…
Sculptura-Historico-Technica: Or, the History and Art of Ingraving
Various · 1747 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)
London, S. Harding, 1747. First edition. Leather. An uncommon treatise and history of the beautiful art of engraving, complete with ten plates. The first edition thus of this uncommon work, the preface describes this work as the second edition of 'Repertorium-Sculptile-Typi…
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam; [Edward Fitzgerald trans.] · 1907 · Rooke Books
£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1907. Leather. A sumptuously bound copy of this noted work, presented here in a highly decorative Bumpus binding, with exquisite gilt detail and watered silk pastedowns. The 1907 edition of the work. First published in this form by Quaritch in …
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Elsa D'Esterre-Keeling · 1902 · Rooke Books
£134.00 (€160.62 | $177.03 | ¥28,270)
London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co. 1902. First edition. Fine Binding. A fascinating biographical work of 18th century portrait artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, handsomely bound in full calf prize binding and awarded to T.C. Eden, brother of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. An intere…
The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man
Sir Charles Lyell · 1863 · Rooke Books
£770.00 (€922.97 | $1,017.28 | ¥162,446)
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 which…
Flight of a Witch
Ellis Peters · 1964 · Rooke Books
£134.00 (€160.62 | $177.03 | ¥28,270)
London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A bright, first edition copy of this thrilling mystery novel by Ellis Peters, enclosed in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Part of the Felse series, Flight of a Witch tells the story of Annet Beck, a beautiful yo…
The Life of William Harvey
Geoffrey Keynes · 1966 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating first edition copy of this medical biography of renowned physician William Henry, with illustrations. A first edition copy of this biography of William Harvey. William Harvey was an English physician who…
Mezzotint
Compton Mackenzie · 1961 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. First edition of this novel by Scottish author Compton Mackenzie in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Mezzotint by Compton Mackenzie in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. This n…
The Keys to the Street
Ruth Rendell · 1996 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, Hutchinson, 1996 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this mystery fiction novel by Ruth Rendell, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition of The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper…
Jones of Colorado
Ralph Steadman · 1995 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Ebury Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of sketches and stories about Jones the cat, by Ralph Steadman. First edition. While visiting his friend, Hunter S. Thompson, Steadman met Jones the cat. He decided to buy a new sketchbook to cap…
The Fortunes of Oliver Horn
F. Hopkinson Smith · 1902 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A fictional historical tale set in the old South by Francis Hopkinson Smith. First edition. An exciting story of life in the Old South. Illustrated with 8 plates. Collated complete. Written by Francis Hopkinson …
Looking for Rachel Wallace
Robert B. Parker · 1980 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
New York, Seymour Lawrence, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this tale of kidnaping and corruption by Robert B. Parker. First edition. After being fired as protection for the eponymous Rachel Wallace, a lesbian feminist activist, Spenser hears that she has been kid…
No Alibi the Best New Crime Fiction
Various; Maxim Jukubowski · 1995 · Rooke Books
£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)
Manchester, Ringpull, 1995. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this impressive crime story anthology, this copy signed by nine of the contributors, including Val McDermid and Ian Rankin. The first edition.Signed by nine of the twenty-nine contributors to the head of …
Bony and the Kelly Gang
Arthur Upfield · 1960 · Rooke Books
£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.89 | ¥24,894)
London, Heinemann, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of one of Arthur Upfield's gripping novels in his Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte series. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dustwrapper."Bony and the Kelly Gang" is a novel set in a to…