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Oxford Pamphlets 1914: Volume IV; Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915; XVI: The Farmer in War-Time; British & German Steel Metallurgy; the War and the Cotton Trade; the War and Employment; Prices & Earnings in Time of War; XVII: Alsace-Lorraine; the Evolution of Thought in Modern France; Russia and Britain; Rumania: Her History and Politics; Poetry and War; Coronel and the Falkland Islands; Bombastes in the Shades : A Play in One Act; National Ideals; Canada and the War.

Murray; Lindsay; Barker; Fisher; Muir; C. S. Orwin; J. O. Arnold; S. J. Chapman; A. L. Bowley; F. Y. Eccles; Ernest Dimnet; Percy Dearmer; D. Mitrany; Sir Herbert Warren; A. Neville Hilditch; Laurence Binyon; P. E. Matheson; A. B. Tucker · 1914 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,523)

London; Edinburgh; Glasgow; New York; Toronto; Melbourne; Bombay, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1914-1915. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. An exciting collection of First World War pamphlets from the Oxford University Press. First edition of this collection printe…

Russian Portraits

Clare Sheridan · 1921 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Sheridan's engaging Russian travel diaries, extensively illustrated with plates. First edition. Commercially scarce.   In the publisher's original cloth binding.   Illustrated with thirty…

Longmans&Apos; Geographical Reader for New Zealand

Robert Lee [ed.] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London; New York, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, well-illustrated guide to contemporary New Zealand - its sights, people, and history - with colour maps. A very scarce first edition travelogue offering an insightful look into contemporary New…

The Life and Letters of Henry Arthur Jones

Doris Arthur Jones; Various · 1930 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition collected personal correspondence of Henry Arthur Jones, with contributions from Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Kipling among many others. The first UK edition of this work, first published in the same ye…

Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of I.K. 8 of the British Secret Service

Captain George A. Hill · 1932 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1932 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of George A. Hill"s intriguing British intelligence memoir, illustrated with his photographic portrait frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth binding.  First edition.…

Cedars, Saints and Sinners in Syria

E.S. Stevens · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Hurst & Blackett, Ltd. [1926]. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this illustrated account of British cultural anthropologist E.S. Stevens' time spent in Syria. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original light blue cloth binding.  Ill…

The Wynne Diaries

Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle; Anne Fremantle [ed.] · 1935 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Oxford University Press, 1935-1937. First edition. Cloth. The first two volumes of the Wynne diaries, illustrated with plates and folding maps. A two volume set, comprising Volume I and Volume II. The first editions. In the publisher's original red cloth bindings. …

Sacred Literature, or Remarks Upon the Book of Genesis

James Franks · 1802 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Halifax, Printed for the Author by Holden and Dowson, 1802 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound and very scarce first edition of Chaplain James Franks's collection of remarks and discussions on the book of Genesis. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work. …

A Narrative of Travels in the United States of America

Wm. O'Bryan [William O'Bryan] · 1836 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, For the Author, by S. Thorne; Gilbert and Co, 1836 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Methodist preacher William O'Bryan's account of his travels in New England and the wider United States. A very scarce first edition. Illustrated with a p…

De Lamartines Visit to the Holy Land or Recollections of the East

[Alphonse] de Lamartine · 1847 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, George Virtue, 1847. First edition. Leather. A scarce record of Alphonse de Lamartine's journey to Lebanon, Syria and the Holy Land, a trip he believed could bring about the rebirth of a new Christianity. First UK edition, translated from the French of Alphonse de L…

Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus

D. S. Margoliouth · 1907 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1907. First edition. Cloth. Signed by the illustrator, a smart first edition of D. S. Margoliouth's richly illustrated history of Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus. Signed presentation inscription by one of the illustrators, W. S. S. Tyrwhitt, to the …

Quasi Cursores Portraits of the High Offiers and Professors of the University of Edinburgh at Its Tercentenary Festival

William Hole · 1884 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Edinburgh, David Douglas; Edinburgh University Press, 1884. First edition. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated collection of portraits and short biographies of the faculty at the University of Edinburgh; a limited edition copy. The first and limited edition of this work, number twe…

Hoofed Mammals of the World

Ugo Mochi; T. Donald Carter; Harold E. Anthony · 1953 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

New York; London, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Mochi and Carter"s distinctive natural history work, complete with forty bold silhouette plates of the world"s hoofed mammals. In the publisher"s original orange cloth binding, …

Jesusen Companiaco A. Sebastian Mendiburuc Jesusen Bihotzaren Devocioa

A. Sebastian Mendiburuc; [Jean Croiset] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

Donostian, Antonio Udel Pozo, 1900 . Leather. A very scarce reprint of Mendiburu"s 1747 Basque Jesuit devotional classic, being one of just twenty-six copies, bound in full morocco with the original red paper wraps preserved. In full red morocco binding, with the original red pa…

Some Account of the Ancient and Present State of Shrewsbury

Hugh Owen · 1808 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Shrewsbury, P. Sandford, 1808 . First edition. Leather. An extra-illustrated example of the first edition of Hugh Owen's history of Shrewsbury, illustrated throughout with engraved plates. The first edition of this work. Extra-illustrated, with a frontispiece and eight engr…

Around the World with the Alphabet

Hendrik Willem van Loon · 1935 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1935 . First edition. Hardback. A beautiful example of the first edition of Hendrik Willem van Loon's children's alphabet, aiming to educate the young about the cities of the world. Illustrated throughout in colour by the author. The first…

An Old-Fashioned Journey Through England and Wales

James John Hissey · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1884 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of author James John Hissey's detailed first-hand account of his journey through England and Wales. The first edition of this work. Illustrated with a frontispiece. A detailed account of the …

Observations Upon the Plagues Inflicted Upon the Egyptians; Treatise Upon the Authenticity of the Scriptures

Jacob Bryant · 1810 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, T. Hamilton and R. Ogle, 1810 . Leather. Two very scarce works on Biblical scripture and Hebrew mythology from theological writer and scholar Jacob Bryant, a prominent early 19th century figure. Two very scarce works from English scholar and mythographer Jacob Bryant, bo…

Journal of a Tour Through North Wales and Part of Shropshire

Arthur Aikin · 1797 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, J. Johnson, 1797. First edition. Leather. In a half calf binding, this is the scarce first edition of chemist Arthur Aikin's account of the mineralogy and natural history of North Wales and Shropshire. The scarce first edition of this work. Illustrated with a double…

Burton-on-Trent: Its History, Its Waters, and Its Breweries

William Molyneux · 1869 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Trubner & Co, 1869 . First edition. Leather. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and folding map, this is the scarce first edition of Molyneux's history of Burton-on-Trent, in a half calf binding. The scarce first edition of this work. Illustrated with a folding…