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Persian Letters
Montesquieu; John Davidson [translator] · 1899 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)
London, Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1899. Cloth. A smart three volume set of this literary work from French judge and man of letters Montesquieu. Complete in three volumes. Volume one is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and one plate. Volume two is illustrated with a po…
Des Empoisonnements Par L&Apos;Arsenic
J. B. F. Travail · 1839 · Rooke Books
£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.04 | ¥80,143)
Paris, L'Ecole de Pharmacie, 1839. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of this very scarce French treatise on arsenic, signed by the author. The first edition.A very scarce work.Signed by the author to a note tipped-in to the dedication leaf. In the original French.A …
Illustrations of the Scenery on the Line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway
Henry Belcher · 1836 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the charmingly illustrated first edition of this descriptive account of the scenery around the Whitby and Pickering railway. A first edition.Illustrated with an engraved titl…
General Regulations and Orders for the Army. Adjutant Generals Office, Horse-Guards. 12th August 1811.
Adjutant Generals Office · 1811 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥115,997)
London, W. Clowes, 1811. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this very scarce British army regulation handbook published during the Napoleonic wars, providing fascinating insight into army operations during this historic period, bound in crushed quarter moro…
Three Practical Treatises on the Duties of the Army During Attacks and Sieges by J. Jebb
J. Jebb [Joshua Jebb] · 1848 · Rooke Books
£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,543)
London, W. Clowes and Sons, 1848. First edition. Hardback. Three very scarce military works by a notable British Officer of the Royal Engineers, detailing the duties of the British army during attacks and sieges, bound together with all the original maps and plates. The third ed…
Winston S. Churchill (Companion Volumes I and II)
Randolph S. Churchill · 1967 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)
London, Heinemann, 1967-1969. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing collection offering four companion parts to Winston S. Churchill's authorised biography. Comprising two first edition companion volumes across four parts. Not including Part 3 of Volume II. With the original du…
Iraq: From Mandate to Independence
Ernest Main · 1935 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this historical study of Iraq, a presentation copy signed by the author. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author in presentation to a Marjorie Armstrong. The inscription reads: "for …
Merchants and Merchandise in Seventeenth-Century Bristol
Patrick McGrath [editor] · 1955 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
Bristol, Bristol Record Society, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce historical study into merchants of Bristol in the seventeenth century. Bristol Record Society's Publications Vol. XIX. First edition. Scarce work. A detailed study of the merch…
The Book and the Brotherhood
Iris Murdoch · 1987 · Rooke Books
£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,858)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this novel from Irish and British novelist Iris Murdoch, considered to be among her best work. First edition. The story of a circle of Oxford University graduates in 1980s England. The eponymous b…
The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A. F. Depot between August and December 1922
T. E. Lawrence · 1955 · Rooke Books
£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.90 | ¥24,887)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force. First edition. When, in 1922, T. E. Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John Hul…
London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers
Karl Baedeker · 1923 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1923. Cloth. A smart eighteenth edition of this handbook for travellers to London from Baedeker, with maps throughout. Eighteenth revised edition. Illustrated with forty-five maps and plans, fifteen of which are folding. Collated complete. Baedekers guide…
General Craufurd and His Light Division
Alexander H. Craufurd · 1891 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)
London, Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this military biography of one of Wellington's most celebrated lieutenants and his division. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece and seven pages of facsimile letters to the …
The Cabinet of Poetry, Containing the Best Entire Pieces to Be Found in the Works of the British Poets
Various · 1808 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,707)
London, Richard Phillips, 1808. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce complete set collecting the poetical works of some of the best British authors. The first edition.Scarce as a complete set.Complete in six volumes.A striking set collecting together some of …
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae
Publius Terentius Afer; Terence · 1772 · Rooke Books
£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.09 | ¥200,358)
Birmingham, Johannis Baskerville; John Baskerville, 1772. First edition. Leather. The first John Baskerville edition of this volume of Terence's six surviving classical plays. The first John Baskerville edition. In the original Latin.This volume includes Terence's six…
20 Vols a Collection of First Editions by John Masters
John Masters · 1951 · Rooke Books
£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.20 | ¥146,578)
London, Michael Joseph, 1951-1983. First edition. Cloth. An impressive set of twenty novels by John Masters; all first editions in the original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impressions of these twenty works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the ori…
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
William Caxton; William Blades [Preface] · 1877 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)
London, Elliot Stock, 1877 . First edition. Cloth. A facsimile edition, first thus, of this landmark of English printing, The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, one of the first book ever printed in England. Bound in a brown leather-like cloth with blind stamping.This is a …
Public Archives: Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada 1791ãâ1818
Arthur G. Doughty [ed.]; Duncan A. McArthur [ed.] · 1914 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)
Ottawa, C. H. Parmelee, 1914 . First edition. Cloth. Edited by Arthur G. Doughty and Duncan A. McArthur, this is a very scarce collection of documents relating to the constitutional history of Canada. A very scarce publication from the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa.This vo…
Prevention of Venereal Disease
Sir G. Archdall Reid; Sir H. Brian Donkin [intro.] · 1920 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)
London, William Heinemann, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. A fascinating 1920s work on venereal diseases by a respected Scottish physician. A very scarce first edition. The very scarce first edition of this work from Scottish physician and writer on public health Sir George Archdal…
Paradise Regain&Apos;D. A Poem. In Four Books.
John Milton · 1713 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥115,997)
London, J. Tonson, 1713 . Leather. An attractive example of the fifth edition of John Milton's 'Paradise Regain'd', illustrated throughout with engraved plates. The fifth edition of this work, which was first published in 1671.Illustrated with a frontispiece …
Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-History, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature
James Anderson · 1799 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)
London, T. Bensley, 1799-1802. First edition. Leather. A very rare complete first edition set of James Anderson's scarce illustrated natural history and agricultural work, bound in half calf. The first edition.Illustrated with monochrome wood engraved vignettes. A very rar…