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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Charles Kingsley · 1896 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1896. Cloth. An early edition of Charles Kingsley's famous children's story, illustrated by Linley Sambourne. The fourth edition, sixth impression of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Two stamps to the half ti…

Grotesque Animals

E W Cooke · 1872 · Rooke Books

£4,500.00 (€5,394.75 | $5,946.13 | ¥949,633)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872. Cloth. A fantastic copy of Edward William Cooke's noted creative work Grotesque Animals&apos. Cooke's work depicts imaginary creatures who have been created through combining elements from marine and terrestrial fossils as well as…

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

Charles Kingsley · 1927 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1927. Cloth. A fantastic illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's classic of Victorian literature, with plates in colour by Warwick Goble. The third impression of this particular edition of Warwick Goble's illustrations, which first …

A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea

Thomas Bell; Robert F. Tomes; Edward Richard Alston · 1874 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, John Van Voorst, 1874 . Cloth. The preferred second edition of Thomas Bell's history of British quadrupeds, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. The second edition of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding. A charming history of British quadrupe…

The Life and Works of St. Paul

F. W. Farrar · 0 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin & Co. c1900. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this study of the life of St. Paul, with coloured maps. Complete in two volumes. Each volume contains a folding colour frontispiece and one folding colour map. Collated complete. A detailed study i…

Etudes Sur Les Glaciers

L. Agassiz [Louis Agassiz] · 1840 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

Neuchatel, Jent et Gassmann, 1840 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of the text volume only of Louis Agassiz's pioneering work on glaciers and the Ice Age, which proved for the first time that glaciers move. In the original French. The text volume only of t…

Love and Marriage, Being Montaigne&Apos;S Essay &Apos;Sur Des Vers de Virgil&Apos;

Michel de Montaigne; trans. Constance Vera Norman · 1533 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Florence, Tipografia Giuntina , c1928. Hardback. A lovely translation of this essay by French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was a philosopher of the French Renaissance, remembered for making the essay a commonly used literary form. His influenc…

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Charles Kingsley · 1903 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1903. Leather. A later printing of the fourth edition of Charles Kingsley's important children's fantasy novel, with illustrations from Linley Sambourne. A later printing of the fourth edition. Illustrated throughout. A children'…

L&Apos;Angleterre Et Les Anglais (Lectures Choisies)

J Lecoq · 1918 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Paris, Edouard Cornely & Cie , c1918. Cloth. J Lecoq's lectures on the history of England, a very scarce volume in a prize binding, re-backed with a morocco spine. J Lecoq's study of the history of England, a very scarce French publication with English text. Some chose…

Architectural Notices of the Churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton

Architectural Society of the Archdeaconry of Northampton · 1849 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, John Henry Parker, 1849 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated architectural study of the churches of Northampton, from the library of publisher John Murray III. The first edition in book form of this work, which was initially issued …

Telegraph Stations of Central Australia Historical Photographs.

O'BYRNE, DENIS · 1993 · Pegasus Books

$28.75 (€26.08 | £21.76 | ¥4,592)

Alice Springs, Australia: Northern Territory Government Printing Office, 1993. First Edition. First Printing; Softcover. ISBN: 072451595X. Soft cover is stapled wraps. Booklet appears as if unused. No date listed, but per World Cat, probably 1993 or 1995 . Extensively illustrate…

Glaucus; or the Wonders of the Shore

Kingsley, Charles · 1886 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

MacMillan and Co. London xi, 245, 12 col plates, text illus. . HB. 8vo, full prize calf, by Bickers & Son, London, spine with raised bands, black ruled border to both boards and decorative floral motifs to corners and spine compartments, gt crest of Leamington High School for Gi…

An Inconvenience of Penguins

Lafferty, J. · 2025 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Wildfire 317, col photos. . HB. NEW. . From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers, penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals on Earth. Yet for all that familiarity, what do we really know about them? This book follows award-winning travel writer Jam…

Letters of Karl Marx

Padover, Saul K. (Ed. & Intro.) · 1983 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Prentice-Hall, Inc. First Edition, First Printing pp. xi, 576. 8vo. Publisher's dark-green cloth over boards, silver lettering to the spine, Marx's signature in facsimile blind-stamped to the front board. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illus…

Catalogue of double stars. Read December 9, 1784.

Herschel, W. · 1785 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€1,000.00 ($1,102.21 | £834.14 | ¥176,029)

London, The Royal Society, 1785. Large 4to (25.5 x 19.0 cm). Engraved title page, vii, 212 pp. Original grey front wrapper. = After discovering moons around Saturn and Uranus, Herschel turned his attention from the planets to the stars, and drew up two catalogues of double stars…

Platypus

MOYAL, ANN · 2002 · Little Lane Books

A$28.00 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,030)

Allen & Unwin. 2002. Soft cover with dust jacket, 20.5cm. Book, A superabundance of detail on the biology of the platypus, which made its debut European appearance as a hide preserved in a keg of spirits-and landed smack in the middle of the scientific debate over the classifica…

Maestro

Peter Goldsworthy · 1989 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Angus & Robertson 1989 Paperback, 149pp. Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowe…

Luther Burbank Our Beloved Infidel, His Religion of Humanity

CLAMPETT, FREDERICK WILLIAM · 1926 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1926. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is a large spot of faint discoloration …

Vancouver Canucks Magazine, December 11, 1973 - Great Colour Cover Photo of "the Road Runner" Yvan Cournyoer

DUNN, BOB; KEARNEY, JIM; DOUGLAS, GREG; SIGURDSON, HAL · 1973 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

Vancouver, B.C.: Canucks Publishing, 1973. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Darwin (cartoon). 68 pages. Features: Colour photo of Bobby Orr in Yardley ad inside front cover; Interview with Ken Dryden; Sam Pollock is afraid of planes; The Big M, Frank Mahovlic…

Vancouver Canucks Magazine, November 17, 1973 - Great Colour Cover Photo of a Gnarly-Looking Orland Kurtenbach

FLEISCHMAN, BILL; MCKEACHIE, JOHN; MACLEAN, NORM; LORANGER, CLANCY; DOUGLAS, GREG; SIGURDSON, HAL · 1973 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

Vancouver, B.C.: Canucks Publishing, 1973. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Darwin (cartoon). 66 pages. Features: Colour photo of Bobby Orr in Yardley ad inside front cover; High-scoring Rick MacLeish; Bernie Parent article; Bill McCreary Article; Drafts and …