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H. Rider Haggard · 1887 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887. Cloth. An early edition of H. Rider Haggard's debut novel, an adventure work bound in the publisher's original binding. First published in the United Kingdom in 1884, this is important novelist H. Rider Haggard's debut novel, a c…

Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Related to Guns and Shooting

Lt. Col. P. Hawker · 1830 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. Leather. A guide to guns and shooting by Lt Col. Peter Hawker adorned with lovely woodcuts. The sixth edition of this work, bound together with Abridgement of the New Game Laws, appendix to the sixth edition of Instructions …

Rokeby a Poem in Six Cantos

Sir Walter Scott · 1813 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown Green and Longman. 1813. Leather. The fourth edition of Sir Walter Scott's popular historical poem Rokeby. A narrative poem in six cantos, Rokeby is set in Teesdale during the English Civil War. The poem grew from Scott's friendship w…

Black&Apos;S Guide to Devonshire

1870 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Edinburgh, A & C Black, c1876. Cloth. A smart 1870s traveller's guide book to Devonshire, illustrated with three folding maps. A delightful illustrated traveller's guide to late nineteenth century Devonshire, one of many popular travel guide book's published by Ad…

Notes on a Cellar-Book

Sainstbury, George (1845-1933) · 1951 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$59.00 (€53.53 | £44.65 | ¥9,423)

London Macmillan and Co., Limited pp. xxxi, 227, [1]. 12mo., measuring 5.5" x 7". Publisher's maroon cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine, untrimmed pages. Remarkably well-preserved cloth extremities showing no detectable flaws, charming period ink inscription to the f…

RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.

Dulac, Edmund. (Illustrator). · 1909 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Hodder and Stoughton N.d. c.[1909]. 4to. Tipped in colour frontis., dec. brown lettered title page, 19 tipped in colour plates, plates and text enclosed in dec. border. Half title browned, some light marginal browning and sporadic spotting, e.ps. very lightly browned, original g…

Mockingbird A Portrait of Harper Lee (Signed Copy)

Shields,Charles · 2006 · Richard Thornton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Henry Holt and Company This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket with red title lettering to cream cloth spine.(appears unread ) No Faults.Not Price clipped with $25 showing to inner flap.This copy has been Signed and Dated by the Author Charles Shields on the Title…

Tratie de la Devotion

Pierre Jurieu · 1675 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

Rouen, Jean Lucas, 1675. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce devotional treatise by French Protestant figure Pierre Jurieu. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original French.An interesting traise on devotion by the French Protestant Pier…

Deutsch-Englisches Lexicon

1716 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

Leipzig, Thomas Fritschen, 1716. Vellum. A very scarce German to English lexicon, a comprehensive dictionary which explores not only vocabulary but also idioms and expressions. A very scarce work.An impressive German-English dictionary, printed in two columns.This dictionary doe…

Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire

E.W. Brayley · 1806 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)

London, Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, etc. 1806. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated topographical work on Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire. A fascinating topographical work on Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, illustrative of the wor…

Round About New Zealand

E. W. Payton · 1888 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1888. First edition. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated journal written by English artist E. W. Payton regarding his three years spent travelling New Zealand in the nineteenth century, with illustrations by the author. First edition. Bound in the publisher&…

Norway and Its Scenery

Edward Price; Thomas Forester [ed.] · 1853 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Cloth. A fascinating mid nineteenth century travel guide and travel journal of Edward Price, beautifully engraved throughout by artist David Lucas. The travel journal of Edward Price, Esq, detailing a trip he took to Norway from Gothenburg to Christi…

Edmund Burke&Apos;S Connection with Bristol from 1774 Till 1780

G. E. Weare · 1894 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Bristol, William Bennett, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work on Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish statesman, and his relationship to the city of Bristol. First edition. With the original errata slip to the rear of the text. Illustrated with a portrait frontispie…

Les Provinciales Ou Lettres Ecrites

Louis de Montalte · 1712 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Not Stated, Not stated, 1712. Leather. An eighteenth century copy of Blaise Pascal's series of philosophical essays. With engraved frontispieces to each volumes. This work is presented as a collection of eighteen letters. They were extremely popular for the use of humour, m…

Lets Have a Party: Simple Recipes

Charlotte Weiss · 1946 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Watford, Bruce Publishing Co. Ltd. 1946. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this charming illustrated collection of party recipes, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illus…

Turkey

Robert Boulanger; Margaret Case [trans.] · 1960 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Paris, Hachette, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first Hachette edition of this guide to Turkey, with numerous maps and complete in its dust wrapper. The first edition of one of Hachette world guides  under the direction off Francis Ambriere, this volume is an extensive guide to T…

Bullet And Shot in Indian Forest Plain and Hill With Hints to Beginners In Indian Shooting

Russell,C.E.M · 1900 · Richard Thornton Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

W Thacker And Co A Good Copy in Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover with further gilt vignette of a bison's head to the front cover.One previous owner's name in ink to four of the first few pages of the book.Slight silverfish nibbling to the front end…

T.A. Crerar: A Political Life

Rea, James Edgar · 1997 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.33 | ¥13,575)

Montréal & Kingston McGill-Queen's University Press First Edition, First Printing pp. viii, 307. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws to the extremities,…

Prikkels 219 - 10th september 1957 , No carbon required

Frenkel Frank, Dimitri., illustrated Lucebert · 1957 · De Kantlijn

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

( 20) Pages. bound like a notebook., With text by Dimitri Frenkel Frank and 4 illustrations by Lucebert - Amsterdam: Proost en Brandt NV - Again and again, surprisingly with design and use of the various types of paper from its own range. Designers are often not named, but are a…

Prikkels 218 - Juli / Augustus 1957

Groot, Pieter., Ad Windig · 1957 · De Kantlijn

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Thick paper cover with lose inserts: 6 decorated platic ( Proflex) bags., 4 cardboard labels wit ropes Prikkels wenst u een goede reisand 3 folding pages with agenda and colofon. - Amsterdam: Proost en Brandt NV - Again and again, surprisingly with design and use of the various …