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Semaine de Meditations Et de Prieres

Pierre du Moulin; Peter du Moulin · 1667 · Rooke Books

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

Charenton; Paris, Antoine Cellier, 1667. Leather. A very scarce volume of Anglican prayers and meditations by the French clergyman Peter du Moulin. The sixth edition of this very scarce work.A religious text compiling a week's worth of prayers and meditations, by the French…

Sporting Sketches in South America

Admiral Kennedy · 1892 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, R. H. Porter, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Admiral William Kennedy's account of sport and hunting in South America. With a folding map. A first edition of Admiral William Kennedy's account of bird and animal hunting on the South East coast of …

Bird-Hunting Through Wild Europe

Reginald B. Lodge · 1908 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Robert Culley, 1908. First edition. Cloth. Reginald Badham Lodge recounts his quest to find and photograph rare birds across Southern and Eastern Europe. With 124 illustrations captured by the author. Reginald Badham Lodge recounts his quest to find and photograph rare b…

Holidays in Home Counties

Edward Walford · 1884 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, W.H. Allen & Co. 1884. Cloth. A handsomely bound, very scarce copy of this work on travels in Great Britain, written by Edward Walford. A charming work on travels locally in Great Britain. Including chapters on Chiswick, Burnham Thorpe (birthplace of Vice Admiral Horatio…

Oeuvres complètes de N.H. Abel, mathématicien, avec des notes ét développements, rédigées par ordre du Roi, par B. Holmboe, professeur de mathématiques à l'université de Christiania, membre de la société physiographique à Christiania et de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Guerre à Stockholm. Tome Premier. ... Tome Second contenant les oeuvres de l'auteur qui nónt pas été publiées auparavant. B.u.w. 2) C. [Fr.] STURM, On the solution of numerical equations. Transl. from the 'Mémoires présentés par divers Savans à l'Académie Royale des Sciences ... by W.H.Spiller.

ABEL, N.H. [B.HOLMBOE ed.] · 1839 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€2,700.00 ($2,975.96 | £2,252.19 | ¥475,279)

Christiania; London & Paris, Chez Chr. Gröndahl, Imprimeur-Librarire; John Souter, 73, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Chez Bachelier, 1839. - 1835. 4to. 3 vols. in 1. A mod. half clf. spine, original marbled endp. preserved. The original marbled brds. preserved. (edges of covers rubb.…

Annales Monastici

Henry Richards Luard [ed] · 1864 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1864-9. First edition. Cloth. A complete collection of works on the history of monasticism in the middle ages. The first edition in book form. A five volume complete set, scarce to see in a complete set. Part of the 'Rerum Britann…

Bonsoir Therese

Elsa Triolet · 1949 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, La Bibliotheque Francaise, 1949. Paperback. An uncommon novel by Elsa Triolet, her first in French, signed by the author to her friend, Georges Sadoul. The second edition of this uncommon work.Signed by the author to the half-title, presenting the copy to her friend, Geor…

Europe Illustrated Its Picturesque Scenes and Places of Note

John Sherer · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, The London Printing and Publishing Co, c1875. Cloth. A sample copy of what became a popular and beautifully illustrated two volume work; 'Europe Illustrated&apos. This is a sample copy of what eventually became 'Europe Illustrated&apos. To the front pastedown t…

Genesis: Chapter & Verse

Banks, Tony; Collins, Phil; Gabriel, Peter; Hackett, Steve; Rutherford, Mike · 2007 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£54.90 (€65.82 | $72.54 | ¥11,586)

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. First Edition. Very Good Condition. Very Good. VG/VG- 1st ed 2007 Weidenfeld and Nicolson hardback, unclipped DJ, illustrated. Light edge-wear to jacket with 1cm tear to top front corner of jacket, book clean and firm; bright and unmarked. Size: quarto. …

Rome Au Siã¨Cle D&Apos;Auguste Ou Voyage D&Apos;Un Gaulois ã  Rome ã  L&Apos;ã©Poque Du Rã¨Gne D&Apos;Auguste Et Pendant Une Partie Du Rã¨Gne de Tibã¨Re, Prã©Cã©Dã© D&Apos;Une Description de Rome Aux ã©Poques D&Apos;Auguste Et de Tibã¨Re

Ch. Dezobry · 1846 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Paris, Dezobry, E. Magdeleine et Cie, 1846. Leather. Three volumes of a four volume set on the history of Rome in the time of Emperors Augustus and Tiberius, in the original French. Volumes I, II and III from a four volume set in quarter morocco bindings. Seven plates, two foldi…

Psalter

Anonymous · 1900 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€137.60 ($151.66 | £114.78 | ¥24,222)

Kyievo-Pecherska Lavra, 1900. Hardcover. Language: Church Slavonic. Condition: fair. Defects: signs of age, spots, yellowing, foxing, rubbing (cover), worn (cover), cracks (binding), tears (endpapers), creases (endpapers). Colour illustrations. Original title: Psaltir. Kiv, Kivo…

Memoirs of Marshal Bugeaud from His Private Correspondence and Original Documents, 1784-1849

Count H. d'Ideville; Charlotte M. Yonge · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of these intriguing memoirs of Thomas Bugeaud, a Marshal of France and prominent figure during the Napoleonic Wars. The first edition of this work in English.Complete in two volumes.The exciting me…

Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers

Karl Baedeker · 1927 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Leipzig , Karl Baedeker, Publisher , 1927. Cloth. A Baedeker handbook to Great Britain, offering a series of routes, maps and plans, many of which are folding. Eighth revised edition.In the original red cloth binding. Offering ninety routes exploring all over Great Britain, org…

A Collection of Novels by Mrs. Henry Wood

Mrs. Henry Wood [Ellen Price] · 1902 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902-1905. Cloth. Four later editions of novels from English writer Ellen Price, best known as Mrs. Henry Wood. Four volumes. Written by Ellen Price, an English novelist who wrote under the name Mrs. Henry Wood. Many of her books sold well inte…

A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood with Other Ancient & Modern Ballads and Songs Relating to This Celebrated Yeoman

John Mathew Gutch · 1847 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this illustrated collection of historical works and ballads on Robin Hood. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Very scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each vo…

Many Inventions and Life&Apos;S Handicap Being Stories of Mine Own People

Rudyard Kipling · 1893 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1893. Cloth. Two works by Rudyard Kipling. Uniformly bound in publisher's blue cloth bindings. Being the November 1893 second reprint of Many Inventions, published the same year as the first edition, and the february 1893 reprint of Life's Ha…

By Nile and Euphrates; with Maps and Illustrations

Geere, H. Valentine (1874-1923) · 1904 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$239.00 (€216.84 | £180.87 | ¥38,170)

Edinburgh T. & T. Clark | Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited (Edinburgh) First Edition, First Printing pp. xii, 355. Octavo (6" x 9"). Publisher's decorated terracotta cloth over boards with a lovely image of an Arab man wearing a traditional shemagh to the centre, blocked in re…

Strange Interlude

Eugene O'Neill · 1928 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, Boni & Liveright , 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A bright, first edition of this experimental play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill, presented in the striking original dust wrapper. First edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the original, unclipp…

Ancient Earthworks and Camps of Somerset

Ed. J. Burrow [Edward J. Burrow] · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Cheltenham, Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. 1924. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of this collection of drawings of British, Saxon and Roman camps in Somerset. No. 678 of 1025 limited edition copies, and the first edition of this uncommon work, in a quarter cloth bi…

Un Homme a Marier, Ou M. Frontin

Charles Paul de Kock · 1837 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Bruxelles , Societe Belge de Librairie, etc. ; Hauman, Cattoir et Co. 1837. Leather. A very scarce copy of this work by the famous French novelist, Charles Paul de Kock. A very scarce early edition. Not currently held in any British libraries or in auction records. In a mottled …