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Sergeant Michael Cassidy R.E.

Sapper" [H. C. McNeile] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. Cloth. A very smart edition of H. C. McNeile's early work, 'Sergeant Michael Cassidy R.E', written under his pseudonym, Sapper. This work is an early edition, in original publishers green cloth binding with the scarce, unclipped…

Miss Mouse and Her Boys

Mrs Molesworth [Mary Louisa Molesworth] · 1897 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1897. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition children's book by Mary Louisa Molesworth, illustrated throughout by Leonard Leslie Brooke. The first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. With an engraved fronti…

Bookano Stories No. 2

S. Louis Giraud; Various · 1920 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Strand Publications; Bookano Books, c1935. Hardback. An uncommon number of Bookano stories, an entertaining volume, illustrated with with five colourful pop-ups. An uncommon number of 'Bookano Stories', this being Number 2. Illustrated with a colour frontispie…

Carved Jade of Ancient China

Salmony, Alfred · 1938 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.19 | ¥114,419)

Book Good No Jacket The Gillick Press, Berkeley, California English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket).; 1.9 kg.; 25 x 33 cm.; 85 pages followed by list of black and white plates.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior.; The exterior shows edge wear, scuffs an…

Paradise Regain&Apos;D. A Poem, in Four Books.

John Milton; Thomas Newton · 1760 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1760 . Leather. A smart mid eighteenth century edition of the second part of Milton's epic, in Baskerville type. A smart Baskerville edition of Milton's poem.Baskerville was an innovative and pioneering type des…

African Discovery a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in Central Africa

Mungo Park · 1845 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson, 1845. Cloth. A delightful and important nineteenth century work on African travel, in a pocket-sized format. A scarce and unusual imprint, with little record of this edition's existence. This copy's pagination is alike to Nelson's previou…

Paris Monumental: Guide Pratique de L&Apos;Etanger Dan Paris Et Ses Environs

A. Lasmarrigues · 1863 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Paris, E. Maillet, 1863 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce illustrated guide to Paris, complete with plates and a large fold-out colour map, recording the city and its monuments at the height of Haussmann"s transformation. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A ve…

Life-Histories of African Game Animals

Theodore Roosevelt; Edmund Heller · 1929 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.70 | $343.55 | ¥54,868)

London, John Murray, 1929. Cloth. A scarce edition of this illustrated two volume set on the natural world in Africa. Two volumes. Volume one is illustrated throughout with frontispiece, twenty-four plates, and eleven maps. Volume two is illustrated with frontispiece, twenty-fou…

Tunc

Lawrence Durrell · 1968 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Lawrence Durrell's Faustian novel, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Tunc' is the first novel in a two novel…

Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated

J. Britton; E. W. Brayley · 1832 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, 1832. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated topographical study on Devonshire and Cornwall, complete as two volumes bound in one. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a map, vignette title page, and forty-seven pla…

Charles Godfrey Leland

Elizabeth Robins Pennell · 1906 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first limited edition of this biography on Charles Godfrey Leland, an illustrated work written by his niece. A limited edition of one-hundred and fifty copies, published concurrently with the fir…

Various Poetical Works: Gray, Parnell, Collins, Green, Warton, Kirke White, Burns, Scott, Longfellow. In Five Volumes.

Various · 1854 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1854-1863. Leather. A beautifully illustrated collection of various poetical works published by Routledge and uniformally bound. In five volumes, each complete in their own right. The Poetical Works of Gray, Parnell, Collins, Green and War…

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

Alain-Rene Lesage · 1846 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Paris, J. J. Dubochet. Le Chevalier et Cie, 1846. Leather. A smartly bound and profusely illustrated copy of Alain-Rene Lesage's picaresque novel 'Gil Blas', illustrated by Ernest Meissonier. Written in the original French. 'Gil Blas' is a adventurous no…

A New and Complete System of Practical Husbandry: Vol. I

John Mills · 1762 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Longman, J. Coote, J. Hinxman, W. Nicoll, and S. Davis. 1762 . First edition. Leather. The first volume of John Mill's informative guide to husbandry and the improvement of one's estate, the first edition, illustrated wit…

Candide En Dannemarc, Ou L&Apos;Optimisme Des HonnãƒâªTes Gens

1769 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

Geneve, Not Stated, 1769 . Leather. A second edition of this extremely scarce continuation of Voltaire's Candide, set in Denmark, written anonymously. The second edition. First published in 1767. Very scarce work, in any early edition. Bound in full calf, retaining the blan…

Iter Boreale with Large Additions of Several Other Poems

R Wild · 1668 · Rooke Books

£3,200.00 (€3,836.26 | $4,228.36 | ¥675,295)

London, Booksellers, 1668. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first collected edition of Robert Wilde's works with the famous poem 'Iter Boreale&apos. Comprising many poems by Wild, with  'The Recantation of a Penitent Proteus' , and 'The Fair Quarre…

Jacob Bengel Idar-Oberstein Germany: Art Deco Schmuck / Art Deco Jewelry

BENGEL - Weber, Christianne: · 2002 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€195.00 ($214.93 | £162.66 | ¥34,326)

Stuttgart 2002, (24 x 30 cm), 288 pp. English/ German parallel text, 380 ills. (many colour), clothb./d-jacket. A geometric language of forms, influenced by Cubism and the aesthetic of the machine, coloured plastic and chromium are synonymous with the Art Déco costume jewellery …

Musk, Hashish and Blood

Hector France · 1900 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Privately Printed, 1900. First edition. Hardback. An intriguing and exciting volume detailing a picture of the Algerian desert as France presents it to us through these short stories he wrote about his experiences. An excellent limited edition copy privately printed for …

Junius. Stat Nominus Umbra. [Letters of Junius]

Junius · 1799 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, T. Bensley, 1799. Leather. A smart two volume edition of the infamous 'Letters of Junius', a collection of anonymously authored letters critical of the Hanoverian government. An interesting collection of private and openly published letters that criticised the …

Napoleon: Warrior and Ruler

William O'Connor Morris · 1902 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Cloth. A very smart copy of this biographical and historical work on Napoleon Bonaparte, with engraved and folding plates. A fascinating and comprehensive biographical and historical work on Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the most prolific mili…