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Vathek, an Arabian Tale

William Beckford · 1912 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1912 . Hardback. A pocket-sized new edition of William Beckford gothic novel 'Vathek', illustrated with colour plates. This is a gothic novel, written by Beckford in 1782 in French and later translated by Samuel Henley. It is l…

A German Peace: Flyting to Herr Houston Stewart Chamberlain

D. S. MacColl · 1916 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Glasgow , James Maclehose and Sons , 1916. First edition. Disbound. A presentation copy of this very scarce war poem from Scottish painter and art critic, Dugald Sutherland MacColl, which challenges Germany's notion of peace. Author's presentation inscription to the fr…

Insects at Home Being a Popular Account of British Insects, Their Structure, Habits, and Transformations

Rev. J. G. Wood · 1876 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1876. Cloth. A smart early edition of this illustrated study of British insects from English natural history writer Reverend John George Wood. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty black-and-white plates, and numerous in-text images. Collat…

Photographs [of] Scottish Scenery. [By] Special Appointment, J. Valentine, Photographer, Dundee.

VALENTINE, James (1815-1879) - · 1860 · CHILTON BOOKS

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

[Dundee : Valentine & Sons between 1860 and 1879] . 0 Album of 26 albumen prints consisting of commercial numbered prints of Scottish buildings, landscapes and scenery by James Valentine (Valentine & Sons). 21.5cm x 29.0cm x 4.0cm. 26 photographs on 13 leaves. Polished brown cal…

Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Sapper [H. C. McNeile] · 1940 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1940 . Cloth. An early impression of the penultimate novel in H. C. McNeile's Bulldog Drummond series, in the original, scarce dust wrapper. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth, with the original, unclipped, very scarce dust wrappe…

Hail and Farewell!

George Moore · 1911 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, William Heinemann, 1911-14. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition set of George Moore's autobiographical trilogy, set in the picturesque Irish country. The first editions. Volume I is the disputed issue - Gilcher's second, Danielson's first - with ad…

Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men

Rev. Joseph Spence; Samuel Weller Singer · 1820 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, W. H. Carpenter, 1820. First edition. Leather. A smart first edition of this collection of humorous and insightful anecdotes, previously held in the library of American book collected Robert Borthwick Adam. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A humorous collecti…

A Handwritten Book of Sheet Music

Anonymoys · 1808 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

N/A, N/A, c1850 . Leather. A charming nineteenth century volume of handwritten sheet music and accompanying lyrics. A half calf volume with ninety-six leaves of sheet music, with the majority of leaves left blank.The first twelve pages of this work feature handwritten music and …

Good Cookery

Lady Llanover; Augusta Hall · 1867 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Richard Bentley, 1867. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition cookery work and ode to Welsh tales by Lady Llanover, Augusta Hall, complete with the original plates. The first edition of this scarce work.Augusta Hall, the Baroness Llanover, was a prominent Welsh hei…

Lord Roberts: A Life for Boys

Violet Brooke-Hunt · 1901 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, James Nisbet & Co. Limited, 1901. First edition. Leather. First-edition prize binding of this detailled biography on the famous Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts. First edition.In full-calf prize binding with marbled endpapers. Bound by Dickers & Son, Leicester with…

Tales from "Blackwood

1889 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889-1891. Leather. A collection of the first three volumes of the third series of stories collected from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Three volumes of a twelve volume set, being volumes I, II, and III only. Third series. O…

Leicester Square; Its Associations and Its Worthies

Tom Taylor · 1874 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Bickers & Son , 1874. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated study of Leicester Square in London, with folding plates. First edition. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece, three folding plates, and twelve plates. Collated complete. A detailed and co…

Junius

Junius; Anonymous · 1801 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, T. Bensley; et al, 1801. Leather. The politically radical Georgian letters of 'Junius', the anonymous figure writing to the 'Public Advertiser', an early edition. Complete in two volumes.An early edition of this work.A selection of the letters of Juni…

Nebezpechnoe nebo. Priklyucheniya pilota-ispytatelya

Anonymous · 1956 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€38.60 ($42.55 | £32.20 | ¥6,795)

1956. 218 pp. Format: 11 x 18 cm. Softcover (paperback). Language: please ask before ordering. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. Black-and-white illustrations. Original title: Nebezpechne nebo Pryhody pilota vyprobuvacha Druha Svitova Viina. The photos show…

Leningrad. House of Peter I. Summer Gardens and Palace of Peter I. / Leningrad. House of Peter I, Summer Garden and Palace of Peter I.

Anonymous · 1975 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€39.90 ($43.98 | £33.28 | ¥7,024)

Leningrad: Avrora, 1975. 26 pp. Language: Multilingual. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. Original title: Leningrad. House of Peter I. Summer Gardens and Palace of Peter I. / Leningrad. Domik Petra I, Letny Sad i Dvorets Petra I. The photos show the actual …

Ivanov E. N., Klimov G. V., Makarov V. M. Automatic means of detecting and extinguishing fires.

Gerlovin N, Yu. · 1974 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€37.20 ($41.00 | £31.03 | ¥6,548)

1974. 240 pp. Language: Russian. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. Original title: Ivanov Ye. N., Klimov G. V., Makarov V. M. Avtomaticheskie sredstva obnaruzheniya i tusheniya pozharov. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Po…

A Thousand and One Nights (Book of a Thousand and One Nights). In Eight Volumes. Volume 2 (Nights 39-145).

Anonymous · 1958 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€36.00 ($39.68 | £30.03 | ¥6,337)

1958. 447 pp. Language: Russian. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. Original title: Tysyacha i odna noch (Kniga tysyachi i odnoy nochi). V vosmi tomakh. Tom 2 (nochi 39-145). The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with track…

One Thousand and One Nights (Book of One Thousand and One Nights). In eight volumes. Volume 4 (Nights 270-434).

Anonymous · 1959 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€36.10 ($39.79 | £30.11 | ¥6,355)

1959. 495 pp. Language: Russian. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. Original title: Tysyacha i odna noch (Kniga tysyachi i odnoy nochi). V vosmi tomakh. Tom 4 (nochi 270-434). The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with trac…

(Mikhail Shatrov), V.I. Khvorost, B.I. Perepadya Pages of a stone book. (60 memorable places of Dnepropetrovsk).

Shteyn A, M. · 1969 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€34.80 ($38.36 | £29.03 | ¥6,126)

Luch, 1969. 240 pp. Language: Russian. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. Original title: (Mikhail Shatrov), Khvorost V. I., Perepadya B. I. Stranitsy kamennoy knigi. (60 pamyatnykh mest Dnepropetrovska). The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from U…

Khan and his son, or Ukrainian captive

Anonymous · 1916 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€61.70 ($68.01 | £51.47 | ¥10,861)

Ukrainska vydavnycha spilka, 1916. Hardcover. Language: please ask before ordering. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. No illustrations. Original title: Antykvarne vydannia knyhy Khan i yoho syn, abo Ukrainka-branka. Knyha bula vydana u 1916 ro. The photos s…