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Handley Cross, or Mr Jorrocks&Apos;S Hunt

Robert Surtees · 1854 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1854. Cloth. A hansome volume of this 19th century classic focusing on the adventures of a grocer turned Master of Fox Hounds. Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer best known for his contributions to the first Eng…

Phineas Redux

Anthony Trollope · 1874 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1874 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition in book form of this illustrated Victorian era picaresque classic from Anthony Trollope. The first edition in book form of this novel by Anthony Trollope, first appearing in 1873 in serialised format in wee…

Exhibition of Chased and Embossed Steel and Iron Work of European Origin.

Various · 1900 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, The Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1900 . First edition. Cloth. An impressive Burlington Fine Arts Club catalogue documenting European chased and embossed steel and ironwork, illustrated with seventy plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition. Il…

De Imitatione Christi De Libri Quator.

aKEMPIS (Thomas): · 1858 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

[Paris] Impressium Parisiis Cura Edwini Tross 1858. FIRST TROSS EDITION. 24mo, 80 x 45 mms., pp. [iv], 155 [156 blank], uncut, engraved frontispiece, attractively bound by Zaehnsdorf (with his tiny gilt mark just barely visible in the lower gilt margin of the verso of the fron…

El Jimmy, Outlaw of Patagonia

Herbert Childs · 1936 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1936. Cloth. A scarce first English edition of this biography of James Radburne set in Patagonia, presented in a clam shell box. Herbert Childs (1904-1971) was an American writer and magazine editor. He took his wife to Patagonia on a year-long honeymoon…

Ovid&Apos;S Epistles, Translated by Several Hands

Ovid · 1688 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Printed for J. T. and are to be sold by R. Wild, 1688. Leather. The fourth edition of this translation of Ovid's Epistles, complete with seven allegorical engraved plates. Fourth edition.  In a contemporary full calf binding, with contemporary front endpaper bound …

Two Waifs in Cloud-Land

Walter Hawes; Reginald Michell · 1910 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London; Felling-on-Tyne, The Walter Scott Publishing Co. 1910. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Hawes"s richly illustrated cloud-land fantasy, a charming children"s adventure told in prose and verse. In the publisher"s original blue pictorial cloth binding.  Fi…

A History Of British Birds Six Volumes Third Edition

Morris,Rev F.O. · 1891 · Richard Thornton Books

£800.00 (€959.07 | $1,057.09 | ¥168,824)

John C. Nimmo Third Edition set of Six Newly Revised Corrected and Enlarged.This is a Near Fine Six Volume Set in Publisher's dark green cloth boards with bright and vivid title lettering along spine and with each volume decorated with birds to the front covers.Lovely matt green…

A TALE Of TWO CITIES.; Petersons' Uniform Edition of Charles Dickens' Works. Complete in One Volume. Price Fifty Cents

Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870] · 1859 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$8,250.00 (€7,484.98 | £6,243.56 | ¥1,317,576)

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 806 Chestnut Street, 1859. 1st US book edition, first issue, second state, with the advert for the 25 different editions at front. Cf Smith AMERICAN 12, especially note 5). Original publisher's printed buff paper covers with wood engrav…

A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings

John Kay; Hugh Paton · 1837 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

Edinburgh, Hugh Paton, Carver, and Gilder, 1837-38. First edition. Leather. A lavishly illustrated series of caricatures by the Scottish artist John Kay, illustrated with a total of three hundred and fifty eight plates. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.A lovely work exp…

A History of Eton College 1440-1875

H C Maxwell Lyte · 1875 · Rooke Books

£800.00 (€959.07 | $1,057.09 | ¥168,824)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1875. First edition. Fine Binding. A very finely bound historical account of the prestigious English Public School for boys, Eton College. In a Bickers binding, with their binder's stamp to the front pastedown. In a beautiful gilt tooled binding, w…

Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, & Wonders in England, Scotland, and Ireland

R. B.; [Nathaniel Crouch] · 1681 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London; Daventry, Nath. Crouch; Obed Smith, c1682. Leather. A scarce unrecorded edition of this entertaining history of Britain, recording historical events that shaped the country. A very scarce variant, with the publishing information reading as 'Printed for Nath. Crouch …

Thoughts on Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend

Peter Beckford · 1782 · Rooke Books

£560.00 (€671.35 | $739.96 | ¥118,177)

London, E. Easton, 1782. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of this work on hunting, written as a series of letters to a friend. By Sir Peter Beckford, an eighteenth-century hunting enthusiast. Handsomely rebound in half speckled calf with vellum corners. An insightful work on hu…

Burke Select Works Burke Select Works Vol. I and II

E. J. Payne; Edmund Burke · 1875 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1875-1892. Cloth. A trio of uncommon titles selecting works of philosopher Edmund Burke. A three volume collection comprised of scarce and uncommon titles. Featuring volumes two and three, which are scarce as a pair. The pair includes the t…

Miscellaneous Poems

John Byrom · 1773 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

Manchester, J. Harrop, 1773. First edition. Leather. The first collected edition of the poetry of John Byrom, a noted poet and inventor of shorthand. The first collected edition.Complete in two volumes.Half-title is present to each volume. Illustrated with one engraved head-piec…

Lettres à M. Letronne sur les papyrus bilingues et grecs, et sur quelques autres monumens gréco-égyptiens du Musée d'Antiquités de l'Université de Leide. I: Text; II: Atlas. [TWO VOLUMES].

Reuvens, C. (Caspar) J. (Jacob) C. (Christiaan). · 1830 · Librarium of The Hague

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

Leide, S. et J. Luchtmans, 1830. 1st Edition. Soft cover. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Two volumes. I. Text: Three parts bound in one. Quarto. Pp. 2 (Avertissement, verso blank), 89; (3 inc. 2 blanks), 57 (verso blank); 164. Plus 2 double-page lea…

Commentaire géographique sur l'exode et les nombres.Paris and Leipzig, Renouard (Firmin Didot), 1841. Folio With 13 plates (3 folding and 8 full-page) showing a total of 19 maps, 8 of which are lithographs. Including:(2) Discours du Roi. Royal Séance du 9 janvier 1843.Large 8vo. 4 pp.(3) [A richly illustrated advert for two other works by Laborde (Voyage en Orient and Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée)].Large 4to. 4 pp.Contemporary half maroon leather, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers

LABORDE, Léon de. · 1807 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

LXI, [1], 146; 48 (supplement) pp.First and only edition of this groundbreaking geographical and sociological commentary on the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt described in the Old Testament. This work by the French archaeologist and traveler Léon Emmanuel Simon Joseph Labor…

Francis & Day&Apos;S Album of Harry Hemsley&Apos;S Songs for Children

None Stated · 1938 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Francis Day & Hunter Ltd. [1938]. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this charming 1930s children"s song album by Harry Hemsley, illustrated with twelve red-tone illustrations. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper boards. First e…

Tables of Interest

John Thomson · 1794 · Rooke Books

£83.99 (€100.69 | $110.98 | ¥17,724)

London, G. C. and J. Robinson, 1794. Leather. A fascinating and scarce reference work, signed by the author. At 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per Cent From £1 to £10,000 and From 1 to 365 Days In a regular Progression of Single Days With Tables at all the above Rates, From 1 to 12 Months…

Catalogo 1913 ... Placche ferro smaltato e lettere rame ... Milan, Ravasi brothers (colophon: Stabilimento Grafico Matarelli), 1913. Oblong 8vo (16.5 x 24 cm). With very large, loosely inserted, oblong folding tinted lithographed poster (61 x 90.5 cm), showing types and other decorations in full size in black and white on a green-grey background, and 100 numbered half-tone illustrations in text. Also with a tipped in circular letter on pink paper introducing the catalogue, by Luigi and Giovanni Ravasi. Stapled in publisher's gray paper wrappers, printed in blue.

RAVASI, Fratelli. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

16 pp.Extremely rare illustrated catalogue of enameled metal signboards, plates and large copper letters intended for signs, name and number plates, a clock fave, etc. The catalogue was issued by the brothers Luigi and Giovanni Ravasi, described on the wrapper-title as the suppl…