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The Dictionary of English Furniture

Percy Macquoid · 1925 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, Medici Society , 1925-1927. Cloth. The complete four volumes of Percy Macquoid's lavishly illustrated, leading survey of English furniture. From the library of Sir Hugh Gurney, a British Diplomat, and member of the influential Quaker Gurney banking family. Comprisin…

To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade

R C W Mitford · 1881 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

London, W H Allen and Co , 1881. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first edition copy of R C W Mitford's account of Caubul in the Cavalry Brigade. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with a 48 page catalogue at the rear dated 1881. Illustrated, with six plate…

A Serious Address to the People of Great Britain. In Which the Certain Consequences of the Present Rebellion, Are Fully Demonstrated. Necessary to Be Perused by Every Lover of His Country, at This Juncture

Henry Fielding · 1745 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, M Cooper , 1745. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this speech delivered by Henry Fielding regarding the Jacobite rebellion of the same year. Published anonymously, but authorship has since been attributed to Henry Fielding. The Jacobite Rebellion, was an at…

The Euphrates Valley Route to India. An Examination of the Memoir Published by Mr. W.P. Andrew

'Two Travellers' · 1857 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Railway Times Office, 1857. Leather. A very scarce examination of Sir William P. Andrew's memoir detailing his proposal for the construction of a railway along the Euphrates to the port at Basra, as an alternative route to India. William Patrick Andrew was the direc…

Paris Lost: A Sketchbook of the Thirties

Feliks Topolski [int. by Jonathan Stone] · 1973 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Hutchinson, 1973. Cloth. The first edition of a charming collection of expressionist sketches of Paris before the War by the astute Polish painter Feliks Topolski. The first edition of Paris Lost: A Sketchbook of the Thirties, created by prolific Polish expressionist pai…

Judas, Ou le Vampire Surrãƒâ©Aliste

Ernest de Gengenbach · 1949 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Paris, Les Éditions Premières, 1949. First edition. Paperback. The fascinating autobiography of a surrealist writer who rejected the seminary for a life of scandal and satanic writings, in the scarce original glassine wrapper. The first edition of Judas, ou le Vampire Surréal…

The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, As Also the Forests, of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia

Edward Balfour · 1862 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Madras, Cookson and Co. 1862. Leather. A fascinating, scarce work on South and East Asian forestry and timber exportation by Scottish environmentalist, Edward Green Balfour. The second edition of this work, first published in 1858 by Higginbotham, Madras.  Scarce in all early e…

The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

Hugh Miller · 1857 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Edinburgh; London, Thomas Constable & Co.; Shepherd & Elliot; Hamilton, Adams, & Co. 1857 . First edition. Cloth. A smart, illustrated first edition of this fascinating nineteenth-century geology work. The first edition. Eighteenth thousand. In the publisher's original red …

War Impressions: Being a Record in Colour

Dorothy Menpes; Mortimer Menpes · 1901 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Adan & Charles Black, [1901]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this attractive collection of war paintings by Mortimer Menpes from his time as a war artist. First edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Undated, dated from a copy held by …

The Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner: Memories Serious and Light of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, Welsh Judicature and English Judges, Admirals and Sea-Fights, Municipal Work and Notable Persons in North Wales, Strange Crimes and Great Events

Llewelyn Turner [ed. by J.E. Vincent] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Isbister And Co. 1903. Cloth. The very scarce illustrated memoirs of a Welsh commodore, reminiscing on his career, friendships and activities as a prominent figure of Caernarvon. The very scarce Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner: Memories Serious and Light of the Irish Reb…

Histoire de L&Apos;Habitation Humaine

Viollet-le-Duc; [Eugene Viollet-le-Duc] · 1875 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Paris, Bibliotheque D'Education et de Recreation, [1875]. First edition. Leather. A half calf first edition of this richly illustrated architectural history. A first edition French title reflecting on humanity's long history of architectural skill and development. Bou…

The Collector: Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers

Henry Theodore Tuckerman · 1868 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1868. First edition. Leather. The first edition of a collection of essays from the American critic Henry Theodore Tuckerman, with an introduction by English editor Dr. John Doran, bound by W. Bone and Son. The first edition of The Collector: Essays on…

The True Method of Dieting Horses. : Containing Many Curious and Useful Observations Concerning Their Marks, Colour and External Shape ; Their Temper and Instinct ; and How They Are to Be Govern&Apos;D, So As to Prevent Accidents and Diseases. The Proper Method of Feeding Suited to Their Age, Strength and Constitution ; Wherein the Pernicious Customs Which Have Obtain&Apos;D Among Many Ignorant Grooms and Other Pretenders to Horsemanship, Are Expos&Apos;D, and Their Errors Carefully Amended. Und

W. Gibson · 1721 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

London, W. Taylor, 1721. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this informative work regarding correct feeding practices for horses, written by the pioneering farrier and surgeon, William Gibson. The first edition. Scarce.Half title present, with advertisement to r…

Picnics and Suppers; Vegetarian and Simple Diet

Col. A. R. Kenney-Herbert · 1901 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1901-1904. Cloth. A delightful pair of cookery books from British Indian Army soldier Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert, including the very scarce first edition of 'Vegetarian and Simple Diet&apos. A smart pair of cookery works, including the very…

1786 Oppiani Poemata de Venatione Et Piscatione Cum Interpretatione Latina Et Scholiis Accessit Eutechnii Paraphrasis [Ixeutikoãƒâoeã‚â„N] Et Marcelli Sidetae Fragmentum de Piscibus. Tomus I. Cynegetica Ad Quatuor Mss. Codd. Fidem Recensuit & Suis Auxit Animadversionibus Jac. Nic. Belin de Ballu.

Oppian [Pseudo-Oppian]; Jacques-Nicolas Belin de Ballu [ed.] · 1786 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

Argentorati, Sumptibus Bibliopolii Academici, 1786. Hardback. A rare Latin scholarly edition of this epic poem on hunting, ascribed here to Oppian. With notes by French Hellenist Jacques-Nicolas Belin de Ballu. A very scarce copy of this scholarly edition, in Greek and Latin, ed…

The Angler&Apos;S Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland

Thomas Tod Stoddart · 1847 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Edinburgh , William Blackwood and Sons , 1847. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated guide to Scottish angling by Thomas Tod Stoddart, in the very scarce original cloth. His chief publication. First edition. Recased, with the very scarce original cloth lai…

The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters

Thomas Hardy · 1876 · Rooke Books

£985.00 (€1,180.68 | $1,301.32 | ¥207,804)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1876. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Thomas Hardy's charming novel, a rather audacious work unlike anything he had written before. First edition. Complete in two volumes. Originally published in monthly instalments in the Cornhill Ma…

Island in the Sun and Sugar Islands

Alec Waugh · 1956 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Cassell, 1956-1958. First edition. Cloth. Two charming works set in the West Indies and Caribbean written by British novelist Alec Waugh, the elder brother of Evelyn, including a first edition. The first edition of The Sugar Islands, and the second edition of Island in t…

Half-Hour with the Best Authors Including Biographical and Critical Notices

Charles Knight (Ed) · 1791 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Frederick Warne, c1890. Leather. A handsome edition of Half-Hours with the Best Authors edited by Charles Knight. With frontispieces and 26 illustrated vignettes. A noted English publisher, editor, and author Charles Knight (1791-1873) compiled this set of short stories.…

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1883 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.20 | $792.68 | ¥126,581)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1883-1884. Cloth. Twenty-six volumes of William Makepeace Thackeray's work. Illustrated throughout with plates and vignettes by Thackeray himself. Collated, complete with all plates. In the original green gilt stamped bindings. Each volume is nu…