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Domestic Medicine; or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases
William Buchan · 1797 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)
London, A. Strahan; T. Cadell; W. Davies, 1797 . Leather. A smart copy of the fifteenth edition of William Buchan's pioneering medical work, offering sound medical advice concerning the prevention and cure of disease, aimed at the layperson. First published in 1769, this is…
Hither and Thither; or, Sketches of Travels on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Reginald Fowler · 1854 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, Frederick R. Daldy, 1854. First edition. Cloth. The first and only edition of this scarce travel work by Reginald Fowler, exploring Europe and North America. The first and only edition.A scarce work.Errata slip bound in before page 1. Sixteen pages of adverts to the rea…
The Valley of Bones
Anthony Powell · 1977 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)
London, Heinemann, 1977. Cloth. A smart reprint of one of Anthony Powell's important novels following his protagonist Nick Jenkins, this novel seeing Jenkins at the start of the Second World War. In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.The seventh novel in Anthony Powell…
The Campaign in the Crimea: An Historical Sketch
George Brackenbury · 1855 · Rooke Books
£925.00 (€1,108.92 | $1,222.26 | ¥195,202)
London, Paul and Dominic Colnagh, 1855. First edition. Leather. The first and second series of Brackenbury and Simpson's detailed study of the Crimean war, in a smart half morocco binding and illustrated throughout with tinted lithograph plates. The scarce complete first ed…
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
Lord Byron · 1821 · Rooke Books
£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)
London, John Murray, 1821. First edition. Hardback. The first issue of Byron's popular blank verse tragedy set in 14th century Venice, complete with the half title and adverts. The first edition, first issue, with the speech on page 151 starting 'What Crimes' and …
Poems
Thomas Gray · 1937 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Eton College; Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society, 1937. Paperback. A privately printed collection of poetry by Thomas Gray, presented in a paper-vellum binding for Eton College school leavers. 1937 Private Printing, 'privately printed for Eton College in the…
Marican and Other Poems
Henry Inglis · 1851 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1851. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce collection of poetry by Henry David English, in its first edition form and the publisher's original cloth binding. First Edition.In the publisher's original cloth binding. This…
Burne-Jones Talking: His Conversations 1895-1898, Preserved by His Studio Assistant
Edward Burne-Jones; Mary Lago (ed) · 1982 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, John Murray, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A collection of conversations with artist Edward Burne-Jones, collected and preserved by his studio assistant, with illustrations to middle of text. First edition, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Review copy, with review …
Les Travailleurs de la Mer
Victor Hugo · 1866 · Rooke Books
£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)
Paris, A. Lacroix, 1866. Vellum. A Riviere vellum bound sixth and third edition of this fascinating novel on the Industrial Revolution by Victor Hugo, these editions being published in the same year as the first edition. Volumes I and II are the sixth edition of this work, Volum…
Animadversions Upon Mr. Phillips&Apos;S History of the Life of Cardinal Pole
Timothy Neve · 1766 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1766. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of Timothy Neve's Church of England attack on Thomas Phillips' life on the Cardinal Reginald Pole. The very scarce first edition of this work.ESTC citation number T71415.Timothy Neve&apo…
The Life of James Mcneill Whistler
E. R. Pennell; J. Pennell · 1908 · Rooke Books
£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)
London, William Heinemann, 1908. First edition. Leather. A limited edition biography on the artist James McNeill Whilster, profusely illustrated, signed by the publisher. A limited edition work, limited to one hundred and fifty copies, this copy numbered one hundred and one.Sign…
Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People
H. D. Traill; J. S. Mann · 1902 · Rooke Books
£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)
London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, Cassell & Company, Ltd. 1902. Fine Binding. A wonderful finely bound six volume collection of this history of progress in England across twelve books, with colour plates and folding maps. This work details the improvements made to the country…
The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonesse a New Version of an Old Story Arranged As a Play for Mummers in One Act Requiring No Theatre or Scenery.
Thomas Hardy · 1923 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
London, Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1923. Cloth. A handsome early edition of Thomas Hardy's play, The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. A one-act play by Thomas Hardy, one of the only two pieces of drama written by this author. This play was designed to be performed by amat…
Novels of C Cutcliffe Hyne
C J Cutcliffe Hyne · 1910 · Rooke Books
£1,980.00 (€2,373.69 | $2,616.30 | ¥417,839)
London, Everett & Co, 1910. Leather. A scarce, very smart collection of Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne's novels. In a Morrell binding, with the binder's stamp to the verso of front endpaper. Hatchard's stamp to the verso of front endpapers also. Comprising o…
Miscellanies
John Armstrong · 1790 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)
London, Not Stated, 1790. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the collected poems of the eighteenth century Scottish poet John Armstrong, containing his best known poem 'The Art of Preserving Health', in a nice contemporary calf binding. The first edition of t…
Dead Cert
Dick Francis · 1962 · Rooke Books
£1,350.00 (€1,618.42 | $1,783.84 | ¥284,890)
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. First edition. Hardback. A first US edition of celebrated jockey and author Dick Francis' first novel. This first US edition of celebrated author Dick Francis' debut novel 'Dead Cert' follows amateur jockey Alan Yor…
The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge; with a Memoir of Mr. Ellman, Late of Glynde: And an Appendix, Containing a Farmer&Apos;S and a Gardener&Apos;S Calendar; and a Collection of Useful Tables
Various · 1836 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)
London, J. Baxter; Simpkin and Marshall, 1836. Leather. The third, highly extended, edition of this extensive reference work for agriculture and horticulture, illustrated with hand-coloured in-text illustrations. The third edition of this work. 'The Library of Agricultural …
A History of the Southern Railway Compiled from Various Sources
C. F. Dendy Marshall · 1936 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London; Edinburgh, The Southern Railway Company, 1936. Cloth. A history of the Southern Railway, written by an authority in the field C. F. Dendy Marshall. The work is illustrated with numerous plates and an additional two folding plates, and is in excellent condition. A interes…
The Fisher Boy, a Poem. Comprising His Several Avocations, During the Four Seasons of the Year
William Henry Ireland · 1808 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)
London, Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1808. Hardback. A nicely bound copd of William Henry Ireland's poem 'The Fisher Boy', published after his Shakespeare forgery scandal under a pseudonym. A poem by William Henry Ireland about a young fisher boy, divided up into four …
Hortus Cantabrigiensis: Or, an Accented Catalogue of Indigenous and Exotic Plants Cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Garden
James Donn; F. Purish; J. Lindley; G. Sinclair · 1845 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, Longman and Co, 1845. Cloth. An informative and interesting catalogue of the exotic and indigenous plants in the Cambridge Botanic Garden in the nineteenth century. The thirteenth edition of this work. A thorough catalogue of the plants in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. T…