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Island Life or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
Alfred Russel Wallace · 1880 · Rooke Books
£725.00 (€869.15 | $957.99 | ¥152,996)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1880. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound, first edition copy of this geological work regarding climates, and insular faunas and floras. Written by the important naturalist, explorer, and biologist Alfred Russel Wallace. Smartly bound, in a half mor…
Sacrosanctum Oecumenicum Concilium Tridentinum Additis Declarationibus Cardinalium Ejusdem Concilii Interpretum, Ex Ultima Recognitione
Joannis Gallemart; Jean Gallemart · 1769 · Rooke Books
£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)
Matriti, Madrid, Ex Typographia Regia Vulgo de La Gazeta , 1769. Leather. A smart, eighteenth century edition of this work regarding the Council of Trent by theologian Jean Gallemart. A new edition from 1769. This work was first written in 1621. Written by Jean Gallemart a profe…
Works of Henry, Lord Brougham
Henry Brougham · 1855 · Rooke Books
£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)
London; Glasgow , Richard Griffin and Company, 1855-1857. Leather. A ten volume library set collecting the selected works of former statesman and Lord High Chancellor, Henry Brougham. A popular statesman and barrister, who went on to become the Lord High Chancellor during the 18…
The Okavango River a Narrative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure
Charles John Andersson · 1861 · Rooke Books
£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1861. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this nicely rebacked work by Charles John Andersson, a travelogue documenting his experiences in South Africa, and his geographical discoveries about the Okavango River. Illustrated throughout. The fi…
Liber Regis Vel Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum with an Appendix Containing Proper Directions and Precedents Relating to the Presentations Institutions Inductions Dispensations & C and a Complete Alphabetical Index
John Bacon; John Ecton · 1786 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)
London, John Nichols; J Fand C Rivington, 1786. First edition. Leather. The first edition of John Bacon's editorial of Ecton's Thesaurus. This work is an account of the valuations of all ecclesiastical benefices who paid the first fruits and tenths annates. The work wa…
A Year&Apos;S Housekeeping in South Africa
Lady Barker · 1877 · Rooke Books
£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1877. Cloth. Mary Anne Barker's memoir of her life travelling around South Africa. Lady Barker, otherwise known as Mary Anne Barker, moved to New Zealand with her second husband, Frederick Napier Broome, in 1865. Here she became a journalist, becom…
Poems: Including the Second Edition of Egypt
M.M. Clifford · 1808 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)
London, William Bulmer & Co. 1808. Leather. A very scarce anthology inspired by travels as a soldier to Egypt as well as those across the Mediterranean and Asia, with the bookplate of Countess Wolseley. Poems: Including the Second Edition of Egypt, very scarce anthology written …
The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes; Charles Jarvis [trans.] · 1801 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)
London, William Miller, 1801. Leather. An illustrated edition of "the Jarvis translation" of 'Don Quixote', a popular 19th-century English rendition by Irish painter, translator and collector Charles Jervas. Revised and corrected, illustrated Charles Jervas translated …
Bibliotheca Britannica or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature
Robert Watt · 1824 · Rooke Books
£431.99 (€517.88 | $570.81 | ¥91,163)
Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Company, 1824. Leather. A four volume set of Robert Watt's 'Bibliotheca Britannica Or A General Index to British and Foreign Literature&apos. Four leatherbound volumes with marble paper covered boards, gilt foredge, and marble paper p…
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose with a Selection of Explanatory Notes and Account of His Life by Dr. Johnson
Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson · 1812 · Rooke Books
£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)
London , Nichols and Son, 1812. Leather. A scarce set of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose with a Selection of Explanatory Notes and Account of his Life by Dr. Johnson First edition thus. Seemingly the first edition to contain solely the notes of Samuel Johnso…
Selected Catalogues from Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge
None · 1911 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)
London, Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 1911 - 1919. Magazine. An eight volume collection of Sothebys auction catalogues and buyer's lists. All related to the library of Henry Huth. Volumes are: Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts: F…
Born of Man and Woman
Richard Matheson · 1954 · Rooke Books
£360.00 (€431.58 | $475.69 | ¥75,971)
Philadelphia, The Chamberlain Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of gripping science fiction works. This is the first anthology of Matheson's works, named after the first story in this book and his first published short story 'Born o…
The Red Thumb Mark
R Austin Freeman · 1907 · Rooke Books
£2,300.00 (€2,757.31 | $3,039.13 | ¥485,368)
London, Collingwood Bros, 1907. First edition. Hardback. A scarce, signed first edition of R Austin Freeman"s first Dr Thorndyke novel. Thorndyke was the world"s first ever fictional forensic scientist and his methods of solving crimes were based on collecting data and making in…
De la Prostitution Dans la Ville de Paris; Expose Des Causes Les Plus Frequentes de la Propagation de la Maladie Venerienne
A. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet · 1836 · Rooke Books
£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)
Bruxelles, Etablissement Encyclographique, 1836-1837 . First edition. Leather. The first volume of Parent-Duchatelet's study of prostitution in 1830s Paris, bound with a very scarce first edition study on the spread of venereal diseases in Belgium. Two works, both in the or…
Minutes of Agriculture, Made on a Farm of 300 Acres of Various Soils, Near Croydon, Surry.
Mr. Marshall [William Marshall] · 1778 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
London, J. Dodsley , 1778 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of William Marshall's pioneering agricultural work, in which he documented his triumphs and lessons learnt from running a 300 acre farm. The first edition. Very scarce work. Complete with four…
Achilles His Armour, Dominque, & Moses: Prince of Egypt
Peter Green; Robert Laxalt; Howard Fast · 1955 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, John Murray; Secker & Warburg; Methuen, 1955-1959. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first UK edition historical and biographical novels from authors Peter Green, Robert Laxalt, and Howard Fast. Three volumes. The first edition or first UK edition of each volume. This se…
Aminta Favola Boschereccia Di Torquato Tasso & IL Pastor Fido Di Batista Guarini
Torquato Tasso; Giovanni Battista Guarini · 1822 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)
Parigi, Presso Lefevre, 1822. Vellum. A charming pocket-sized edition of sixteenth century Italian writer Torquato Tasso's five act play, Aminta, alongside Guarini's emulation of the work Il Pastor Fido. In the original Italian. Italian. Two volumes bound into one. Wit…
Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind
Thomas Brown · 1824 · Rooke Books
£675.00 (€809.21 | $891.92 | ¥142,445)
Philadelphia, John Grigg, 1824. First edition. Leather. A nice set of the first U.S. edition of Thomas Brown's lectures on moral philosophy. The first U.S. edition, published four years after the true first edition.Complete in three volumes.This set collects together one hu…
Wintersmoon, John Cornelius, & the Bright Pavilions
Hugh Walpole · 1928 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928-1940. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first edition volumes from English writer Sir Hugh Walpole, with the original dust wrappers. Three volumes. First edition. Written by Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, an English novelist. He was a best-sell…
The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, Before the House of Peers, for High Crimes and Misdemeanours
Henry Sacheverell · 1710 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)
London, Jacob Tonson; John Morphew, 1710. Leather. An early edition of Henry Sacheverell's trial in the first decade of the eighteenth-century, with the speeches of a number of Bishop's responding to the trial bound in to the rear. An early edition of this work, publis…