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The Allied Air Campaign Against Hitler's U-Boats: Victory in the Battle of the Atlantic

Timothy S. Good · 2021 · Winkles Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Book New New Frontline Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft. Whether it was an American 'plane operating from American escort carriers, US aircraft from Royal Air Force bases, or British aircraft …

The Anne Boleyn Bible

Mickey Mayhew · 2023 · Winkles Books

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,743)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword History Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Anne Boleyn sells, but she sells in segments; a biography here, a study over there on her guilt and something else yonder concerned with where she lived or what she liked to wear. This book, covering…

Della fabrica et uso di diversi stromenti di astronomia, et cosmografia, ove si vede la somma della teorica, et pratica di queste due nobilissime scienze.Venice, Roberto Meietti, 1598. 4to (22 x 16.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a folding woodcut plate, 3 woodcut volvelles with moving parts, and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Including a world map in two hemispheres (incl. America and a scattering of islands at the location of Australia) on two facing pages, they reappear with volvelle attachments on both sides of leaf 149 and leaf 153. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. · 1538 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

[8], 228 ll.First edition of a well-illustrated encyclopaedia of astronomical and surveying instruments available from classical times to the time of publication, by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Paolo Gallucci (1538-ca. 1621), a well-known private tutor to the Venetian nobili…

2 Vols Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor; and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists

John Thomas Smith · 1828 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition. Leather. The first edition of John Thomas Smith's candid and anecdotal biography of Joseph Nollekens and the Georgian art world. In contemporary full dark calf bindings.  First edition.  Complete in two volumes.  Illustrated with …

The Plays of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Mr Rowe; Dr Johnson · 1824 · Rooke Books

£539.99 (€647.26 | $713.40 | ¥113,921)

London, Otridge & Rackham, 1824. Leather. An important edition of the sought after Steevens Shakespeare in a really nice original diced calf binding. Priced to be a part set. (i.e. about 1/3 price of a full set) Eight leatherbound volumes with gilt titles to the spines. William …

The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, Co. Chester

J. P. Earwaker · 1890 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London and Redhill, For Private Circulation, 1890. First edition. Cloth. Scarce limited first edition of Earwaker's illustrated history of Sandbach with the bookplate of Robert Crewe-Milnes and five pages of handwritten historical notes to front of text. First edition. Scar…

Collected Editions of the Novels and Tales by Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli · 1870 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

London, Longmans Green and Co. 1870-1881. Leather. A complete set of the collected editions of the talented novels of the highly influential nineteenth century British prime minister. The complete set of the Collected Editions of The Novels and Tales by the Right Honourable Benj…

Guide to London; It Isn&Apos;T Far from London; London from the Bus-Top

H. V. Morton; S. P. B. Mais; Lucy Masterman · 1937 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd; The Richards Press; Dennis Dobson, 1937; 1948; 1951. First edition. Cloth. Lovely collection of London guidebooks, each illustrated, with map endpapers, from various eminent writers. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. With dust wrappers. It …

Parodies, a Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings

James Gray [ed.]; William Garbutt; 'T.C.'; John Gilbert; John Rowell Waller; R. Irving; J. S. Burrows et al. · 1880 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1880-1884 . Leather. A fantastic collection of newspaper clippings of poetic and literary parodies from the latter part of the nineteenth century. Two half morocco scrapbook volumes filled with newspaper clippings of parodies and humorous poems. In total,…

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. One of the popular novels of Charles Dickens, following a young girl who was born and raised in a debtors prison, the first edition of this work. The first edition first issue of this work, being bound from the parts, wit…

The Moonstone: A Dramatic Story, in Three Acts

Wilkie Collins · 1877 · Rooke Books

£18,500.00 (€22,175.18 | $24,441.09 | ¥3,902,926)

[London], Charles Dickens & Evans, Crystal Palace Press, 1877 . First edition. Leather. A beautiful example of Wilkie Collins's very scarce stage adaptation of 'The Moonstone', a work never widely published, and 'privately printed for the convenience of the A…

Dramatische Werke

A W Iffland · 1798 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Leipzig, Georg Joachim Göschen, 1798-02. Leather. Thirteen volumes from the dramatic works of August Wilhelm Iffland in the original German. In the original German. Thirteen of sixteen volumes. No half titles as issued. With frontispieces to each volume. Collated, bound without…

The Burtons: A Family Record

Alonzo J. Burton · 1898 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

Brooklyn, N.Y. Edward Peithman, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A charming family record of the Burton family, charting their English origins in the seventeenth century and their American ancestors, privately compiled by Alonzo J. Burton, a Brooklyn based descendant. The author of t…

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain&Apos;D

John Milton; Thomas Newton · 1760 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.05 | $2,906.51 | ¥464,132)

Birmingham; London, John Baskerville; J. and R. Tonson, 1760. Leather. A beautiful Baskerville edition of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regain'd', both epic poems bound here in one volume. A Baskerville edition.Complete as two volumes …

Winston S. Churchill

Randolph S. Churchill; Martin Gilbert · 1966 · Rooke Books

£625.00 (€749.16 | $825.71 | ¥131,856)

London, Heinemann, 1966-1976 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of five illuminating first editions of this celebrated biography of Sir Winston Churchill, accompanied by seven companion volumes. The first five volumes of the official biography of Winston Churchill, each in the…

The Adventures of Romney Pringle

Clifford Ashdown; R Austin Freeman · 1902 · Rooke Books

£6,500.00 (€7,791.28 | $8,587.41 | ¥1,371,298)

London, Ward, Lock and Co, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The impossibly scarce blue version of the first edition of Richard Austin Freeman's important work of detective fiction 'The Adventures of Romney Pringle&apos. A vanishingly scarce and important work of detective f…

View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages

Henry Hallam · 1856 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

London, John Murray, 1856. Leather. A three volume set of Henry Hallam's extensive look at Europe during the Middle Ages, with his supplementary notes included. Complete in three volumes. This work is a comprehensive history and view of Europe during the period dubbed the M…

Volumes from the Fundacion Para la Conmemoracion Del Bicentenario Del Natalicio Y El Sesquicentenario de la Muerte Del General Francisco de Paula Santander

Francisco de Paula Santander; Horacio Rodriguez Plata [ed.]; Juan Camilo Rodriguez [ed.]; Alvaro Lozano Esquivel · 1988 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Bogota, Biblioteca de la Presidencia de la Republica Administracion Virgilio Barco, 1988-1990. First edition. Hardback. A smart seven volume set on Colombia's national hero, Francisco de Paula Santander, including letters, writings, diaries, and a biography. A seven volume …

Thesaurus Linguae Romanae Et Britannicae

[Thomas Cooper] · 1578 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

[London], [Henry Denham], c1578. Leather. An early edition of Thomas Cooper's monumental Elizabethan Latin-English dictionary, in a full reverse calf binding. In a later reverse calf binding.  The present copy is bound without the first three leaves, including the title pa…

Pictorial Notes in the National Gallery. The British School; Illustrated Catalogue to the National Gallery. [Foreign Schools. ]; Pictures at South Kensington: The Raphael Cartoons, the Sheepshanks Collection, &C. ; an Illustrated Catalogue of Painting and Sculpture in the British Fine Art Section

Henry Blackburn · 1877 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1877-1878. First edition. Leather. Bound together here are four of Henry Blackburn's exhibition catalogues, including valuable notes and illustrations of the National Gallery. Four individual art exhibition catalogues, bound together. Containing d…