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The Sadd Hydraulics February 1938

A D Butcher · 1938 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,578)

Cairo, Government Press, Bulaq, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this report from the Ministry of Public works, Egypt, regarding water flow irrigation channels in the Sadd el Kafara region of Egypt. A scarce work, from the early 20th century. Signed by the author…

Notice Sur Bernard Overberg, Directeur Du Seminaire Ecclesiastique Et Instituteur a L&Apos;Ecole Normale de Munster [with] de L&Apos;Enseignement Mutuel Comme IL Est Impose a Toutes Les Ecoles Primaires Du Canton de Geneve Et Formule Par le Manuel Public En 1827 [with] Considerations Sur le But de L&Apos;Instruction Populaire Et Les Objets D&Apos;Enseignement Dont Elle Doit Se Composer Ou Essai de Reponse [with] le Miroir Des Instituteurs Ou Conseils Sur L&Apos;Education [with] Affectionate Advi

J H Schubert; J A Dufour; Marc Viridet; Henry George Watkins · 1827 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Various, Various Publishers, 1827-1840. Leather. A sammelband of nineteenth century, mostly French, essays and biographies on education and the role of education in a lovely quarter calf binding with marbled boards Comprising of five separate works bound as one. The first work i…

Flores Historiarum Per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem Collecti, Praecipue de Rebus Britannicis Ab Exordio Mundi Usque Ad Annum Domini MCCCVII Et Chronicon Ex Chronicis, Ab Initio Mundi Usque Ad Annum Domini MCXVIII, Deductum: Auctore Florentino Wigorniensi Monacho. Cui Accessit Continvatio Usque Ad Annum Christi MCXL I. Per Quendam Eiusdem Coenobii Eruditum

[Matthew Paris] · 1601 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Francofurti, Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium, 1601. Vellum. A vellum-bound early 17th-century printing of Matthew Paris' important historical chronicle, 'Flores Historiarum', in the original Latin. A reprint of the second edition (1570, London) of Matthew Paris&ap…

The Crystal Hunters; the Madman and the Pirate; Away in the Wilderness; Life in the Red Brigade

R. M. Ballantyne; George Manville Fenn · 1883 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, James Nisbet and Co. Limited; S. W. Partridge and Co. 1883-1912. Cloth. A charming set of juvenile fiction, comprising three works by R. M. Ballantyne and one from George Manville Fenn. A set of four juvenile adventure novels, three of which are from Scottish author R. M…

Aesop&Apos;S Fables

Aesop; George Fyler Townsend; Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1968 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

New York, Doubleday & Company Inc, 1968. Leather. Two copies of Murray Tinkelman's charmingly illustrated Aesop, one copy being beautifully rebound and vividly hand coloured by Eric Sweet. Two copies of this Tinkelman edition of Aesop, presented together in a custom cloth c…

A Collection of Novels by Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess · 1961 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London; New York , Heinemann; W. W. Norton & Company et al , 1961-1978. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful selection of first edition and first US edition novels by Anthony Burgess, complete with the original dust wrappers. This set offers a mixture of true first UK editions and …

Five First Editions with Contributions from J.I. M. Stewart

Michael Innes; J.I.M. Stewart; Charles Dickens; George Hardinge [ed.]; John Lehmann [ed.] et al · 1950 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, The Cresset Press; John Lehmann; Readers Digest; Faber & Faber; Macmillan, 1950-1983 . First edition. Hardback. A wonderful collection of five first editions and first editions thus with contributions from author and academic J. I. M. Stewart. Stewart was a Scottish nove…

Observations Upon the Cities of London and Rome

Sir William Petty · 1687 · Rooke Books

£7,500.00 (€8,989.94 | $9,908.55 | ¥1,582,267)

London, Henry Mortlake; J. Lloyd, 1687 . First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce first edition of English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher Sir William Petty's discussion of population and statistics in London and Rome, proclaiming London to be greater …

Ducatis Leodiensis: Or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populus Town and Parish of Leeds & Loidis and Elmete; or, an Attempt to Illustrate the Districts Described in Those Words by Bede; and Supposed to Embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale, Together with the Entire Vale of Calder in the County of York

Ralph Thoresby · 1816 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Leeds, Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, 1816. Leather. Two historical topographical works on the town and parish of Leeds and the vales of Aredale, Wharfdale, and Calder. Two volumes. This set includes: Ducatis Leodiensis: Or, the Topography of the Ancient and Populus Town and Par…

E.M. Lilien: Sein Werk

Stefan Zweig · 1903 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

Berlin, Schuster & Loeffler, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated first edition copy of this celebration of the work of Ephraim Moses Lilien, in the original German. One of 1000 Limited Edition copies printed of first edition of this work in the publisher's…

Dead to the World; Dead Hero; Nothing But the Night

Stewart Sterling; William Campbell Gault; John Blackburn · 1959 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, T. V. Boardman & Company Limited; Jonathan Cape, 1959-1968. First edition. Cloth. First edition copies of these three entertaining and scarce thrillers, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first editions of three works in the publisher's original cloth bind…

Vanity Fair, Pendennis and the Newcomes

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Leipzig, Bernard Tauschnitz, 1848-1854. Leather. An incomplete eight volume set of the Tauchnitz edition of three of Thackeray's novels, including Vanity Fair. The Bernard Tauchnitz copyright edition of this eight volume set in quarter calf bindings. Three works by William …

Journey from Chester to London and a Tour in Scotland

[Thomas Pennant] · 1782 · Rooke Books

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

London, Benjamin White, 1782-90. First edition. Leather. A set of the travel works of Thomas Pennant, exploring the depths of Scotland and England in vivid detail, each volume complete with plates. 'Journey From Chester to London' is the first edition.The three volumes…

Sacrorum Bibliorum Vulgatae Editionis Concordantiae Hugonis Cardinalis Ordinis Praedicatorum

Cardinal Hugh; Francisco Luca; Hubert Phalesius · 1770 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

Venice, Typographia Balleoniana, 1770. Leather. An eighteenth century edition of Hugh of Saint-Cher's important concordance of the Vulgate Bible, this being a revised and corrected edition by Francisco Luca and Hubert Phalesius. Half-title is present.Engraved title page.In …

On Horseback Through Asia Minor

Captain Fred Burnaby · 1877 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877. First edition. Cloth. The complete two volume set of this historical and topographical memoir by Frederick Burnaby, describing his adventures travelling on horseback in wartime Asia Minor, with multiple folding maps. Early …

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Together with Boswell&Apos;S Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson&Apos;S Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

James Boswell; Samuel Johnson; George Birkbeck Hill [ed.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Oxford , At the Clarendon Press , 1934-50. Cloth. The acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, complete with six bright volumes in five. A collection complete in three volumes of this work by Scottish biographer James Boswell, often described as one of the greates…

Fridtjof Nansen&Apos;S &Apos;Farthest North&Apos;: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months&Apos; Sleigh Journey

Fridtjof Nansen · 1898 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, George Newnes, 1898. Leather. The second edition of Nansen's account of his extraordinary Fram expedition of 1893, complete in two volumes with its folding map. The second edition of this work by Fridtjof Nansen. Complete in two volumes, with half title. Comprising…

The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Revised from the Original Editions with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius

William Shakespeare; Barry Cornwall; Richard Grant White · 1857 · Rooke Books

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

London, The London Printing and Publishing Company , 1857-1859. Cloth. A set in five divisions of William Shakespeare's complete works, richly embellished with numerous plates by Kenny Meadows. A collection of works by the national poet William Shakespeare; three volumes ov…

Romola

George Eliot · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.52 | $1,453.25 | ¥232,066)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1880. Fine Binding. A finely bound, limited edition copy of George Eliot's noted novel, 'Romola&apos. In a Zaehensdorf binding, with the binder's stamp to the front pastedown. Numbered 559/1000 copies printed. A stunning binding by the…

History of the Horn-Book

Andrew W. Tuer · 1897 · Rooke Books

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

London, The Leadenhall Press, 1897. Cloth. The second edition of Andrew Tuer's important working looking at the history of hornbooks, looking in detail at many surviving hornbooks. The second edition of this work. With two horn-books to the pocket to the rear, lacking the o…