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The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide
PINKEPANK, JERRY A. · 1973 · Bluebird Books
$23.50 (€21.32 | £17.79 | ¥3,751)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin U.S.A.: Kalmbach Publishing, 1973. Softcover. First edition, dated 1973. A very thorough rundown of diesel locomotive designs in use in the United States, including equipment in the author's earlier "Diesel Spotter's Guide", plus lesser-known or newer machin…
General Physics for the Laboratory
TAYLOR, LLOYD W.; WATSON, WILLIAM W.; HOWE, CARL E. · 1926 · Bluebird Books
$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1926. Hardcover. Technical works provides wide variety of useful instruments and set-ups for the physics lab of the mid-1920s. With numerous b&w photos and drawings; indexed. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards w/titling in black on spine & cover. Lac…
The Want to Know Book
SHEDD, ALFRED O. · 1929 · Bluebird Books
$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)
Racine, Wisconsin U. S. A.: Whitman Publishing, 1929. Soft Cover. In yellow-edged full color wraps; slightly yellowed interior pages illustrated on many pages. Solid and firm, with pencilings inside back cover. Cover illustration features family engaged in reading together; and …
The History of the Wine Trade in England
Andre L. Simon · 1906 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
London, Wyman & Sons, Ltd. 1906. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this detailed commentary on the rise and progress of the wine trade in England, volume one only. Volume one of a three volume set only. Due to poor sales of the first volume, the prints of volumes II and I…
Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second
Anthony Hamilton; Count Grammont; Sir Walter Scott · 1846 · Rooke Books
£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)
London, Henry Bohn, 1846. Leather. An historical work on the court of Charles the Second. Lacking title page and frontispiece. This work is Bohn's 'Extra Volume' as the publisher doubted 'the propriety of including Count Grammont's Memoirs in his 's…
The Evening and the Morning; a Diary, Illustrated
J. H. Hipsley (Designer) · 1799 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)
London, The Religious Tract Society, c1882. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, handsome and decorative diary from the Religious Tract Society, illustrated in colour. Includes Bible quotes, colour and gilt borders, and colour floral illustrations throughout, engraved and printed by …
The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
W. M. Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books
£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,835)
London, Bradbury & Evans , 1858-9 . First edition. Leather. The first edition, first impression of Thackeray's classic historical fiction novel set during the American War of Independence, illustrated throughout by the author. The first edition, first impression of this wor…
A Book of the Country and the Garden
H. M. Batson · 1903 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)
London, Methuen & Co, 1903. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce novel about country life, with advice on gardening, complete with plates. The first edition.A very scarce work.A lovely novel exploring a year in the life of a garden, offering a riveting tal…
Roche-Blanche; or, the Hunters of the Pyrenees
Anna Maria Porter · 1822 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this early nineteenth-century historical romance by Anna Maria Porter, uniformly bound in half calf. A sweeping historical romance set in sixteenth-century France, where a Protestan…
The Rise of the Dutch Republic a History
John Lothrop Motley · 1904 · Rooke Books
£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,543)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1904. Leather. John Lothrop Motley's popular historical work. Full calf leather prize binding with gilt tooling to spine. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and black and white plates. John Lothrop Motley (Apr…
Annals of the Parish and the Ayrshire Legatees
John Galt; Alfred Ainger · 1896 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1896. Cloth. A lovely copy of these two popular works by political novelist John Galt, issued here in one volume with many illustrations by Charles E. Brock. In the original striking decorative binding, with the distinctive yellow peacock patte…
The History of the CIVIL Wars of England
T Hobbes · 1679 · Rooke Books
£4,750.00 (€5,693.57 | $6,275.44 | ¥1,001,789)
London, Anon, 1679. First edition. Leather. A very scarce, first edition copy of Thomas Hobbes' posthumously published work on the Civil Wars. Initially suppressed, this work was surreptitiously published following Hobbes' death. The first edition. This work was origi…
The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century
Warwick Wroth; Arthur Edgar Wroth · 1896 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1896. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Warwick Wroth"s richly illustrated history of London"s eighteenth-century pleasure gardens, with colour plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding. This volume is a first edition. This vol…
The Bedfordshire Standard: The New Conservative County Paper.
Various · 1883 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.08 | ¥125,487)
Bedford, Bedfordshire Standard, 1883-1884. First edition. Leather. A complete year of the Bedfordshire Standard in large folio, bound in half morocco, documenting provincial politics, commerce, and daily life in late-Victorian England. In a red half morocco binding with marbled …
The Museum: Or, the Literary and Historical Register
Robert Dodsley [ed.]; Mark Akenside [ed.] · 1746 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)
London, R. Dodsley, 1746-1747. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first two volumes of Robert Dodsley's mid seventeenth century literary and historical periodical, containing twenty-six issues of the work. The first two volumes only of the very scarce three volume firs…
The Campaign in the Crimea: An Historical Sketch
George Brackenbury · 1855 · Rooke Books
£925.00 (€1,108.75 | $1,222.06 | ¥195,085)
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…
Annals of the Wars of the Nineteenth Century
Edward Cust · 1862 · Rooke Books
£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)
London, John Murray, 1862-1863 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detailed four volume account of the Napoleonic wars, from 1800-1815. The work of Queen Victoria's 'Master of Ceremonies', Sir Edward Cust. The first edition of British soldier, politi…
The Art-Union Monthly Journal of the Arts
Samuel Carter Hall · 1848 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1848. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the tenth volume of 'The Art-Union Monthly Journal', profusely illustrated throughout, edited by Samuel Carter Hall. The first edition of this work. Volume X of the Art Union Monthly Journal. &a…
A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, TOWARDS THE ANTARCTIC POLAR CIRCLE, AND ROUND THE WORLD: But Chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, From the Year 1772, to 1776
SPARRMAN, Andrew · 1786 · Charles Agvent
$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)
London. G. G. J. and J. Robinson. Second Edition. Two quarto (8" x 10") volumes bound in later half calf leather and boards with morocco spine labels: xxviii, 368; viii, 356 pages. Translated from the Swedish. Illustrated with a large folding map and 10 plates depicting South Af…
Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking (from the 16th to the 20th Century)
E. Backhouse; J. O. P. Bland · 1914 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)
London, William Heinemann, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The second impression of this impressive history of the Chinese Royal Family, a fascinating volume complete with illustrations. The first edition, second impression, published two months after the first impression.An extensi…