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Frank Cottrell Boyce · 2004 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Macmillan Children's Books, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Frank Cottrell Boyce's Carnegie Medal winning children's novel 'Millions&apos. This first edition of Frank Cottrell Boyce's 'Millions' tells the story of …

Anton Mariae Gratiani a Burgo S. Sepulchri Epis Copi Amerini de Bello Cyprio Libri Quinq Juxta Exemplar Romae Impressum

Antonio Maria Graziani · 1624 · Rooke Books

£4,300.00 (€5,154.98 | $5,681.85 | ¥907,427)

[Basel], Not Stated, 1624. Leather. A very scarce Latin work looking at the history of Cyprus during the Venetian rule in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, written by Antonio Maria Graziani. Illustrated with an architectonic engraved title page. A very scarce work. Not seen a…

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty&Apos;S Special Command. Appointed to Be Read in Churches the Vinegar Bible

Anon · 1716 · Rooke Books

£19,000.00 (€22,777.81 | $25,105.87 | ¥4,009,562)

Oxford, John Baskett, 1716-1717. First edition. Fine Binding. A beautiful set of the famed 'Vinegar Bible' published by John Baskett of Oxford. Dibdin notes this Bible as 'the most magnificent' of the Oxford Bibles. A handsome edition, with this set bound in …

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John Read · 1912 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Unknown, Unknown, c1910. Paperback. Three very scarce dialect plays by John Read; signed and inscribed by the author. Whilst little is known about the author, these works are a charming example of early twentieth century dialect plays. Each volume is undated, dated using Copac a…

Coats of Arms in Berkshire Churches the Berkshire Archaeological Journal

P. S. Spokes; Ernest W. Dormer (ed.) · 1935 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

Reading, For the Berkshire Archaeological Society by Poynder and Son. 1935-1940. First edition. Cloth. Peter Spencer Spokes's personal copy of his fascinating study of the 'Coats of Arms in Berkshire Churches'; reprinted in parts from 'The Berkshire Archaeolo…

An Index to Norfolk Pedigrees Index of Norfolk Topography

Walter Rye · 1896 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Norwich, Agas H. Goose, 1896. Cloth. A very scarce nicely rebound copy of Walter Rye's indexes on Norfolk pedigree and topography. A very scarce work. Two volumes in one, 'An Index to Norfolk Pedigrees' and 'Index of Norfolk Topography&apos. A work looking at…

Return to Two Members of the Honourable the House of Commons

1878 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, House of Commons, 1878. Leather. A smartly bound copy of these works documenting the people sitting in the House of Commons in history, in a signed binding by Bemrose Derby. In two volumes. In a signed binding by Bemrose Derby. A return to two orders of the House of Comm…

Doria&Apos;S Ring a Tale of Genoa in 1515 Gallipoli

A. D. Russell; Jacqueline Stoer · 1929 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1929. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this illustrated collection of two poems by A. D. Russell and Jacqueline Stoer. An author's signed presentation copy, signed by A. D. Russell. A very scarce work. An author's presentation copy, sign…

All Our Yesterdays

H. M. Tomlinson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, William Heinemann, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A excellent copy of this limited edition signed first edition copy of this novel by H. M. Tomlinson. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, this particular copy is in excellent condition. Limited edition, bein…

Roy Lewis 80

Various · 1993 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Not Stated, Keepsake Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. A limited edition festschrift of poems to celebrated the eightieth birthday of Roy Lewis. A limited edition work, though it isn't known exactly how many edition was published, though it seems to be around eighty to…

Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica

Edward Lear · 1870 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Robert John Bush, 1870. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this travelogue by well-known Victorian author, Edward Lear. Beautifully complemented by illustrations painted by Lear during his Corsican travels. Collated, complete with a frontispiece and forty plates.…

From the Limbo of the Past. Famous Fights for English Liberty

J. Scott Harston · 1916 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Hongkong, Printed by The South China Morning Post, 1916-17. Hardback. A two volume set of works by J. Scott Harston being an interesting work of British legal history. Two volumes. In a uniform half paper vellum binding, with paper covered boards. Each volume features an ink ins…

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Charles Dickens · 1932 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.43 | $647.47 | ¥103,404)

London, The Piccadilly Fountain Press, 1932. Leather. An attractive rebound copy of this fascinating Lombard Street Edition copy of Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers', copiously illustrated throughout and in a signed Bayntun half crushed morocco binding. With an introduc…

Hunts with Jorrocks

Robert Surtees · 1908 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition. Leather. An uncommon first thus edition copy of this work by Robert Smith Surtees, copiously illustrated throughout and signed by the renowned British artist George Denholm Armour. This edition was limited to three hundred and f…

A Report of the Proceedings of the British Archaeological Association, at the Fifth General Meeting Holden in "the Faithful City" of Worcester in the Month of August 1848.

Alfred John Dunkin · 1851 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, J. Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition copy of this fascinating report of the proceedings of the British Archaeological Association in August 1848. This work was edited by the notable British antiquary and historian Alfred John Dunki…

A Book of Sporting Painters a Companion Volume of New Research to British Sporting Artists and "Angling in British Art

Walter Shaw Sparrow · 1931 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931. Cloth. A scarce first limited edition copy of this profusely illustrated work on sporting painters by Walter Shaw Sparrow. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting …

The Personal Equation

Louis Berman · 1925 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1925. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this analysis of the pituitary gland, illustrated throughout, written by Louis Berman. In a signed binding by Best & Co. An interesting work looking at the importance of the pituitary gland, a tiny organ th…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge; David Scott · 1837 · Rooke Books

£2,250.00 (€2,697.37 | $2,973.06 | ¥474,817)

Edinburgh, Alexander Hill, 1837. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, illustrated edition of this famed and influential sea-faring poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A first thus, the first edition of this publication and the first major illustrated edition of this work. Very scarce. F…

In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country a Record of Travel and Discovery in Central Africa

A B Lloyd · 1899 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1899. First edition. Cloth. Albert Lloyd's tales of being a missionary for four years in Central Africa, signed by the author to the recto of front endpaper. Albert Lloyd was a missionary sent to Central Africa. This book documents his four years of …

3 Vols History of Spanish Literature

George Ticknor · 1849 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1849. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Ticknor's landmark history of Spanish literature, particularly desirable as an author-inscribed presentation copy to the Spanish diplomat Miguel de los Santos Banuelos. In the publisher's o…