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Anecdotes of the Bench and Bar
William Henry Grimmer · 1852 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)
London, Hope and Co., 1852. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce compilation of anecdotes on the bench and bar, the first edition of this interesting work on the Victorian legal system. The first edition of this very scarce work.A series of entertaining legal anecdotes of the ben…
An Introduction to the Study of Literature
William Henry Hudson · 1910 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, George G. Harrap, 1910. Leather. A guide to the study of English Literature. Including chapters on poetry, drama, and more. In an armorial calf binding. Externally, smart, though with some sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally cle…
All Aboard
William Henry Koebel · 1923 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)
London, South American Publications, Ltd. 1923. First edition. Cloth. This vanishingly scarce copy of the first edition, first impression of William Henry Koebel's engaging guide to life on the ships sailing for Latin America, with charming illustrations by H. E. Bateman an…
Phil-O-Rum&Apos;S Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres: Two Poems
William Henry Drummond · 1898 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)
Toronto; London, The Musson Book Co, 1898 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first Canadian edition of this attractive volume of two poems by William Henry Drummond. The very scarce first Canadian edition of this work, published in the same year in the US.Illustrated with…
Mexico California and Arizona
William Henry Bishop · 1889 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1889 . Cloth. American novelist William Henry Bishop's account of his travels in Mexico, California and Arizona, illustrated throughout. A revised edition of this work first published in 1883 under the title 'Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinc…
Walks About the City and Environs of Jerusalem
William Henry Bartlett · 1878 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)
London, Daisy Isbister & Co, c1848. Cloth. The second edition of William Henry Bartlett's work on his travels around Jerusalem, illustrated profusely with his engravings. The second edition of this work. Unusually clean and bright. Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held …
Forty Days in the Desert, on the Track of the Israelites; or, a Journey from Cairo. By Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra
William Henry Bartlett · 1849 · Rooke Books
£345.00 (€413.60 | $455.87 | ¥72,805)
London, Arthur Hall & Co, 1849. Cloth. An illustrated work following a biblical journey through Israel and Egypt, written and illustrated by William Henry Bartlett. The fifth edition of this work. This work is the account of the author's travels through the Middle East, fol…
Domesday for Wiltshire
William Henry Jones · 1865 · Rooke Books
£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)
Bath; London, R. E. Peach; Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this insightful record of Wiltshire from extracts of the Domesday Book. First edition. Â In the publisher's original maroon cloth binding. Â A detailed a…
The New Encyclopaedia; or Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
William Henry Hall · 0 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)
London, C Cooke, c1791. Leather. A detailed encyclopedia which forms the most "comprehensive library of universal knowledge". Scarce. Intricately illustrated with highly detailed plates throughout. "On a New and Improved Plan, in Which all the Respective Sciences are Arranged In…
Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Israelites or, a Journey from Cairo, by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra
William Henry Bartlett · 0 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)
London, Arthur Hall and Co, c1849. Leather. An account of William Henry Bartlett's journey following the Biblical footsteps of the Israelites across the desert after Moses led them out of Egypt. With numerous illustrations and twenty-seven plates by Bartlett, collated compl…
A Biographical Notice of the Late Peter Ewart, Esq.
William Charles Henry · 1844 · Rooke Books
£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)
Manchester, Joseph Gillett, 1844. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce biography of Peter Ewart, an influential engineer who helped to develop turbines and theories concerning thermodynamics. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original limp cloth b…
Synopsis of British Seaweeds, Compiled from Professor Harvey&Apos;S Phycologia Britannica
[William Henry Harvey] · 1857 · Rooke Books
£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)
London, Lovell Reeve , 1857. Cloth. A charming abridged edition of William Henry Harvey's very scarce study of British seaweeds, 'Phycologia Britannica&apos. This uncommon abridged edition on British seaweeds is compiled from Professor Harvey's Phycologia Britanni…
Japan over Asia
William Henry Chamberlin · 1938 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
London, Duckworth, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Chamberlin"s illustrated contemporary study of Japan"s imperial expansion, from the library of the House of Commons. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper boards with blind stamp from…
A Practical Treatise on the Office of Sheriff: Comprising the Whole of the Duties, Remuneration, and Liabilities of Sheriffs, in the Execution and Return of Writs, an in the Election of Knights of the Shire
William Henry Watson · 1848 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)
London, S. Sweet; A Maxwell and Son; V. and R. Stevens; G. S. Norton, 1848. Leather. A smartly bound second edition of this scarce treatise into the profession of sheriffs. The second edition of this work. In a handsome half calf binding with cloth boards. This scarce mid-nine…
Stultifera Navis; the Modern Ship of Fools
William Henry Ireland · 1807 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, William Miller, 1807 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of William Henry Ireland's reinterpretation of the medieval German allegorical poem. The first edition of Shakespearian forger William Henry Ireland's version of Sebastian Brant's satirical a…
Walks About the City and Environs of Jerusalem
William Henry Bartlett · 1809 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)
London, Arthur Hall, Virtue, c1848 . Leather. The richly illustrated second edition of Bartlett"s Jerusalem travel book, illustrated with engraved views, in a handsome full morocco binding. Ina contemporary full red morocco binding with gilt blind stamping. Second edition. I…
Notes on the Nottingham Records
William Henry Smith · 1890 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)
Nottingham, Frank Murray, 1890. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce volume examining some of the records of Nottingham, a collection which extends over a period of seven hundred years. The first edition of this very scarce volume. In the original pebbled cloth binding.This charm…
The Fisher Boy, a Poem. Comprising His Several Avocations, During the Four Seasons of the Year
William Henry Ireland · 1808 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)
London, Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1808. Hardback. A nicely bound copd of William Henry Ireland's poem 'The Fisher Boy', published after his Shakespeare forgery scandal under a pseudonym. A poem by William Henry Ireland about a young fisher boy, divided up into four …
A Hand-Book of the Peak of Derbyshire and to the Use of the Buxton Mineral Waters
William Henry Robertson · 1886 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)
Buxton, C. F. Wardley, 1886. Cloth. An interesting handbook of The Peak of Derbyshire, with a folding map of Buxton to the front of the volume. An eleventh edition copy of A Hand-Book of the Peak of Derbyshire and to the use of The Buxton Mineral Waters, by William Henry Roberts…
Birds in a Village
William Henry Hudson · 1893 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)
London, Chapman & Hall, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this ornithological treatise on the birds of Britain, by the Anglo-Argentine naturalist William Henry Hudson. The first edition. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. A treatise …