Arkitektur

Outline of Town and City Planning; a Review of Past Efforts and Modern Aims

Thomas Adams; Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1936 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.60 | $64.88 | ¥10,368)

London, J. & A. Churchill, 1936 . Cloth. A very scarce architectural account of town and city planning, with a foreword by the 32nd president of the US. A later edition, first published the year prior.In publisher's original blue cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontis...

The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance Vol. 8 (Bound Together with November 1846 Issue, Vol. 6)

None Stated · 1846 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.49 | $165.50 | ¥26,448)

London, E. Henderson, 1846-1847. First edition. Leather. A scarce volume of this illustrated Victorian ladies magazine, with charming hand-coloured plates. First edition.Comprising July-December 1847 (completing Volume 8 of the New Series), followed by November 1846 bound-in t...

The Habitations of Man in All Ages

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc; Benjamin Bucknall [trans] · 1876 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.51 | $158.88 | ¥25,390)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1876 . First edition. Cloth. A smart illustrated copy of this account of domestic architecture across cultures, translated into English. The first edition of this English translation.A smart copy, in publisher's original...

Manet Aquafortiste Et Lithographe

Leon Rosenthal · 1925 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.76 | $79.44 | ¥12,695)

Paris, Le Goupy, 1925. Paperback. An uncommon limited edition copy of this illustrated work, in original paper wraps. An uncommon limited edition copy of this work - an analysis of the characteristics of Manet's work, by French art historian Leon Rosenthal.Bound in origin...

Historic Portraits of the Court of Henry VIII

Anonymous · 1877 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.63 | $119.16 | ¥19,043)

London, Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art, 1877 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of the first volume of this publication of the portraits Hans Holbein made in the court of Henry VIII, with these portraits reproduced as autotypes. Volume I ...

Raccolta E Paralello Delle Fabbriche Classiche

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand; Jacques-Guillaume Legrand · 1833 · Rooke Books

£1,850.00 (€2,212.48 | $2,449.38 | ¥391,432)

Venezia [Venice], Giuseppe Antonelli, 1833 . First edition. Leather. Strikingly illustrated with over 260 engraved plates, this is the first bilingual edition of Durand and Legrand's impressive study of European architecture. The first edition of this work to be published...

Histoire de Agrandissements de Paris

Auguste Descauriet; Ferdinand Sartorius [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.23 | $251.56 | ¥40,201)

Paris, Ferdinand Sartorius Editeur, 1860. Leather. A very scarce copy of this work, bound in lovely green half calf, with marbled boards and endpapers. A very scarce copy of this work, bound in deep green half calf, with gilt decoration to the spine.Bound in marbled boards, wi...

Old London Illustrated

H.W. Brewer [Henry William Brewer] · 1962 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.45 | $50.31 | ¥8,040)

London, The Builder Ltd. 1962. Cloth. A charming new edition of Old London Illustrated, written and illustrated by prolific nineteenth century draughtsman Henry William Brewer. The ninth edition of Old London Illustrated, written and illustrated by British draughtsman Henry Wi...

Paris Chez Soi: Revue Historique, Monumentale Et Pittoresque de Paris Ancien Et Moderne

The Elite of Contemporary Literature · 1855 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.63 | $119.16 | ¥19,043)

Paris, Paul Boizard, 1855 . First edition. Leather. A highly illustrated first edition of this account of modern and old Paris, with a frontispiece, plate and in text illustrations. The first edition of the work. In half red morocco with gilt spine, red cloth boards and marbl...

The Lights of Canopus

J. V. S. Wilkinson · 1929 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.63 | $119.16 | ¥19,043)

London, The Studio Limited, [1929] . First edition. Cloth. Scholarly colour compilation of Husain Va'iz Kashifi's The Lights of Canopus from the British Museum collection. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding.Undated, dated from a copy held by the...

Hans Coper

Tony Birks · 1983 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€352.80 | $390.58 | ¥62,417)

New York, Harper & Row, 1983 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this illustrated biography of German-born British ceramicist Hans Coper, in the publisher's original cloth with the original bright, unclipped dust wrapper. A signed first edition of this illus...

France Illustrated, Exhibiting Its Landscape Scenery, Antiquities, Military and Ecclesiastical Architecture, &C.

Rev. G. N. Wright; M. Jules Janin · 1845 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€526.21 | $582.56 | ¥93,097)

London; Paris, Fisher, Son, & Co.; Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co. 1845-1847. Cloth. A smart four-volume pictorial survey of nineteenth-century France, offering Thomas Allom"s and Eugène Lami"s drawings with vivid descriptive texts by Rev. G. N. Wright and M. Jules Jan...

Les ãƒâ‰Glises Paroissiales de Paris Monographies Illustrees

Auguste Bouillet · 0 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.29 | $231.70 | ¥37,027)

Paris, X. Rondelet & Cie, c1897 . Cloth. A highly illustrated work on the parish churches of Paris, with illustrated monographs.  In quarter cloth binding with marbled boards.A highly illustrated work on the parish churches of Paris, with illustrated monographs. Seven fascic...

Westminster Abbey: Its Memories and Its Message

Mary Sturgeon · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.60 | $64.88 | ¥10,368)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated first edition of Sturgeon's historical view into Westminster Abbey. First edition.In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.With a frontispiece and fifteen delicately c...

The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period

Thomas Garner; Arthur Stratton · 1911 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€950.77 | $1,052.57 | ¥168,210)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1911 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the impressively illustrated two volume first edition of Garner and Stratton's study of Tudor architecture. The first edition in book form, complete in two volumes. This work was initially publi...

The Acropolis

Gerhart Rodenwalt [trans. by Phyllis Hartnoll and Elizabeth E. Bouman] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.56 | $78.12 | ¥12,483)

Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, LTD, 1930. Leather. The first translated edition of Rodenwalt's The Acropolis, an artistic analysis of the ancient monuments in Athens. The first translated edition of The Acropolis, with descriptions by German art historian Gerhart Rodenwalt. Tran...

Walt Disney&Apos;S Fantasia

John Culhane · 1983 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.72 | $92.68 | ¥14,811)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1983 . First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of John Culhane's wonderful study of the creation of the 1940s classic animation 'Fantasia', featuring 130 colour illustrations. The first edition, first printing, in the publisher...

La Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ, Gravee Par Lucas de Leyde

Lucas de Leyde [Lucas van Leyden] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£1,550.00 (€1,853.70 | $2,052.18 | ¥327,956)

[Antwerp], EÃÂOeditions du MuseÃÂOee Plantin-Moretus, 1911. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this limited edition reproduction of Lucas de Leyde's 'La Passion de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ', printed from his original copperp...

The Life of George Morland

George Dawe · 1904 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.63 | $119.16 | ¥19,043)

London, Dickinsons, 1904 . Cloth. George Dawe's limited edition biography on the life of the artist George Morland, with plates depicting the artist's works. A limited edition, 'Author's Edition', being number 63 out of 500.  Illustrated with a monoch...

Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England (from the Conquest to the End of the Thirteenth Century; from Edward I. To Richard II. )

T. Hudson Turner; John Henry Parker · 1851 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.35 | $211.84 | ¥33,854)

Oxford , John Henry Parker , 1851-1853. First edition. Leather. The first two volumes from this richly illustrated history of English domestic architecture, spanning from the Conquest to the reign of Richard II. First edition. Comprising the first two volumes of this four-vol...