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Etat Des Cours de L&Apos;Europe Et Des Provinces de France Pour L&Apos;Annee M. Dcc. LXXXVI. Pubile Pour la Premiere Fois En 1783.

L'Abbe de la Roche-Tilhac · 1786 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Paris, l'Auteur et le Roy; Les Principaux Libraires de l'Europe, 1786. Paperback. A very scarce French almanac exploring the Courts of Europe in the year 1786, before the upheaval of the French Revolution. A very scarce work.In the original French.A French almanac fo...

A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing; with Practical Instructions to the Trade in General

Philip Luckombe · 1770 · Rooke Books

£1,395.00 (€1,672.11 | $1,843.00 | ¥294,210)

London, W. Adlard and J. Browne, 1770 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of Philip Luckombe's history of the printing press, with vignette illustrations throughout. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Johannes Gutenburg - inventor of the movab...

An Essay on the Causes Which Have Produced Dissent from the Established Church in the Principality of Wales

Arthur James Johnes · 1832 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, J. Hatchard and Sons, 1832 . Hardback. The second edition of Welsh county court judge Arthur James Johnes's essay on the causes of dissent in Wales. First published in 1831, this is the second edition of Jonhnes's work, very scarce in all editions. Johnes won...

Early Chronicles of Europe England

James Gairdner · 1879 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London , Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , 1879. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of England by James Gairdner.  This work is from the series the Early Chronicles of Europe and explores the early history of England by James Gairdner. The work explores the...

A Collection of Curious Discourses Written by Eminent Antiquaries Upon Several Heads in Our English Antiquities Together with Mr Thomas Hearne&Apos;S Preface and Appendix to the Former Edition to Which Are Added a Great Number of Antiquary Discourses Written by the Same Authors Most of the Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts

Thomas Hearne [ed.] · 1771 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

London, Printed by and for W. and J. Richardson, 1771. Leather. Very scarce work on English antiquities edited by Thomas Hearne, complete in two volumes in uniform bindings. Originally published in 1720. ESTC T132034. In two volumes. Bound without preliminary advertising leaf ...

A History of Our Own Times: From the Ascension of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress

Justin McCarthy · 1879 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.08 | ¥125,487)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1879-80. Leather. A very smart complete four volume set of McCarthy's history of our own time. Four volumes. A history spanning from the accession of Queen Victoria to the general election of 1880, with details of: science and speed, Chartism and ...

Memoirs of the Reign of King Charles the First

Sir Philip Warwick · 1813 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Edinburgh and London, John Ballantyne and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813 . Leather. An early nineteenth century reprint of Philip Warwick's collection of memoires of King Charles I with illustrations. First edition of Memoirs of the Reign of King Charles...

The Land of Burns, a Series of Landscapes and Portraits, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of the Scottish Poet

Professor John Wilson; Robert Chambers · 1840 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London, Blackie & Con , 1840 . Leather. A lovely illustrated biography of the life and work of Robert Burns complete in two volumes. Early edition of The Land of Burns, a Series of Landscapes and Portraits, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of The S...

The Silk Road

Frances Wood · 2002 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, The Folio Society, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A first Folio edition of this fascinating history of the Silk Road, in a lovely decorated silk binding, in the original slipcase. The first Folio edition of this work in a decorated silk binding, in the original pictorial ...

The Life and Times of James II and Queen Anne

Peter Earle; Gila Curtis; Antonia Fraser [ed.] · 1972 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. First edition. Cloth. Two biographies on the British monarchs King James II and Queen Anne, in the unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition of these volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped du...

British Ports and Harbours; the Port of London

Leo Walmsley; John Herbert · 1946 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Collins, 1946-47. First edition. Hardback. History of British ports and of the port of London from the 'Britain in Pictures' series by Collins, second and first impressions. From the 'Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures' series, illu...

British Military Prints

Ralph Nevill · 1909 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, The Connoisseur Publishing Company , 1909. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of military prints by Ralph Nevill. The first edition of this work. Dedicated to military prints, featuring a series of illustrations illustrative of the mili...

La Bibliotheque de Pierre Berge

Pierre Berge & Associates; Sotheby's · 2018 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

Not Stated, Pierre Berge & Associates; Sotheby's , 2018 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the catalogue of the fourth sale from the collection of Pierre Berge after his passing. First edition of La Bibliotheque de Pierre Berge in the original publisher's c...

The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; Triumph and Tragedy

Winston S. Churchill · 1949 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Cassell and Co. Ltd, 1949-1954. Cloth. Winston Churchill provides his unique insights into the events of the Second World War in this interesting memoir. In the original unclipped dust wrapper Volumes I, II, and VI of Winston Churchill's memoirs of the Second Worl...

A Description of the Hugh Stream of Arundel

Water-Bailiff of Thomas Howard; Joseph Fowler [ed.] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Hertford, Simson & Co. Ltd. 1929 . Cloth. The first thus of this seventeenth century manuscript edited with notes and a map, signed, inscribed, and dated by the editor. First thus of A Description of the Hugh Stream of Arundel, the Heads and Risings THereof; The sundry Kings o...

Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Lytton Strachey · 1928 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition copy of this work which chronicles the relationship of Elizabeth and Robert Devereux. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and five additional plates. Collated complete. A retelling of Qu...

History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France

Major-General Sir W.F.P. Napier · 1851 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,668)

London, Thomas and William Boone, 1851. Leather. An early edition of General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier's detailed study of the Peninsular War, handsomely and uniformly bound in half calf. An attractively bound and impressively detailed historical study of the Pen...

The Life and Letters of Barthold George Niebuhr, with Essays on His Character and Influence

Barthold Georg Niebuhr · 1852 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1852. First edition. Cloth. The first edition life and letters of Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the Danish-German statesman and historian. Bound in the original cloth. The first edition. In two volumes. Lacking the supplementary volume. Uniformly bound in ...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque; A. W. Wheen [trans] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Putnam, 1929. Cloth. An early printing of Erich Maria Remarque's celebrated war novel. Twenty-fourth English impression of this bestselling novel by Erich Maria Remarque, translated to English by A. W. Wheen. An important and influential novel based on the experi...

British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1878, with Companion

Various · 1878 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, The Company of Stationers, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating almanac and companion for 1878, full of historical information. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. The almanac provides a calendar for 1878, a...