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The Chronicle of Bristol No. VI

1829 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Bristol, Philip Rose, 1829-1830. Cloth. Five issues of a very scarce Bristol periodical, providing insight into the interests of the city inhabitants in 1829. Volume No. VI of this very scarce Bristol based periodical, consisting of five consecutive issues published between Au...

Uganda to Khartoum: Life and Adventure on the Upper Nile

Albert B. Lloyd · 1911 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London, T. Fisher Unwin , 1911. Cloth. The third impression of this illustrated travelogue of Africa by Albert B. Lloyd. The third impression of this work, originally published in 1906. A geographical account of the author's exploration of Africa from Uganda to Khartoum, ...

Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London

Major Payne Fisher; G. Blacker Morgan · 1885 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Privately Re-printed, 1885. Paperback. A remarkable account of London's burial places written after the Great Fire of London, reprinted in 1885. Written by Payne Fisher, a poet active in the seventeenth century. Left a pauper after fighting for the wrong side duri...

Reliques of Old London Suburbs North of the Thames

H. B. Wheatley · 1898 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1898. Hardback. A signed limited edition of this topographical exploration of the lost suburbs of London with gorgeous lithographs by T. R. Way. With lithographs by Thomas Robert Way, an English painter of landscapes and lithographer. He designed ...

Saint Louis Et Son Siecle

Vicomte Walsh · 1851 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

Paris, Alfred Mame, 1851. Leather. A fascinating, early edition of this work on Louis IX on France, often known as Saint Louis, by Vicomte Walsh. Illustrated throughout. Louis IX was crowned at the age of twelve, and is the only French king to be declared a saint, resulting in...

A Book of Cyphers More Compleat and Regular Than Any Yet Extant

Samuel Sympson · 1716 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,267)

London, Samuel Sympson, B Cole, J Clark et al, 1716. Leather. A scarce edition of Samuel Sympson's book of cyphers. A smart copy of this work. Comprising an engraved title page and 102 leaves of plates containing cyphers. ESTC reference no: T145073. This copy has been bou...

The Mint a Day-Book of the R.A. F. Depot between August and December 1922

T. E. Lawrence · 1955 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1955. First edition. Cloth. T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time in the Royal Air Force, the first trade edition of this volume in its unclipped dust wrapper. The first trade edition of this work, published in the same year as a limited edition of ...

Arctic Miscellanies. A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search. By the Officers and Seamen of the Expedition.

'Aurora Borealis' · 1852 · Rooke Books

£2,600.00 (€3,116.48 | $3,434.98 | ¥548,348)

London, Colburn and Co, 1852. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this remarkable collection of articles written by a crew marooned in frozen Arctic waters. Rebound in half calf and illustrated throughout. The first edition of this fascinating and scarce public...

Note on Water Required and Available for the Sudan Gezira Scheme; Computations Relating to the Note on the Water Supply Required and Available for the Sudan-Gezira Scheme

Murdoch MacDonald · 1918 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Cairo, Government Press, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and fascinating insight into the plans and calculations for one of the world's largest irrigation projects, The Gezira Scheme. Two very scarce first edition publications on the availability and requirement...

Turkey

Robert Boulanger; Margaret Case [trans.] · 1960 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Paris, Hachette, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first Hachette edition of this guide to Turkey, with numerous maps and complete in its dust wrapper. The first edition of one of Hachette world guides  under the direction off Francis Ambriere, this volume is an extensive guide to...

History of the Princes of South Wales

George T.O. Bridgeman · 1876 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Wigan, Thomas Birch, 1876. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive work on the genealogy of the historical princes of Wales. Including a signed letter and handwritten pedigree notes, both by the author. A fascinating and comprehensive genealogical history of the princes of Wales...

The City of Edinburgh

David Keir [ed.] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Collins , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this extensive description of the city of Edinburgh, the first edition complete with its large folding map. The first edition of this work, providing a fascinating depiction of the life in the city of Edinburgh, ed...

Abraham Lincoln

Lord Charnwood · 1917 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,707)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1917. Fine Binding. A finely bound, early edition of this biography of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. From the library of socialite and patron of the arts, Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. The third edition of this work. A ...

Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and Its Dependencies from the Earliest Period of Authentic History to the Reign of Queen Victoria

Reverend Rogers Ruding · 1840 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Hearne, 1840. Cloth. A third edition copy of this scarce work on the history of coinage in England, bound in decorative cloth by Edmonds & Remnants London. Complete in three volumes.Bound by Edmonds & Remnants London, with their binder's plate to the rear pas...

Memoirs of the Lineage Early Life Education and Development of the Genius of James Watt

George Williamson · 1856 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, Thomas Constable, 1856. First edition. Fine Binding. A finely bound, first edition copy of George Williamson's memorials of James Watt. In a binding by Alexander Banks, with the binder's stamp 'Banks Junr' of Edinburgh to the front pastedown. Loosel...

L&Apos;Histoire Grecque Et Ancienne Et Romaine

Jules Raymond Lame Fleury · 1839 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

Paris, Librairie Dufart, 1839. Leather. Fleury's original French histories of the ancient worlds, Greece, and Roman, vivid histories written for children. Four volumes of Jules Raymond Lame Fleury's world histories, aimed towards children.In the original French.Three...

Arabia and the Isles

Harold Ingrams · 1946 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, John Murray , 1946. Cloth. An early printing of this fascinating travel book, exploring the history of Arabia and its people by Harold Ingrams. An early printing of 1946 of this travel book by Harold Ingrams, British colonial administrator, best known for negotiating a...

Reminiscences Connected Chiefly with Inveresk and Musselburgh and Sketches Off Family Histories

W. H. Langhorne · 1893 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

Edinburgh, Privately printed for the Author, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of the author's reminiscences of Inveresk and Musselburgh by W. H. Langhorne. W. H. Langhorne shares reminiscences of his parish in Inveresk and Musselburgh, in East Lothian...

Through the Heart of Africa

Frank H. Melland; Edward H. Cholmeley · 1912 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Constable & Company LTD, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this entertaining illustrated account of Melland and Cholmeley's account of their voyage through Africa on bicycle. The first edition of this work.Frank Melland and Edward Cholmeley's a...

The Index Library Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem Returned Into the Court of Chancery in the Reign of King Charles the First, Part I, II, and III

W.P.W. Phillimore; George S. Fry; Edw. Alexander Fry · 1893 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, British Record Society, 1893-1899. First edition. Leather. Three volumes in one handsomely bound book, containing parts I, II, and III of post mortem inquisitiones in the reign of King Charles I. A beautifully bound, three volume in one, set of Post Mortem Inquisitione...