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Arnoldus Fridericus Beier; Johann Hadrian Slevogt; Christoph Krebs · 1693 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.74 | ¥137,087)

Jena, Literis Krebsianis, 1693. Leather. A vanishingly scarce Latin dissertation on medicine by Arnoldus Fridericus Beier, an interesting work published in Jena. A vanishingly scarce work.In Latin.An academic dissertation on medicine. By Arnold Friedrich Beier.Including the me...

London Geological Field Class: Reports of Excursions During the Summers of 1886-1887

Professor H. G. Seeley · 1887 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, George Philip & Son, 1887-1888. First edition. Paperback. A well presented collection of geological field excursions carried out in 1886 and 1887 by the Geological Field Class in London, with illustrations to the rear of one text. The first and only edition of these re...

Geological Rambles Round London. A Handy Guide to Old-World London.

R. E. B. · 1883 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1883. Paperback. An 1883 geological guidebook to London's various districts in the original paper wraps, complete with in-text illustrations and charming adverts. This 1883 geological guidebook to London takes the reader through various different ...

An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. In Which the Different Effects, Advantages, and Disadvantages of Animal and Vegetable Diet, Are Explain&Apos;D

John Arbuthnot · 1732 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.47 | $515.25 | ¥82,252)

London, J. Tonson, 1732. Cloth. A second edition of this popular medical work by John Arbuthnot, an account of medicines and treatments in the eighteenth century, alongside a treatise on diet. A second edition of this work.This second edition was notable for its addition of a ...

The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design

Sir Charles Bell · 1834 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.71 | ¥56,944)

London, William Pickering, 1834. Cloth. An impressively detailed and illustrated study of the comparative anatomy and physiology of the hand. The third edition of this anatomical study from Scottish surgeon and physician Charles Bell, illustrated throughout with vignette engra...

The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon

Robert Buchanan · 1868 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.77 | ¥67,489)

London, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868. First edition. Cloth. A first edition biography of this important American ornithologist and naturalist. A biography of the American ornithologist, naturalist and painter John James Audubon. With a full plate frontispiece illustratio...

Cobbett&Apos;S Legacy to Parsons; or, Have the Clergy of the Established Church an Equitable Right to the Tithes, or to Any Thing Called Church Property, Greater Than the Dissenters Have to the Same? and Ought There, or Ought There Not, to Be a Separation of the Church from the State?

William Cobbett · 1835 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Not Stated, 1835. Leather. A lovely modern leather-bound second edition of Cobbett's important pamphlet discussing the Established Church. This work consists of six letters, addressed to the Church Parsons, questioning different ideologies.William Cobbett (1763-18...

Iron Road: The Railway in Scotland

P. J. G. Ransom · 2007 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Birlinn, 2007. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the history of the railway in Scotland, illustrated throughout. The first edition. The first edition of this volume. A lovely, bright copy of this volume detailing the history of railway in Scotland, beginning in th...

Problems Omnibus

Hubert Phillips · 1960 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Arco Publications , 1960-1962. First edition. Cloth. An excellent set in two volumes of Hubert Phillips' Problem Omnibus, the first editions comprising word puzzles, inference, and mathematical problems. The first edition of these two volumes, published in 1960 an...

The Cinema in Education Being the Report of the Psychological Investigation Conducted by Special Subcommittees Appointed by the Cinema Commission of Enquiry Established by the National Council of Public Morals

James Marchant · 1925 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London, George Allen and Unwin, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this uncommon title of this study on the psychology of cinema in education, in the extremely scarce dustwrapper. The first edition of this work, an uncommon title.An interesting study ed...

A Treatise on the Tonic System of Treating Affections of the Stomach and Brain: Comprehending an Account of the Causes and Nature of Impairment of the Constitution, Indigestion, Determination of Blood to the Head, Impairment and Morbid Excitation of the Brain, Paralysis, Apoplexy, and Insanity

Henry Searle · 1843 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of Henry Searle's Victorian medical work on afflictions of the stomach and brain, a unique study. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.An interesting early Victorian m...

Monatliche Neueroffnete Anmerckungen Uber Alle Theile Der Artzney-Kunst Zusammen Gebrachy IM Jahr 1679

Nicolas de Blegny · 1679 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,264)

Hamburg, Gottfried Schultzens Kosten, 1679-1682. Vellum. A very smart copy of this scarce German translation of Nicolas de Blegny's notable medical journal. Frequently regarded as the first French medical journal. First thus, the first edition of Johann Lange's trans...

The Gentleman&Apos;S Farriery: Or, a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Horses

J. Bartlet · 1773 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, J. Nourse; Hawes, Clark and Collins, 1773 . Leather. Charmingly illustrated with folding plates, this is the eighth edition of this popular 18th century work on the practice of farrier, and the health of horses. The eighth edition of this work.James Barlet's concl...

Contributions to the Study of Precocity in Children the History of Nearology

Leonard George Guthrie · 1921 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,508)

London , Eric G. Millar, 1921. Cloth. A scarce collection of the Fitzpatrick Lectures, on the history of Medicine used for the treatment of children. An important work in its field. Never reprinted. Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in the years 1907-1908. Presentat...

The Pupil&Apos;S Pharmacopoeia; Being a Literal Translation of the London Pharmacopoeia

W. Maugham · 1824 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.42 | $561.49 | ¥89,634)

London , Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. Cloth. An scarce copy of this compendium of medicinal drugs and their uses. Here presented for the benefit of students of medicine with the original Latin of the London edition interwoven with the English translation...

La Medecine Des Passions; Ou Les Passions Considerees Dans Leurs Rapports Avec Les Maladies, Les Lois, Et la Religion

J. B. F. Descuret · 1844 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

Liege, Imprimerie De J. G. Lardinois, 1844. Leather. A copy of this nineteenth century work on medicine by Descuret, an original early French edition. A copy of this Nineteenth Century work on medicine by Descuret. Fourth Edition, corrected and augmented; in French. Jean Bapti...

An Open Letter to Young Women; an Open Letter to Young Men

Violet D. Swaisland; Dr. Douglas White · 1933 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, British Social Hygiene Council, 1933-1938. Paperback. A very scarce pair of "letters" from the British Social Hygiene Council, educating young people on sexual health and premarital relations. Both very scarce pamphlets, with the Young Men's letter being a ninth e...

Alcohol and the Human Body an Introduction to the Study of the Subject, and a Contribution to National Health

Sir Victor Horsley; Mary D. Sturge; Arthur Newsholme · 1909 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1909. Cloth. An illustrated study of the effect of alcohol on the human body, by Victor Horsley and Mary Sturge. Presented from Sir William Hartley on behalf of the Lancashire & Cheshire Band of Hope & Temperance Union, with a label to the fr...

Home Life on an Ostrich Farm

Annie Martin · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, George Philp & Son Ltd. 1892. Cloth. A third edition of this illustrated account of the author's own experiences living on an ostrich farm. Third edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven images across seven plates. Collated complete. A personal narrativ...

Famous Ocean Liners Photo Postcards

William H. Miller Jr; Stephen J. Card · 1988 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Toronto; London, General Publishing Company LTD; Constable and Company LTD, 1988. Paperback. A volume of twenty-four postcards depicting famous ocean liners, including four signed colour plates by Stephen J. Card. A unique volume comprising of twenty-four ready-to-mail postcar...