Matematik og fysik

2061: Odyssey Three

Arthur C. Clarke · 1988 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Guild Publishing; Grafton Books, 1988. Cloth. An early edition of the third book in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke, in the unclipped dust wrapper. A bright copy. 2061, Odyssey Three, the third book in Arthur C. Clarke's famous Space Odyssey series, s...

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 | ¥14,768)

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 | ¥8,439)

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 | ¥12,658)

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 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

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...

Sommario Di Tutte le Scienze Del Magnifico Messer Domenico Delfino, Nobile Vinitiano, Dal Quale Si Possono Imparar Molte Cose Appartenenti Al Uiuere Humano & Alla Cognition Di Dio. Con la Tauola, & le Postille Delle Cose Piu Notabili

Domenico Delfino; [Alfonso de la Torre] · 1568 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

Venetia; [Venice], Francesco Sansovino, 1568. Vellum. A very scarce translation of Alfonso de la Torre's important humanist work on morals and human wisdom, here translated into Italian by Domencio Delfino, who was wrongly thought to be the sole author of this work. A ver...

Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

Honore de Balzac · 1874 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, John Camden Hotten, 1874. First edition. Cloth. A smart first English language edition of this captivating and richly illustrated anthology. The first english translated edition.Includes a variety of tales, such as The Succubus, Bertha the Penitent and The Brothers-in-...

The Novels of P.D. James

P.D. James · 1989 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Faber and Faber, 1989-2011. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of six novels from British literary figure P.D. James, including signed works, Children of Men, her autobiography, and those from her celebrated Adam Dalgleish series. The first editions of six brilli...

The Man Who Sold the Moon

Robert A Heinlein · 1950 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this science fiction novel from Heinlein's Future History series. With original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition, as stated to the verso of title page, alongside the copyright details fro...

The New Spirit Calculator Containing Rules and Examples Comprehending All Possible Cases for Reducing and Compounding Spirits

E. Arthur · 1829 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Worcester, Office of Excise, 1829. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon first edition of E Arthur's 'The New Spirit Calculator&apos. Containing tables, formulae, and figures to demonstrate the appropriate strength for the distillation of spirits. Reportedly, this tex...

Ossian&Apos;S Ride Satellite E One

Fred Hoyle; Jeffery Lloyd Castle · 1959 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London; Melbourne; Toronto, Heinemann; Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959; 1954. First edition. Cloth. A pair of first edition mid-century science fiction titles, in original colour illustrated dust wrappers. A pair of mid-century science fiction titles, both first edition, volume 1 be...

Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures

Roger Cotes; Robert Smith [ed.] · 1775 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, J. Nourse, 1775 . Leather. An exceptionally bright example of the third edition of Cotes's posthumously published collection of lectures on hydrostatics and pneumatics, illustrated with five engraved plates. The third edition of this work, which was first publishe...

The Magazine of Science and School of Arts

1844 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, W. Brittain, 1844-47. Leather. Four volumes bound in two of this scarce periodical on the sciences and arts, illustrated throughout. A scarce periodical, here with four volumes bound in two, being Volumes VI, VII, VIII, and IX.Bound without the original wraps.An intere...

Home Life on an Ostrich Farm

Annie Martin · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

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 | ¥15,823)

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...

The Schoolmasters Assistant

Thomas Dilworth · 1938 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Not Stated, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1938. Hardback. A facsimile of Thomas Dilworth's educational mathematical work, from the library of David Singmaster. A faithful facsimile of the 1762 eleventh edition of 'The Schoolmasters Assistant', issued by Scott For...

Possible Tomorrows: Five Stories

Isaac Asimov; Kingsley Amis; J. T. McIntosh [James Murdoch MacGregor]; James H. Schmitz; F. L. Wallace; Groff Conklin [editor] · 1972 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this collection of short stories, edited by American science fiction writer Groff Conklin. First UK edition. A collection of five fascinating short novels probing into the possible futures ...

Science and Sorcery, a Collection of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories.

Garret Ford [compiler; pseud. for William L. Crawford]; Stories by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Cordwainer Smith [pseud. for Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger]. · 1953 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

California, Fantasy Publishing Company, 1953. First edition. Cloth. This uncommon limited first edition of an illustrated science fiction anthology compiled by William L. Crawford with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of the work, which according to the d...

Wayside and Woodland Ferns

Edward Step · 1908 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1908. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this profusely illustrated pocket sized guide to the ferns of Britain. The first edition.A fantastic pocket sized guide to the British ferns, club-mosses and horsetails by Edward Step, containing mu...

Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire

Henry Graves Bull · 1888 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London; Hereford, Hamilton, Adams & Co; Jakeman & Carver, 1888. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry Graves Bull's and the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club's study on the birds of Herefordshire. The first edition of this work.A study of the birds nat...