Matematik og fysik

The Revolt of Man

Walter Besant · 1882 · Rooke Books

£1,700.00 (€2,037.72 | $2,245.94 | ¥358,647)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. First edition. Cloth. Walter Besant's science fiction novel set in a future where women rule, the author's own copy, with his bookplate to the front paste down. The first edition of this uncommon work.Author&apo...

The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus

Wilfrid Blunt · 1971 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Collins, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated biography of Carl Linnaeus, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page, dated 1973. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, reverse of the fronti...

The Concept of Mental Maturity

T. H. Pear · 1944 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Manchester, The Manchester University Press, 1944 . Paperback. British psychologist Tom Hatherley Pear's vanishingly scarce essay on the mental maturity of youth, from the library of science-fiction author Brian Aldiss. A vanishingly scarce work, reprinted from the '...

The Artificial Mother

G. H. P.; George Haven Putnam · 1894 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

New York; London, G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this curious sci-fi novel revolving around robots, an illustrated and scarce work. The first edition of this scarce work.A science fiction novel, in which a ro...

The Red Snow

F. Wright Moxley · 1930 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Frank Wright Moxley science fiction novel in which humanity faces extinction due to the mass sterilization of women. The first edition of this work, first printing.The novel takes place in a world ...

Across England in a Dog-Cart: From London to St. David&Apos;S and Back

James John Hissey · 1891 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated travel guide across England in a Dog-Cart. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen plates, and a fold out map to the rear. Collated complete. A chronicle of a...

Far Boundaries: Twenty Science-Fiction Short Stories

August Derleth [ed.]; Nelson Bond; Ray Bradbury; Carl Jacobi et al · 1951 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this impressive collection of twenty science-fiction tales, selected by American writer and anthologist August Derleth. The first edition, first printing. In the publisher's original unclipped...

The Man Who Would Not Be King

Sidney Dark · 1913 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1913. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this dystopian work, by English journalist and author, Sidney Dark. The first edition of the work. Very scarce.Written by Sidney Dark, an English journalist and author. Dark was a p...

Variation on a Theme

John Collier · 1935 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Grayson & Grayson, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of this amusing supernatural story by British author and screenwriter John Collier. No. 143 of 250 numbered and signed Limited Edition copies of the first edition, in the publisher's original ...

The Hitch Hiker&Apos;S Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams · 1979 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

London, Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this incredibly popular science fiction novel, a smart copy in the original second state dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. Uncommon to see the first U.K. edition. In the original ...

Autour de la Lune, le Docteur Ox

Jules Verne · 1863 · Rooke Books

£365.00 (€437.51 | $482.22 | ¥77,004)

Paris, Bilbiotheque d'Education et de Recreation; J. Hetzel et Cie, c1880. Leather. Two popular works by Jules Verne together in one volume, early French illustrated editions. Two popular works by Jules Verne bound in one volume, both early French editions. In the origin...

The Argonauts of the Amazon

C. R. Kenyon [Charles Richard Kenyon] · 1901 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

London, W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1901. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this adventure story by C. R. Kenyon, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham. The first edition of this work in the second state coral pink pictorial cloth binding with grey end papers (Ri...

Marigold: A Story

[Edith Allonby] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, Greening & Co. Ltd, 1905. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce science fiction novel written by Edith Allonby. The first edition. Very scarce. This work was written anonymously by English writer and teacher, Edith Allonby. This work and her fir...

The Tutor&Apos;S Assistant; Being a Compendium of Arithmetic, and a Complete Question-Book

Francis Walkingame · 1808 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, R. & W. Dean, 1808. Leather. Francis Walkingame's standard textbook on arithmetic, which remained the standard text on the subject for a century after its first publication. An essential compendium on arithmetic.'The Tutor's Assistant' was first pub...

A Collection of Modern Works on the Theme of Sex and Biology

Various · 1963 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London; New York, Asia Publishing House; Tavistok Publications; Andre Dutsch; Macmillan; Peter H. Wyden; Doubleday; Columbia University Press, 1963-1992. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and diverse collection of scientific works on sexual biology in humans and animals. Seve...

New Worlds and the Rose

J. G. Ballard; Charles L. Harness; Various · 1966 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Compact Books, Roberts & Vinter LTD, 1966. Paperback. Two vivid science fiction paperbacks, containing short stories by eminent authors such as J. G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, and Charles L. Harness. Two smart 'Compact Sci-Fi' paperbacks.'New Worlds&apo...

Red Sap

John Easton · 1930 · Rooke Books

£138.00 (€165.41 | $182.32 | ¥29,114)

London & New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce 'Lost Race' sci-fi novel by John Easton, a murder mystery science fiction novel. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Signed by the auth...

Cocker&Apos;S Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method, Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country

Edward Cocker; John Hawkins · 1712 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

London, Eben. Tracy, 1712. Cloth. A scarce early edition of the monumentally popular mathematics textbook by Edward Cocker, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. A scarce work, the fourteenth edition of this oft-reprinted work.ESTC citation number T30868.Illustrated with a...

A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides

John Alexander Harvie-Brown; Thomas Edward Buckley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1892. First edition. Cloth. An interesting work about the animals of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides. With 15 illustrations and a colour folding map. A fascinating work about the animals of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides by naturalists John Alexander Har...

On the Management of Landed Estates: A General Work; for the Use of Professional Men: Being an Abstract of the More Enlarged Treatise on Landed Property, Recently Published.

William Marshall · 1806 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this scarce early 19th century work on the management of landed estates. The first edition of this scarce work. Stamp from The Lawes Agricultural Trust to the front paste downs. T...