Matematik og fysik

Manual of Mineralogy, Including Observations on Mines, Rocks, Reduction of Ores, and the Applications of the Science to the Arts

Dana James D. · 1853 · George Jeffery Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Trubner & Co Book measures 20x13.cm. xii,13-432pp. Bound in period half calf, calf corners, marble boards, raised bands, gilt tooling and lettering. Calf rubbed, scuffed. Generally binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, previous owners bookplate, minor spotting. Pag...

The Practical Measurer, or Tradesman and Wood Merchants Assistant

Alexander Peddie · 1822 · Rooke Books

£189.99 (€227.73 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

Glasgow, Khull, Blackie, and Co, 1822. Leather. A scarce work of metrology intended for tradesmen and wood merchants. A scarce copy. Bound in quarter calf, with gilt lettering. Presumed first. Very scarce. One plate missing. Bound in quarter calf, with gilt lettering. There is...

Urban District of Handsworth in the County of Stafford Electric Light and Power Supply

Kennedy and Jenkin · 1904 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1904-05. Leather. A scarce record of the electricity and power supplies to the district of Handsworth in the early twentieth century. Very rare original source material. Containing: Conditions of Contract Lighting Feeders, Mains, and Roadwork...

Biographie Medicale Par Ordre Chronologique D&Apos;Apres Daniel Leclerc, Eloy, Etc.

Bayle and Thillaye · 1967 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Amsterdam, N. V. Boekhandel & Antiquariat, 1967. Cloth. A set of Bayle and Thillaye's edited medical biography. A set of Bayle and Thillaye's edited medical biography. Complete in two volumes. Put in a new order; revised and supplemented. Including Daniel LeClerc, a ...

An Introduction to Mensuration and Practical Geometry

John Bonnycastle · 1812 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, J. Johnson, 1812 . Leather. The eleventh edition of John Bonnycastle's guide to geometry and mensuration, with vignette illustrations and diagrams throughout. First published in 1782, this is the eleventh edition of John Bonnycastle's work, 'corrected an...

Farm Book-Keeping: The Principles and Practice of Book-Keeping Applied to Agriculture for Agricultural Colleges, Extension Classes, Evening Classes and Practical Farmers

John Kirkwood · 1922 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

Edinburgh, W. Green & Son Ltd. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive study into business of farming and bookkeeping, a guide to the everyday economics of the working farm. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition.A practical instructional manual app...

Hoppus&Apos;S Practical Measurer; or, Measuring Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity, by a New Set of Tables

Edward Hoppus · 1846 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Manchester, S. Johnson and Son, 1846. Leather. A comprehensive practical measuring guide from Edward Hoppus, the introducer of the Hoppus unit of measure. A later edition of the work, that has been published since the eighteenth century.In the original full black calf binding....

The Crustacea of Devon and Cornwall

Canon A. M. Norman; Thomas Scott · 1906 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, William Wesley And Son, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy, in original binding, featuring 24 monochrome plates. A 1906 first edition copy, in original green cloth, with gilt lettering to spine.Written by Thomas Scott, and Alfred Merle Norman - a cl...

Natural History

J G Wood · 1853 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, c1900. Cloth. A lovely, and very scarce example of 20th Century cover to this title, designed by artist Jessie M. King. Bound in its original blue cloth.One of many natural history titles by the prolific Rev. J. G. Wood, originally p...

British Wildflowers in Their Natural Haunts

A.R. Horwood [Arthur Reginald Horwood] · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The complete set of A.R. Horwood's detailed study on wild flowers and plants across the British Isles, with accompanying illustrations by J.N. Fitch. The first edition of Arthur Reginald Horwood's Br...

The Devil Doctor

Sax Rohmer · 1933 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Methuen, 1933. Cloth. Sax Rohmer's second novel about the supervillain 'Fu Manchu', in the publisher's original scarce and striking dust wrapper. The fifteenth edition, first published in 1916. In the publisher's original cloth, with the origi...

Every Mother&Apos;S Book

1949 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Sussex, Alfred Fennings, 1949. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very smart copy of this illustrated guide for mothers from Alfred Fennings chemist. Scarce work. With illustrations throughout. A charming pamphlet from the chemist Alfred Fennings, who established Fennings Pharmaceuticals in...

The Plundered Forests

John Blower · 2007 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)

Kinloss, Moray, Librario , 2007. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce signed copy of this compelling account of the author's mission to save endangered forests across South-East Asia. Signed by the author to the half title. First edition, first impression. A very sca...

Essai Sur L&Apos;Enseignement Philosophique Du Magnetisme

Le Baron Du Potet de Sennevoy [Jules Denis] · 1845 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Paris, A. René et Cie, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Jules Denis' essay on the philosophical teaching of magnetism, in the original French. A very scarce work. The first edition of this very scarce work in a half cloth binding with marbled boards. P...

The Best Science Fiction Stories

Everett F. Bleiler; T. E. Dikty [editors] · 1949 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

New York, Frederick Fell Inc. 1949-1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart set of five volumes of The Best Science Fiction Stories series, with volume one signed and inscribed by the editors. Five volumes. First editions. With volume one signed and inscribed by the editors to the ...

Somewhere a Voice

Eric Frank Russell · 1965 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1965. First edition. Hardback. This uncommon first edition, first impression of a collection of six short science fiction stories by the celebrated author Eric Frank Russell, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression o...

Greener Than You Think

Ward Moore · 1947 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

New York, William Sloane Associates, INC, 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of one of Ward Moore's fantastic sci-fi novels, following a grass taking over the Earth. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Greener Than You...

Land of Unreason

Fletcher Pratt; L. Sprague de Camp · 1942 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1942. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fantasy collaboration between Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This novel, written in collaboration between Fl...

Physiognomy; or, the Corresponding Analogy between the Conformation of the Features, and the Ruling Passions of the Mind

Johann Kaspar Lavater; Samuel Shaw · 1792 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, H. D. Symonds, [1792]. Leather. An English translation of the one of the important works on physiognomy by Johann Kaspar Lavater, illustrated. An English translation of an important work on physiognomy by Johann Kaspar Lavater, a work which helped to popularise the sci...

Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Vol. 8, No. 6: November, 1949

British Interplanetary Society; K. W. Gatland · 1949 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, British Interplanetary Society, 1949 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce issue of this fascinating scientific journal, discussing the de Havilland Sprite, amongst other topics. A very scarce 1949 issue of the 'Journal of the British Interplanetary Society&ap...