Videnskab og natur

Two Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of a New Transmitter of Radio Free Europe Beamed to Hungary

Frederic R. Dolbeare; Gyula Dessewffy · 1951 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.74 | $165.13 | ¥26,372)

Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1951. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce program and record of the two addresses spoken at the ceremony inaugurating the new service of Radio Free Europe for Hungary. First edition. Limited to three hundred copies. A program and reco...

The Open Air Year: An Anthology of the Seasons Selected from the Times

The Times; Viscount Grey of Fallodon [preface] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.81 | $118.89 | ¥18,988)

London, The Times Publishing Company Ltd, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A beloved series of articles about nature from 'The Times', curated to complete an entire year of the seasons' changes. With plates of photographs throughout. The first edition thus of these s...

Readings in Science; Being Explanations of Some of the Most Interesting Appearances and Principles in Natural Philosophy, Expressing in Simple Language, and Illustrated by Familiar Examples

1834 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.86 | $92.47 | ¥14,768)

London, John W. Parker , 1834. Cloth. A smart second edition of this illustrated guide to the principles of natural philosophy in science. Second edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and many in-text figures. A guide to some of the most important principles of...

The Book of Flowers & the Book of Birds

Alice M. Coats; A. M. Lysaght · 1973 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.75 | $158.52 | ¥25,317)

London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1973-1975. First edition. Cloth. Two very smart first edition volumes with numerous illustrations throughout. Two volumes. First edition. This set contains: The Book of Flowers, 1973. With one hundred and twenty-six illustrations, forty of which ...

The British Islands and Their Vegetation

A. G. Tansley · 1949 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.84 | $99.08 | ¥15,823)

Cambridge , At the University Press, 1949. Cloth. A very smart study of British vegetation, including a comprehensive look at the environment and history of the British Islands. A new edition issued in two volumes with corrections. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in ...

The Natural History of Digestion

A. Lockhart Gillespie; Havelock Ellis [ed.] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.84 | $99.08 | ¥15,823)

London, Walter Scott, Ltd. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this illustrated nineteenth-century work on digestive processes in plants and animals. The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with ...

A Popular History of the Mollusca; Comprising a Familiar Account of Their Classification, Instincts, and Habits, and of the Growth and Distinguishing Characters of Their Shells

Mary Roberts · 1851 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.03 | $1,254.96 | ¥200,428)

London, Reeve and Benham, 1851. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce work on the natural history of mollusca from English author Mary Roberts. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with eighteen colour plates. Collated complete. A detailed guide to shel...

The Wonders of Water: Pleasant Talks About the Great Deep and Its Inhabitants

1881 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.93 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, W. B. Horner, 1881. Cloth. A smart copy of this very scarce illustrated work on the wonders of water. Very scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-one images, many of which are full paged. Collated complete. A detailed work on water, with chapters on ri...

Hodge and His Masters

Richard Jefferies · 1880 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.66 | $217.97 | ¥34,811)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1880 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Richard Jefferies' collection of articles on rural economy and farming. The first edition. Complete in two volumes. Compiled by English nature writer and journalist, Richard Jefferies, who is not...

The New Naturalist Monograph Series: The Salmon; Lords & Ladies

J. W. Jones; Cecil T. Prime · 1959 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.63 | $237.78 | ¥37,976)

London, Collins , 1959-1960 . First edition. Cloth. Two lovely first edition New Naturalist series volumes in their original unclipped dust wrappers. Discussing salmons and wildflowers. The first editions, first impressions of two volumes from the New Naturalist Monograph seri...

The Mystery of Ladyplace

Christian Lys; [Percy Brebner] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.63 | $237.78 | ¥37,976)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, [1900]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce science fiction novel by Percy Brebner, following an evil scientist, the first edition of this work. The first edition of this scarce work, the plain cloth variant.'The Mystery of Ladyplace' featu...

A History of the Birds of Suffolk

Claud B. Ticehurst · 1932 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.93 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Gurney and Jackson, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history on the birds of Suffolk. First edition. Illustrated with eighteen black-and-white plates, and a folding colour map to the rear. Collated complete. An up-to-date work deali...

The Game Animals of Africa

R. Lydekker; J. G. Dollman [ed.] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€586.99 | $647.29 | ¥103,378)

London, Rowland Ward, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The revised second edition of naturalist Richard Lydekker's guide to the game animals of Africa. The second edition of this work, which was first published in 1908. This edition was revised and updated by J. E. Dollman.Re...

Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait

Anton Reiser [Rudolf Kayser]; Albert Einstein · 1931 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.65 | $224.57 | ¥35,866)

London, Thornton Butterworth Limited , 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition, later state binding of Anton Reiser's biography on the celebrated theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein, with a foreword by the incredible scientist himself. The very scarce first UK...

Adrift in the Unknown

William Wallace Cook · 1925 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.75 | $158.52 | ¥25,317)

New York, Street & Smith Corportation, 1925. Paperback. A scarce sci-fi novel by the popular American author WIlliam Wallace Cook. The second edition of this scarce work.Published as part of the 'Adventure Library', being No. 15 of the series. 'Adrift in the Un...

An American Emperor: The Story of the Fourth Empire of France

Louis Tracy; M. P. Shiel · 1897 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.40 | $129.46 | ¥20,676)

London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1897 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Louis Tracy's thrilling future war science fiction novel, illustrated by E. S. Hope. The first edition of this exciting novel.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates by E. S. Hope. Col...

The Caves of Treasure

Roy Norton · 1925 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.75 | $158.52 | ¥25,317)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce novel in which a lost Mayan world is discovered. The first edition. First published in 'Red Magazine' 1919 and 1920 as two serials. In the publisher's original blind st...

The Man Who Ended War

Hollis Godfrey · 1910 · Rooke Books

£124.00 (€148.54 | $163.80 | ¥26,161)

London , Ward, Lock & Co. Limited , 1910. Cloth. An attractive edition of this widely regarded ingenious scientific novel, with monochrome plates. A scarce edition of this work.With an illustrated monochrome frontispiece and three illustrated monochrome plates. Collated comple...

A Romance of Two Centuries

Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie · 1919 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€592.98 | $653.90 | ¥104,433)

Alpine, New Jersey, Platonist Press, [1919]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce Near Future science fiction novel set in 2025, by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie. The first edition of this very scarce work.Review copy, with a stamp to the title page.'A Rom...

The Supreme Mystery

J. H. Symons · 1917 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.18 | $521.80 | ¥83,336)

London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1917. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce time travel science fiction novel by J. H. Symons. The first edition of this very scarce work.A thrilling science fiction novel in which a scientist sends the spirit of a medium into va...