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Navy (Health). Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy

Algernon Egerton; C. Inigo Thomas; O. Murray et al. · 1869 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, HMSO, 1869-1915 . First edition. Paperback. Six fascinating and very scarce volumes of Royal Navy medical reports and statistical health data, offering insight into the health of the navy between 1869 and 1915. Six very scarce 19th and 20th century reports of the healt...

The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere

Dr. G. Hartwig · 1886 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated guide to the world's atmosphere by Dr. G. Hartwig, with a folding map. A new edition of this work. In the original decorative cloth binding, with gilt fore-edge. Illustrated with eight chromoxylogra...

Lundy: Its History and Natural History

Lewis R. W. Loyd · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1925. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon natural history of the English island of Lundy, complete with plates and a folding map. First edition. In the original navy cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nineteen monochrome plates and ...

The Oyster & Dredgers of Whitstable

Allan Ovenden Collard · 1902 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Joseph Collard, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated study of the oysters and dredgers of Whitstable, a town on the north coast of Kent, England. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images including a doub...

Natural History Rambles: Underground

J. E. Taylor · 1880 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880. Leather. A smartly bound early edition of this study of natural history from British writer and editor John Ellor Taylor. Early edition, first published in 1879. Natural History Rambles series. Illustrated throughout. An...

The Family Herbal, or an Account of All Those English Plants, Which Are Remarkable for Their Virtues, and of the Drugs Which Are Produces by Vegetables of Other Countries; with Their Descriptions and Their Uses, As Proved by Experience.

Sir John Hill · 1820 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

Bungay, C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, [1820]. Leather. A smartly bound copy of John Hill's popular guide to botanical remedies, bound in full calf and illustrated with beautiful hand coloured plates. An illustrated edition.Illustrated with fifty-four hand coloured plates...

Familiar Wild Flowers

F. Edward Hulme · 1877 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Cassell and Company, 1877-1885. First edition. Leather. The first edition of the first five series of F. Edward Hulme's beautifully illustrated study of the wild flowers of Great Britain. A first edition set of the first five volumes of this work, which ultimately...

The Book of the Havana Cigar

Brian Innes · 1983 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Orbis Publishing, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated compendium about the "king of cigars" from member of The Temperance Seven, Brian Innes. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.An intriguing history o...

The Fowler in Ireland or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl Including Instructions in the Art of Shooting and Capturing Them

Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey · 1882 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Jan Van Voorst, 1882. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Ralph Payne-Gallwey's sporting work on hunting wildfowl and seafowl with notes on their habitats, beautifully illustrated and bound in crushed half morocco. The first edition. Illustrated with a m...

The Oyster: A Popular Summary of a Scientific Study

William K. Brooks · 1905 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1905. Cloth. A smart second edition of this study of the oyster from American zoologist William Keith Brooks. Second edition, revised. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. A scientific and practical study of the American oyste...

The New Palaeographical Society: Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts

Edward Maunde Thompson; George Frederick Warner; Frederic George Kenyon; Julius Parnell Gilson · 1903 · Rooke Books

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

London, Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press, 1903-1912 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout with facsimile plates, present here are the first two volumes of the first series of this impressive publication from the New Palaeographical Society, bound in four vol...

Sport in Wildest Britain

H. Hesketh Prichard · 1921 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, William Heinemann, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated account of H. Hesketh-Prichard's experiences hunting in Britain. The first edition.'Sport in Wildest Britain' recounts the author's experiences of bird ...

The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

Hugh Miller · 1857 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co. 1857. Cloth. A smart seventeenth thousand of this illustrated collection of studies on natural history and geology. Seventeenth thousand. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one hundred and fifty-two in-text figures. A collection of natural ...

Gilpin&Apos;S Forest Scenery

William Gilpin; Francis George Heath [editor] · 1879 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879. Cloth. A scarce copy of this illustrated work on English woodlands and forestry. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A commentary on English woodlands and forests, with cha...

Great International Fisheries Exhibition

1883 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Stockholm; Christiania; Washington, Kongl. Boktryckeriet; H. Aschehoug & Co; Government Printing Office, 1883. Leather. Three very scarce volumes produced for the Great International Fisheries Exhibition, on Sweden, Norway, and the United States. Three very scarce works bound ...

An Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies and Moths

Edward Newman · 1874 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, William Glaisher, 1874. Cloth. Extensive and illustrated guides to British butterflies and British moths by Edward Newman, bound together in one volume, with illustrations by George Willis. Two works bound in one volume, in the publisher's original cloth binding, ...

La Vie Des Insectes: Morceaux Choisis Extraits Des Souvenirs Entomologiques

J. H. Fabre · 1911 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris , Librairie Ch. Delagrave , 1911. Leather. A lovely early edition of this French study of the life of insects by Jean-Henri Fabre, with plates. Undated, dated from an identical copy held institutionally. First edition 1910. Bound in quarter crushed morocco, with marbled...

La Vie Des Abeilles

Maurice Maeterlinck · 1901 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Paris, Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1901. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this essay on the life of a bee from Belgian playwright and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck, in the original French. French. Fourth thousand. An essay on the life of a bee, being a philosophical and literary ...

Syllabus of an Elementary Course of the Higher Mathematics

Thomas Duncan · 1837 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Edinburgh, Maclachlan and Stewart, 1837. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce educational volume on higher mathematics, presenting the syllabus of Thomas Duncan. The first edition of this very scarce work.An educational volume presenting Thomas Duncan's syllabus for an ele...

The Mathematical Questions of the Senate-House Examination Papers, 1838 to 1849

Rev. A. H. Frost · 1849 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Cambridge, J. Hall; Whittaker and Co, 1849. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce volume of maths questions included in the Senate House examinations. The first edition of this very scarce work.This volume collects together the mathematical questions whic...