Videnskab og natur

Indoor Studies

John Burroughs · 1895 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Cloth. A smart new Riverside edition of this collection of essays from American naturalist John Burroughs. New Riverside edition. Scarce. A collection of essays on subjects including: science and literature, Henry D. Thoreau, Matthe...

The Justification of Andrew Lebrun

Frank Barrett; [Frank Davis] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, William Heinemann, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition novel, a science fiction novel based around suspended animation. The first edition of this scarce work.'The Justification of Andrew Lebrun' follows the eponymous character, a clockmaker and...

The Scarlet Empire

David M. Parry · 1906 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this satirical and dystopian novel by David M. Parry, illustrated by Hermann C. Wall. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Illustrated by Hermann C. Wall with a co...

The Sack of London by the Highland Host: A Romance of the Period

Jingo James · 1900 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1900. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce and unusual science fiction novel, following a Scottish clan who march on London in response to an unflattering cartoon. The first edition. In the publisher's ori...

The Great Stone of Sardis: A Novel

Frank R. Stockton · 1898 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Harper & Brothers, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this science fiction novel from American writer Frank Richard Stockton, with illustrations. First UK edition, published the same year as the US edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty...

Arsareth: A Tale of the Luray Caverns

B. C. Warren · 1893 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

New York, A. Lovell & Co. 1893. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling lost race novel from American author Benjamin Clark Warren. First edition. Scarce work. 'Set in antebellum Virginia, where a treasure trove unpacks the story of one the Ten Lost ...

The Raid of the "Detrimental": Being the True History of the Great Disappearance of 1862; Related by Several of Those Implicated and Others; and Now First Set Forth

The Earl of Desart · 1897 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this utopian novel from the Earl of Desart. First edition. A fantasy utopian novel set abord the good ship the Detrimental, featuring the discovery of a lost race. Written by William Ulick ...

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

Louis Tracy · 1897 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart illustrated first edition of this exciting novel from prolific writer Louis Tracy. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A thrilling adventure novel set in th...

Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign

Thomas Laslett · 1875 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1875. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce work exploring timber and timber trees. First edition. Scarce work. With illustrations throughout. A handy book and botanical treatise on home and foreign timber for ship and ho...

The Flying Legion

George Allan England · 1920 · Rooke Books

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

Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co, 1920. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this exciting adventure sci-fi novel by George Allan England, in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An exciting Near Future sci-fi novel, a ten...

Lentala of the South Seas

W. C. Morrow · 1908 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1908. First edition. Cloth. An exciting and romantic science fiction novel by W. C. Morrow, complete with colourful plates. The first edition thus, being the first available edition, previously published in an unseen edition by The Succes...

The Masked Battery

Harold Wintle · 1927 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, A. M. Alexander, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of this fantasy novel, concerning a magic spring which causes amnesia, by the journalist Harold Wintle. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original clot...

The Throne of Saturn

S. Fowler Wright · 1951 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, William Heinemann, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this imaginative collection of science fiction stories from S. Fowler Wright, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK edition. Unusually published earlier in the United States in 1949...

The Voice of the Murderer

Goodwin Walsh · 1926 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

New York; London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition mystery time travel novel, in the original decorative dust wrapper. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A sci-fi crime novel, in wh...

Heredity and Hybridism: A Suggestion, and Spiritualism Answered by Science; with the Proofs of a Psychic Force

Edward W. Cox · 1875 · Rooke Books

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

London, Longman and Co, 1875 . First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of English lawyer Edward W. Cox's biological study of heredity and hybridism, bound with the second edition of his vanishingly scarce work on spiritualism. Two vanishingly scarce w...

The New Gulliver and Other Stories

Barry Pain · 0 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, c1913. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from English writer Barry Pain. First edition. A collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, including: In a London Garden, Zero, When I Was King,...

Metropolis

Thea von Harbour; Maurits J. Vles · 1928 · Rooke Books

£800.00 (€958.93 | $1,056.91 | ¥168,775)

Amsterdam, Uitgevers-Maatschaap, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first Dutch edition of this monumental science fiction novel by Thea von Harbou, illustrated with stills from the 1926 film. The very scarce to see first Dutch edition of this work, translated by Maur...

Flies of the British Isles

Charles N. Colyer; Cyril O. Hammond · 1951 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated entomological work on British flies, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and plates and forty-seven col...

River Gardens; Being an Account of the Best Methods of Cultivating Fresh-Water Plants in Aquaria, in Such a Manner As to Afford Suitable Abodes to Ornamental Fish, and Many Interesting Kinds of Aquatic Animals.

H. Noel Humphreys · 1857 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co. 1857. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work on river gardens by H. Noel Humphreys, with beautiful colour plates. The first edition of this scarce work. In the publisher's original gilt cloth, re-backed. Illustrated w...

My Friend Toto: The Adventures of a Chimpanzee and the Story of His Journey from the Congo to London

Cherry Kearton; Sir Gilbert Parker · 1925 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Arrowsmith, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart first of this illustrated story of a chimpanzee who travelled from the Congo to London. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-two photographs across sixteen plates. Collated complete. The story of Toto the chimpanzee, wh...