Videnskab og natur

Balancing for Expert Book-Keepers

George Pepler Norton · 1894 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London , Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1894. Cloth. A scarce work on book keeping With a test journal balancing book and specimen accounts Sir George Lionel Pepler (1882 – 13 April 1959) was a British town planner who was influential in the development of town plann...

A Collection of Thirty-Nine Botanical Pamphlets

Various · 1879 · Rooke Books

£510.00 (€611.32 | $673.78 | ¥107,594)

N/A, N/A, 1879-1900. Cloth. A fascinating collection of thirty-nine botanical pamphlets or extracts, some of which have come with their author's regards, with compliments, or signed to the title pages. The title given on the spine is: Botanical Pamplets, Phanerogams I. Wi...

Botanical Rambles

Rev. C. A. Johns · 0 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c1846. Cloth. A nicely illustrated Victorian guide to botany. Featuring an illustrated frontispiece. Contains numerous illustrations in the text. With a bookbinder's stamp for S. Curtis to the front pastedown. Rev. C. A. ...

Ants Bees and Wasps a Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera

Sir John Lubbock · 1929 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1929. Cloth. An illustrated copy of this work of natural history. With four colour plates. The original work by Sir John Lubbock, a banker, politician, scientist and polymath. He wrote several works on Hymenoptera, insects, the in...

Refocus on New Zealand Birds

G. J. H. Moon · 1967 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

Wellington, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of G. J. H. Moon's book on New Zealand birds. First edition. With 137 colour plates and 91 black and white plates. Geoff Moon (1915-2009) was a world renowned New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist...

Live Stock in Health and Disease Sections 2-5

L. H. Archer; Professor J. Prince-Sheldon [ed.] · 1902 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London; Paris; New York; Melbourne, Cassell & Company, Limited, c.1902. Hardback. A very scarce colour illustrated collection of works, published for subscribers, on the health and care of livestock. A very scarce set of 4 out of 5 volumes, published for subscribers.An informa...

A Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera: Volumes I and II

W.F. Kirby [William Forsell Kirby] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Edward Lloyd, Limited, 1896. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of two charming volumes on the characteristics, behaviours and different species of butterflies, including lovely colour plates. The first edition of A Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera, containing bo...

Animal and Vegetable Physiology

Peter Mark Roget · 1834 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, William Pickering, 1834 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Peter Mark Roget's impressive and charmingly illustrated introductory guide to the physiology of vegetables and animals, complete in two volumes. The first edition of this work from British phy...

The Fresh and Salt-Water Aquarium

J.G. Wood [John George Wood] · 1868 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1868. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an engaging guide to aquariums, illustrated with colour plates, and written by popular parson-naturalist John George Wood. The first edition of The Fresh and Salt-Water Aquarium, an informative...

The Book of Nature

John Mason Good · 1831 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

New York, J. and J. Harper, 1831. Leather. An early edition of a comprehensive and insightful series of lectures on nature and humanist by awarded medical scientist John Mason Good. An early edition of the Book of Nature, a series of lectures on nature and humanity, by medical...

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin · 1902 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, John Murray, 1902. Paperback. An uncommon softcover copy of Darwin's most famous work, printed in 1902. An uncommon, paper-bound copy of Charles Darwin's world famous title.40,000th to 47,500th in this form, of the corrected copyright edition.Charles Darwin, ...

The Book of Trees. Descriptive of the Principal Timber Trees, and the Larger Species of Palms.

Anonymous · 1839 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, John W. Parker , 1839. Cloth. A very scarce 1839 copy of this uncommon work, published anonymously, and beautifully illstrated. An unusual pocket-sized second edition of this anonymously published and illustrated title.Bound in original blue cloth pictorial boards, wit...

The Sessile Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U. S National Museum; Including a Monograph of the American Species

Henry A. Pilsbry · 1916 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Washington D. C. Washington Government Printing Office, 1916. Cloth. A smart 1916 copy of Henry A. Pilsbry's illustrated title. A smart brown cloth copy of this 1916 title.Henry A. Pilsbry was a noted biologist with specialisms in molluscs and crustaceans, who published m...

Glaucus; or, the Wonders of the Shore

Charles Kingsley · 1855 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1855. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Kingsley's charming seaside study in the publisher's original green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration. The first edition in the publisher's original green cloth with pictorial gilt dec...

Seaside Studies in Natural History

Elizabeth C. Agassiz; Alexander Agassiz · 1865 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1865 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of this coastal study of Massachusetts in the publisher's original green cloth, with numerous black and white illustrations. The first edition in the publisher's original gree...

Into Deepest Space

Fred Hoyle; Geoffrey Hoyle · 1975 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Heinemann, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the first UK edition of Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle's thrilling science fiction novel about interplanetary conflict. The uncommon first UK edition, first impression. First published in the US the year prio...

Nature&Apos;S Teachings Human Invention Anticipated by Nature

J G Wood · 1903 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, William Glaisher, 1903. Cloth. An uncommon, illustrated 1903 cloth copy of Woods beloved title. An uncommon, new 1903 edition, with a charming red pictorial board cover, that echoes the design of the first edition, and gilt decorations to spine.In this title, Wood stra...

Insects at Home Being a Popular Account of British Insects, Their Structure, Habits, and Transformations

Rev. J. G. Wood · 1876 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1876. Cloth. A smart early edition of this illustrated study of British insects from English natural history writer Reverend John George Wood. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty black-and-white plates, and numerous in-text images. Coll...

The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland

Francis Day · 1880 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Williams and Norgate, 1880-4. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Francis Day's impressive ichthyological study of British and Irish fishes, with many fantastic illustrations. The first edition.Illustrated with ninety-three monochrome lithographic plates to...

Beautiful Butterflies: The British Species Described and Illustrated

H. G. Adams [Henry Gardiner Adams] · 1856 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1856. Cloth. An early edition of Henry Gardiner Adams' work on British butterflies, beautifully illustrated with coloured plates. An early edition, first published in 1854.Illustrated with eight beautiful chromolithographic plates and numerou...