Videnskab og natur

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...

The Forester

James Brown · 1847 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

[London], [William Blackwood and Sons], c1871. Cloth. A scarce copy of this practical work on forestry. Lacking the title page, but pagination matches that of the fourth edition. First published in 1847. With vignette illustrations throughout and two folding tables to the rea...

British Food Fish

Gerald Watkin · 1976 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers , 1976. First edition. Cloth. A delightful guide to identifying the species and quality of various fish typically used in cooking, issued by The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. The first edition of this very scarce volume. In t...

The Universal Preceptor

Rev. David Blair · 1823 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , W. Lewis for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. 1823 . Leather. A smartly bound copy of David Blair's highly popular reference work, illustrated with numerous charming vignettes and folding plate. Bound in full calf, with the boards rebacked. The thirteenth edition. A ...

The Whispering Land; Catch Me a Colobus; My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell · 1961 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis; Collins; Heinemann/Octopus , 1961-1981 . First edition. Cloth. A pleasing trio of works by British naturalist Gerald Durrell, including his popular autobiography 'My Family and Other Animals&apos. Comprising the first editions of 'The Whisp...

Elements of Logick; or a Summary of the General Principles and Different Modes of Reasoning

Levi Hedge · 1831 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Boston, Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1831. First edition. Leather. Levi Hedge's treatise on the philosophy of logic, bound in full calf. The stereotype edition. Bound in full contemporary calf. A treatise on the philosophy of logic from a professor in the field,...

A Course of Mathematics

Charles Hutton; Olinthus Gregory · 1824 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, T. Cadell; C. and J. Rivington; Longman, Hurst, and Co; et al, 1824. Leather. Charles Hutton's educational course of mathematics, composed for his students at the Royal Military Academy. Volume I only, of a total of III.Charles Hutton's important course of ma...

Report on the East Anglian Earthquake of April 22nd, 1884

Raphael Meldola; William White · 1885 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1885 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the first edition of Raphael Meldola and William White's guide to the 1884 Colchester earthquake. The first edition of this work.With four plates, two of which are folding, and further vignette il...

On the First Hurricane of September 1853, in the Atlantic; with a Chart; and Notices of Other Storms; Report on the Meteorology of Toronto; Observations on the Hurricanes and Storms of the West Indies and the Coast of the United States to Which Are Added Summary Statements of Some of the Leading Facts in Meteorology; on the Gales and Hurricanes of the Western Atlantic

W. C. Redfield; Edward Sabine · 1834 · Rooke Books

£1,280.00 (€1,534.28 | $1,691.06 | ¥270,040)

London, Richard and John E. Taylor [printers], 1834-1854 . Leather. A very scarce volume of meteorology reports bound as one from reputable physicists William Charles Redfield and Edward Sabine. A desirable volume containing four very scarce meteorology reports, extracted from...

Out of Doors: A Selection of Original Articles on Practical Natural History

Rev. J. G. Wood · 1882 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1882. Leather. A smart new edition of this illustrated natural history work from English writer John George Wood. New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, five plates, and five in-text images. Collated complete. A selection of practical ar...

The Life of the Bee

Maurice Maeterlinck; Alfred Sutro [trans.] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, George Allen, 1912 . Leather. The second impression of this illustrated edition of Maeterlinck's study of the bee, beautifully illustrated with colour plates by Detmold. First published in 1901, this work was re-set with Detmold's illustrations in 1911. This ...

Solutions of Goodwin&Apos;S Collection of Problems and Examples

William Wayman Hutt · 1863 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Cambridge , Deighton, Bell, and Co, 1863. Cloth. A very scarce and informative collection of mathematical problems and solutions William Wayman Hutt, previously owned by the mathematician David Singmaster. The third edition, revised and enlarged. In the publisher's origi...

The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated

E. T. Bennet · 1830 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Chiswick; London, C. Whittingham; Thomas Tegg; N. Hailes, 1830-35. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated study of the animals housed at the London Zoo, produced only a few years after its opening. Volume I is the first edition, Volume II is a later edition.A zoological study wr...

Old Red Sandstone; or New Walks in an Old Field

Hugh Miller · 1858 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co. 1858. Leather. A smartly bound later edition of this geological study from Scottish writer Hugh Miller, with a series of geological papers added. Later edition. With a folding colour plate to the front of the text and fifteen plates. Collate...

Strata

Terry Pratchett · 1981 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of this early novel by Terry Pratchett, a wonderfully witty sci-fi novel. The first U.S. editionIn the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Strata' is an early novel by the brilliant Terr...

The Diamondking of Sahara

Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa · 1935 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Helsinki, K. F. Puromies Limited, 1935. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce science fiction novel by the Finnish author Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa, the first edition. The first edition of this very scarce work.'The Diamondking of Sahara' is a brilliant science fictio...

Marmaduke Emperor of Europe

X [Frank Attfield Fawkes] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

Chelmsford; London, Edmund Durrant & Co; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co. LD, 1895. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce future war sci-fi novel from British author Frank Attfield Fawkes. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece. &a...

I Love Galesburg in the Springtime: Fantasy and Time Stories

Jack Finney · 1965 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this collection of science fiction and fantasy stories from American author Jack Finney. First UK edition. Uncommon as the UK first. A collection of ten short stories from Walter Braden "Jack"...

Heinlein in Dimension, and, in Search of Wonder

Alexei Panshin; Damon Knight · 1972 · Rooke Books

£46.00 (€55.14 | $60.77 | ¥9,705)

Chicago, Advent: Publishers, 1972. Paperback. Two of Advent's important critical publications on science fiction, by Alexei Panshin and Damon Knight. A set of two of the critical sci-fi volumes published by Advent:Publishers, known for being the genre's first scholar...

Assignment in Tomorrow: An Anthology; a Touch of Strange

Frederik Pohl [ed.]; Theodore Sturgeon · 1954 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

New York , Hanover House; Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1954. Cloth. Two terrific book club edition anthologies filled with ingenious science fiction tales, including a selection of stories by Theodore Sturgeon. Book Club editions. With the publisher's original dust wrappe...