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The Making of a Sailor or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger
Frederick Pease Harlow · 1928 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
Salem, Marine Research Society, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of The Making of a Sailor, with illustrations. A first American edition.The Making of a Sailor or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger is written by Frederick Pease Harlow. The volume is a detail…
A Thoroughbred Mongrel
Stephen Townesend · 1900 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London , T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this humorous dog tail with illustrations. A first edition copy. This is a humorous tale of the adventures of a dog by Stephen Townesend, being the tale of a dog, told by a dog, to lovers of dogs. Ste…
How to Visit Northern Europe
Henry S. Lunn [ed.] · 1896 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Horace Marshall and Son, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this travel guide to Northern Europe edited by the well renowned English humanitarian Henry Lunn. First edition of How to Visit Northern Europe, a new guide-book to the Capitals of the Balt…
Voyages of a Modern Viking
Helmer Hanssen; E. R. G. R. Evans · 1936 · Rooke Books
£255.00 (€305.66 | $336.89 | ¥53,797)
London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1936. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important memoir from polar explorer Helmer Hanssen, with many illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, five plates, and a map. Collated complete. A memoir of time spe…
The Hunter and the Trapper in North America; or, Romantic Adventures in Field and Forest
Benedict Revoil; W. H. Davenport Adams · 1875 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1875. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this illustrated study of animals across North America. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and many in-text images. A study on the animals found across Northern Am…
The Peerage of England; Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of That Kingdom
Arthur Collins · 1768 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)
London, H. Woodfall, J. Beecroft et al, 1768. Leather. The complete seven volume fourth edition of Arthur Collins's genealogical history of England, illustrated with a wealth of engraved plates. Antiquarian Arthur Collins examines the history and lineage of the peerage fami…
The Burtons: A Family Record
Alonzo J. Burton · 1898 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)
Brooklyn, N.Y. Edward Peithman, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A charming family record of the Burton family, charting their English origins in the seventeenth century and their American ancestors, privately compiled by Alonzo J. Burton, a Brooklyn based descendant. The author of t…
Collected Works of Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon · 1930 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
New York; London , Faber and Faber; The Viking Press, 1930-1946. Cloth. Three volumes of work by war author and poet Siegfried Sassoon. Three volumes of works by war poet Siegfried Sassoon. This includes:A first edition copy of Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) which is a f…
Ny Svensk Arkitektur: New Swedish Architecture
Svenska Arkitekters Riksforbund · 1939 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Stockholm , Svenska Arkitekters Riksforbund, 1939 . First edition. Paperback. A bright first edition copy of this work on new Swedish architecture. A first edition copy.This volume is a guide to Swedish architecture by the Association of Swedish Architects. The volume contains t…
At the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials; for Your Tomorrow: British Second World War Memorials
Derek Boorman · 1988 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
York, Derek Boorman, 1988-95. Paperback. Early editions of Derek Boorman's war memorials. Second editions, first paperback editions, both printed in the same year as the true first hardback edition. Derek Boorman's war memorials from both the First and Second World Wa…
The Chronicle of Richard of Devizes Concerning the Deeds of Richard the First, King of England
J. A. Giles · 1841 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
London, James Bohn, 1841. Leather. A smart first edition of this historical work on Richard of Devizes. First edition. Illustrated with a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. The work of Richard of Devises, an English chronicler and monk of St. Swithin's House at Win…
Architecture and How It Arose; with a Model for the Gothic
Charlotte A. Pound · 1880 · Rooke Books
£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)
London, E. Marlborough & Co, 1880 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this very scarce late nineteenth century discussion of the origins of Gothic architecture. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work, by Charlotte A. Pound.Inscri…
The Forbidden Zone
Mary Borden · 1929 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
London, William Heinemann, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of Mary Borden's semi-autobiographical novel, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, of this work from the Chicago born socialite Mary Borden, who d…
Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbreviato
William Illingworth [ed.] · 1811 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, By Command of His Majesty King George III; The House of Commons of Great Britain; G. Eyre and A. Strahan, 1811 . First edition. Leather. A bright copy of this scarce reproduction of this collection of medieval English law documents and records, dating between the reigns …
An Encyclopaedia of Gardening; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture and Landscape Gardening
J. C. Loudon · 1850 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)
London , Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans , 1850. Cloth. A new edition copy of An Encyclopaedia of Gardening. A new edition copy. An extensive encyclopaedia of gardening with a general history of gardening in all countries and suggestions for its future progress in the Briti…
The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century
A. J. B. Beresford Hope · 1861 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London , John Murray , 1861. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition copy of The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century, with illustrations. An uncommon volume.A first edition copy. The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century is by A. J. B. Beresford Hope who w…
Lectures on Architecture Delivered at the Royal Academy
Edward M Barry; Alfred Barry [ed.] · 1881 · Rooke Books
£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)
London, John Murray , 1881. First edition. Cloth. Collection of lectures on architecture delivered by Edward M Barry, the scarce first edition. The first edition of this work, a very scarce volume rarely seen in commerce. Edited with an introductory memoir by Alfred Barry. Publi…
Prostitution in Europe
Abraham Flexner; John D. Rockefeller Jr. · 1914 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
New York, The Century Co. 1914 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this social and political study of prostitution in Europe, revealing early twentieth century attitudes and understandings. First edition of Prostitution in Europe by Abraham Flexner in the original publi…
Unknown Buckinghamshire
Donald Maxwell · 1935 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated scarce first edition of this work on Buckinghamshire. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with colour frontispiece, seven colour plates and thirty-four black-and-white line drawings in…
The Epping Hunt
Thomas Hood · 1829 · Rooke Books
£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)
London, George Tilt, 1829. First edition. Leather. A very smart first edition of this hunting poem by Thomas Wood, illustrated by George Cruikshank. First edition. Illustrated with six engravings on wood, with tissue guards for plates. Collated complete. An exciting poem about h…