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History and Present Condition of the Barbary States
Rev. Michael Russell · 1835 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
Edinburgh , Oliver & Boyd, 1835. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this history of the Barbary States, with a folding map and illustrations. A first edition copy of this history of The Barbary States. The Barbary states was the name given to the costal regions of N…
A Short History of Building Crafts
Martin S. Briggs · 1925 · Rooke Books
£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition signed copy of this important work on building crafts, being architectural historian John Harvey's copy. A first edition copy. Signed by the author and dated 17th July 1925. With a previous …
Uneasy Relations
John Haylock · 1993 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London & Chester Springs, Peter Owen, 1993 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by John Haylock, signed, inscribed and dated by the author. First edition of Uneasy Relations by John Haylock in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrap…
Notes from a Collector&Apos;S Catalogue
A. W. Oxford · 1909 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London, John and Edward Bumpus, Limited, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this book documenting an antique collectors catalogue. First edition of Notes from a Collector's Catalogue by A. W. Oxford in the original publisher's quarter cloth binding.With …
Royal Daimlers
Brian E Smith · 1976 · Rooke Books
£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,557)
London, Transport Bookman Publications, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition of this illustrated review of the Royal Daimlers. First edition. Highly illustrated throughout. A guide to the Royal Daimlers during the reigns of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King G…
Memorials of Sir Francis Chantrey, Sculptor, in Hallamshire and Elsewhere
John Holland · 1851 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Sheffield, J. Pearce , 1851. First edition. Leather. A charming biography of Sir Francis Chantrey by John Holland. First edition. The life of Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey, an English sculptor who became the leading portrait sculptor in Regency era Britain, producing busts and st…
Souvenir of King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr As Presented at the Lyceum Theatre, 12th January, 1895 by Henry Irving
J. Comyns Carr · 1895 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
London, Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1895. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce collection of illustrations as based on Comyns Carr's play King Arthur. First edition. Scarce work. With thirteen plates. Collated complete. A souvenir for those attending the play 'King Arthur&ap…
The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties Including the Management of Livestock, in Leicestershire and Its Environs: Together with Minutes on Agriculture and Planting in the District of the Midland Station.
William Marshall · 1793 · Rooke Books
£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)
Dublin, J. Moore, 1793. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, second impression two volume set on agricultural practices in the midland counties of 18th century Britain. The first edition, second impression of this uncommon two volume set in a half calf binding. Stamp from The …
Carlyle&Apos;S First Love: Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman an Account of Her Life, Ancestry and Homes, Her Family and Friends
Raymond Clare Archibald · 1910 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1910. First edition. Leather. An illustrated first edition copy of this biography of Margaret Gordon, Lady Bannerman, the first love of Thomas Carlyle. The first edition of this work in a full morocco binding, with marbled paste downs, endpape…
The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire; Including Its Dairy Together with the Dairy Management of North Wiltshire; and the Management of Orchards and Fruit Liquor, in Herefordshire.
William Marshall · 1789 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
London, G. Nicol, 1789. First edition. Leather. A first edition two volume set on the agricultural practices of 18th century Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, in a very smart full calf binding. A first edition of this two volume set, in a full speckled calf binding. Bookplate t…
Astro-Meteorologica, or Aphorisms and Discourses of the Bodies Coelestial
John Goad · 1686 · Rooke Books
£2,850.00 (€3,416.18 | $3,765.25 | ¥601,262)
London, Obadiah Blagrave, 1686. First edition. Leather. John Goad's scarce late seventeenth-century meteorological and astrological work on weather prediction and celestial bodies, previously owned by Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale. A fascinating and curious late …
Sword of Wisdom: Macgregor Mathers and &Apos;the Golden Dawn&Apos;
Ithell Colquhoun · 1975 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Neville Spearman, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this occultist book about 'The Golden Dawn' secret society. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper, desi…
Conservative Science of Nations, (Preliminary Instalment,) Being the First Complete Narrative of Somerville&Apos;S Diligent Life in the Service of Public Safety in Britain
Alexander Somerville · 1860 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
Montreal, John Lovell, 1860. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Alexander Somerville's entertaining autobiography about his early life in England, between 1811 and 1857. The first edition of this autobiography by Alexander Somerville, a British Radical journalist an…
The Aborigines of South-Eastern Australia As They Were
Aldo Massola · 1971 · Rooke Books
£57.00 (€68.32 | $75.30 | ¥12,025)
Melbourne, Heinemann, 1971. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition copy of The Aborigines of south-eastern Australia As They Were, with illustrations. A first edition copy of this work. Aldo Massola, an anthropologist with a specialism in tribal life and customs of t…
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tom Wolfe · 1966 · Rooke Books
£129.00 (€154.63 | $170.43 | ¥27,215)
London, Jonathan Cape , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this first collection of essays by Tom Wolfe, the first British edition. The first UK edition, preceded by the true first US edition of 1965. An anthology of essays by Tom Wolfe originally published in Esquire …
Short Studies on Great Subjects
James Anthony Froude · 1898 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. Leather. Essay collections by James Anthony Froude in beautiful uniform half calf bindings. Vols I and II of this collection of short essays concerned with a variety of topics, from history, to culture, philosophy, religion, literature, ant…
The Wood Beyond and Killing the Lawyers
Reginald HIl · 1996 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996-1997 . First edition. Cloth. Two first edition, first impression works by crime fiction writer Reginald Hill. Two works by Reginald Hill in the original publisher's cloth binding and dust wrappers. The first editions, first impressions…
Sculptura-Historico-Technica: Or, the History and Art of Ingraving
Various · 1747 · Rooke Books
£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)
London, S. Harding, 1747. First edition. Leather. An uncommon treatise and history of the beautiful art of engraving, complete with ten plates. The first edition thus of this uncommon work, the preface describes this work as the second edition of 'Repertorium-Sculptile-Typi…
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam; [Edward Fitzgerald trans.] · 1907 · Rooke Books
£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1907. Leather. A sumptuously bound copy of this noted work, presented here in a highly decorative Bumpus binding, with exquisite gilt detail and watered silk pastedowns. The 1907 edition of the work. First published in this form by Quaritch in …
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Elsa D'Esterre-Keeling · 1902 · Rooke Books
£134.00 (€160.62 | $177.03 | ¥28,270)
London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co. 1902. First edition. Fine Binding. A fascinating biographical work of 18th century portrait artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, handsomely bound in full calf prize binding and awarded to T.C. Eden, brother of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. An intere…