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The Lamb and the Child
Dean Frye · 1964 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London , The Bodley Head , 1964. First edition. Hardback. A lovely illustrated adaptation of Second Shepherd's Play, in the original dust wrapper. A charming first edition copy of this simple adaptation of the fifteenth century Second Shepherd's Play from the Wakefield…
An African Adventure
Isaac F. Marcosson · 1921 · Rooke Books
£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)
London, John Lane Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A very smart and illustrated work regarding American travel through Africa. Complete with 48 illustrations including photographs, maps and frontispiece of King Albert. Collated complete. The first UK edition of the work. Pub…
A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
Samuel Johnson · 1775 · Rooke Books
£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)
Dublin, Thomas Ewing, 1775. First edition. Leather. A striking and important edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language, the first complete edition to be printed in Ireland. The first edition thus, being the first quarto edition and first complete editio…
Le Roman D&Apos;Un Jeune Homme Pauvre
Octave Feuillet · 1859 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, Libraires Ãditeurs, 1859. Leather. A smart copy of Octave Feuillet's most popular novel, which has been adapted for film multiple times. A new edition, part of the publisher's 'Oeuvres Completes d'Octave Feuillet' series. Pu…
Plan Topographique de la Campagne de Rome; Pantogramma Ou Vue Descriptive Generale de la Campagne de Rome
F. Ch. L. Sickler D. · 1821 · Rooke Books
£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)
Rome, Imprimerie de Romanis chez Venance Monaldini, 1821. Paperback. The fourth edition of Dr Friedrich Charles Louis Sickler's topographical guide to Rome, containing both his 'Plan Topographique' and 'Pantogramma ou Vue Descriptive Generale', and illus…
The Emperor&Apos;S Last Island a Journey to St Helena
Julia Blackburn · 1991 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London, Secker & Warburg, 1991 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical study of Napoleon's exile on St Helena, including a letter from the publisher. First edition of The Emperor's Last Island A Journey to St Helena by Julia Blackburn in the origin…
Career of Evil
Robert Galbraith; [J. K. Rowling] · 2015 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
London, Sphere, 2015. First edition. Cloth. The first impression, second state, of J. K. Rowling's third murder mystery novel in her Cormoran Strike series. The first edition, first impression, second state, with copyright of 'Robert Galbraith Limited' to the limi…
The Royal Arms: Its Graphic and Decorative Development
Charles Hasler · 1980 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, Jupiter Books, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A fine, first edition copy of this brightly illustrated historical work on the British Royal Arms, enclosed in the original dust wrapper. A comprehensive history of Great Britain's Royal Arms, with a particular focus on the…
The Lures of the Bronze Age
H.C. Broholm; William P. Larsen; Godtfred Skjerne · 1949 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Copenhagen, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1949. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this detailed history of the lures and other antiquities of the Bronze Age in Scandinavia, illustrated throughout. A fascinating history of the lures of the Bronze Age in Denmark, Norway, Germ…
Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford, to Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany. Now First Published from the Originals in the Possession of the Earl of Waldegrave.
Horace Walpole; Lord Dover (ed.) · 1833 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)
London, Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, three volume set of letters by the English writer and politician, Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann. The first edition and first publication of the original letters. Uniformly rebound in full cloth binding w…
Napoleon at St. Helena, 1815-1821
Frederic Masson; Louis B. Frewer [trans.] · 1950 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
New York, Medill McBride Company, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of this detailed and illustrated historical account of the final years of Napoleon Bonaparte's life, 1815-1821. The first US edition of Louis B. Frewer's translation of Frederic Masson&…
The Pinnacle of Glory
Wilson Wright [William Reitzel] · 1935 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this 1935 historical novel about Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on St. Helena. In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price clipped.The first edition, first impression o…
British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910, Natural History Report. Geology. Vol. II. No. 2. The Volcanic Rocks of Cape Adare South Victoria Land
W. Campbell Smith · 1959 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
London, Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1959 . First edition. Paperback. British mineralogist and petrologist Walter Campbell Smith's very scarce geological report on the volcanic rocks of the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula, East Antarctica. No.…
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins · 2015 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Doubleday , 2015. First edition. Cloth. Seventh impression of this famous thrilling novel by Paula Hawkins. Psychological thriller by British author Paula Hawkins, concerning themes of alcoholism and troublesome relations. A The New York Times best seller, with over on…
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Washington Irving · 1828 · Rooke Books
£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)
London, John Murray, 1828. First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound four volume set of this fictionalised account of the life of Christopher Columbus. The first edition of the work. Complete in four volumes, with a folding map to volumes one and two. Half titles present to all…
Suite Franãâ§Aise
Irène Némirovsky · 2006 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Chatto & Windus, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first English edition, fourth impression of this French novel sequence by Irène Némirovsky. First English language edition of this work, fourth impression. Containing two of a planned sequence of five novels by Irè…
Sepulchre
Kate Mosse · 2007 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Orion Books, 2007. First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed copy of this novel by Kate Mosse, the first impression. Telling of two women over two time periods: 1891 and modern day. Written by English author Kate Mosse, best known for her archaeological mystery novel Labyri…
The Cape of Adventure, Being Strange and Notable Discoveries, Perils, Shipwrecks, Battles Upon Sea and Land, with Pleasant and Interesting Observations Upon the Country and the Natives of the Cape of Good Hope.
Ian D. Colvin · 1912 · Rooke Books
£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)
London and Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack , 1912 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this travel journal and collection of memoirs from experiences in The Cape from the British colonisers of the early twentieth century First edition of The Cape of Adventure by Ian D. Col…
Wolf Hall and Bringing Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel · 2009 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Fourth Estate, 2009-2012. First edition. Cloth. Excellent first editions of the first two works in Mantel's Cromwell series. The eleventh impression of 'Wolf Hall', and the tenth of 'Bring Up the Bodies&apos. Early impressions of the first two volumes…
The Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilisation of the Incas; the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilisation
William H Prescott · 1850 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)
London, Richard Bentley , 1850. Leather. Uniformly bound set of the history of Peruvian and Mexican conquest by William H. Prescott, a bright group. William H Prescott wan an American historian, widely recognised as the first American scientific historian. Here is a six volume c…