THE YORKSHIRE RAMBLERS' CLUB

The Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal Vols I - VI, Nos 1-22, 1899 -1936

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, 6 vols, first edns, Leeds, Yorkshire Ramblers' Club. Complete with all plates & fldg maps. Withdrawn from Ilkley Public Library, library labels & small stamp to rear of title pages. Bound in half calf, orange boards, sm lib stamp & number on spines. VG very clean set. An excellent set of this famous Journal, with contributions on mountaineering and caving by many famous authors. These include Slingsby, Pilkington, Whymper, Calvert, Puttrell, Botterill, Farrer and many others, covering much of the early history of climbing, caving and mountaineering. Very Good.

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Book number: 001555

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COCKER, MICHAEL

Wasdale Climbing Book. A history of early rock climbing in the Lake District based on contemporary accounts from the Wastwater Hotel 1863-1919.

2006, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edition, Ernest Press & FRCC, 2006. 4to, 239p plus 146p facsimile pages. Near fine in similar pictorial unclipped dw. An attractive & well-illustrated history. Scarce. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001841

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COLLIE, J NORMAN F.R.S.

Climbing on the Himalaya and other Mountain Ranges.

1902, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Douglas, Edinburgh, 1902. 8vo, xii, 315p, 1p advert. Complete with 18 engraved plates and three folding maps. Fine copy in original dark-green cloth gilt. Neate C94 'Collie is one of the best-loved figures in British Mountaineering history'. This great classic includes Nanga Parbat with Mummery in 1895, as well as chapters on the Canadian Rockies, Alps, Lofoten, Skye, Ireland and Wastdale Head. Fine.

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Book number: 001829

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COLLIE, J NORMAN AND STUTFIELD, HUGH

Climbs and Exploration in the Canadian Rockies

1903, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans, London, 1903. 8vo, xii, 343p. Complete with plates and folding coloured map. Bookplate of Shoreham Grammar School, gilt emblem on front board, nr fine copy in original cloth gilt. Neate S177 'One of the classics of the Canadian Rockies'. Very Good.

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Book number: 001840

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CUMBERLAND EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

Cumberland Education Committee Minutes of Committee and sub-committees, Volume 3, 1905-6.

. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Beaty & Sons, Carlisle, 1905-6. 8vo, 623 p, plus 6 Appendices (approx 140p) including Ninth Annual report of the Cumberland & Westmorland Farm School, Newton Rigg, Penrith, with six plates. Slight wear, VG in original red roan, gilt lettering on front board, neatly rebacked in matching red cloth. The records of Cumberland and Westmorland Education in 1905. Scarce - only one copy on Library Hub. Very Good.

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Book number: 002187

Catalogue: History of Science

CONWAY, SIR MARTIN

The Bolivian Andes a Record of Climbing & Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900

1901, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Harper, London & New York, 1901. 8vo, x, 403p. New endpapers, VG clean copy in original cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Neate C102 'The first major climbing expedition to the area'. Perret 1090 'ouvrage important sur cette region. Rare et recherché'. Very Good.

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Book number: 001147

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CONWAY, SIR MARTIN.

Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas.

1894, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, London, Fisher Unwin, 1894. Large 8vo, xxviii, 709p. 1p ad. Three hundred illustrations by A. D. McCormick, and folding map. Finely bound in full dark-green calf, decorative boards and spine, twin labels, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Neate C103. Perret 1088 One of the great explorers of the late C19 'rare et tres recherché'. Fine.

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Book number: 002116

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CONWAY, SIR WILLIAM MARTIN.

The First Crossing of Spitsbergen.

1897, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Dent, 1897. Large 8vo, xii, 371p. 8 colour plates, 2 folding col'd maps, plates & text illustrations. Nr fine copy in green half-morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, binding by Mudie. Bookplate of Clinton E Geiser. Neate C105 'An account of an inland journey of exploration & survey, with descriptions of several mountain ascents'. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002152

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COOK, THOS

Programme of Select Conducted Tours to Switzerland Season 1909

Thos Cook & Son 1909. 1909. Hardcover. Book, First edn thus, Thos Cook, 1909. 8vo, 56p. Illustrations and adverts. Slight wear to spine else VG in original printed card covers. Five Cook's Tours, including Rhine & Black Forest; Paris & Switzerland; Grand Alpine Tour and Valley of Aosta. Very Good.

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Book number: 002027

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COOLIDGE, W A B (SIGNED BY ASHLEY ABRAHAM).

Alpine Studies (Signed By Ashley Abraham).

1912, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans, London, 1912. 8vo, xiv, 307p. Plates mainly by Vittorio Sella. Spine evenly faded, light foxing to edges & some pages, slight wear to head of spine else VG in original cloth. SIGNED by Keswick climber Ashley Abraham on the endpaper. Neate C126. A rare signature of one of the Keswick Brothers, noted for their photography, rock and Alpine climbing. Very Good.

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Book number: 001307

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COOLIDGE, W A B

Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide Books

1889, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans Green & Co, 1889. 8vo, xii, 336p, 16p cat. Minor light foxing else near fine copy in original cloth gilt. An important reference work, with a history of Zermatt. Neate C129, Perret 1098. Scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 001013

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CORNISH, J & T

Cornish's Strangers Guide Through Manchester & Salford

. Hardcover. Book, New edn, Cornish, Manchester, 1857. Sm 8vo, lxiv (illus adverts), 164p, xxvi (ads). Large fldg b/w city map 'Manchester & Salford 1857' by J R Jobbins, showing the railway system. Text engs inc The Great Exhibition of Art Treasures 1857 held in Manchester. Original paper covers, slight wear & staining, else VG. Rare guide & railway map. Only 3 copies on Copac. Very Good.

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Book number: 001668

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Railway Map

COSTANTIN, M J

Apercu historique des progres de la botanique depuis cent ans (1834-1934).

1934. Soft cover. Book, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, XVI, Paris, 1934. Tall 8vo, cxcix p, 16 plates, text portraits. University bookplate, VG clean copy in original printed wrappers. Very Good.

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Book number: 001237

Catalogue: History of Science

COXE, WILLIAM.

Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland in a Series of Letters to William Melmoth Esq.

1779, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, printed for J Dodsley, 1779. 8vo, viii, 532p, 1p postscript. Original wrappers bound in. Completely uncut copy, 16 x 25 cm. Attractively bound in 1/4 calf, marbled boards, gilt label, not recent. Minor dampstain to corner of early pages else VG clean copy. Pp 286-295 describe a visit to the 'glacier of Montenvers' and the use of 'a long pole spiked with iron' and crampons. Also an attempt on Mont Blanc by 'four inhabitants of Chamouny'. Perret 1159 'Un des ouvrages de voyages en Suisse les plus classiques de la fin du XVIII siecle'. The first edition of the book later issued (1789) as 'Travels in Switzerland' which ran to four editions. Very Good.

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Book number: 001929

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CRANE, WALTER.

The Sleeping Beauty and Blue Beard.

1914, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1914. Sm 8vo, unpaginated, 14 colour plates, inscr, VG. Very neatly re-cased with original boards, original cover (pencilled name) and original endpapers bound in, nice gilt label. Very Good.

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Book number: 002079