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

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

CROOKES, SIR WILLIAM F.R.S.

A Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico Printing

1874, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, Longmans, London, 1874. 8vo, xvi, 731p, 24p cat. Eleven plates, 47 attractive coloured mounted specimens of dyed and printed fabrics, 38 woodcuts. Inscr, recased at some time in matching cloth with rather worn old gilt spine laid down & new endpapers, internally VG. Crookes was an important chemist who edited 'Chemical News'. Knight p236 'His 'Chemical Analysis' became a standard work'. See also DNB - he discovered thallium and was President of the Royal Society. Very Good.

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Book number: 001324

Catalogue: History of Science

CROSS, C F & BEVAN, E J

A Text-book on Paper Making

1907. Hardcover. Book, Third edn, Spon, 1907. Folding plates & text illustrations. Near fine copy in original dark-green cloth gilt. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001647

Catalogue: History of Science

CUMMING, CONSTANCE GORDON

Granite Crags of California

. Hardcover. Book, New edn, Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1886. x, 384p, 5 attractive autotype plates & fldg map. Unopened. New front endpaper at some time. Rear board slightly faded else nr fine copy in original pictorial cloth gilt. A nice copy of an important early account of Yosemite. Scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 000749

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CUMMING, DAVID.

Handbook of Lithography a practical treatise.

1904, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, A&C Black, London, 1904. 8vo, frontispiece, xii, 243p, 10p cat. 14 colour plates. Pencil inscr, Slight wear, VG in original cloth gilt. Some pencil annotation. Cumming was lecturer in Edinburgh at Heriot-Watt and some of the plates show Edinburgh Castle. Very Good.

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Book number: 002122

Catalogue: History of Science

CUNNINGHAM, C D & ABNEY, SIR W

The Pioneers of the Alps

1888. Hardcover. Book, Second edn, 4to, 1888. 180p. Complete with 23 plates & text illus. Inscr. Minor browning to edge of photo pages but not the engravings, else VG in orig pict cloth gilt. Clark 'only 200 copies printed'. A great classic with a history of Alpinism & biographical sketches of the great Alpine guides. Neate C156 'with Abney's superb portraits.'. Very Good.

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Book number: 001609

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CURWEN, JOHN F

The Chorography or a Descriptive Catalogue of the Printed Maps of Cumberland & Westmorland

1918. Soft cover. Book, Paperback, reprinted from Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Transactions, Kendal, Titus Wilson, 1918. 8vo, 96p, fldg plate. Light foxing on first two pages, VG in original printed wrappers. Very Good.

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Book number: 001791

Catalogue: Lake District

DAGLEY, RICHARD [GASPEY, THOMAS]

Takings or, the Life of a Collegian. A Poem. Illustrated by Twenty-Six Etchings from Designs by R Dagley

1821, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Warren & Whittaker, 1821. Tall 8vo, viii, 32p, [viii], 184p. 16 x 26 cm. 26 attractive hand-coloured plates. Fine, uncut copy in a very fine full straight-grained red morocco binding, full gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers by MORELL, Binder, London. Richard Dagley exhibited irregularly at the Royal Academy between 1785 and 1833. Fine.

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Book number: 001917

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: Fine Binding

FOURIER (PUB GASTON DARBOUX

Oeuvres de Fourier publiées par les soins de M. Gaston Darboux, sous les auspices du Ministere de l'Instruction Publique Tome Second

1890. Hardcover. Book, Volume two only, memoires publiées dans divers recueils, Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1890. 4to, xii, errata leaf, 636p. Large paper copy, no frontispiece. Small amount of annotation. A VG clean copy in plain brown card covers. Scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 001415

Catalogue: History of Science

Keywords: Fourier Mathematics