10 Decades of Mountaineering - an Exhibition Guide - (Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District)

Fell & Rock Climbing Club. 2007, 1st Edition. Illustrated Card Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 33p beautifully produced and well-illustrated exhibition guide to mark the centenary of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District. Clean, unmarked and mint. See scans. Fine.

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Book number: 007436

Catalogue: Mountaineering

Keywords: Climbing Guide Rock Mountains Mountaineering England English Lake District Mountaineering Boks Bibliography English Topography and Local History Biography, Books & Book Collecting

157 Art Photos of the Isle of Man with Map and Guide

Isle of Man, Phillips Bazaar. Coloured Illustrated Card Cove, Oblong Quarto. Book, ? Edwardian album of photos of the Isle of Man. Many views of Scenery, harbour, promenade with trams, carrages, people and mor e people. Map and two sides of description. 9 plates of the steamers of the island. Grubby and disbound but plates complete and presentable. Poor/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000893

Catalogue: English Topography and Local History

Keywords: Isle of Man Douglas Photo Photographic Views View Album Snaefell Railway Transport

1930's Sheet Music - Bundle of 5

. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book, 1) "Its a Sin to Tell a Lie" - Billy Mayhew 2) "The First Quarrel" - Box, Cox and Roberts 3) "Saddle Your Blues to a Wild Mustang" - George Whiting and Buddy Bernier - music by Billy Haid - featuredby Henry Hall. 4) "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer"- Harold Adamson, Jimmy ]McHugh and Frederick Day. 5) "Up the Wooden Steps to Bedfordshire" Nixon Grey & Reg Connelly - featured by Kitty Masters. Condtion VG to Good+ . See scans. Good.

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Book number: 008997

Catalogue: History

Keywords: 1) "Its a Sin to Tell a Lie" - Billy Mayhew 2) "The First Quarrel" - Box, Cox and Roberts 3) "Saddle Your Blues to a Wild Mustang" - George Whiting and Buddy Bernier - music by Billy Haid - featuredby Henry Hall. 4) "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer"- H M

1930's - 1940's Sheet Music - Bundle of 7

. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book, 1) Lullaby of the Bells - Nelson Eddy in "Phantom of the Opera" 1943. 2)Piano Solo- "Greensleeves" arranged as a song by Granville Bantock: 3) "Good Luck until we meet again" by Horatio Nicholls recorded by Jack Hylton and his band; 4)"River, Stay'way from My Door" featured by Randolph Sutton" 19315) "Somebody's Thinking of you Tonight" featured and broadcast by Sam Dunne. 6) "Tears on my Pillow" Fox Trot written and composed by Max & Harry Nesbitt. featured by Billie Manders. 7) "Londonderry Air"..for Piano by Wilson Manhire.Condtion VG to Good. See scans. Good.

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Book number: 009010

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Lullaby of the Bells - Nelson Eddy in "Phantom of the Opera" 1943. 2)Piano Solo- "Greensleeves" arranged as a song by Granville Bantock: 3) "Good Luck until we meet again" by Horatio Nicholls recorded by Jack Hylton and his band; 4)"River, Stay'way from M

Aberdeen Panorama - View from the Blue Hill, of Mountains, Hills, &C. , in the Horizon and Foreground in Outline

The Cairngorm Club. 1st Edition. Book, A panorama from "The Blue Hill" - 467ft above sea level , two miles inland from the North Sea, in the N.E. of Kincardinshire. Measures 18 1/2" x 22 1/2 "; folded; some tonoing and one fold splitting. Probably issued with the Cairngorm Club Journal c.1895. Would frame well. Uncommon - see scans. Good +.

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Book number: 006329

Catalogue: Mountaineering

Keywords: The Caringorms Mountain Panoramas Aviemore Ben Macdui Scottish Hghlands Cairngorm Club Mountaineering Rock Climbing Braemar Aberdeen Maps & Cartography Scottish Topography & Local History

Aberfoyle, Perthshire - G.W. W. (George Washington Wilson) - Original Sepia Photgraph C. 1900

. Book, Sepia photo measuring 8" x 5" (13x20cms) depicting Aberfoyle Perthshire. G.W.W. 4449. Clean but a little faded toward the top. Mounted on toned card. See scans.

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Book number: 008150

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Scottish Topography & Local History

About Aluminium

Gerrards Cross, Bucks, British Alcan Aluminium Limited. 1988, Reprint. Stapled Binding, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 31p illustrtaed; an educationla booklet produced by British Alcan in combination with the staff and pupils of Wheatley Park School. Clean and unmarked. See scans. Very Good.

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Book number: 008502

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Aluminium Production Foyers Kinlochleven Fort William Scottish Topography & Local History

Abram & Westleigh - Auction Sale Prospectus of Land in the County of Lancaster - 1880 - with Two Coloured Maps

1880, 1st Edition. Folded to Quarto. Book, The cover states: "Particulars and Conditions of Sale of very valuable Mines, Building Land, Farm and Beer-House, situate at Abram & Westleigh in the County of Lancaster. To Be Sold By Auction at Royal Hotel Wigan 28th May 1880. By Mr. Joseph Hill". Map Labelling Lots - "Plan Of Property Situate at Abram & Westleigh in the Chancery of Halton & Worsley. All Fields Marked with their Names and Owners. Split at bottom fold of Middle Section of three repaired - old and new repairs. 22 Lots.Sheet for Lots 1-13 Missing. Second Sheet Gives Details of Beer-House. Farmhouse and Cottages and Mines. Lots 14 - 22.But all Lots Are Shown on Plan. Mines Under A Moiety of the Highway Leading From Golborne To Leigh. Map measures 2" x 30" and is lighly foxed with a few splits alomg folds. Map a bit grubby but still highly collectable.. Good +.

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Book number: 004751

Catalogue: English Topography and Local History

Keywords: Lancaster Wigan Abram Westleigh Estate Plans Estate Sale Halton & Worsley. Maps & Cartography History

Abridged Catalogue of the London Cigarette Card Co. Ltd - Tenth 1939 Edition

The London Cigarette Co.Ltd. 1939. Stapled Binding, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 30p priced listings of what must be a comprehensive listing of prer WWII cigarette cards. No marks or signatures but card covers dusty with some corner wear; some fading of edges and a blind tear rear cover hidden under an addenda slip pasted on. See scans. Good.

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Book number: 007743

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Collecting Cigarette Cards Rothmans Players Churchman Philately, Postal History & Postage Stam

An Account of the Scottish Regiments, with the Statistics of Each, from 1808 to March 1862

Edinburgh (ORIGINAL EDITION), William P. Nimmo. 1862, 1st Edition. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 48p; with "Army (Number of English Scottish and Irish) by Sir Patrick O'Brien 6p 1872 Pubd. House of Commons, folded and tipped in at the back. Half leather binding with marbled boards and gilt titling along spine (rubbed). Binders stamp - Broadberry(?) Book in half leather somewhat rubbed along spine and corners. Endpapers foxed and signature on fep. Book tight and generally clean (one neat pencil annotation) with a non-structural split after title page. See scans. Very Good.

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Book number: 006256

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Scottish Regiments Warfare 93rd Highlanders Scottish Topography & Local History Military

The Admiralty Buidings from Country Life - Half Leather Bound from the Admiralty House Library with Relevant Ephemera Bound in.

London, Country Life. 1923, 1st Edition (as such). Half-Leather, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book, Four short articles from Country Life and "The Architectuarl Review 1923-1925 includes "The Veil of the Admiralty" "The Admiraly Building Whitehall I & II. With associated newspaperr cuttings, illustatred admiralty gretings/christam cards reproducing engravings and a 1923 2p typewritten adiscourse on the Grinling Gibbons carving on either side of the Admiralty Board Room Mantel-Piece. Clearly bound for the Admiralty House library with stamps. Half leather folio with filing number on front board. Some fingermarks, well thumbed and one gutter split but remains tight; edges worn. See scans. Good.

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Book number: 005683

Catalogue: English Topography and Local History

Keywords: Navy Arcitectire Admiralty House London Grinling Gibbons Carving Wood Carving General Military

Adstock and Great Horwood, Bucks - Auction Sale Particulars 1921

Buckingham, Messrs. Hearn & Hearn. 1921, 1st Edition. Stapeled, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, Auction prospectus: 1921 Adstock & Great Horwood, bucks, sale particulars, of "Hinton's Farm". Original particulars sale brochure, for the agricultural property of "Hinton's Farm", grass farm and small holding with cottage and garden, of the late Mr. Joseph Sear. To be sold at the Bell Hotel, Winslow, solicitors - Hearn & Hearn, Buckingham.Folio folding to tall 4to. In VG condition but no plan as intimated. Five lots including a thatched cottage at Great Horwood. See scans. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004877

Catalogue: English Topography and Local History

Keywords: Auction Sale Estate Auction Prospectus Sale Particulars Adstock Great Horwood Buckingham Buckinhamshire Hinton's Farm Winslow Maps & Cartography History

Agricultural Machinery - Richmond & Chandler Manchester - Coloured Double Sided Advert C. 1889

Manchester, Richmond & Chandler. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, An attractive double sided single sheet advert for Richmond & Chandler of Manchester. Patent Chaff Cutting machine illustrated on one side with section of a workshop on verso. Very bright and attractive. Clean and unmarked - though marginal loss due to rust of staples as illustrated. Does not detract. Measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 " or 21x14cms. See scans. Very Good.

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Book number: 008505

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Advertising Victorian Agricultural MacHinery Chaff Cutting MacHine Art, Crafts, Jewelry, Wood & Metalwork & Painting

The Alabama Claims - Original Pamphlet 1872 - (American CIVIL War)

London, National Union of Conservative and Constitution Associations. 1872, 1st Edition. Original Sewn Binding, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, The Alabama Claims were a series of claims for damages by the United States government brought in 1869 against the British government as a result of ships, such as the Alabama, it built that aided the Confederate cause in seizing American merchant ships during the American Civil War (Wiki). After international arbitration endorsed the United States position in 1872, Britain settled the matter by paying the United States $15.5 million for damages done by the Alabama and other warships built in Britain and sold to the Confederacy. They ended the dispute and restored friendly relations through an 1872 treaty with the US. Using international arbitration set a precedent, and the case also aroused interest in codifying public international law. Publications of the National Union. No.XIII.This 9 page sewn bound pamphlet is in fine condition without marks or signatures. No signs of it having been disbound from a larger volume. See scans. Apparently rare. Fine.

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Book number: 006445

Catalogue: Foreign Travel & Topography

Keywords: American Civil War The Alabama International Law History Military

Albania - Geographical Handbook Series

Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty. 1945, 1st Edition. Original Maroon Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 1st and only edition of this book published in wartime for intelligence purposes and"restricted" at that time. Comprehensive coverage of topography and geology, regional description, the coast,, climate, history, the people, public health and disease, ports and inland towns and etc.416p indexed with maps, diagrams and photographs. Endpaper map present in pocket. These books almost always have library stamps - they were never intended for public circulation. This copy is from a College library with a bookplate on the fep and library evidence. Maroon cloth; book tight and clean with a few minor marks on boards. See scans and email for several more. Heavy book - may require extra postage at cost.. Very Good.

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Book number: 010297

Catalogue: Foreign Travel & Topography

Keywords: Albania Aegean Naval Intelligence Geographicakl Handbook Series Maps & Cartography History Military Geology Transport Religion & Philosophy