Auction No 432, Category: Books

58 Lots (displaying 41 - 58)

"Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society", a partial run comprising 1877, 1878, 1882-1899, 1913

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £10
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Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian &  Archaeological Society, a partial run comprising 1877, 1878, 1882-1899, 1913, 1915-1923, 1925-1940, 1956-1962, 1965, 1966, 1973-1975, and 14 later to 2015. Also two Index vols., and a commemorative volume. 22 of the 1913-40 period are cloth bound, gilt. Many of the 19th Century volumes have faults to the paper covers (1897 & 1899 covers damaged and detached) o/w VG/VF (75)

C.H. Dick "Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick", Macmillan,1916, first edition, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, folding map; and others,

Lot: 74

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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C.H. Dick Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick, Macmillan, 1916, first edition, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, folding map; and others, mostly Scotland, with interest in hiking & topography, many in d/jkts (one ex-library). (41)

George Bridge "The Mountains of England and Wales, 1973, first edition, in d/jkt; Gray "The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui", 1970, first edn., in d/jkt;

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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George Bridge The Mountains of England and Wales, 1973, first edition, in d/jkt; Gray The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui, 1970, first edn., in d/jkt; Robertson George Mallory, 1969, first edn., in d/jkt; and related works from 1906. (44)

Lake District interest including Sansom "Climbing at Wasdale Before the First World War", 1982, first edn., in d/jkt; Dudley Hoys "Below Scafell"

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Lake District interest including Sansom Climbing at Wasdale Before the First World War, 1982, first edn., in d/jkt; Dudley Hoys Below Scafell, 1956, in d/jkt, signed by the author; Nancy Price Vagabond's Way, 1914, first edn., gilt cloth, some fox marks; and others, many in d/jkts, Hunter Davies' Wainwright signed by the author. (32)

Mountaineering and Rambling with many Wales related, plus few West of England, and some Alpine titles; many in d/jkts, some mixed condition. (36)

Lot: 77

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Mountaineering and Rambling with many Wales related, plus few West of England, and some Alpine titles; many in d/jkts, some mixed condition. (36)   

"Beneath the Lakeland Fells: Cumbria's Mining Heritage", Red Earth, 1992, in d/jkt; and a selection of other Lake District titles from 1899,

Lot: 78

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Beneath the Lakeland Fells: Cumbria's Mining Heritage, Red Earth, 1992, in d/jkt; and a selection of other Lake District titles from 1899, many of fell-walking interest, many in d/jkts. (40)

Highland photography, mostly Scotland but including Poucher "The Surrey Hill"s, 1949 and "Peak Panorama", 1946, both first edns., in d/jkts,

Lot: 79

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Highland photography, mostly Scotland but including Poucher The Surrey Hills, 1949 and Peak Panorama, 1946, both first edns., in d/jkts, and other works by Poucher incl.The Magic of Skye, 1949, first edn. Surrey Hills with small tape stains to endpapers. (32)

Mountaineering in the Himalayas, a collection, many in d/jkts including W.H. Murray "The Scottish Himalayan Expedition", 1951, first edn;

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Mountaineering in the Himalayas, a collection, many in d/jkts including W.H. Murray The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951, first edn; M.S. Kohli Nine Atop Everest, 1989, first edn; Ullman High Conquest, 1943 (Travel Book Club); Chris Bonington The Everest Years, 1986, signed first; John Jackson More Than Mountains 1955, signed first; Noyce Climbing the Fish's Tail, 1958, first edn; and various others (3 ex-library). (37)

Mountaineering, Adventure and Exploration with many first editions including Irving "The Romance of Mountaineering", 1935, in d/jkt;

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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Mountaineering, Adventure and Exploration with many first editions including Irving The Romance of Mountaineering, 1935, in d/jkt; Connaughton Descent Into Chaos – The Doomed Expedition to Low's Gully, 1996, in d/jkt; Scott Gino Watkins, 1935, gilt cloth; Azema The Conquest of Fitzroy, 1957, in poor d/jkt; and various others (3 ex-library) (36)   

W. Heaton Cooper selection comprising "The Tarns of Lakeland", 1970, in d/jkt, signed by the author on half-title; "The Lakes" 1970, laminated boards;

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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W. Heaton Cooper selection comprising The Tarns of Lakeland, 1970, in d/jkt, signed by the author on half-title; The Lakes, 1970, laminated boards; The Hills of Lakeland, 1946, in worn d/jkt; Lakeland Portraits, 1954, first edn., gilt cloth; and Mountain Painter, 1984, in d/jkt, signed by the author on half-title. Also The English Lakes, 1925, illustrated by A. Heaton Cooper. The d/jkt of Tarns slightly pulled at top of spine. All very clean internally. (6)

Lake District illustrated works and climbing history, including W.G. McKelvey "Lakeland Impressions", Titus Wilson [1980], signed by the artist;

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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Lake District illustrated works and climbing history, including W.G. McKelvey Lakeland Impressions, Titus Wilson [1980], signed by the artist; Wainwright Fellwalking with a Camera, 1988, first edn. in d/jkt; Poucher Climbing with a camera: The Lake District, Country Life, 1963, first edn., in d/jkt; Nicholson The Lakers, 1955, first edn., in d/jkt,gift inscription; and many others, from early 20th Century. (35)

Rock Climbing history & technique including Andre Roch "On Rock and Ice", 1947, first edn., in d/jkt; Dorothy Pilley "Climbing Days", 1935, first edn;

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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Rock Climbing history & technique including Andre Roch On Rock and Ice, 1947, first edn., in d/jkt; Dorothy Pilley Climbing Days, 1935, first edn; Hankinson The Mountain Men, 1977, signed first, in d/jkt; Jim Perrin Menlove: The Life of John Menlove Edwards, 1985, first edn., in d/jkt, signed by the author on title page, gift inscription to endpaper; and various others, some mixed condition. (20)

Mountaineering including Don Munday "The Unknown Mountain", 1948, first edn., in chipped d/jkt; Peascod "Journey After Dawn" 1985, first edition

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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Mountaineering including Don Munday The Unknown Mountain, 1948, first edn., in chipped d/jkt; Peascod Journey After Dawn 1985, first edn., in d/jkt; Riccardo Cassin Fifty Years of Alpinism, 1981, in d/jkt; and others, mostly Alpine climbing related (two ex-library). (26) 

Mountaineering and Travel with several first editions including Izzard "The Innocent on Everest" 1954, in d/jkt; Kukuczka "My Vertical World" 1992

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Mountaineering and Travel with several first editions including Izzard The Innocent on Everest, 1954, in d/jkt; Kukuczka My Vertical World, 1992 in d/jkt (corner of front endpaper clipped); Houston & Bates K2 The Savage Mountain, 1955 in d/jkt; Evans Eye on Everest 1955; and Styles Mountains of the Midnight Sun 1954, in edgeworn d/jkt; together with others, many Himalayas related (two ex-library). (25)   

W.T. Palmer "The English Lakes painted by A. Heaton Cooper", A. & C. Black, 1905, de-luxe edition, No.126 of 250, signed by the artist

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £72
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W.T. Palmer The English Lakes painted by A. Heaton Cooper, A. & C. Black, 1905, de-luxe edition, No.126 of 250, signed by the artist on limitation page, decorated cloth, top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere; foot of spine a little frayed, small stain to left of front board; armorial bookplate of James B. Gallie; together with W. Heaton Cooper The Tarns of Lakeland, 1960, in VG d/jkt, and The Hills of Lakeland 1938; Renouf The Lake Artists Society – A Centenary Celebration, 2004, in d/jkt; and related titles. (8) 

Horace Hutchinson "The Book of Golf and Golfers", Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, 1st Edn., 71 plates, spotting to frontispiece;

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Horace Hutchinson The Book of Golf and Golfers, Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, 1st Edn., 71 plates, spotting to frontispiece; J.L.Low F.G. Tait – A Record, J. Nisbet & Co [1901], worn cloth, endpapers browned; E.A.H.Alderson Pink and Scarlet, or Hunting as a School for Soldiering; and Mountaineering, Lonsdale Library, in d/jkt. (4)

"London Transport Magazine" 1952-1965, mostly 1960s, rusting to staples o/w fine. (46)

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £70
SOLD £30
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London Transport Magazine 1952-1965, mostly 1960s, rusting to staples o/w fine.  (46)

Railway books (34, mostly softbacks) and related ephemera including 1897 LNWR plans (6) for proposed extensions, BR instruction manuals,

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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Railway books (34, mostly softbacks) and related ephemera including 1897 LNWR plans (6) for proposed extensions, BR instruction manuals, assorted postcards/photos, many pre-grouping luggage & some carriage labels, and other items, some duplicated. (Qty.)