Creaking Shelves Books

The New Naturalists

Marren, Peter · 2005

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

Collins New Naturalist Series, 2005. Hardcover. 363pp. Hardback Edition. This is the updated second edition of of the history of the New Naturalsi Series published as No.82 of the New Naturalist Series in 2005, ten years after the 1st edition, considerably enlarged and coverin...

East Burnham Grove , Farnham Royal Bucks - Auction Prospectus 1934 ( Now Crown House), Crown Lane) Sl2 3sq

1934

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,593)

Messrs O'Bryen-Taylor & Jennings, 1934. Soft Cover. Auction prospectus - full title: East Burnham Grove, Farnham Royal, Bucks within half a mile of the Village and Common, 2 miles from Burnham Beeches and 4 miles from Slough - The most desirable Freehold Country Residence in f...

England Expects Every American to Do His Duty

Howe, Quincy · 1938

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Robert Hale Limited, 1938. Hardcover. xii+255p. Portrait plates. Book cleanand tight without marks or signatures. Original red buckram boards are a litle rubbed as is the titling i=on the spine. See scans . Good +

Curious Facetious Letters of Benjamin Franklin Hithertoo Unpublished

Franklin, Benjamin · 1898

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.05 | ¥16,450)

Printed for Private Circulation, 1898. Hardcover. Limited edition. Full parchment titled boards. Marbled endpapers. 200 copies: 10 on vellum, 190 on Whatman hand-made paper, this is copy no. 175. Contains five of Franklin's facetious letters, including one to Dr. Priestley, on...

Climbing Mount Everest

Ingle Finch, G. · 1930

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,562)

George Philiip & Sons Ltd, 1930. Soft Cover. 72p.plates in text and map.Published in the Philips' New Prospect Readers series. First edition of this rare primary source for early Everest Expeditions. Original stiff pale green wrappers bound with thread. Tight and clean though ...

Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate

Reinhold Messner · 1979

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Kaye & Ward, 1979. Hardcover. 254pp, decorated endpapers, 32pp colour plates, b/w illustrations & maps. Messeners account of his & Peter Habelers groundbreaking ascent of Everest without using supplementary Oxygen. the first time the mountain hed been climbed in a fair way. Me...

On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya

Mick Fowler · 2005

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Baton Wicks Publications, 2005. Hardcover. 223 pages, 24 colour plates, sketch maps and drawings, 24cm. Signed by Mick Fowler on title-page; Fine in similar unclipped d/w. . See scans. (ISBN: 1898573581).. Fine

In Monte Viso's Horizon: Climbing All the Alpine 4000 Metre Peaks - Limited Edition Sgned by Author.

McLewin, Will · 1991

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Ernest Press, 1991. Hardcover. Climbing all the Alpine 4000m peaks, the first British mountaineer to do so, without guides. A most useful reference book. Winner of the 1992 Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature 254p ill maps. This is No 16 of the limited 1st edition of...

Psychovertical

Kirkpatrick, Andy · 2008

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,116)

Hutchinson, 2008. Hardcover. 277p. Plates. Book in fine condition as is the unclipped d/w. See scans Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall (ISBN: 0091920965).. Fine

Essay on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients: Being the Substance of Four Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford, Intended to Be Supplementary to Those on Roman Husbandry, Already Published

Daubeny<C. · 1865

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

John Henry and James Parker, 1865. Hardcover. viii+152p+3p catalogue. Comprehensive work quoting species of trees in papers written by the ancients. Mostly Pliny. Book internally tight though a little dusty; no foxing. Original olive blind stamped boards unevenly faded with so...

Reading the Landscape of Bute Through Its Geology

Hill, Julian · 1938

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

The Buteman, 1938. Soft Cover. 83p. Maps, photos and diagrams. Clean and unmarked though a little wrinkling of some sheets - does not detract. See scans Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall . Very Good

The Rocks of Bute

M'Callien, W.J. · 1938

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

The Buteman, 1938. Soft Cover. Reprinted from The Transactions of the Buteshire Natural History Society Vol.xii 1938.31p illustrated with sketches and maps. Staples rusting and cente fold losening. Otherwise VG - though some underlining and marginal notes. See scans . Very Good

The Catalogue of Charles Cooper (Hatton Garden) Ltd.

1978

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

Charles Cooper, 1978. Soft Cover. This ring bound catalogue divided into thre sections: A. Manufacturing Jewellers' And Silversmiths' Workshop Equipment. B. Hand And Bench Tools. C. Diamond And Precious Stone Dealers' And Pearl Stringers Requisites. In cleanand unmrke dconditi...

Loch Etive and the Sons of Uisnach

1879

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

MacMillan & Co, 1879. Hardcover. 376p plates. Book tightly bound but dusty with repaired folding plate and one plate apparently absent - Cross at Cleinnamacry - though other copies of the same date list only 19 plates omiting this one - likely never bound in. Boards worn at ed...

Magical Catalogue - Demon Series

1957

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

L.Davenport & Co and Maskelyne's Mysteries Present the Very Latest in Practical Magic, 0. Soft Cover. From front card cover: L.Davenport & Co and Maskelyne's Mysteries Present the Very Latest in Practical Magic Unpaginated c.250 pages. Undated c.1957. many many tricks illustra...

Notice - 4p Leaflet Accompanying Special Instructions? Abortifactant 1866 Usa

1866

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

, 0. . 4p folded leaflet headed Notice accompanying the Printed Instructions for removing obstructions and normalising flow. Possibly an abortifactant Much text about procuring good brandy to be taken with the root We send the special treatment in utter disguise - it can go in...

The Kalkalpen Traverse: A Long Distance Walk in the Limestone Alps of Austria

Proctor, Alan · 1986

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Cicerone Press, 1986. Soft Cover. 96p with itineries, maps, route heights and photos. Unmarked without signatures but a little reading wear. See scans (ISBN: 0902363646).. Very Good

Chute Wiltshire -Estate Sale 1811 Prospectus (Incomplete)

1811

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Messrs Sinner, Tuchin, & Forrest, 1811. . Folded folio sheet titled The Particulars of a valuable and very improveable Freehold Estate situate at Chute in the County of Wilts, on the borders of Hampshire and Berkshire, two miles from Luggershall, three from the beautiful vill...

A History of Private Bill Legislation Vol. I of 2 Only - 1st Edition

Clifford, Frederick of the Middle Temple · 1885

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Butterworths, 1885. Hardcover. xxviii + 507 + (132p catalogue; advertisements on endpapers. Green cloth lettered gilt. One volume only of the first edition of the standard work. Frederick Clifford (1828-1904), journalist and legal writer, was a Middle Temple barrister. In 1868...

Eastern Alps: The Classic Routes on the Highest Peaks (Teach Yourself)

Siebert, Dieter · 1992

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,062)

Diadem Books, 1992. Hardcover. The glaciated ranges of the Eastern Alps encompass the Bernina and Silvretta ranges of Switzerland, the Ortler/Adamello groups on the Austro/Swiss/Italian borders and all the main Austrian groups - the Otztal, Stubai, Zillertal and Gross Glockern...