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Inventory No.32262 Author: Cansell, Anthony
The Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Assiciation 1948-1968
Published Craven Herald, Printer Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £15
card covers worn but text and illustrations in very good condition.
North Yorkshire Craven Wharfedale

Inventory No.31717 Author: Carter, stephanie; Weatherhead, Alexandra
Craven College: A History of Further Education in Skipton
Published 1999 Craven College (Skipton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953535908 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20
138 page booklet handsomely rebound in green cloth, gilt
North Yorkshire Craven College Skipton Local History Education Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.28173 Author: Cawthorn, Joan
Sidney H. Stevens 'A Brave Little fellow': The Memories of June Cawthorn
Published 2001 A. E. Eaton (Northallerton) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Northallerton Danby Wiske Local History Memories

Inventory No.23121 Author: Chapman, Mave and Ben
The Pierrots of the Yorkshire Coast
Published 1988 Hutton Press (Beverley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0907033709 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £4.5
Nice bright copy
North Yorkshire North Riding East Riding History Local

Inventory No.32155 Author: Chapman, Simon
"Wheels Turning and Smoke Rising" Ironstone Mining Around Brotton Volume 1. Mines to The North of Brotton (Cleveland Ironstone series)
Published 1997 Peter Owen Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £11.5
80pp. Very good clean copy
Cleveland Ironstone Mining North Yorkshire Local History

Inventory No.30295 Author: Clarke, E. Kitson. Editor
Miscellanea, Volume IV, Consisting of the Parts Published in 1900, 1902, and 1903. The Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volume XI
Published 1904 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Vellum
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £22
Quarter vellum with blue paper covered boards and red leather, gilt title label to spine. An ex historical library copy with some stamps, inked numbers and issue label to endpapers Boards a little worn on edges. Pages untrimmed, but internally a very nice clean and bright copy with all plates and pedigrees, though the fold-out paper plan of Leeds is torn, but repairable. Contents listing: The family of Leathley or Lelay. By W. Paley Baildon. Testamenta Leodiensia. [a.d. 1531-7. In 2 pts]. By G. D. Lumb. Justice's note-book of Captain John Pickering, 1656-60. By G. D. Lumb. Lay subsidies, wapentakes of Aggbrigg and Morley, anno 1545 Plan of Leeds, 1806. By John Rawlinson Ford. Some Civil War accounts, 1647-1650. By Ethel Kitson and E. Kitson Clark. Churchwardens' accounts, Methley. By E. Kitson Clark. A "Waterloo" map of Leeds. By Edmund Wilson. The life and funeral sermon of the Rev. Richard Stretton, M.A., first minister of Mill Hill chapel, Leeds, 1672- 1677. By G. D. Lumb. Survey of the manor of Leeds, 1612. By H. T. Kelsey.
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.30294 Author: Clarke, E. Kitson. Editor
Miscellanea, Volume III, Consisting of the Parts Published in 1897, 1898, and 1899. The Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volume IX
Published 1899 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Vellum
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £22
Quarter vellum with blue paper covered boards and red leather, gilt title label to spine. An ex historical library copy with some stamps, inked numbers and issue label to endpapers Boards a little worn on edges. Pages untrimmed, but internally a very nice clean and bright copy with all plates and pedigrees. Contents listing: A Leeds law-suit in the 16th century. By Edmund Wilson. Duchy of Lancaster depositions, 2 Elizabeth, no. 12. [Transcripts, relating to the above.] Asolf or Essolf, a Yorkshire minor lord of the twelfth century. By Richard Holmes. Adam Fitz Peter, of Birkin: the charter-history of a long life. By Richard Holmes. Ordination of the south chapel in Birkin church. By Richard Holmes. Abstract of the Leeds manor rolls, 1650-1662, probably made at the time for the steward's use, and annotated by him. By G. D. Lumb. Testamenta Leodiensia. [a.d. 1514-31.] By G. D. Lumb. (3 articles) The Roman milestone found at Castleford. By F. Haver-field. Musters in Skyrack wapentake, 1539. Pts. 2 and 3. By W. P. Baildon. Notes on Ralph Thoresby's pedigree. By A. S. Ellis. Lay subsidy, wapentake of Skyrack, 30 June and 20 October 1545. Lay subsidy, wapentake of Skyrack, 12 February 1545/6. Survey of the river Aire from Leeds to Weeland. [Naming owners of land along the river, 1699.] wo old plans of Leeds. By Edmund Wilson. The Leeds mace, made by Arthur Mangey, 1694; and clipping tools supposed to have been used by Mangey. By E. Kitson Clark. Trial at York for counterfeiting, of Mr, Arthur Mangy, of Leeds, 1 August 1696. Annotated by C. M. Atkinson. Bramhope. By W. T. Lancaster. Observations out of the mannour booke of Leeds. By G. D. Lumb. Lay subsidies, wapentakes of Aggbrigg and Morley, anno 1545
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.30293 Author: Clarke, E. Kitson. Editor
Miscellanea, Volume II, Consisting of the Parts Published in 1892, 1893, and 1895. The Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volume IV
Published 1895 Thoresby Society (Leeds) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Quarter Vellum
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £22
Quarter vellum with blue paper covered boards and red leather, gilt title label to spine. An ex historical library copy with some stamps, inked numbers and issue label to endpapers Boards a little worn on edges. Pages untrimmed, but internally a very nice clean and bright copy with all plates and pedigrees. Contents listing: Testamenta Leodiensia. [a.d. 1496-1524.] By W. Brigg (2 articles) Return of the hearth-tax . . . Skyrack, a.d. 1672. Pt. 2. By J. Stansfeld. Possessions of Kirkstall abbey in Leeds. By W. T. Lancaster. Charters relating to possessions of Kirkstall abbey in Allerton. By F. R. Kitson and others. (2 articles) Pampocalia. By N. Bodington. Chartae Leodinenses; with notes on the Reame family and the Leeds chantries of the B.V.M. By Thomas Marshall. Note on a Roman altar in the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. By N. Bodington. Armour. By W. Kerr Smith. A brawl in Kirkgate, 13 Edw. II. By E. K. Clark. Some notes on the early history of Arthington. By W. T. Lancaster. The Pawson inventory and pedigree. By C. B. Nordiffe. The foundation of Kirkstall Abbey. By E. K. Clark. Paulinus de Leeds. By Richard Holmes. Extracts from the Leeds Intelligencer, 1754-8. By Charles S. Rooke. Musters in Skyrack wapentake, 1539. By W. P. Baildon. Adel. By W. T. Lancaster.
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Leeds Local History

Inventory No.19426 Author: Clay, Sir Charles Travis
York Minster Fasti Being Notes on the Dignitaries, Archdeacons and Prebendaries in the Church of York Prior to the Year 1307. Vol. I. Record Series Vol. CXXIII for the Year 1957
Published 1958 Yorkshire Archaeological Society Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £9
Original brown cloth, gilt.
Yorkshire North Yorkshire York Local History York Minster

Inventory No.33599 Author: Clegg, A. H.
Thornton-in-Craven: Bygone Days in an Ancient Parish
Published 2006 Earby and District Local History Society Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £10
Originally published in the craven herald and pioneer in 1928. 68pp. Excellent copy
North Yorkshire Dales Skipton Local History Thornton Craven Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.36298 Author: Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Society
Cleveland Ironstone: a Memorial to John Owen, Presenting Some of His Researches Into the Ironstone Mining Industry and Some Other Related Topics in Cleveland and the North York Moors
Published 2005 North York Moors National Park Authority Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0907480772 Size:A4 Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Very slight fading to spine, name very neatly (and unobtrusively) written on titlepage else very nice clean copy
Ironstone Mining Cleveland North Yorkshire York Moors Local History

Inventory No.28113 Author: Clitheroe, Gordon [compiled by]
Ryedale. Images of england
Published 2002 Tempus Publishing Ltd (Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0752420704 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Spine slightly faded else very good clean copy
North Yorkshire North Riding Ryedale Local History Genealogy Topography

Inventory No.36860 Author: Clough, Robert T.
The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales. Their Architectural Character, Construction and Place in the European Tradition.
Published 1962 The Author. (Keighley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £10
No 960 of edition of 1000 copies.Boards rubbed and marked, lettering on spine slightly faded, name and address inside (twice) decent reading copy
North Yorkshire North Riding West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Industrial History Lead Mining Industrial Architecture

Inventory No.36806 Author: Clough, Robert T.
The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales. Their Architectural Character, Construction and Place in the European Tradition.
Published 1962 The Author. (Keighley.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Fair Price: £15
No 497 of edition of 1000 copies .Corners bumped, small Ex Libris sticker on ffep, library stamp under flap of d/w else decent copy in rather scruffy d/w, chipped, torn and mended with tape
North Yorkshire North Riding West Yorkshire West Riding Local History Industrial History Lead Mining Industrial Architecture

Inventory No.31558 Author: Cobb, William
A History of Grays of York, 1695-1988
Published 1989 William Sessions Limited (York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1850720517 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £4.5
Excellent copy
North Yorkshire York Local History Law Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.33773 Author: Cook, Angela
One Hundred - Not Out. The Story of Whitby Amateur Dramatic Society, 1910 to 2010
Published 2019 Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
52 pages. Numerous photographs. Errata slip tipped in at rear. A very nice clean bright copy.
North Yorkshire Whitby

Inventory No.11112 Author: Cox, Rev. J. C.
The Parish Church of Giggleswick-in-Craven (Dedicated Under the Name of Saint Alkelda) Historical Notes, Ancient and Modern
Published 1920 Richard Jackson (Leeds) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £45
An ex-library copy (little used) in original cloth, gilt with number on spine, plates on f.e.p. and f.f.e.p. and small and blind stamps throughout. A very bright, clean copy of a volume limited to 250 copies. Illustrated with 13 full page plates.
North Yorkshire Giggleswick Craven Local History Family History Genealogy

Inventory No.11359 Author: Crawford, Jennie
Streets and Trails of the Yorkshire Dales : Settle, Giggleswick, Malham, Grassington
Published 2000 Wharncliffe Books. (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition Paperback ISBN: 187164772x Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £7
North Yorkshire Craven Settle Giggleswick Malham Grassington Local History

Inventory No.35973 Author: Creaser, Mary
As We Were in Weston, Askwith and Denton
Published 1989 Countryside (Garstang) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0861572947 Size:Square Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Card cover sunned and a little rubbed. with cup mark on rear, contents clean and sound pp. 48.
North Yorkshire Weston Askwith Denton Local History

Inventory No.31554 Author: Crossley, Firth; Illustrator: Grimshawe Bros. [photographs]
Rest and Change
Published William Parr (Knaresborough) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £10
A little rubbed and worn, front hinge repaired with tape.
North Yorkshire North Riding Yorkshire Dales Wharfedale Littondale Novel Fiction

Inventory No.34911 Author: Crowther, John, (The Grassington Antiquarian )
Guide to Grassington and Upper Wharfedale. 27 Interesting Walks with Map.
Published Wadsworth & Co (Keighley) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Original card covers slightly rubbed 2 folding maps, one in colour, illustrations from photographs and line drawings. 75 pages plus local advertisements. Nice clean copy.
North Yorkshire Wharfedale Grassington Walking Rambling Local History

Inventory No.28117 Author: Cunliffe-Lister, Susan
Days of Yore. A History of Masham and District
Published 1999 Wilton65 (York) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0947828729 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Very nice clean copy
North Yorkshire Masham Local History Family History Genealogy

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