John L Capes
Books, maps and prints
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Seaweed Utlisation.
London : Sampson Low, 1951.
A Good clean sound copy of the First Edition and emphatically NOT ex- library. Original publishers cloth 8vo.xii. 88pps coloured frontispiece & b/w plates & diagrams.A readable but scholarly work with chapters on Carrageen & Agar,Seaweeds as food, in Agriculture, extraction of Soda Potash & Iodine,Seaweed Rayon etc.
(Book ref. 4196)
£18.00
British Seaweeds. The Kew Series.
London Eyre & Spotiswood 1963
A very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper of this useful handbook and emphatically NOT ex-library Twelve colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Small 8vo, 232, pps.
(Book ref. 4197)
£15.00
THE PIERROTS OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST.
Beverley Hutton Press 1988 First Edition.
A valuable illustrated record of the alfresco seaside shows once so popular along the East Coast. 108pp incl Glossary and Bibliography. Foreword by Geoff Mellor, Northern Theatre Historian. 70 black & white photo illustrations many from rare postcards, with individual chapters on Whitby, Filey, Redcar, Hornsea, Scarbough Bridlington Withernsea and Saltburn.
(Book ref. 3344)
£8.50
The Landscape in Watercolour : A personal view.
Newton Abbot. David & Charles 1996.
A Fine copy in like dustwrapper of the hardcover First Edition of this classic"How to Do-it " illustrated throughout with Curtis's sought after views of Staithes, Saltburn, Runswick, Whitby, Port Mulgrave,Sandsend and Skinningrove,as well as his native South Yorkshire ( including eight of Tickhill ). Attached to the free endpaper is an original photograph of David Curtis painting in Staithes. scan on request
(Book ref. 3232)
£50.00
GIVE ME A SHIP TO SAIL
London. 1958. Hodder & Stoughton., 1958.
A Fine Copy of the First Edition in unclipped 18/- Dustwrapper 8vo.256 pps plus 28 black & white plates.Frontispiece of the Mayflower arriving in New York Harbour. Blue Cloth, Adventures of the Australian author & seafarer whilst filming the movie "Moby Dick" and during the re-enactment of the voyage of the Mayflower, plus stories about far away places like the Maldives.
(Book ref. 3086)
£10.00
The Alum Farm together together with a history of the origin, development & eventual decline of the Alum Trade in North East Yorkshire
Whitby.Horne & Son.1938 First Edition
The standard work on the English Alum Trade. Britains first Chemical Industry which in its development transformed the North East Coast line. A Fine copy in dustwrapper ( Click on Illustration ) not a reprint but bound from the original sheets and reissued with a dustwrapper in 1987.
(Book ref. 206)
£25.00
Walks in Yorkshire The North East. Comprising Redcar, Saltburn, Whitby, Scarborough & Filey
Wakefield 1866
With intervening places;and The Moors & Dales between The Tees, The Derwent, The Vale of York and The Sea.8vo pocket size with a large folding map 134 pages Index + 14 pages of advertisements. Much on Staithes Saltburn & the development of the Iron-Smelting industry in the Redcar Middlesborough area. One of the scarcer titles in the authors series here in marbled wrappers (Click on illustration) A very nice copy.
(Book ref. 1898)
£50.00
THE PILLAR OF LIGHT.
London Ward Lock 1905
A Good Copy of the First English edition in original publishers cloth with onlaid colour plate & black & white illustrations by T.Peddie. 8vo. 320pps. The story involving a Lighthouse,exciting shipwreck and dramatic rescue, may have been influenced by the authors expierience in Whitby as a member of the Lifeboat Service.The final part of the novel was revised by M.P.Shiel
(Book ref. 2900)
£18.00
Whitby Lore & Legend.
Horne & Son Ltd 1971
A Lovely copy of the third revised edition of 1952 in Pictorial publishers cloth( Click on illustration) Attractive Illustrated endpapers by Miss M. V. Wheelhouse. 3 coloured plates. Numerous photo. plates and drawings. 181 pp and useful bibliography.
(Book ref. 2067)
£18.00
A SURVEY OF WHITBY and the Surrounding Area
Eton,The Shakespeare Head Press 1958
First Edition in unclipped dustwrapper. Quarto - c.11"x 9" Illustrated throughout with maps charts and photographs. In seven sections.The Harbour, Geology etc. each by a different author., Loosely inserted is a copy of Kendall's "The Streets of Whitby " and two original Frank Meadow Sutcliffe postcards (Click on illustration) very foxed but otherwise clean & sound.
(Book ref. 1985)
£50.00
Illustrated Memorial Of The East Coast Raids By The German Navy and Airships
Middlesborough: Hood and Co, 1915
A nicely restored copy of this scarce and fragile item (Click on illustration) 6 ¾" - 9¾" Landscape Format. Mounted Original Wraps and tie-string binding. Introduction by Harold Hood and 41 halftone photographs of the damage wrought in the bombing to houses buildings and streets. Including an authentic (sic) List of Persons killed in the raids.The third enlarged edition including photographs by Frank Sutcliffe.
(Book ref. 1944)
£50.00
Whitby Authors and their Publications with the titles of all the books printedin Whitby AD670 to 1867
Whitby Horne & Son 1867
A Facsimile Bound by and for The John Rylands Library. 248pps two up approximately 9" X 7"in Navy Blue Cloth. Lettered Spine.
(Book ref. 535)
£38.00
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