Lakeland Mining Books at Auction

Mine exploration, photographs and mining history for mine explorers, industrial archaeologists, researchers and historians

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neutronix
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4 years ago

https://www.1818auctioneers.co.uk/ ). All look in very good condition and Coniston Copper has been signed by the author.

Wythburn Mine
Carrock and the Mines of Skiddaw and Blencathra - Tyler
The iron Moor - McFadzean
Slate from Coniston - Cameron
Hoister Slate - Tyler
Greenside and the Mines of the Ullswater Valley - Tyler
Greenside, a Tale of Lakeland Miners - Tyler
Force Crag, the History of a Lakeland Mine - Tyler
Seathwaite Wad - Tyler
Thirlmere Mines - Tyler
Mines and Mining in the English Lake District - Postlethwaite
Consiton Copper, a History - Holland
Burlington Blue-Grey

Form an orderly queue and good luck!:)

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neutronix
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4 years ago

Bidding going sky high for these, currently 5 times the auctioneer's estimate with 3 days to go...

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain

John Lawson
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4 years ago

These are good books to own and have on ones bookshelf.
I know since I have the majority of them!
But i simply would not pay over the odds for any!

Regards and beware of auction lots!

neutronix
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4 years ago

Currently at £155...add nearly 24% sales tax and of the order of £40 to courier if you aren't local and it's become a costly, if desirable, set of books. Not something I could finesse past my better half:angel:

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain