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Box No One

KARST & CAVES by Tony Waltham 1987  32 pp illus.  Yorkshire Dales National Park/Topic Series.  A good introduction to the caves of the area.  SB £3.00

NSS CAVERN DIVING MANUAL BY John L Zumrick, J Joseph Prosser and H V Grey 1988  121 pp illus.  Contents: Cave Formation and Terminology; Cave Hazards, Equipment, Buoyancy Control and Propulsion Techniques; Use of Line and Reels; Underwater Communication; Dive Planning; Psychological Aspects;  Emergency Procedures, etc.  Detailed and wide ranging.  SB £13.00  .

Box No One, Section A

IRISH SPELEOLOGY Journal of the Speleological Union of Ireland.

No 13 1989 48 pp, illus.  £3.00  New Caves in the Burren, Fermanagh, Waterford etc.  Complete Guide to the Caves of Galway and Mayo.  SB £3.00

No 16 November 1997 52 pp, illus.  £5.00  Caves of Co Clare (1837 edition); Poll an Chaisc; Caves at Ballagh, Co Tipperary; Expedition to Wim Tindouine.  etc.  SB £5.00

SOUTH WALES CAVING CLUB NEWSLETTER. More a magazine than a newsletter:

No 110  1992  48 pp, illus  Recent Progress in DyO The Far North; The TAG Fall Cave-In; Caving in the USA; A Rescue Team for Mid-Wales; The Origin of Modern Humans; A Trip to Lechuguilla; Surveying in Cwm Dwr and OFD; Great Caving Trios: Barlands Quarry Pot; Progress and Twyn Tal Ddraenen.  £3.00

No 112  1993  46 pp, illus.  Bill Little: A Personal Recollection; Cave Paintings in Wales: A Prehistoric Enigma; Sites of Speleological Interest Around Cen Cil-Sanws; Looking Back: Photos from the Collection of Charles Freeman; Powell's Cave, Penwyllt;  Edward Llwyd: An early Welsh cave explorer.  SB £3.00

No 114 1994 48 pp illus.  Caving in China and plenty of Welsh News.  SB £3.00

No 115 1995  56 pp  illus.  Caves of Assynt, Xio Zhai Tien m- A classic through trip and plenty of Welsh  news.  SB  £3.00

No 116  1995  52  pp  illus.  Rupt du Puits, situated in the Foret de Trois Fontains, SW of Bar le Duc, Meuse area of French Lorraine;  Daren Cilau: Memoirs of a support diver; The Great Penwyllt Bang Gang; Picos '95: Sistema Sara and plenty of Welsh news.  SB £3.00

No 117 1996 48 pp, illus. Special Section La Pierre St Martin August 1995.  SB £3.00

No 119 1997 48 pp, illus.  Trou du Glaz to Guiers Morte; Trou du Glaz to Grotte Chevalier.  Dent de Crolles – many photos.  SB £3.00

No 120 1998 56 pp, illus. The Geology and the Caves of the Cantabrian Mountains;  Cueto-Coventosa through trip;  Black Mountain survey project.  SB £3.00


BOX No 1, Section B.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA various authors.  [pub as] Spelunca Supplement No 3 Jul-Sept 1981.  47 pp, many photos.  Sacre bleu!  The French have published an Expedition Report entirely in English.  Giant caves, enormous underground rivers.  A descent into hell!.  SB £3.00

GROTTES DE CORSE by Paul A Remy.  This is a photocopy of Annales de Speleologie Tome V 1950 47 pp and describes the Caves of Corsica in some detail.  SB In French £3.00

INFO-EFS (27) 1995 1st semestre, 47 pp.  Newsletter of the French School of Speleology.  SB in French £1.00

SCIALET 24 1995  150 pp many surveys and cave descriptions.  Vercours, Chartreuse, High Savoy, Ardeche, Pyrenees, Spain etc. In French SB £10.00

SPELEO DORDOGNE Activities 4th trimestre 1994  60 pp, surveys etc.  Only 100 copies printed.  SB In French.  Cost 25 FF or from me only £1.00

SPELERPES newsletter of the Flemish Cavers.  17 (77) 55.  Photos, surveys.  Caving in Sardinia, Caves in Pont le Pretre Valley, Trou de l'Hyene, Hranicka Pothole etc.  SB In Dutch £3.00

PROVIDING FOR ACCESS TO THE NORTHERN IRELAND COUNTRYSIDE / Key issues and questions for consultation.  Public Consultation Document. ND 27 pp  SB £1.00

FETE DE LA SPELEOLOGIE 19-21 Sept 1997  Melines (Soy) 12 pp.  Programme, lecture summaries etc.  In French and Dutch SB £1.00

L'OEIL DE DOUE, Martel (Lot) by Marc Douchet. Pp 14-18 from Spelunca (78) photocopy.  FREE

ANNUAL REPORT 2002 / The Speleological Union of Ireland. 28 pp.  Signed copy [Dr] Jim Kelly.  £1.00

THE CREG JOURNAL  (49) Sept 2002  30 pp, illus.  Cave Radio & Electronics Group.  Heyphone Diving Test.  And more high tec stuff.  SB £1.00

TRANSACTIONS BCRA 7 (3) Sept 1980 123-178.  Gulumg Mulu Caves; Liverpool-Jamaica Expedition, Thermal Air currents in caves.  £3.00

CAVE SCIENCE Trans BCRA 11 (2) July 1984 65-118 Yorkshire Stalagmite Dates; Castleton Water Tracing; Niah Great Cave; Altamira; Fiji Caves.  SB £3.00

CAVES OF CORSICA by Jerry Complin.  Looks like a 3 pp photocopy.  ND  FREE


BOX No 1, Section C.

MORGANNWG CAVING CLUB Journal (3) 1993  43 pp, surveys.  Peak Cavern's Half Way House; Nine hours down DyO; Hungarian Caving Expedition 1991; Caving in Czech and Slovakia; Porth yr Ogof Deaths;  Cardiff Nat's Soc Trans Index to cave and mines.  World Wide Magazine Vols 40-50.  SB £3.00

MORGANNWG CAVING CLUB Journal (4) 1994  36 pp, surveys.  Search for Early Cave and Mine references; Treforest Railway Tunnel; Hungary 1993; Ogof Draenen; Pwll Ddu; Ogof Cynnes; Reopening of Ogof Mynydd Llangynidr.  SB £3.00

THE RED DRAGON /Annual Journal 1993-94  120 pp, surveys.  OFD; Porth yr Ogof; Dark Shamrock Expedition 1992; The Hualta Project – The San Augustin Expedition; Mallorca; Cil-yr-Ychen and Pant-y-Llyn Caves; Otter Hole; Radon in Caves; Carmel Woods; Powell's Cave; Wainfell Iron Mine.  SB £3.00

BRYNMAWR CAVING CLUB Journal 1997  51 pp, photos, surveys.  Caves along the A4059; Ogof Draenen; Crescent Cave; Scared Shitless under Llangynidr Moor. SB £3.00

BRYNMAWR CAVING CLUB Journal 1999-2000  59 pp, photos, surveys.  Carno Adit – Aven climbing, Flooding, Rescue; Crescent Cave, Caving in Valencia.  SB £3.00

TSG 17 /The Journal of the Technical Speleological Group 2000  56 pp, photos, maps, surveys.  Inscriptions in Peak and Speedwell Caverns; The Day of the Titan; James Hall, the dry way; Dowel Dale Side Pot; Bagshawe Resurgence Cave; Experience Jordan; The Italian Job – Caving in Piaggia Bella.  SB £3.00

PELOBATES / Croydon Caving Club Magazine.
No 70 Mar 1996 Roman Iron Mining; Russia 1995; Caves of Margate etc.  SB £1..00

WSG Bulletin.  Westminster Speleological Group
7 (7) Jan/F 1972  87-104 pp, Monograph on Ogof Fechan with large survey SB £1.00
7 (8) Mar/Apr1972 105-123 pp, Monograph on Ogof Fach large survey SB £1.00
8 (3) Spring 1976 37-50 pp Thrupe Lane Swallet with survey SB £1.00
9 (6) 1991  57 pp  A History of the WSG 1950-1990 £3.00
7 (7) April 1994  Cuba; Wales; Russian; Romania; Mines of Nenthead  SB £3.00
CSCA [Combined Services Caving Association] NEWS 1994 Nov not numbered about 30 pp.  Goufrre Berger; £1.00

WESSEX CAVE CLUB Journal 24 (253) Feb 1997  22-40 pp Summer in Slovenia; The Draenan Log with survey.  SB £1.00

BOX No 2

SPELEOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS (5) The publications of 1966.  118 pp. BSA Settle.
2843 abstracts.  SB £3.00

SPELEOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS (6) The publications of 1967.  159 pp. BSA Settle.  3510 Abstracts and author index.  SB  £3.00

THE BULLETIN of the British Speleological Association
(73) March 1967; (75) July 1967 to (85) April 1970.  £1.00 each or make me an offer for the lot.

THE CAVES OF GRAADALEN, NORTHERN NORWAY.  [pub as] Transactions of the Cave Research Group [Trans CRG]  8 (1) 1966 64 pp, many surveys, some photos.  An essential monograph.  SB £3.00

THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS HYDROLOGICAL SURVEY EXPEDITION TO JAMAICA 1963 Trans .  An essential monograph.  SB £3.00

THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS HYDROLOGICAL SURVEY EXPEDITION TO JAMAICA 1963 Trans CRG 9  (1) 60 pp, photos, survey.  A useful reference work.  SB £5.00

THE CAVES OF RANA NORDLAND NORWAY Trans CRG 11 (1) 71 pp, surveys, photos.  A handy caving guide.  SB £5.00

Trans CRG 15 (1) 65 pp, photos, survey.  Karst in Celebes & Hungary; Dolomite Weathering in Transvaal, Ghar Parau, Caves of the East African Rift Valley.  £3.00

THE BRITISH NEW GUINEA SPELEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION OF 1975 Trans BCRA 3 (3+4) 116-242 pp, 57 figs, photos etc.  Nicely produce report which has not been superseded.  SB £5.00

MULU '80 EXPEDITION Cave Science Trans BCRA 9 2 June 1982 55-164 pp, photos, surveys etc.  An essential guide to the caves of the area.  SB £5.00

CAVE SCIENCE Trans BCRA 16 (2) Aug 1989 39-76. Photos, surveys etc.  Tufa-the whole dam story; Tower karst cave sediments from China; Mulu expedition 1988; Karst Windows in Thailand.  SB £3.00

THE EASE GILL SYSTEM / Forty Years of Exploration by Jim Eyres BCRA Speleo-History Series No 1 48 pp, photo, surveys.  A very readable account.  £3.00

SPELEOLOGY Issue 5 Dec 2005 Bull BCRA  46 pp, surveys, photos.  Dowbergill, Matienzo, Tain Xing, and Mechara, lots of book review.  Price new £2.70  this copy complete with coffee stains SB £1.00

A PHILIPPINE CAVE INDEX AND BIBLIOGRAPHY by James Smart 1994  27 pp 2 maps.  A handy reference work listing all known caves and references. Cover a little grubby o/w OK.  SB  £5.00

CAVE DIVING GROUP NEWSLETTER.  A good account of cave diving discoveries from all over Britain and a few from abroad.  Also some technical articles on all aspect of diving.  All are new unless other wise stated.  SB £3.50
(119) April 1996 38 pp; (124) July 1997 50 pp; (125) Oct 1997 40 pp; (127) April 1998 22 pp; ((128) July 1998 29 pp; (129) Oct 1998 25 pp; (130) Jan 1999 38 pp; coffee stain on front cover; (132) July 1999 26 pp; (133) Oct 1999 21 pp.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WYANDOTTE CAVE by Angelo I George 1991  74 pp illus.  A detailed reference work.  SB £5.00

WERELD ZONDER ZON [World without sun] Newsletter of the Flemish Speleo Group.  Each issues has a good round up of caving news and discoveries and being Anglophiles there are plenty of items of British interest.  SB In Flemish  £1.00 each

19  (67) Mar 1996  24 pp; (69) Aug 1996 20 pp; (70) Nov 199624 pp; (71) Feb 1997 24 pp; (72) May 1997 24 pp; (73) Aug 1997 24 pp; (74) Nov 1997 24 pp; 25 [21] (75) 32 pp, Quite a bit of English in this one.  How they nearly got gassed in the SWCC Hut.  DyO and Draenan;  21  (76) Mar 1998 28 pp; (77) Sept 1998 24 pp; (78) Dec 1998 14 pp; 22 (80) July 1999; (81) Oct 1999;

IN SIGHT OF LIGHT by  Ian Chandler Ellis 1998  63 pp illus.  “She became conscious of her sex some years before sliding into a hole,”  A collection of 28 caving poems.  SB £6.00

MOST VALIENT OF MEN / A Short History of the North Staffordshire Mine Rescue Service by Fred Leigh 1993  116 pp, illus.  An interesting collection of mining anecdotes.  SB £5.99

THE REMARKABLE HOWE CAVERNS STORY by Dana Cudmore 1990  192 pp 30 B&W photos.  A comprehensive history of the exploration and development of the famous Catskill attraction - one of the country's greatest caves.  Once billed as "The Greatest Wonder of the World".  HB DW was £9.95 s/h copy as new, a bargain  £5.00

DESCENTE SPORTIVE GORGES ET CANYONS by Jean-Pierre Lucot and Richard Quintilla 1988  131 pp, illus.  This is a book describing the technique for descending river gorges.  Very similar to caving except that light are not usually necessary.  Concludes with descriptions of a couple of gorges in Spain.  SB [new £9.95] a good second hand copy, in French SB £5.00

STUDIES IN SPELEOLOGY published by the Pengelly Cave Research Association.  A high quality letterpress publication.  All at £3.00 each SB.

Vol 4 1983 92 pp, 12 plates, figs.  William Pengelly FRS; Pleistocene Bone Caves in Britain and Ireland; Mass Movement Caves in Great Britain; Excavation in Upper Kendrick's Cave, Llandudno; The Threshold Fauna; Study of Horseshoe Bats in Devon Caves; Caves of Fairy Cave Quarry; Digging for Mendip Caves.

Vol 5 1984  52 pp, 8 plates, figs.  Edgar Read 1899-1984;  Cave Archaeology in Yorkshire; Twenty years of Uranium-Series Dating of Cave Calcite; Biological Observations on the Ogbunike Cave System, Anambra State, Nigeria; Karst Water Studies in Gua Batu (Batu Caves), Peninsula Malaysia.

CAVE NOTES: COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND by A Boycott, G J Mullan and L J Wilson [nb genuine off-print, not a photocopy from] Proc UBSS 19 (1) 83-103  mint copy £2.50 another with coffee stain £1.00

CAVE NOTES: CO CLARE & CO GALWAY / A Supplement to `Caves of County Clare' by A Boycott and L J Wilson reprinted from Proc UBSS 16 (3) and  (3) and 17 (3) £1.00


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