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  1. Abbey Series of Fine Art Guides ST. IVES. With Compliments of James Lanham, Ltd., Auctioneers and Estate Agents. Illusts, adverts, double-page plan, 24pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial wraps, paper tape repair to spine. Abbey Publicity Service, Croydon: c.1930. £4.00




  2. Acton (Bob) THE LANDFALL BOOK OF TRURO. Street Maps, City Centre Walks, Four Country Walks. Maps, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. Landfall Publications, Truro: 1990. £4.00




  3. Acton (Viv) A HISTORY OF TRURO. Volume 1 From Coinage Town to Cathedral City. Illusts, maps, 221pp, original pictorial card covers. Landfall Publications, Truro: 1997. £8.00




  4. Acton (Viv) HIGH DAYS Truro High School Celebrates. Illusts, 120pp, original pictorial card covers. Landfall Publications, Truro: 1996. £5.00




  5. Acton (Viv) LIFE BY THE FAL Years of Change at Point and Penpol. Coloured and black and white illusts, map, 112pp, original pictorial card covers partly faded, owners name to front endpaper. First edition, Landfall Publications, Truro: 1993. £4.00




  6. Ash (Emily) and Venning (Mike) ANTHONY FROST - VIVA BLUES. Coloured plates, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. Newlyn Art Gallery, 1996. £9.00




  7. Atkinson (Barry) MINING SITES IN CORNWALL. Volume 2. Illusts, ix + 51pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1994. £4.00




  8. Barham (Fisher) OLD CORNWALL IN CAMERA. ROAD VEHICLES. Numerous illusts, roy 8vo, dustwrapper protected in a loose plastic sleeve, ex-lib. signs where labels removed from front endpapers, and a couple of stamps to prelims. Falmouth: Glasney Press, 1978. £4.00




  9. Baron (Frank) CORNISH YARNS. A Companion Book to Ma'tha Madder. 88pp, original pictorial card covers. Penzance: John W. Saudry, (1953) £4.00
    * Dialect stories.




  10. Baron (Frank) MA'THER MADDER A Cornish Character. 87pp, few spots to the original decorative card covers, top outer hinge partly rubbed, lacks front endpaper, some spotting front and rear. Penzance: John W. Saudry, (1952) £4.00
    * Dialect stories.




  11. Barton (D.B) A HISTORY OF TIN MINING AND SMELTING IN CORNWALL. Plates, textual illusts, maps, 302pp, short tears to top outer hinges of dustwrapper, page edges and rear of wrapper brown stained, internally clean. First edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1967. £10.00




  12. Barton (D.B) CORNWALL'S ENGINE HOUSES Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Tor Mark Press, Penryn: 1989. £4.00




  13. Barton (R.M) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL. With plates and folding maps, 168pp, some spotting to the original card covers. First edition, D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1964. £4.00




  14. Beare (Thomas), transcribed and edited by J.A. Buckley. THE BAILIFF OF BLACKMOOR 1586. Thomas Beare. An examination of the history, laws and customs of medieval and sixteenth century tinners. Illusts, xx + 138pp, original pictorial card covers. Penhellick Publications, Camborne: 1994. £20.00




  15. Beattie (D.J), Town Clerk THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO PENZANCE The Cornish Riviera (and the Land's End District) Illusts, folding map, adverts, 96pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers are slightly dusty, and outer hinges lightly rubbed. Underhill Ltd, Plymouth: c.195- £6.00




  16. Bellman (Sir Harold) CORNISH COCKNEY Reminiscences and Reflections. Plates, 263pp, original cloth, slightly dull, lacks dustwrapper, inscription on front endpaper. Hutchinson & Co., London: 1947. £6.00




  17. Bennett (Alan) IMAGES OF CORNWALL. Illusts, maps, 72pp, original pictorial card covers. Runpast Publishing, Cheltenham: 1992. £4.00




  18. Berry (Claude) PORTRAIT OF CORNWALL. Double-page map, plates, 189pp, rear of dustwrapper slightly soiled. Reprinted, Robert Hale, London: 1966. £4.00




  19. Best Harris (W) THE LIZARD COASTLINE. Plates, textual illusts, 56pp, original pictorial card covers. W. Best Harris, Plymouth, c.1980. £4.00




  20. Best (R.S) CORNISH QUIZ. Illusts, 42pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: c.1980. £4.00




  21. Bird (Sheila) BYGONE FALMOUTH. With 148 illusts from photographs, and 9 pages of introductory text, dustwrapper. Phillimore & Co. Ltd. Chichester: 1985. £6.00




  22. Bird (Sheila) BYGONE TRURO. With 152 illusts, dustwrapper. Phillimore, Chichester: 1986. £8.00




  23. Bizley (Maurice H) FRIENDLY RETREAT. The Story of a Parish. Illusts, 194pp, few marks and spots to the original cloth, partly faded, name to front endpaper. First edition. Netherton and Worth. Truro: Preface dated 1955. £15.00 --- See sample text
    * Concerns the Parish of St. Agnes.




  24. Boase (G.C) and Courtney (W.P) BIBLIOTHECA CORNUBIENSIS. A catalogue of the writings, both manuscript and printed, of Cornishmen and of Works Relating to the County of Cornwall, with Biographical Memoranda & Copious Literary References. Volumes 1 and 2 only, lacking volume 3, xii + 1-417 and viii + 418-917pp, folio, original cloth, neatly recased with the original spines laid down, retaining the original endpapers. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874, & 1878. £100.00
    * The major bibliography of Cornish books. It contains not only details of books written on Cornwall, or by Cornish writers, but in some cases much information on the writers themselves. Volume 1 covers A - O; volume 2 covers P - Z. Volume 3, the Supplement, not present here, contains mainly an Addenda and Index.




  25. Branfield (John) LANHYDROCK DAYS. Illusts, 93pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Victor Gollancz, London: 1991. £6.00
    * Children's fiction.




  26. Bray (Lena and Donald) ST. IVES HERITAGE Recollections and Records of St. Ives, Carbis Bay and Lelant. Illusts, 108pp, oblong 8vo, surface of dustwrapper crinkled. First edition, Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: (1981) £6.00




  27. Brett (R.L) editor BARCLAY FOX'S JOURNAL. With 7 plates, a map, 426pp, dustwrapper. Bell & Hyman, London: 1979. £6.00




  28. British Publishing Co. Ltd. AN OFFICIAL GUIDE TO CORNWALL. Numerous local adverts, map, coloured and black and white photographs, 144pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. British Publishing Co. Ltd., Gloucester: c.1990. £4.00




  29. Brown (H. Miles) A CENTURY FOR CORNWALL The Diocese of Truro, 1877 - 1977. With 14 plates, x + 141pp, dustwrapper. Oscar Blackford, Truro: 1976. £5.00




  30. Buckley (J.A) A HISTORY OF SOUTH CROFTY MINE. Illusts, diagrams, maps, 224pp, original cloth, private stamp to front and end pastedowns. First edition, Dylansow Truran, Redruth: c.1982. £8.00




  31. Buckley (J.A) A HISTORY OF SOUTH CROFTY MINE. Illusts, 224pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1997. £14.00




  32. Buckley (J.A) TUDOR TIN BOUNDS Maps, illusts, 80pp, original pictorial card covers, top corner of cover slightly creased. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1987 £8.00




  33. Burt (Roger), editor CORNISH MINING Essays on the Organisation of Cornish Mines and the Cornish Mining Economy. 210pp, dustwrapper. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1969. £15.00
    * With a signed presentation inscription from the author on the front endpaper.




  34. Cameron (Dex) IN THEY DAYS The continuing true story of life in Cornwall. 234pp, original pictorial card covers. Clear Water Books, Liskeard: 2003. £8.00
    * Cameron and family settled in a valley in south-east Cornwall in 1998.




  35. Cameron (Dex) WHERE ARE YOU TO? The true story of a family's new life in Cornwall. 377pp, original pictorial card covers, lower corner of top cover creased, signed by the author on the title-page. Clear Water Books, Liskeard: 2002. £8.00
    * They settled in a valley in south-east Cornwall in 1998.




  36. Carn Brea Mining Society CARN BREA MINING SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. June 1991. No 26. Illusts, 12pp, small folio, original pictorial wraps, stapled. Carn Brea Mining Society, 1991. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Underground in Levant, etc.




  37. Chapman (David) PENWITH MOODS. Coloured photos with captions, 80pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Alison Hodge, Penzance: 2007. £4.00




  38. Clemo (Jack) THE BOUNCING HILLS. Dialect Tales and Light Verse. Illustrated by Edmund Julian, 106pp, dustwrapper, owners name and date to front endpaper. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: c.1981. £9.00




  39. Collins (Rev. C. Trelawney) PERANZABULOE, The Lost Church Found: or, the Church of England not a new Church but Ancient, Apostolical, and Independent, and a Protesting Church nine hundred years before the Reformation. Frontis, xxviii + 281pp, original cloth partly faded, and chipped to head of spine, front inner hinge broken, frontis foxed mainly to edges, ownership name to front endpaper and early inscription to title-page scored through, slightly later ownership name to front pastedown. First edition, London: J.G. & F. Rivington, 1836. £50.00




  40. Constantine, Wendron PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of Desirable Freehold Properties which Messrs Hocking & Johns will offer for Sale by Auction.... 30th day of July, 1902.... 6pp., folio, folded. One large folding coloured plan and one full page one. Details 24 Lots, in Wendron and Constantine and one field in Helston. 1902. £26.00
    * Includes Gweek Hotel, School Building at Gweek, Gweek Wollas Wharf, Wheelwright's Shop, Tenements of Mellanoweth, Naffean Downs, parts of Crahan Bowling Green, etc.




  41. Cornish Institute of Engineers, edited by F.B. Michell TRANSACTIONS OF THE CORNISH INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS New Series, Volume X (October, 1954 to April, 1955) Textual diagrams, 33 cyclostyled pages, small folio, original wraps slightly spotty. Cornish Institute of Engineers, Camborne: 1955. £6.00
    * Includes articles on Swan Pool Tunnel; Modern Methods of Prospecting etc., etc.




  42. Cornwall River Authority ANGLING GUIDE Cornwall River Authority. Double page map, illusts, adverts, 40pp, original printed card covers. Third edition, Cornwall River Authority, 1971. £4.00




  43. Cory (Percival T) DESCENDANTS OF PETER, RICHARD PETER, PETER & SON, PETER, PETER & SONS. Illusts, pedigree, 107pp, folio, original printed card covers, 2" mark to top cover affecting glossy surface. c.1988. £9.00
    * Peter, Peter and Sons, were solicitors, in Launceston, from for many years. It lists the names of the staff, and partners from 1838 to 1988.




  44. [Mrs Craik] UNSENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH CORNWALL. With Illustrations by C. Napier Hemy. x + (ii) + 155pp, 4to, original decorative cloth, dull and rubbed to edges, lacks half of spine, endpapers spotty. Macmillan, London: 1884. £20.00




  45. Cross (Tom) THE SHINING SANDS. Artists in Newlyn and St. Ives 1880-1930. Illusts, 224pp, dustwrapper. Reprinted, Halsgrove, Tiverton: 1999. £12.00




  46. Croxford (Bob) FROM CORNWALL WITH LOVE. Illusts, map, 95pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial laminated boards. Presentation inscription to front endpaper. Atmosphere, Helston: 1993. £5.00




  47. Daniell (Rev. J.J) and Peter (Thurstan C) A COMPENDIUM OF THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF CORNWALL With a coloured folding map, viii + 486pp, original cloth, slightly rubbed to edges, slightly chipped to head of spine, presentation inscription to front endpaper. Fourth edition. Truro: Netherton and Worth. London: Houlston and Sons, 1906. £25.00




  48. Daniell (S) OLD CORNWALL Life in the County about a Century Ago. Illusts, 46pp, original pictorial card covers. Tor Mark Press, Truro: c.1972. £4.00




  49. Darke (Jo) CORNISH LANDSCAPES. Coloured illusts, 64pp, dustwrapper. B.T. Batsford, London: 1983. £5.00




  50. Darvill (Giles) LITTLE SIR HAL KILLIGREW. Elizabethan Voice in Europe. 150pp, original pictorial card covers. CRM and Dyllansow Truran, Southwell: 1994. £6.00




  51. Davidson (R.E) THE HISTORY OF TRURO GRAMMAR AND CATHEDRAL SCHOOL. (The Old School in St. Mary's Street.) With a Foreword by A.L.Rowse. Frontis, 95pp, later qtr morocco, cloth boards, ex-lib. with small stamp to title-page, label to front endpaper and signs where one removed from front pastedown. Kingston, Mevagissey: 1970. £7.00




  52. Davison (C. Raffles) DOWN TO THE LAND'S END With 20 leaves showing numerous illusts, and 12 pages of text, folio, original cloth, few marks to cloth, some foxing. Reprinted from 'The British Architect' Dec. 16th, 1887. £18.00




  53. Demuth (Averil), editor THE MINACK OPEN-AIR THEATRE. Illusts, folding plate, 128pp, original pictorial card covers, partly faded. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: 1968. £8.00




  54. Dexter (T.F.G) CORNISH NAMES 83pp, sm 8vo, original printed card covers. First published 1926, Reprinted, D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro: 1968. £5.00




  55. Douch (H.L) CORNISH WINDMILLS. Frontis and textual illusts., 69pp, short tear repaired to dustwrapper. Truro: Oscar Blackford, c.196- £12.00




  56. Dunstan (Alan) and Peart-Binns (John) CORNISH BISHOP: BIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH WELLINGTON HUNKIN. 174pp, original pictorial card covers, spine faded, title and verso of half title slightly browned by a newscutting obituary of Hunkin.. London: Epworth Press, 1977. £4.00




  57. Duxbury (Brenda) and Williams (Michael) THE RIVER CAMEL. Black and white photographs, map, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprint, Bossiney Books, St. Teath: 1987. £4.00




  58. Edwards (L.W.L) INDEX TO CORNISH NONCONFORMIST REGISTERS AT THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. xvi + 138pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, small private ownership stamp to front endpaper. Limited Edition of 500 Copies. Privately published, London: 1976. £14.00
    * Contains a surname index of the Cornish nonconformist registers deposited at the P.R.O. (with the exception of Quakers). Baptisms and Burials are covered, each entry containing surname and forename, year, and the chapel or circuit.




  59. Fairclough (A) THE STORY OF CORNWALL'S RAILWAYS. Illusts, 47pp, original pictorial card covers, slight damage to surface of rear cover where label partly removed. Tor Mark Press, Truro: (1970). £4.00




  60. Fallon (Brian) TONY O'MALLEY Painter in exile. Illusts, 111pp, original pictorial card covers. Art Council Ireland, 1984. £15.00




  61. Feock Local History Group FEOCK with Devoran and Carnon Downs some aspects of Local History Part III. Maps, plans, 54pp, original pictorial card covers. Extra Mural Dept, University of Exeter, 1975. £8.00




  62. Fern (Harold E), editor CORNISH CHAMBER OF MINES YEAR BOOK 1919. With 3 folding tables, folding chart, folding map, 73pp, original cloth, cloth partly damp stained, inner hinges partly broken. Mining Publications Ltd, London: (1919) £25.00
    * Dated 1918 on top board, and 1919 on title-page.




  63. Fletcher (Canon J.R), edited and completed by D. John Stephan. SHORT HISTORY OF ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT CORNWALL. Illusts, 83pp, dustwrapper. Published (1951) at St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. £6.00




  64. Flynn (J. Stephen) CORNWALL FORTY YEARS AFTER. 210pp, spotting to a few pages, sm 8vo, original cloth. Truslove and Hanson, London: 1917. £4.00




  65. Folliott-Stokes (A.G) THE CORNISH COASTS AND MOORS. Illustrations from Photographs by Alex. Begbie, John C. Douglas, and the Author. Illusts, folding map, 367pp, original cloth, spine faded, fore-edges slightly spotty. Reprinted, London: Stanley Paul, c.1923. £12.00




  66. Foot (Isaac) MICHAEL VERRAN OF CALLINGTON AND THOMAS CARLYLE. With 11 plates, xiii + 74pp, few short tears to dustwrapper. London: Epworth Press, 1946. £12.00




  67. Foot (Sarah) and Dryden (Peter) VIEWS OF OLD CORNWALL. Numerous illusts, 120pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers, few spots to title-page. Bossiney Books, St. Teath, Bodmin: 1981. £5.00




  68. Fowles (John) SHIPWRECK. Photography by the Gibsons of Scilly. Numerous illusts, 2 maps, 48pp, oblong 4to, original pictorial card covers, lower corner of top cover slightly creased. Reprinted, Sphere Books, London: 1981. £5.00




  69. French (Mary) CORNISH GOLD A Record of The Parish of QUETHIOCK in Cornwall. Coloured photographs, 127pp, roy 8vo, short tear to head of spine of partly faded dustwrapper. Chantry Press, Liskeard: 1979. £6.00
    * A fictional account of a family farming on Bodmin.




  70. Frost (Terry) TERRY FROST Prints 1948-1990. Coloured illusts, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. Austin/Desmond Contemporary Books, London: 1990. £6.00




  71. Frost (Terry) TERRY FROST: Painting in the 1980's Coloured and black and white illusts, 47pp, original printed card covers. University of Reading, 1986. £7.00




  72. Gardiner (G. Russell) CORNWALL. Coloured and black and white illusts, 94pp, oblong 8vo, inscription to front endpaper, few short tears to head of dustwrapper, torn with small portions missing from head of spine. D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1971. £5.00




  73. Geographia Ltd, publishers THE RAMBLERS' GUIDE TO NEWQUAY DISTRICT. Consisting of 12 Picturesque Walks in the Neighbourhood of:- Newquay, St. Columb, Porth, Treviglas, Crantock, Trevemper, etc. etc. Illusts, route maps, lacks map, 63pp, oblong sm. 8vo, original printed card covers partly faded, few marks, small damp mark to edge of top cover slightly affecting the next 3 leaves. London: Geographia Ltd., c192- £4.00




  74. George (Michael) SPORTSMEN OF CORNWALL. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, St Teath 1986. £5.00




  75. Gibbons (George B) "THEN SAID THE HIGH PRIEST ARE THESE THINGS SO? AND HE SAID, MEN, BRETHEREN, AND FATHERS HEARKEN." A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Launceston, before the Right Reverend Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, At his Triennial Visitation, September 23, 1839. Published by Command of the Bishop. 30pp, disbound, stitching broken so pamphlet in 2 sections. Launceston: Printed and Published by T. & W.R. Bray. (1839) £12.00
    * Gibbons was the Perpetual Curate of St. Mary Magdalene, Launceston.




  76. Gibson (Frank) THE PARADISE ISLAND OF TRESCO. Coloured illusts, map, 20pp, original pictorial card covers. c.2002. £4.00




  77. Gilbert (C.S) AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL: to which is added a complete Heraldry of the Same.... Volume 1 of 2 only. With plates, portraits, and woodcuts, and 25 copper-engraved plates showing 500 coats of arms of Cornish families, lacks the Falmouth Harbour plate, with a plate of Tehidy, which does not appear in the 'Directions to Binder' which is found at the end of volume 2 but does appear occasionally in complete sets, viii + 71 + vi + (ii) 73-592pp, 4to, early diced calf boards rubbed, boards loose, lacks spine. London and Plymouth-Dock: Printed and Published by J. Congdon, 1817. £80.00




  78. Gilbert (Davies) ADDRESSES TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING On St. Andrew's Day, 1828. 11pp, unbound, stitched as issued. London: Richard Taylor, 1829. £8.00
    * Gilbert Davies was the president of the Royal Society and the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Not in Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis.




  79. Gilbert (Henry), Ray (R), Orchard (Colin) ART ABOUT ST IVES. A Guide to the Town, its Galleries and Art History. Coloured and black and white illusts, 98pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Revised Edition, St. Ives, 2006. £5.00




  80. Godfrey (Tony) LUKE FROST. Coloured plates, 24pp, sq. 4to, original pictorial card covers. Beaux Arts, London: 2010. £9.00




  81. Gorseth Kernow PROGRAMME OF THE GORSEDD OF THE BARDS OF CORNWALL. Saturday September 4th, 1948. 3 p.m. 8pp, original printed wraps partly faded. 1948. £4.00




  82. Hackett (Dr P), and others MINING IN CORNWALL TODAY. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. Cornish Chamber of Mines, Truro: 1974. £4.00




  83. Hall (A) WEST CORNWALL No 19. Geologists' Association Guides. Text maps, 39pp, original printed wraps, slightly creased where once folded. Geologists' Association, 1974. £4.00




  84. Halliday (F.E) A CORNISH CHRONICLE. The Carews of Antony from Armada to Civil War. Frontis, 171pp, dustwrapper slightly rubbed to edges. First edition, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1967. £6.00




  85. Halliday (F.E) A HISTORY OF CORNWALL. With 15 plates, textual maps, 328pp, dustwrapper. Second edition, Duckworth, 1975. £12.00




  86. Hamilton-Jenkin (A.K) MINES AND MINERS OF CORNWALL. 4. Penzance-Mount's Bay. Illusts, folding map, 66pp, original pictorial card covers. First published 1962. Reprinted, Forge Books, Bracknell, 1979. £15.00




  87. Hamilton Jenkin (A.K) NEWS FROM CORNWALL. With a memoir of William Jenkin. With 6 plates, xi + 202pp, portions chipped from edges of dustwrapper, few spots to title-page and fore-edges. First edition, London: Westaway Books, 1951. £15.00
    * William Jenkin, of Redruth was an ancestor of Hamilton Jenkin and was a 'notable figure in the mining world of Cornwall.'




  88. Hamilton-Jenkin (A.K) THE STORY OF CORNWALL. Plates, map endpapers, few small marks to the original cloth, ex-lib. with only labels to endpapers. Reprinted, Thomas Nelson, London: 1945. £6.00




  89. Harris (T.R) ARTHUR WOOLF The Cornish Engineer 1766 - 1837. With 6 illusts, 112pp, original cloth, dustwrapper. D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro: 1966. £12.00
    * Woolf pioneered the use of high pressure steam engines for use in Cornish tin mines.




  90. Hawkey (Muriel), Preface by J.C. Trewin A CORNISH CHORUS. A Collection of Prose and Verse. Illusts, 144pp, slightly chipped dustwrapper. Westaway Books, London: 1948. £4.00




  91. Heffer (Philip) EAST POOL & AGAR. A Cornish Mining Legend. Illusts, diagrams, 60pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1985. £8.00




  92. Helston Election REPORT BY THE LORDS COMMITTEES, Appointed To search for Proceedings as to the hearing of Petitioners by Counsel for and against Bills of a similar Nature to The Helleston Election Bill. Folio, disbound, 2pp + title leaf, couple of short tears to margins. Ordered to be printed 22nd March, 1815. £12.00




  93. Helston Elections THE REGISTER OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE at any Election of a Member to Serve in Parliament for the BOROUGH OF HELSTON, between The First Day of January, 1883, and the First Day of January, 1884. 24pp, 4to, original, partly faded wraps, signs where once folded. Helston: Printed by J. Cunnack, Market Place, 1882. £30.00




  94. Henwood (William Jory) OBSERVATIONS ON THE METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF CORNWALL.... With.... Address Delivered at the Spring Meeting of the Royal Institution of Cornwall; 17th of May, 1870. 2Opp, + 16pp, recent unlettered card covers. (By permission, reprinted with alterations and additions, from the Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall.) Heard and Son, Truro: 1870 & 1872. £18.00




  95. Herring (Ivor J) 400 YEARS OF TREMAYNES AT HELIGAN. Illusts, diagrams, 122pp, original pictorial card covers. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1999. £7.00




  96. Hext (Jean), editor THE STANIFORTH DIARY. A Visit to Cornwall in 1800. With a forward by A.L. Rowse. Illusts., 68pp, map endpapers, dustwrapper. Truro: Bradford Barton, 1965. £7.00




  97. Hirst (Lieut-Colonel F.C.) EXCAVATIONS AT PORTHMEOR, CORNWALL, 1933, 1934 and 1935. Plates, diagrams, folding diagram, 81pp, original partly faded. Reprinted from R.I.C. Journal. Truro: 1937. £6.00




  98. Hirst (Lieut-Colonel F.C.) and Keith (Sir Arthur) SUPPOSED IRON AGE BURIAL AT MAWGANPORTH. Pages numbered 321-327, original wraps, ex-lib. stamp and label to verso of top wrap, stamps to first leaf and top wrap, old cellotape stain across wraps at foot of spine. Reprinted from Royal Institution of Cornwall Journal. Truro: 1936. £4.00




  99. Hollowood (Bernard) CORNISH ENGINEERS. Illustrated by Terence Cuneo with reproductions of contemporary photographs and documents. Illusts, map endpapers, 95pp, roy 8vo, original cloth, usual discolouration to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. First edition, Holman Bros., Camborne: 1951. £18.00
    * The story of Holman Bros of Camborne.




  100. Hubber (C.W) CORNWALL BLUE BOOK. Folding map, illusts, adverts, 235pp, original pictorial card covers, light spotting to covers and title-page, otherwise sound. C.W. Hubber, Newquay: c.1968. £5.00




  101. Hudson (Kenneth) THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHINA CLAYS. Fifty Years of Pioneering and Growth. Illusts, map, folding map tipped in at rear, 189pp, short tear to rear of dustwrapper. David & Charles, Newton Abbot: (1968) £7.00




  102. Hughes (William) IT'S ALL FOR THE BEST: A Cornish Tale. 135pp, 12mo, original cloth, chipped to head and foot of spine, cloth dull and spotty, few spots to text, number in ink on spine and manuscript note on front pastedown:- 'Knackersknowle Young Men's Improvement Society.' London: Whitaker, Plymouth & Devonport: Roger Lidstone, 1852. £15.00
    * William Hughes was a barrister and auditor of the Poor Law Union District of Cornwall and Devon. See Boase & Courtney. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, vol. 1, page 258. This 'Tale' was originally published in Blackwood's Magazine. Knackersknowle is an old name for an area of Plymouth.




  103. Hull (P.L), editor THE CARTULARY OF LAUNCESTON PRIORY. (Lambeth Palace MS. 719). A Calendar. Frontis, xlii + 258pp, original card covers. Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Volume 30. Torquay: 1987. £8.00
    * Includes 31 page Index of people and places.




  104. Hunt (John) ISLANDS APART The Isles of Scilly. With 80 plates, 20pp, small folio, short tear to dustwrapper. Wruff Publications, Porthloo, St. Mary's Isles of Scilly: 1989. £8.00




  105. Ince (Catherine), selected and edited by LIFE IN CORNWALL 1939-42. Extracts from the West Briton Newspaper; Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Truran, Truro: 2001 £6.00




  106. Ivey (W.F) MEMORIES OF OLD HELSTON AND PORTHLEVEN. Photographic illusts with descriptive captions, (88)pp, oblong folio, original pictorial card covers, name to top cover, foot of title-page spotty. Helston Printers, c.197- £12.00




  107. Ivey (W.F) WALK WITH ME. On a guided coastal walk from Porthleven to Helford via the Lizard. Illusts, double-page sketch map, 20pp, original pictorial card covers. Helston Printers, c.1980. £4.00




  108. Jackson (Kurt) KURT JACKSON The Painted Etchings. Coloured plates, 30pp, original pictorial card covers. Lemon Street Gallery, Truro: 2005. £18.00
    * Jackson has a gallery in St. Just.




  109. Jackson (Kurt) KURT JACKSON The Thames Project. Coloured plates, 90pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Lemon Street Gallery, Truro: 2006. £55.00
    * Jackson has a gallery in St. Just.




  110. Jaggard (Edwin), editor LIBERALISM IN WEST CORNWALL: the 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Map, lvi + 154pp, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly faded. Devon and Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 42. Exeter: 2000. £6.00




  111. Jenkin (John) A FIRST HISTORY OF CORNWALL. Illusts, maps, 86pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1984. £4.00




  112. Jenner (Henry). and others OLD CORNWALL SOCIETIES What they are and what they are doing. 15pp, original wraps, slightly dusty and spotty, staples rusty and one non longer attached to the original printed wraps. James Lanham Ltd., Printers, Si. Ives: c.1930. £4.00




  113. Jmo (Steve) and Hevizi (Janeta) THE TRUE STORY OF BILBO The Surf Lifeguard Dog. Coloured illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition. Cornish Cove Publishing. 2008. £5.00
    * Bilbo was based at Sennen Cove.




  114. John (Catherine Rachel) THE SAINTS OF CORNWALL. Plates, illusts, 114pp, original pictorial card covers, fore-edges slightly spotty, spine faded, some general wear. Lodenek Press and Dyllansow Truran, Padstow and Redruth: 1981. £4.00




  115. Johnson (Nicholas), Payton (Philip) and Spalding (Adrian), editors THE CONSERVATION VALUE OF METALLIFEROUS MINE SITES IN CORNWALL. Plan, illusts, 54pp, 4to, metal ring binding, original pictorial card covers. Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Truro: c.1996. £5.00




  116. Jones (Ken) SEAL DOCTOR The delightful story of Ken Jones and his orphan seals. Illusts, 158pp, original pictorial card covers, page edges slightly browned. Signed by the author on the title-page. First edition thus, Fontana (Collins), London: 1978. £4.00
    * The story of the Seal Sanctuary at Gweek, and moving from it's first site at St. Agnes.




  117. King (Isaac) A SAILOR'S LETTER. 4pp, 12mo, disbound. E. Bentley, Fleet Street, London: c.1812. £10.00
    * This imprint not found in Boase & Courtney. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, vol 2, page 665. The letter is signed 'Isaac King' and is addressed to the Rev. G.C. Smith, Penzance. Smith started life in the navy, and later studied to become a Baptist minister in Devonport. The Rev. G.C. Smith was a pastor of the Baptist chapel in Penzance from 1807-25, and 1848-63. Whilst there he preached not only in Penzance, but also at St. Just and Newlyn, and built six chapels in the Penzance area. He founded several societies and charities mainly for the benefit of sailors and their families.




  118. Kittridge (Alan) CORNWALL'S MARITIME HERITAGE. With Special Places to Visit. Illusts, 51pp, original pictorial card covers. New edition, Twelveheads Press, Truro: 2003. £4.00




  119. Lakeman (Mary) EARLY TIDE A Mevagissey Childhood. Illusts, 208pp, original pictorial card covers, mark on top cover where label? removed. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1983. £7.00




  120. Lambert (J.W) CORNWALL. With 8 pages of coloured maps, 154 + 4 pages of publishers adverts, sm 8vo, original pictorial paper covers. Third and Revised edition, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1954. £5.00




  121. Lambert (J.W) CORNWALL. With 8 pages of coloured maps, 159pp, sm 8vo, original pictorial paper covers, outer hinges partly rubbed. Revised edition, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth: 1947. £4.00




  122. Launceston, Kensey Vale KENSEY VALE, LAUNCESTON, PARTICULARS of Valuable Freehold Property, Garages and Accommodation Land for Sale by Auction... November 7th, 1933. Single leaf, printed on one side only, folio, one lower corner creased. Lists 4 lots, including a Creamery, 13 lock up garages, Bridge Meadow. 1933. £6.00




  123. Laws (Peter) CORNISH ENGINES. An illustrated souvenir. Maps, illusts, 30pp, original pictorial card covers. National Trust, London: 1993. £4.00




  124. Lean (Thomas) and (J) HISTORICAL STATEMENT OF THE IMPROVEMENT MADE IN THE DUTY PERFORMED BY THE STEAM ENGINE IN CORNWALL. from the Commencement of the Publication of the Monthly Reports. Tables, one of which is folding, vii + 152pp, small tear to dustwrapper, ownership inscription to front pastedown. First published 1839. Reprinted, D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro: 1969. £6.00




  125. Liskeard MINUTES OF EVIDENCE LISKEARD RETURN. Folio, disbound, 14pp. 1804. £18.00




  126. Looe Urban District Council LOOE SOUTH CORNWALL Official Guide 1963. Illusts, double-page map, adverts, 115pp, original pictorial card covers, light stains to foot of a few pages. Looe Urban District Council, Looe: 1963. £4.00




  127. Luck (Liz) BREWING FOR CORNWALL A Family Tradition. The Story of St. Austell Brewery 1851-2001. Coloured and black and white illusts, 76pp, oblong 8vo, original card covers, signed presentation inscription by the author to the title-page. St. Austell Brewery Co. Ltd., St. Austell: 2001. £5.00




  128. Maclean (Sir John) PAROCHIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF ST. BRUERED (ST. BREWARD). With a tinted lithograph and 3 other plates, pedigrees, one of which is folding, textual illusts, pages numbered 345-396, + list of subscribers, complete, 4to, original printed card covers, cloth spine. London: Nichols and Sons, Bodmin: Liddel and Son, 1871. £35.00
    * This forms part III of 'Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall.'




  129. Maker (Lawrence) COB AND MOORSTONE. The curious history of some Methodist Churches. Frontis, 94pp, original cloth, lacks front endpaper. London: The Epworth Press, 1935. £8.00




  130. Marazion History Group THE CHARTER TOWN OF MARAZION. Illusts, 156pp, original pictorial card covers. Marazion Town Trust, 1995. £8.00




  131. Matthews (Rupert O) CORNWALL Beautiful Britain Series. Coloured photographs, 67 unnumbered pages, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Crown Books, 1986. £4.00




  132. McCabe (Helen) HOUSES AND GARDENS OF CORNWALL. A Personal Choice. Illusts, map, xxi + 162pp, dustwrapper. Tabb House, Padstow: 1988. £8.00




  133. McCarthy (Malcolm) AROUND PADSTOW in Old Photographs. Illusts, map, 127 + (1)pp, original pictorial card covers. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud: 1998. £4.00




  134. Mee (Arthur) THE KING'S ENGLAND - CORNWALL. England's Farthest South. With 250 Places and 173 pictures, xi + 317pp, no dustwrapper, original cloth spine faded, damp mark to lower portion of spine and front board, internally sound, original owners name to front pastedown. Reprinted, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1943. £6.00




  135. Mercer (Roger) CARN BREA, ILLOGAN. Cornish Archaeological Society, Field Guide No. 12. Plan, 4pp, original printed wraps, few spots, hinges rusty. Second Edition, Cornish Archaeological Society, 1972. £5.00




  136. Messum (David) THREE PAINTERS FROM PENWITH An exhibition of oil paintings and watercolours. Rose Hilton, Mark Stork and June Miles. Coloured illusts, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. David Messum Fine Art, London: 1994. £8.00






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  137. Mining Association and Institute of Cornwall TRANSACTIONS OF THE MINING ASSOCIATION AND INSTITUTE OF CORNWALL. Volume 2. Part 2. 85 + xi + (2)pp, wraps and spine partly faded and chipped. Published by the Society, Camborne: 1889. £8.00
    * Includes articles on Globes Mill at Dolcoath; Steam Boilers; Dr Angus Smith's Methods of Testing Air, etc.




  138. Moncrieff (E.R), editor BLACK'S GUIDE TO CORNWALL. Folding map in pocket at rear, x + 188 + 88pp of adverts, sm 8vo, original cloth. lightly rubbed, couple of short tears and some splits to folds in maps. Twenty-first edition, Adam and Charles Black, London: 1911. £6.00




  139. Moncrieff (E.R), editor BLACK'S GUIDE TO CORNWALL. Lacks map, x + 188 + 68pp of adverts, sm 8vo, slightly dull original cloth. Twenty-second edition, Adam and Charles Black, London: 1915. £6.00




  140. Monk (Wendy) JOHN GILL OF PENRYN. Illusts, 76pp, roy 8vo, few short tears and splits to dustwrapper, light spotting to prelims, presentation inscription to front endpaper. E.J. Rickard, Plymouth: (1971) £16.00
    * Gill was a Quaker and pacifist, he founded the Penryn Advertiser and when he retired he toured round the country preaching non violence.




  141. Moore (Peter) and Lister (Martin) LISKEARD Town and About. Illusts, double-page plan, local adverts, 173pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Tamara Publications, Plymouth: 1988. £6.00




  142. Morrison (T.A) CORNWALL'S CENTRAL MINES: THE NORTHERN DISTRICT 1810 - 1895. Illusts, diagrams, viii + 392pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Penzance: Alison Hodge, 1980. £8.00
    * Detailed study of the mines in the areas of Tolgus Downs, Pool, and Roskear-Roscroggan.




  143. Mowl (Timothy) HISTORIC GARDENS OF CORNWALL Map, coloured and black and white illusts, 192pp, original pictorial card covers. Tempus, Stroud: 2005. £10.00




  144. Mudd (David) AROUND & ABOUT THE ROSELAND. With black and white photographs, 88pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Bossiney Books, St. Teath: 1980. £5.00




  145. Mudd (David) THE CRUEL CORNISH SEA. Illusts, 112pp, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1981. £4.00




  146. Nance (R. Morton) and Smith (A.S.D) ABRAM HAG YSAL (O.M., lines 1259-1394) Extracts from the Cornish Texts in unified spelling with amended translation No IV. 11pp, original printed wraps. Printed by Wordens, Marazion, c.1960. £4.00




  147. Nance (R. Morton) THE CLEDRY PLAYS. Drolls of Old Cornwall For Village Acting and Home Reading. Illusts, 109pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Printed for the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Marazion: 1956. £4.00




  148. Neale (John) OLD LAUNCESTON. Illusts, 49pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Stenlake Publishing, Ochiltree: 2001. £4.00




  149. Newman (Paul) HAUNTED CORNWALL. Illusts, 95pp, original pictorial card covers. Tempus, Stroud: 2005. £4.00




  150. Newquay NEWQUAY 1900 Souvenir Programme. July 4th-9th 1982. Illusts, adverts, 38pp, oblong 8vo, original paper wraps. Surf Engraving, Newquay: 1982. £4.00




  151. Newquay Old Cornwall Society NEWQUAY'S PICTORIAL PAST. With map, and 65 illusts, with captions, one per page, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers, some spotting to first, last leaf, and fore-edges. Newquay Old Cornwall Society, c.1990. £4.00




  152. Noall (Cyril) and Farr (Grahame) WRECK AND RESCUE ROUND THE COAST OF CORNWALL. I. The Story of the North Coast Lifeboats. With 14 plates, textual illusts, 126pp, dustwrapper is partly faded and lightly rubbed, with short tear at hinge, inscription to front endpaper. First edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1964. £6.00




  153. Noall (Cyril) CORNISH SEINES AND SEINERS A History of the Pilchard Fishing Industry. Plates, 160pp, dustwrapper. First edition, Truro: Bradford Barton, 1972. £16.00




  154. Noall (Cyril) SMUGGLING IN CORNWALL. Illusts, map, 108pp, dustwrapper. First edition, D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1971. £7.00




  155. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL MAGAZINE Volume 2. No. 8. 44pp, original printed wraps, staples slightly rusty. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Winter, 1934. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Reminiscences of Newlyn; Phillack Church and Holy Well; Fishing in a Cornish Port Sixty Years Ago; Cornish Revival, etc.




  156. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL MAGAZINE Volume 2. No. 9. 44 + (2)pp, original printed wraps. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Summer, 1935. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- St Erth Rood Screen in Somerset; Underground Passages at Weeth, Camborne; Post Office Services at Falmouth; Ols St. Ives, etc.




  157. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL MAGAZINE Volume 2. No. 11. Illusts, 44 + (2)pp, original printed wraps, name in pencil to top cover. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Summer, 1936. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Three Sons of Tregony, 1622; Parentage of Dolly Pentreath; St. Ives Recollections; Domesday Book and East Cornwall, etc.




  158. Old Cornwall REPORTS. FEDERATION OF OLD CORNWALL SOCIETIES. 1936-1937. 19pp, original printed wraps, few spots to top wrap. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Summer 1937. £4.00




  159. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL SOCIETIES What They Are And What They Are Doing. 15pp, original printed wraps, staples rusty, spne partly split, few spots to top wrap, short tear to margin of first leaf. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. 1948. £4.00




  160. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL MAGAZINE Volume 6. No. 5. Map, pages numbered 191-238, complete, original printed wraps. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Autumn, 1963. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Glasney College; Saltash; Dr. Borlase's account of Ludgvan, etc.




  161. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL MAGAZINE Volume 6. No. 8. Illusts, pages numbered 335-382, complete, original printed wraps. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Spring, 1965. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Borough of Helston; Bryan Rogers of Falmouth (1632-1692); Castle Dore; St. Issey in 1753; Probus, etc.




  162. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL MAGAZINE Volume 9. Part 4 only of 12. Illusts, original wraps. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Spring 1981. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Ordinalia; Bodmin Medieval Priory Church, etc.




  163. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL MAGAZINE Volume 11. No. 5. Illusts, pages numbered 209-260, complete, original printed wraps. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Autumn, 1993. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Women in Industry; Cornish Crosses; Cornish Dialect, etc.




  164. Old Cornwall OLD CORNWALL MAGAZINE Volume 12. No. 2. Illusts, 52pp, original printed wraps. Issued by Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. Spring, 1998. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Falmouth Rectories; Lifeboat Houses of St. Ives; Cornish Crosses; Dolly Pentreath, etc.




  165. Ordish (H.G) CORNISH ENGINE HOUSES A Second Survey Pictorial Survey. Numerous illusts, 64pp, original pictorial card covers. Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1968. £6.00




  166. Osborne (J. Arthur) and Thomas (David H) VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN CAMBORNE Through the "Eyes" of the Camera 1850-1920. Illusts, 48pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. J. Arthur Osborne, Camborne: 1986. £4.00




  167. Palmer (June) TRURO IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY A Pattern of Place and People. Illusts, including several drawings of front elevations buildings, with notes of their early owners, plans, 80pp, folio, original printed card covers. June Palmer, Polquick: 1989. £6.00




  168. [Pascoe (F.R)] CORNWALL EDUCATION WEEK HANDBOOK. May 30th-June 4th, 1927. City Hall, Truro. Illusts, 175pp, original cloth, spine faded. Pasted to the front pastedown is a complimentary label addressed, signed by the Secretary for Education, to 'Miss Anne Treneer.' 1927. £10.00
    * Contains much on the history of education in Cornwall.




  169. Paston-Williams (Sara) OLD PICTURE POSTCARDS OF CORNWALL. With black and white photographs, 96pp, large 8vo, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Bossiney Books, St. Teath: 1989. £4.00




  170. Payton (Dr Philip) A VISION OF CORNWALL. Coloured and black and white illusts, x + 226pp, 4to, dustwrapper. Alexander Associates, Fowey: 2002. £16.00
    * Signed by Philip Payton on the title-page.




  171. Payton (Dr Philip) THE CORNISH OVERSEAS. Numerous illusts, x + 420pp, 4to, dustwrapper protected in a transparent plastic sleeve. Fowey: Alexander Associates, 1999. £25.00
    * Signed by the author on the half-title.




  172. Payton (Philip J) THE CORNISH FARMER IN AUSTRALIA. Or Australian Adventure: Cornish Colonists and the Expansion of Adelaide and the South Australian Agricultural Frontier. Illusts, diagrams, xvi + 143pp, dustwrapper. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1987. £16.00




  173. Pearce (Frank) ALONG THE FAL. With black and white photographs, 33pp, original pictorial card covers. Cornwall County Publishers, Falmouth: c.1976. £4.00




  174. Pearse (Mark Guy) JOHN TREGENOWETH: HIS MARK. Illusts, 6 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, 16mo, original decorative cloth, lightly rubbed, few small marks to cloth, front inner hinge cracked, few marks mainly to fore-edge margins. Third Edition, Revised, London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1878. £4.00




  175. Penhaligon (Annette) PENHALIGON Illusts, 262pp, dustwrapper. Bloomsbury, 1989. £5.00
    * Biography of David Penhaligon, Liberal party M.P. by his wife.




  176. Penzance Information Bureau PENZANCE FOR LANDS END Coloured illusts, numerous adverts, 116pp, original pictorial card covers, ink note on rear cover. Penzance Information Bureau, 1961. £5.00




  177. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society REPORTS AND TRANSACTIONS 1889-90. Pages numbered 104-190, original printed wraps. Plymouth: William Brendon: 1890. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Plants in Tresco Gardens; Journal in Cornwall in 1754; Flora of Guernsey, etc.




  178. Penzance PENZANCE (Official Guide) Illusts, some in colour, numerous adverts, 108pp, original pictorial card covers, private ownership label to first leaf, short split top head of top outer hinge, light wear to covers. Official Information Bureau, Penzance: c.1953 £5.00




  179. Perranporth PERRANPORTH A spot in the Sun North Cornwall. Illusts, adverts, 64pp, 12mo, slightly dusty original pictorial card covers, small address label to title-page. Perranporth Chamber of Commerce, n.d. c.195- £6.00




  180. Peter (Richard) and (Otho Bathurst) THE HISTORIES OF LAUNCESTON AND DUNHEVED, in the County of Cornwall. Illusts., and folding maps, vi + (ii) + 423pp, few marks to partly faded original cloth, cloth slightly chipped to head and foot of spine, inner hinges cracked and weak. First edition, Plymouth: W. Brendon, 1885. £30.00




  181. [Peter (Thurstan)] HISTORY OF CORNWALL FOR MY CHILDREN. By Their Father. 52pp, few spots to the original cloth. First edition, London: Houlston and Sons, 1891. £8.00




  182. Philpott (Linda) STROLLS AROUND NEWQUAY Part I. Towan Beach, The Harbour, Towan Head. Illusts, 32pp, original pictorial card covers. A Philpott Publication, Newquay: 1984. £4.00




  183. Pickering (Isabel) SOME GOINGS ON! A selection of newspaper articles about Fowey, Polruan, and Lanteglos districts from 1800-1899. 309pp, original pictorial card covers. Isabel Pickering, Fowey: 1995. £10.00




  184. Pounds (Norman J.G), editor THE PARLIAMENTARY SURVEY OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. Part II. (Isles of Scilly - West Antony and Manors in Devon). With folding map, 131 - 271pp, original card covers. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 27. Torquay: 1984. £6.00




  185. Pounds (Norman J.G), editor THE PARLIAMENTARY SURVEY OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. Part I (Austell Prior - Saltash); Part II (Isles of Scilly - West Antony and Manors in Devon). 2 volumes with 2 folding maps, xxiv + 130pp, and 131-271pp, original card covers, small mark to one top cover. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volumes. 25 & 27. Torquay: 1982-84. £8.00




  186. Pounds (Norman J.G), editor THE PARLIAMENTARY SURVEY OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. Part I. (Austell Prior - Saltash). With 2 folding maps, xxiv + 130pp, original card covers, ex-Family Hist. lib stamp to top cover. Devon & Cornwall Record Society New Series, Volume 25. Torquay: 1982. £5.00




  187. Preen (Harvey) THE GIDDY OX. The Story of a Family Holiday. Illustrations by Carl Thrift and from Photographs by Madeleine Thrift and the Author. xii + 211pp, original cloth. 1900. £10.00
    * A humorous account of a holiday at Oakcarne farm, near Delabole.




  188. Prynn (Edward) A BOY IN HOB-NAILED BOOTS. The Story of His Life. Part I. Illusts, 78pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted, Tabb House, Padstow: 1984. £6.00
    * He lived at St. Merryn, near Padstow.




  189. Prynn (Edward) NO PROBLEM The Story of a Cornishman. Part II. Illusts, 92pp, original pictorial card covers, slightly rubbed, short crease to top corner of top cover. Tabb House, Padstow: 1982. £6.00
    * He Lived at St Merryn, near Padstow.




  190. Quiller-Couch (Sir A.T) WANDERING HEATH. The Duchy Edition. 209pp, 12mo, partly faded dustwrapper. Reprinted, London: J.M. Dent, 1928. £8.00




  191. Rawe (Donald R) A PROSPECT of CORNWALL. Illusts, 222pp, dustwrapper. First Edition, Robert Hale, London: 1986. £6.00




  192. Reade (Lewis) THE BRANCH LINES OF CORNWALL. Map, illusts, 44pp, oblong 8vo, pictorial card covers. Atlantic Transport Publishers, Truro: 1984. £5.00




  193. Rendell (Joan) AROUND LAUNCESTON. The Archive Photographs Series. Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Chalford Publishing, Stroud: 1997. £8.00




  194. Rendell (Joan) CORNWALL'S HISTORIC BUILDINGS. Illusts, 127pp, original pictorial card covers. The History Press, Brimscombe Port; 2008. £8.00




  195. Rendell (Joan) LAUNCESTON. Some Pages in History. Illusts, 93pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Landfall Publications, Truro: 1993. £8.00




  196. Riddle (Christopher) 'SO USEFUL AN UNDERTAKING' A History of the Royal Cornwall Show 1793 - 1993. With a Foreword by Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal. Numerous illusts, ix + 361pp, dustwrapper, ex-lib. stamp to foot of title-page and fragment of lable stuck to front endpaper. Published by the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association. 1993. £4.00




  197. Rowse (A.L) A CORNISH CHILDHOOD Autobiography of a Cornishman. 282pp, original cloth, lacks dustwrapper. Fifth Impression, Jonathan Cape, London: 1946. £4.00




  198. Rowse (A.L) A CORNISHMAN ABROAD. 318pp, spine of dustwrapper slightly faded, few spots to fore-edges, internally sound. First edition, Jonathan Cape, London: 1976. £8.00




  199. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. TENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1842. Part the First. Original printed wraps, lacks approx. half of spine, name in ink to top wrap. Falmouth: Sold by Mrs Trathan, 1842. £14.00
    * Includes articles on:- Recent Botanical Discoveries in Cornwall; Dressing of Ores; Electricity of Mineral Veins, etc.




  200. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1843. Folding frontis, and 2 other folding plates, original printed top wrap is loose, note in ink on top wraps, lacks lower wrap and spine. Falmouth: Printed and Sold by J. Trathan, 1843. £14.00
    * Includes articles:- Crustacea, Sea Urchins, water Shells; Tresavean Mine. etc.




  201. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 1851. 6 plates, 54pp + 12pp + 5pp, original printed wraps, top wrap almost loose, lacks spine, some stitching broken. Falmouth: 1851. £15.00
    * Includes:- Cocks. Contributions to the Flora of Falmouth; Cock. Actinae procured at Falmouth and its neighbourhood; Puckey. Notice of Man Machine at Fowey Consols Mines, etc.




  202. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1890. Original wraps partly faded, name on top wrap, one section loosening. Falmouth: Lake and Co., Truro: Heard and Sons, 1890. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Decline of Fisheries; Education, etc.




  203. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SIXTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1901. Frontis, folding diagram, lacks wraps. Falmouth: Cornish Echo & Lake & Co, Truro: Heard and Sons, 1901. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Artificial Culture of Oysters and Lobsters, etc.




  204. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SEVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1903. Original wraps, wraps loose and with portions missing to edges. Truro: Heard and Sons, 1903. £5.00




  205. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SEVENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. New Series. Volume 1, Part 3 - 1911. Plates, original wraps, spine darkened and slightly chipped at head and foot. Penryn: F. Chegwidden, 1911. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Mining Industry of Western Australia; Cornwall and Brittany; Macro-Lepidoptera of Falmouth and District, etc.




  206. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. EIGHTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. New Series. Volume 2. Part 3 - 1914. Plates, lacks lower wrap, top wrap torn loose and ragged. Camborne: Camborne Printing and Stationery Co. Ltd., 1914. £9.00
    * Includes articles:- Carvings of St. Michael's Mount; Governors of St. Mawes, Castle, etc.




  207. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. EIGHTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. New Series. Volume 3. Part III - 1917. Plates, original wraps, few short tears and a hole top top wrap not affecting text. Plymouth: William Brendon, 1917. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Irish Immigration into Cornwall, etc.




  208. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. New Series Volume 4. Part III - 1920. Plates, lacks top wrap and spine, corner torn from lower margin of slightly creased frontis, few short tears to title-page. Falmouth: J.H. Lake, 1920. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Dukes and Earls of Cornwall; Origin of the Cost Book System, etc.




  209. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. NINETY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. New Series Volume V. Part III - 1925. Plates, one of which is folding, lacks top wrap, rear wrap has portions missing, couple of tears, and small portion missing from lower margin of frontis, small stain to it's lower margin. Camborne: Camborne Printing & Stationery Co. Ltd., 1925. £4.00
    * Includes:- Cornish Streams and Bridges; Carn Brea; Falmouth and the Great War; Mining Coinage of Cornwall; Boulton and Watt in Cornwall; Augustus John Smith, etc.




  210. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. NINETY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. New Series Volume VI. Part I - 1927. Illusts, original printed wraps, spotting and staple stains to wraps, top corner of top wrap missing, few marks to wraps. Camborne Printers: 1927. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- China Clay Industry; War Prisoners at Falmouth and District, etc.




  211. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. NINETY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. New Series Volume 6. Part II - 1928. Plates, original wraps, spine chipped at head and foot, name and note in ink on top wrap. Camborne: Camborne Printing & Stationery Co. Ltd., 1928. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Medical Worthies; War Prisoners in Cornwall, etc.




  212. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1955. Plate, original wraps, name in ink to top wrap. Camborne: Camborne Printing & Stationery Co. Ltd., 1955. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Falconry in Cornwall; Archaeology in Cornwall, etc.




  213. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1960. Original wraps, staples slightly rusty. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co., Ltd. 1960. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Fishing in West Cornwall; Cornish Mammals; Percy Seymour. A Biography, etc.




  214. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Thirty-Sixth Annual Report.... Papers and Notices. Volume 7 part 3. Plate, 22 + 93-114pp, original wraps, spine chipped, small portion missing from lower corner of top wrap and title-page, ink note to top cover. Penzance: F.T. Vibert, 1849. £10.00
    * Articles include:- Rocks of the Liskeard Valley; Additions to Cornish Geology, etc.




  215. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 9. Part. 1. With 2 coloured maps, vii + 164pp, original printed wraps dusty, slightly shaken, spine chipped. Penzance: 1875. £8.00
    * Includes:- Geology of Lundy Island; Geology of Penzance Bay; Bones of a Whale found at Pentuan, etc.




  216. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 17. Part 7. Maps, diagrams, 351-397pp, original printed wraps, staple rust stains to wraps. Penzance: 1948. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Geology of South Tolgus Shaft; Kit Hill, Callington, etc.




  217. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 19. Part 1. Illusts, 83pp, original wraps, staple rust staining to wraps. Penzance: 1955-1956. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Structure of the Tintagel-Davidstow Area; Applied Geochemistry studies in Cornwall; Fluellite in Cornwall, etc.




  218. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 19, Part 3. Illusts, 163-242pp, original wraps, private ownership stamp to top wrap. Penzance: 1962. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Erosion of Bodmin Moor; Coastal Morphology of Padstow Peninsula; Mining and Shore-Line Evolution near St. Austell; Geology of China Clay Deposits, etc.




  219. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 19, Part 5. Illusts, 297-409 + ivpp, original wraps. Penzance: 1963-64. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Beach Erosion at Bude; Tin and other Metals of Gwithian/Hayle Beach; Cements of Godrevy Raised Beach; Stratigraphy in Boscastle area, etc.




  220. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. Volume 20, Part 1. 1965-66. Illusts, original wraps, top wrap partly rubbed, and with small rust stains, ownership name to top wrap. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1968. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Dartmoor and Lundy.




  221. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 21. Part 1. Illusts, diagrams, 96pp, original card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1978. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Humphrey Davey's Geological Lectures, etc.




  222. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 21. Part 2. Illusts, diagrams, pages numbered 97-112, original printed card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1982. £4.00
    * Contains article on:- Geology of Launceston and Lydford area.




  223. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 21. Part 3. Illusts, diagrams, pages numbered 113-152, original card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1985. £4.00
    * Contains article on:- Ore Genesis in South West England.




  224. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 21. Part 4. Illusts, diagrams, pages numbered 153-212, original card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1987. £4.00
    * Contains article on:- Wood Tin in South West England.




  225. Royal Institution of Cornwall THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 1853. With 1 plate, 35 + 5pp, original printed wraps, ink note on top wrap. Truro: James R. Netherton. 1854. £26.00
    * Includes articles:- Jonathan Couch on Ancient Bell in the Tower of Lansallos Church; Proposed School of Mines in Cornwall, etc.




  226. Royal Institution of Cornwall THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. Tables, xviiipp, original printed wraps. Truro: James R. Netherton, 1868. £4.00
    * This is the introction only.




  227. Royal Institution of Cornwall, Radford (Charles Ralegh) JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 1. Appendix 1951. REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS AT CASTLE DORE. Illusts, 119pp, lacks wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1951. £16.00




  228. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 1. Part 2. Illusts, pages numbered 81-148, original wraps, small mark to top cover, staples rusty. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1952. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Philip Rashleigh; Archaeological Survey of the Roseland Peninsula; Log of the Brig "Hopewell", etc.




  229. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. No 94. New Series Volume 3. Part 1. Illusts, 82pp, original printed wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1957. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Medieval Chapels of Cornwall; Cornish Smuggling; Tonkin Manuscript; Stained Glass Windows in Cornwall, etc.




  230. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL No 96. New Series Volume 3. Part 3. Illusts, pages numbered 101-279, original wraps, wraps have been glued down ta inner margin later, foot of top wrap ragged. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1959. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Ornithology in Cornwall; Wheal Alfred; Cornish Agriculture; Penheleg Manuscript, etc.




  231. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL Supplement, 1960. Map, plans, illusts, 26pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1960. £8.00
    * Contains articles on:- Treliske, and Pendeen Earthworks.




  232. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL No 98. New Series Volume 4. Part 1. Illusts, 80pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1961. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- The Great House Truro; Helston Furry Dance; Cornish Saints; Otterham Barrow, etc.




  233. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. No 99. New Series Volume 4. Part 2. 83-251pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1962. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Thomas Tonkin; Haveners and Mediaeval Dukes of Cornwall; Richard Carew's Discourse about the Duchy Suit, etc.




  234. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. No 100. New Series Volume 4. Part 3. Illusts, pages numbered 257-375, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1963. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Pollen Analysis from Two Cornish Barrows; Charles Morton; Early Cornish Printers, etc.




  235. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL No 101. New Series Volume 4. Part 4. Illusts, pages numbered 382-480, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1964. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Trade in 17th Century; Carvinack Barrow, Tregavethan; Davies Gilbert, etc.




  236. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. No 102. New Series Volume 5. Part 1. Illusts, 108pp, original wraps, light splash marks to the top wrap. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1965. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Parochial Life in Eighteenth Century Cornwall; Lazar Houses in Cornwall; Coast and Cliff Names of Gwithian, etc.




  237. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. No 104. New Series Volume 5. Part 3. Illusts, pages numbered 205-296pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1967. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Engines; Animal Remains from Nor-Nour, Isles of Scilly; Coast and Cliff-Names of Gwithian, etc.




  238. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. No 105. New Series Volume 5. Part 4. Illusts, pages numbered 301-406, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1968. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Captain Harry Carter; Delabole Slate Quarry; Wreck of St. Anthony, etc.




  239. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 6. Part 1. Illusts, 80pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1969. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Potters and Pewterers; Sara Gregor of Trewarthenick, etc.




  240. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 6. Part 3. Illusts, pages numbered 168-235pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1971. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Tour in Cornwall in 1780 by Rev. John Swete; Penzance Harbour Charter of 1512; Sir Richard Grenville, etc.




  241. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 7. Part 3 1975/6. Illusts, pages numbered 175-238pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1976. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Church of St. German; Parish of St. Agnes; Grylls Monument at Lanreath; Manor of Tremarustel and the Honour of St. Keus, etc.




  242. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 7, part 4, 1977. Plates, text illusts, maps, pages numbered 239-309, original card covers, slightly rubbed to top outer hinge. Blackfords of Truro, 1977. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Alexander Daniel of Alverton; Saltash and its Vicinity; Watermills of St. Keverne; Cross Sites in West Penwith, etc.




  243. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 8, part 3, 1980. Plates, folding pedigree, pages numbered 163-251pp, original wraps, slightly rubbed to hinges. Blackfords of Truro, 1980. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Trists of Veryan; The Cornish Goat; Turf Huts in the Lizard District, etc.




  244. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 9, part 1, 1982. Plate, 82pp, original vard covers, slightly rubbed to edges, top cover creased. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1982. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- The Railway in Cornwall 1835-1914; Cornish Chartists; Education by Charity in 18th century Cornwall, etc.




  245. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series 2, Volume 1, part 1, 1991. Plates, plan, 99pp, original card covers, short crease to top cover. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1991. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Bench-ends; Arundell Archive; Runaway Apprentices in the 18th and 19th centuries, etc.




  246. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series 2, Volume 1, part 2, 1992. Plates, pages numbered 102-232, original wraps. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1992. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- High Sheriffs of Cornwall; Journal of John Pollard of Newlyn, 1794-5; Wreck of the Albermarle, 1708; Indulgences in Medieval Cornwall; Survival of Cornish Liberalism 1918-45, etc.




  247. Royal Institution of Cornwall PAINTING IN CORNWALL 1880-1930. 4 plates, 24pp, original pictorial card covers. Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro: 1978. £6.00




  248. Sagar-Fenton (Michael) ABOUT ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT. 48pp, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Lauceston: 2008. £4.00




  249. Saint Mabyn APPORTIONMENT OF THE RENT CHARGE IN LIEU OF TITHES, in the Parish of SAINT MABYN, in the County of Cornwall. 1839. 18pp, folio, few marks to thin card covers, crude paper spine, handwritten place-name on top cover, verso of covers, title, and last leaf spotty. Printed in columns giving names of Landowners and Occupiers, Description of premises and land, Cultivation, Quantity, Rent-charge, No. on Plan. Plans were not issued with these apportionments. Liddell and Son, Printers, Bodmin: 1839. £45.00




  250. Salmon (Arthur L), revised by H. Ronald Hicks CORNWALL. The Little Guide. Plates, folding map, 183pp, sm 8vo, original cloth, partly faded, lacks dustwrapper, ex-lib. with label to front pastedown and 2 stamps to verso of title-page. Ninth edition, Methuen & Co., 1950. £4.00




  251. Simcoe (Rev. H.A), editor LIGHT FROM THE WEST or, The Cornish Parochial Visitor. Volume 5. Illustrated with occasional wood cuts, [iv] + 288pp, 12mo, early binders cloth. Cornwall: Rev. H.A. Simcoe, Penheale - Press. 1836. £25.00
    * Issued in penny monthly numbers, most issues being 24pp. Mainly of religious interest. See Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis volume 2 page 651.




  252. Smit (Tim) EDEN. Numerous coloured illusts, 320pp, dustwrapper. Bantam Press, 2001. £5.00
    * The story of the Eden Project at St. Austell.




  253. Smith (A.S.D) (Carador) CORNISH SIMPLIFIED. Short Lessons for Self-tuition. Pronunciation. Grammar. Exercises. 88pp, few light splash marks to the partly faded top wrap, price label on top wrap. Second edition, James Townsend & Sons, Exeter: 1955. £4.00




  254. Smith (Emma) THE GREAT WESTERN BEACH A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars. 261pp, original pictorial card covers. Bloomsbury, London: 2008. £4.00




  255. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge AVIS LEWARNE; A West Country Story. Frontis, 95pp, sm 8vo, original cloth boards, cloth damp marked, internally sound. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c.1876. £8.00
    * Fiction set in Cornwall.




  256. Spence (C) ITER CORNUBIENSE. (A Relation of Certain Passages Which Took Place During a Short Tour in Cornwall.) Part 2 only of 3. Pages numbered 285-293, 4to, disbound. Extracted from Trans. Exeter Dioc. & Architect Soc. 1852. £4.00




  257. St Ive, Quethiock and Pillaton ST IVE, QUETHIOCK AND PILLATON PARISHES CORNWALL. PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE OF FREEHOLD PROPERTIES Comprising Farms and Detached Fields. Messrs J. Kittow & Son Are instructed to offer the above for Sale by Auction at Golding's Hotel, Callington on Wednesday, 5th July, 1916. With 4 large coloured folding plans, 9pp, folio, original printed wraps, small area damaged to top corner of top wrap and first 2 leaves. 1916. £25.00
    * Includes the farms of Penpoll, Ford and Saunton, tenement of West Morsehead.




  258. St Ives BOROUGH OF ST. IVES St. Ives, Carbis Bay and Lelant. Illusts, including folding panorama, adverts, 88pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers, edges of top hinge slightly rubbed, small portion missing from head of spine. St. Ives Publicity and Advertising Association, St. Ives: 1946. £7.00




  259. St Ives BOROUGH OF ST. IVES St. Ives, Carbis Bay and Lelant. Guide 1958. Illusts, some in colour, including folding map loosely inserted, adverts, 128pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers, small private ownership stamp to title-page. St. Ives Publicity and Advertising Association, St. Ives: 1958. £4.00




  260. St Ives BOROUGH OF ST. IVES St. Ives, Carbis Bay and Lelant. Guide 1959. Illusts, some in colour, including folding panorama, adverts, 132pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers, small private ownership label to title-page. St. Ives Publicity and Advertising Association, St. Ives: 1959. £4.00




  261. St Ives ST IVES The gem of the Cornish Riviera. Borough of St Ives Carbis Bay and Lelant Official Guide. Coloured and black white illusts, adverts, 163pp, original pictorial card covers. St Ives Publicity and Advertising Association, St. Ives: 1967. £4.00




  262. St. Ives Town Council ST. IVES Official Guide Illusts, map, adverts, 60pp, 12mo, few marks to the original pictorial card covers, spine rubbed. Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Ltd., Cheltenham: c.1930. £8.00




  263. Stanier (Peter) CORNWALL'S MINING HERITAGE. Illusts, maps, diagrams, 47pp, original pictorial card covers. Twelveheads Press, Truro: 1988. £4.00




  264. Stanier (Peter) CORNWALL'S GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE. Illusts, maps, diagrams, 47pp, original pictorial card covers. Twelveheads Press, Truro: 1990. £4.00




  265. Stengelhofen (John) WHEAL MARTYN MUSEUM. Guide to the China-Clay Museum with Historical Notes. Illusts, plans, diagrams, 24pp, oblong 8vo, original pictorial card covers. Revised and enlarged, St. Austell China Clay Museum, 1976. £4.00




  266. Symons (Frank) VERYAN how times have changed. Illusts, 64pp, original pictorial card covers, signed by the author on the title-page. Palores, Redruth: 2005. £6.00




  267. Tangye (Sir Richard) SOME PECULIAR BEGGARS, Illusts, 26pp, 12mo, original pictorial wraps, spine neatly reinforced with brown paper. Privately Printed. Cornish Brothers, Birmingham: 1897. £20.00
    * Tangye relates his encounters with beggars in Birmingham and Cornwall. Tangye was born in Illogan, went to the quaker school at Sidcot, and with his brothers started a large engineering company in Birmingham. He travelled widely and wrote books on his travels. He bought Glendorgal, from the Vivians, and from 1882 spent most of his summers there.




  268. Thomas (Janet) "THE WHEELS WENT AROUND" The Story of Camborne town. Illusts, map, 111pp, original pictorial card covers. Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1987. £5.00




  269. Thompson (E.V) BODMIN MOOR Through the Years. With black and white photographs, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Bossiney Books, St. Teath: 1992. £4.00




  270. Thompson (E.V) DISCOVERING BODMIN MOOR. Illusts, map, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, St. Teath: 1980. £4.00




  271. Thompson (Hilary) A HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF GERRANS 1800 - 1914. Part 1. Farms and Farmers. Illusts, maps, 84pp, Hilary Thompson, Portscatho: 1994. £14.00




  272. Tovey (David), and Skinner (Sarah) CORNISH LIGHT. The Nottingham 1894 Exhibition Revisited. Numerous coloured and black and white illusts, 152pp, 4to, original pictorial card Covers. Sansom & Co., Bristol: 2015. £25.00
    * Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Cornish Light' at Nottingham Castle Museum and Penlee House, Gallery & Museum, Penzance.




  273. Tremewan (Tom) A BUILDER'S LIFE IN PERRANPORTH. Illusts, 128pp, dustwrapper slightly rubbed to top edge, corner cut from front endpaper. Oscar Blackford, Truro: 1974. £12.00
    * This was his second work following on from 'Cornish Youth' and covers the period 1918 - 1938.




  274. Treneer (Anne) CORNISH YEARS. 284pp, lacks dustwrapper, some spotting to the original cloth, conemporary inscription on front endpaper. First edition, Jonathan Cape, London: 1949. £5.00




  275. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 30. August 1980. Illusts, 9pp, sm folio, stapled. 1980. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Wheal Jane; Stannary Law, etc.




  276. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 32. February 1981. Illusts, 12pp, sm folio, stapled. 1981. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Johannesburg's Mining Museum; Francis Trevithick at Crewe; Surviving Cornish Pumping Engines, etc.




  277. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 33. May 1981. Illusts, 12pp, sm folio, stapled. 1981. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Levant, etc.




  278. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 37. May 1982. Illusts, 8pp, sm folio, stapled. 1982. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Cornish Engines at Stonecroft and Settlingstones; Boiler Explosion at East Uny, etc.




  279. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 38. August 1982. Illusts, 8pp, sm folio, stapled. 1982. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Botallack Appeal; Trinity House Depot, Penzance, etc.




  280. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 41. May 1983. Illusts, 8pp, sm folio, stapled. 1983. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Cornish Coastal Trade; Cornish enginehouse at Scott's Pit, Wales; Submarine Telegraph, etc.




  281. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 56. February 1987. Illusts, 14pp, original card covers. 1987. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Remains of Minions - Caradon; 'Great Eastern' and the Atlantic telegraph, etc.




  282. Trevithick Society THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. No 67. November 1989. Illusts, 15pp, original card covers, ink note to one leaf. 1989. £4.00
    * Includes articles on Levant Whim; King Edward Mine Museum,; Delabole in 1851, etc.




  283. Trevithick Society THE JOURNAL OF THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY No 1. Illusts, 95pp, original pictorial card covers, spine slightly faded, couple of marks to rear cover. Trevithick Society, Cornwall: 1973. £9.00
    * Includes articles:- Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway; Wheal Guskus; Redruth to Penzance Roads; Liskeard and Looe Canal; Tin Stream Works at Tuckingmill, Richard Trevithick, etc.




  284. Trevithick Society JOURNAL OF THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY No 3. 1975. Illusts, 78pp, original pictorial card covers. Trevithick Society, Cornwall: 1975. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Iron in the Cornish Industrial Revolution; Cornish Industrial Literature, Cornish Beam Engine, etc.




  285. Trevithick Society THE JOURNAL OF THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY No 5. 1977. Illusts, 88pp, original pictorial card covers. Trevithick Society, Cornwall: 1977. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Hornblower Family; The Cornish Metal Company; Cornish Mineral Railways; Richard Trevithick in Costa Rica, etc.




  286. Trevithick Society THE JOURNAL OF THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY No 7. 1979-80. Illusts, 104pp, original pictorial card covers. Trevithick Society, Cornwall: 1979-80. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Angarack smelting House; Cornish Copper Company; South Wheal Francis, etc.




  287. Trevithick Society THE JOURNAL OF THE TREVITHICK SOCIETY No 27. 2000. Illusts, 105pp, original pictorial card covers. Trevithick Society, Cornwall: 2000. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- St. Michael's Mount Tramway; Morvah Consols Mine; Giew Mine; Severn Tunnel pumping Engines, etc.




  288. Trewin (Carol), photography by Adam Woolfit CORNISH FISHING AND SEAFOOD. Coloured illusts, 256pp, original pictorial card covers. Alison Hodge, Penzance: 2006. £5.00




  289. Trounson (J.H) and Bullen (L.J) MINING IN CORNWALL. Volume One: The Central District. Illusts, 128pp, original pictorial card covers. Reprinted, Tempus, Stroud: 2000. £4.00
    * Includes:- Great Condurrow, Dolcoath, Cook's Kitchen, Carn Brea, Tincroft, East Pool and Agar.




  290. Trounson (J.H) MINING IN CORNWALL. 1850-1960. Volume Two. Map, illusts, 135pp, original pictorial card covers, spine and covers partly faded. Moorland Publishing: 1980. £7.00




  291. Trounson (J.H) MINING IN CORNWALL. 1850-1960. Volume One. Map, illusts, 130pp, original pictorial card covers. Moorland Publishing, 1980. £6.00




  292. Trounson (J.H) MINING IN CORNWALL. 1850-1960. Volume Two. Map, 134 illusts, original pictorial card covers, small portion chipped from surface of top edge of top cover. Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne: 1981. £4.00




  293. Tucker (Eva) PILGRIMAGE The Enchanted Guest of Spring and Summer. Dorothy Richardson 1873-1954 Reassessment of her Life and Work. Map, 37pp, original pictorial card covers. Hypatia Trust, Penzance: 2003. £10.00




  294. Wakeham (Geoff) ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION CULDROSE 1947-1997. Illusts, 191pp, original pictorial card covers. Royal Naval Air Station, Culdrose: 1997. £5.00




  295. Walling (R.A.J) SOME CORNISH CHARACTERISTICS. 21pp, original wraps, ex-lib. stamp to verso of top wrap. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Plymouth Institution, 1909. £4.00




  296. Ward, Lock and Co., publishers GUIDE TO FOWEY St. Austell, Looe, Truro, Truro, Falmouth and South Cornwall. Special Section for Motorists. With 7 maps and plans, illusts, 160pp, sm 8vo, original cloth boards, front inner hinge cracked though sound. Fourteenth Edition, Ward, Lock & Co., London: n.d. c.1957. £4.00




  297. Weighell (W), printer WEIGHELL'S GUIDE TO NORTH CORNWALL Folding map, illusts, [viii] + 127 + 7pp (adverts), sm 8vo, original limp cloth, lacks lower corner of card from top board. 6th Edition. Launceston: W. Weighell, c.190- £12.00




  298. West Looe REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF WEST LOOE. Title + pages numbered 538-542, complete, extracted from a larger work, folio, disbound, pages loose. House of Commons, London: 1835. £10.00
    * Sections of the Report cover:- History; Courts; Corporate Body; Police; Revenue, etc.




  299. Western National Omnibus CORNWALL The Guide to Western National coach tours from Newquay. Illusts, adverts, 96pp, 12mo, few spots to original printed wraps, slightly worn, spine partly split. Abbey Publicity Service, Croydon: 1930's. £7.00




  300. Westwood (Jennifer) GOTHICK CORNWALL. With illusts, maps, 72pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Shire Publications, Princes Risborough: 1992. £5.00




  301. Whybrow (Marion) ST IVES 1883-1993. Portrait of an Art Colony. Illusts, 236pp, 4to, original pictorial card covers. Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge: 1994. £11.00




  302. Wilkinson (Tom) WE RAN A CORNISH PUB. 195pp, dustwrapper slightly worn, name to front endpaper. George Allen, London: 1967. £8.00
    * A fictionalised account of a true story where names and places are changed.




  303. Wilkinson (W.F) MINERS' INSURANCE FUNDS IN ENGLAND AND GERMANY. Pages numbered 81-110, complete, original printed wraps, later staples, spine partly split. The Mining Association & Institute of Cornwall, 1892. £4.00




  304. Williams (Douglas), photographs by Harry Penhaul WEST CORNWALL CAMERA. Illusts, 96pp, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Bodmin: 1990. £8.00




  305. Williams (H.V) CORNWALL'S OLD MINES. Illusts, 46pp, original pictorial card covers, inscription to front endpaper. Tor Mark Press, Truro: c.1973. £4.00




  306. Williams (Michael) TINTAGEL. Plates, plan, 28pp, original pictorial card covers. Bossiney Books, Camborne: 1971. £4.00




  307. Wilson (Joy) AROUND ST AUSTELL BAY. With black and white photographs, 120pp, original pictorial card covers. Signed by the author on the title-page. First edition, Bossiney Books, St. Teath: 1986. £5.00




  308. Wilson (Joy) EAST CORNWALL IN THE OLD DAYS. With black and white photographs, 112pp, original pictorial card covers. First edition, Bossiney Books, St. Teath: 1988. £4.00




  309. Woodbine (Ray), transcriber CORNWALL 1851 CENSUS. St Germans Superintendent Registrars District. Volume 10. Part 1. MAKER, RAME, and ST. JOHN. 126pp, 4to, original card covers, clip on plastic spine. Privately published, Par: 2000. £15.00




  310. Woolf (Charles) AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CORNWALL. Plates and textual illustrations, 103pp, dustwrapper, signed inscription by Woolf on verso of front endpaper. First edition, Truro: D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1970. £7.00




  311. Wright (Matthew), line drawings ST-JUST-IN-ROSELAND CHURCH the Parish Church of St. Just and St. Mawes. Coloured illusts, plan, line drawings, 16pp, original pictorial card covers. Beric Tempest, St. Ives: n.d. £4.00




  312. Young (Bill) and Stamp (Bryan Dudley) STRATTON Past & Present. Illusts, some in colour, 74pp, original pictorial card covers. Bill Young, Bude: 2002 £4.00


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