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  1. 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.





  2. 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.





  3. 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.





  4. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1874. Large folding diagram, text illusts, original wraps, spine rubbed, top wrap and title-page loose and both with a short tear, top wrap slightly soiled and with name and note in ink on top wrap, occasional light spotting. Falmouth: Lake and Co., Truro: Heard and Sons, 1874. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Mines in the Illogan District; Dartmoor Antiquities compared with Cornish Legends; Cornish Sardines; Windmills in Cornwall, etc.





  5. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1876. Large folding diagram, text illusts, original wraps, slightly chipped to head of spine, name in ink on top wrap. Falmouth: Lake and Co., Truro: Heard and Sons, 1876. £14.00
    * Includes articles:- Taylor's Drum Dressing Machine; Steven's Patent Underground Hauling Engine; Modern Pottery; Photography, etc.





  6. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1880. Folding table, 96 + 31 + 8pp, original printed wraps, original wraps, top wrap spotty, portions chipped from spine, name on top wrap. Falmouth: 1880. £15.00
    * Includes:- Exhibition details of:- Michell and Tregoning's Pulveriser; Carrington's Paper Testing Machine, etc.





  7. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1884. Folding tables and plates, original printed wraps, partly faded, name in ink on top wrap, spine partly chipped. Falmouth: Lake & Co, Truro: Heard & Sons, 1884. £12.00
    * Includes:- Florida Main-Lode, Cardiganshire, etc.





  8. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1885. Folding diagram, frontis, text illusts, lacks wraps, portion torn from margin of frontis. Falmouth: Lake and Co., Truro: Heard and Sons, 1885. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Falmouth Observatory; Storage and Transmission of Tidal-Energy; Life History of the Pollock as seen off the Coast of Cornwall, etc.





  9. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1887. Folding table, text illusts, original wraps, partly faded, portions missing from spine, name to top wrap. Falmouth: Lake and Co., Truro: Heard and Sons, 1887. £15.00
    * Includes articles:- Ballooning; Porphyritic Rocks of the Lizard District; Laws, Capture and Natural History of the Herring and Pilchard; Wendron Mining District; Clays and Fictile Manufactures of Cornwall and Devon, etc.





  10. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1889. Original printed wraps, few textual illusts, portions missing from head and foot of spine. Falmouth: Lake & Co., Truro: Heard & Sons, 1889. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Falmouth as a Health Resort; Perranzabuloe Mining District; Glasney College Penryn, etc.





  11. 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. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Decline of Fisheries; Education, etc.





  12. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SIXTIETH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1892. Plates, 2 of which are folding, original wraps loose, partly faded, portions missing from spine and edges of wraps. Falmouth: Lake and Co., Truro: Heard and Sons, 1892. £14.00
    * Includes articles:- Avifauna of Cornwall; Migration and Habits of the Pilchard, etc.





  13. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT. Frontis, text illusts, original printed wraps partly faded with ink note to top wrap, wraps chipped to edges, portions missing from spine. Falmouth: 1897. £15.00
    * Includes:- Collins. Cornish Mines and Miners; Report on the Fisheries Committee etc., etc.





  14. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society SIXTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1898. Frontis, original printed wraps, few spots to top wrap, spine chipped at head and foot. Falmouth: Lake & C., Truro: Heard & Sons & Netherton & Worth, 1898. £9.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Mining; Glasney; Chemical Treatment of Ores; Fisheries, etc.





  15. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SIXTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1899. Plates, original wraps, lacks most of spine, name in ink to top wrap. Falmouth: Lake & Co., 1899. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Fisheries; Education, etc.





  16. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SIXTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1900. Plates, original wraps, lacks top wrap, lacks small portion of rear wrap. Penryn: J.B. Lake, 1900. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Fisheries; Cornwall and the Romans; Cornwall from a Painter's Point of View by Stanhope Forbes; West Country Mines, etc.





  17. 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.





  18. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SEVENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 1902. Plates, lacks wraps. Falmouth: Cornish Echo & Lake & Co, Truro: Heard and Sons, 1902. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornwall the Nursery of the Steam Engine; British Oak Galls; Migratory Birds of Cornwall, etc.





  19. 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




  20. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 1907. Original wraps, small portion missing from head of spine, indelible stamp to top wrap. Falmouth: Cornish Echo and Lake & Co., Truro: Heard & Sons, 1907. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Orthoptera of Cornwall; Equipment of Cornish Consolidated Tin Mines; Gyllyngvase Beach, etc.





  21. 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.





  22. 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.





  23. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. EIGHTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. New Series. Volume 3. Part I - 1915. Original wraps partly faded, 7 folding pedigrees, small portions chipped from head of spine, indelible stamp, and ink notes to top wrap, stitching strained. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co. Ltd., 1915. £25.00
    * Includes:- Historical Notes on St. Crantock Parish, which include 7 folding pedigrees of local families:- Loveys, Turnavine and Budd, Vivian, Blighe, Borlace, Stephens, and Rillstone; Synopsis of Society for previous 30 years, etc.





  24. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. EIGHTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. New Series. Volume 3. Part II - 1916. Plates, lacks wraps, frontis lacks small portion of lower corner and is partly stained with portion of label to rear. Plymouth: William Brendon, 1916. £7.00
    * Includes articles:- Cassiterite in Cornish Mill Production; Tin and Tungsten in the West of England, etc.





  25. 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.





  26. 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.





  27. 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. £5.00
    * 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.





  28. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. NINETY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. New Series Volume VI. Part I - 1927. Illusts, original printed wraps, staples 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.





  29. 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.





  30. 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.





  31. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1959. Original wraps, staples slightly rusty affecting top wrap. Camborne: Camborne Printing & Stationery Co. Ltd., 1959. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Parsons and Parsonages of the XVII Century; Cornish Mammals, etc.





  32. 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.





  33. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT of The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1961. Original wraps, staples slightly rusty, slightly affecting covers. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co., Ltd. 1961. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish China-Clay Industry; Cornish Mammals, etc.





  34. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 2 graphs, 125pp + 6pp, original printed wraps, spine worn, last few leaves and lower wrap loose, some corners curled. Falmouth: 1849. £20.00
    * Includes:- Cocks. Contributions to the Flora of Falmouth; Miss Warren. Marine Algae, found on the Falmouth Shores, etc.





  35. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. FORTIETH AND FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORTS Two volumes bound in one, plates, maps, and diagrams, many of which are folding, early binders buckram, slightly rubbed to edges, ex-university lib. with occasional stamp. Falmouth: 1872 and 1873. £40.00
    * Includes:- Mining Skills in Devon and Cornwall; Antiquities of Dartmoor; Elvan Courses.... etc.





  36. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. Folding table, illusts, original printed wraps, slight wear to head and foot of spine, couple of pages spotty, name and ink note to top wrap. Falmouth: 1878. £14.00
    * Includes:- Articles on mining and quarrying machinery; Fox. Observations.... on the Pilchard Fishery. etc., etc.





  37. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. Original printed wraps, folding table. Falmouth: 1881. £22.00
    * Includes:- Holmes' Lectures on Danger Signals at Sea; Exhibition details of:- Johnson's Sleeping Berths; Normandy Compressor, etc., etc.





  38. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. Original printed wraps, lacks lower portion of spine. 1895. £22.00
    * Includes:- Old Falmouth Packet Services, etc.





  39. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. SEVENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. Frontis, original printed wraps, small portion torn from top corner of top wrap. 1897. £22.00
    * Includes:- John's Stone Memorials in the West; Lockyer's Early Chapter in the History of Cornwall, etc.


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