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  1. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. Instituted February 11th, 1814. Volume THE FIRST (1) With 2 maps, one of which is hand coloured, and 3 plates, xxiv + 284pp, early half calf, raised bands, 2 leather labels, 2 portions chipped from spine, crude leather repair to top of spine, rear board loose, top hinge almost broken. William Phillips, London: 1818. £145.00
    * With the bookplate of Charles Thomas, and the engraved armorial bookplate of Chas. Wm. Boase. Includes articles by Davy on the Geology of Cornwall; Hawkins on Polgooth mine; and other articles by Paris, Vivian, etc.





  2. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume the SECOND (2). With 2 coloured folding maps, and 5 plates, partly coloured and 3 of which are folding, 462pp, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, crude leather repair to over half of spine. T. Vigurs, Penzance: 1822. £180.00
    * With the engraved armorial bookplate of Chas. Wm. Boase. Includes:- Mineral Productions, and the Geology of the Parish of St. Just; Tin-ore of Botallack & Levant; Geology of the Land's-end District; Serpentine District of Cornwall, etc.





  3. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. Volume the FOURTH (4). With a large coloured folding map of the county, 3 folding coloured sections, vii + 504pp, early half calf, marbled boards, leather labels, raised bands, top 1" of the spine crudely repaired with calf, covers rubbed to edges, rear outer hinge partly split. T. Vigurs, Penzance: 1832. £180.00
    * With the bookplate of Charles Thomas. Includes:- Hawkins. On Structure and Composition of Cornish Peninsula; Colenso. Tin Stream Tin Works at Pentuan; Henwood. Tin-Ore in Cornwall; Hawkins. State of Our Tin Mines, etc.





  4. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Henwood (William Jory) THE METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. Volume the FIFTH (5). With Appendices, 12 folding plates and over 113 tables, many of which are folding, 512pp, untrimmed in recent qtr cloth, paper boards, paper label on spine, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, Penzance: J. Pope Vibert, 1843. £200.00
    * Includes Appendices on Mines in Cornwall and Devon.





  5. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Twenty-Eighth Annual Report.... Papers and Notices. Being volume 6. Part 1. 19 + 49pp, original printed wraps, spine chipped, wraps slightly dusty few marks to wraps. Penzance: Printed by R.D. Rodda, 1841. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Raised Beaches of the Lizard District; Organic Fossil Remains of the South-east Coast of Cornwall, etc.





  6. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Thirtieth Annual Report.... Papers and Notices. Being volume 6. Part 3. 28 + 79-138pp, original printed wraps. Penzance: Printed by F.T. Vibert, 1843. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Fossil Fishes of Cornwall; Killas group of Cornwall and Devon; Extraordinary Movement of the sea in Cornwall in 1843, etc.





  7. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Thirty-Seventh Annual Report.... Papers and Notices. Volume 7 part 4. 22 + 93-114pp, original wraps, spine chipped, small portion missing from lower corner of top wrap, and repair to lower corner of first leaf. Penzance: F.T. Vibert, 1850. £10.00
    * Articles include:- Rocks of the Lizard; Cornish Geology, etc.





  8. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume the EIGHTH (8). In 2 parts. Numerous folding plates and tables. 2 volumes, xxxi + (i) + 722 and vii + 723-916pp, early qtr calf, cloth boards, rubbed, cloth damp stained and edges of cloth partly lifting, volume one split for half of top outer hinge, the second volume has short splits to top outer hinge, ex-lib. with accession numbers to base of spines, and signs where lables removed from front endpapers, no stamps, outer margins of plates dusty, with a few short tears. William Cornish, Penzance: 1871. £50.00
    * All of the articles are by Henwood. Includes sections on the Caradon District; Lead mines of Menheniot, Lanreath, and Saint Pinnock; Copper Mines of Chile; Native Copper of Lake Superior.





  9. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume the EIGHTH (8). In 2 parts. Numerous folding plates and tables. 2 volumes, xxxi + (i) + 722 and vii + 723-916pp, in the original qtr cloth, lettering pieces on spines, paper boards, top corner of top board to one volume bruised, and one corner rubbed, some light spotting mainly to spines and to endpapers. William Cornish, Penzance: 1871. £90.00
    * All of the articles are by Henwood. Includes sections on the Caradon District; Lead mines of Menheniot, Lanreath, and Saint Pinnock; Copper Mines of Chile; Native Copper of Lake Superior.





  10. 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. £25.00
    * Includes:- Geology of Lundy Island; Geology of Penzance Bay; Bones of a Whale found at Pentuan, etc.





  11. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 9. Part 3. With 11 plates, pages numbered 185-219, original printed wraps, top wrap loose, ink note to top wrap. Penzance: 1877. £12.00
    * Contains:- Tin Lodes in Parish of St. Agnes; Elvan Course at Wheal Jennings, etc.





  12. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL REPORTS. All of the reports for volume 9, comprising the 51st (1864), 52nd (1865), 53rd (1866), 54th (1867), 55th (1869), 56th (1869), 57th (1870), 58th (1871), 59th (1872), 60th (1873), 61st (1875), 62nd (1876), 63rd (1877), 64th (1877). 14 reports bound in 8, 7 in their original wraps, one lacks wraps, top wrap slightly chipped to head and foot, ink note to 5 wraps, denoting part and vol 9 to each wrap. W. Cornish, Penzance: 1868-1873; F. Rodda, Penzance: 1872-1874; W. Brendon, Plymouth: 1875-1877. £55.00




  13. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 10. Part 6. clxxxiv-ccvii + 177-188pp, original paper wraps, spine chipped, stamp to top wrap. Penzance: 1884. £8.00
    * Articles include:- Trowlesworthite rocks near Plymouth, etc.





  14. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 10. Part 7. Map, ccxvi-ccxlv + 189-221pp, original paper wraps, shaken stitching loose, short tear to fore-edge margins of several leaves, stamp to top wrap. Penzance: 1885. £8.00
    * Articles include:- Volcanic Tuffs, Breccia, &c., in the Meneage District; Raised Beaches on Plymouth Hoe; St Erth Clay Pits, etc.





  15. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 10. Part 8. Illusts, ccxlix-cclxxxii + 222-244pp, original paper wraps, rear wrap loose, top wrap has portions miising from margins. Penzance: 1886. £8.00
    * Articles include:- Cornish Trias; Apatite from Levant Mine, etc.





  16. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 11. Part 1. 55pp, lacks wraps, acouple of leaves have short tears to top margins. Penzance: 1887. £8.00
    * Contains articles on:- Pliocene Beds of St. Erth; Serpentious Rock in Whitsand Bay.





  17. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 12. Part 1. Plates, maps, 88pp, printed wraps loose and slightly ragged. Penzance: 1896. £4.00
    * Articles include:- Radiolarian Cherts of Cornwall; Cornish Fossils, etc.





  18. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 12. Part 1, and parts 3 to 9, lacking part 2. Plates, maps, sections, 8 parts in the original printed wraps, few spines chipped, one lower wrap loose. Penzance: 1896-1904. £50.00
    * Includes articles on Fossils on the North Coast; the Lizard Rocks; Geological Structures in West Cornwall; Coast Sections in St. Minver; Gunwalloe, etc.





  19. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 12. Part 3. Plates, folding map, 75-184pp, printed wraps. Penzance: 1898. £9.00
    * Contains article on:- Shell-beds at St Erth, etc.





  20. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 12. Part 5. Plates, folding map, 288-361pp, printed wraps, top wrap loose. Penzance: 1900. £9.00
    * Contains article on:- Fossil Celphalopoda, Red River Valley, etc.





  21. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 12. Part 6. Plates, folding map, 268-466pp, original printed wraps, partly faded. Penzance: 1901. £9.00
    * Contains article on:- Sequence of the Lizard Rock; Gunwalloe; Geological Structure in West Cornwall, etc.





  22. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 12. Part 7. Diagrams, map, plan, 472-615pp, original printed wraps, loose and ragged. Penzance: 1902. £6.00
    * Contains article on:- Rocks of West Cornwall, Sequence of the Lizard Rocks, etc.





  23. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 12. Part 9. Plates, 725-812pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, staples rusty, spine chipped. Penzance: 1904. £6.00
    * Contains articles on:- Tin and Copper Deposit of Camborne; Cornish Quaternary Geology; Coast Sections in St. Minver Parish, etc.





  24. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 13. Part 6. Plates, 309-427pp, original paper wrappers, portion missing from foot of spine, head of spine chipped, wraps and first few leaves spotty. Penzance: 1910. £8.00
    * Articles include:- Angular Quartz Drift of Cornwall; Cornish Palaeozoic Fossils; Raised Beaches and Head of the Cornish Coast, etc.





  25. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 15. Part 1. The Centenary Celebration. 24pp, original wraps. Penzance: 1914. £4.00




  26. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 15. Part 2. Illusts, 33-84pp, original wraps faded. Penzance: 1915. £6.00
    * Contains article on:- Topaz Rock of St. Mewan Beacon; Spilosites and Adinoles from North Cornwall, etc.





  27. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 15. Part 3. Illusts, 89-185pp, small stamp and few marks to original faded wraps. Penzance: 1916. £6.00
    * Contains article on:- Bloomdale China Clay Works; Future of the Mining Industry, etc.





  28. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 15. Part 4. Illusts, 191-312pp, original partly faded wraps. Penzance: 1917. £6.00
    * Contains article on:- Minerals of War Time Value in the West Country; Geolgy of Castle-an-Dinas and Belowda Beacon; Mining District Camborne and Redruth. etc.





  29. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 15. Index volume. Illusts, 601-610pp, original wraps faded. Penzance: 1927. £5.00




  30. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 16, Part 1. Map, 31pp, original wraps. Penzance: 1928. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Lode Trend in Dartmoor Granite; , etc





  31. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 16, Part 2. Map, plates, some of which are folding, (viii) + 43-79pp, original wraps partly faded. Penzance: 1929. £9.00
    * Articles include:- Rocks of Hayle Cliffs; Turquoise in the Sinai Peninsula, etc.





  32. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 16, Part 3. Illusts, 91-124pp, original wraps spine faded. Penzance: 1930. £9.00
    * Articles include:- Geology and Economics of China Clay in West of England; Geology of Gold River of Nova Scotia, etc.





  33. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 16, Part 4. Plates, 137-183pp, original wraps partly faded. Penzance: 1931. £9.00
    * Articles include:- West Devon Mining District; Transported Boulders in S.E. Cornwall, etc.





  34. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 16, Part 5. Plates, (x) + 197-243pp, original wraps. Penzance: 1932. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Gneissic Rocks; Rock Basins on the Tors of Cheeswring and Rougtor, etc.





  35. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 17. Part 3. vii + 97-173pp, original printed wraps. Penzance: 1943-1944. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Raised Beaches Marazion Area; Recent Geology of Cornwall; Mine Temperatures in West Cornwall, etc.





  36. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 17. Part 4. Diagrams, 180-220pp, original printed wraps are slightly spotty, staples rusty. Penzance: 1946. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Geology of Carn Brea; Great Wheal Vor; Pillow Lavas at Port Isaac; Mineral Rights, etc.





  37. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 17. Part 5. Maps, diagrams, 228-283pp, original printed wraps. Penzance: 1945. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Slate Mining; Uranium Ores in Cornish Mines; Structure of Cornwall; Geology of St. Ives District, etc.





  38. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 17. Part 6. Maps, diagrams, 288-348pp, original printed wraps, staple rust stains to top wrap. Penzance: 1947. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Production of Radium in Cornwall; Nature Reserves in Cornwall; Geomorphology of the North Cornish Coast, etc.





  39. 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.





  40. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 17. Parts 1-7, lacks part 8. 7 parts of 8, all in the original printed wraps. Penzance: 1937-1948. £40.00
    * Articles include:- Geology of Carn Brea; Geology of South Tolgus Shaft; Geomorphology of North Cornish Coast; Slate Mining; Great Wheal Vor; Nature Reserves in Cornwall etc.





  41. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 18. Part 1. Plates, map, 109pp, owners name and rust stains from staples to the original wraps. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co., 1950. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Carboniferous Deposits in Cornubia; Fissure Systems & Mineralisation in Cornwall; Drift of Sand in West Penwith, etc.





  42. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 18. Part 2. Folding plate, pages numbered 113-228, rust stains from staples to original printed wraps. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co., 1951. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Plymouth Limestone; Cornish Lodes, etc.





  43. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 18. Part 3. Illusts, folding table, pages numbered 231-378, original printed card covers, staple rust stains to top wrap. Camborne Printing and Stationery Co., 1952. £6.00
    * Articles include:- Geological Succession and Structures in Western South Devonshire; Primary Ore Deposition in Cornwall, etc.





  44. 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.





  45. 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.





  46. 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.





  47. 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.





  48. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 20, Part 2, 1967-1968. Illusts, diagrams, original wraps. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1970. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Dean Quarry, Tectonic Evolution in Cornwall, etc.





  49. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 20. Illusts, diagrams, in the original 4 parts, all in the original wraps. Penzance: 1965-1974. £25.00
    * Includes articles:- The Lizard; Chudleigh; raised beaches in South Cornwall; Porth Mear Cove; Mother Ivey's Bay, Padstow, etc.





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





  51. 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.





  52. 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.





  53. 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.





  54. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 21. Part 6. Illusts, diagrams, pages numbered 247-314, original card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1994. £4.00
    * Contains articles on:- History of the China Clay Industry; Primary kaolins in South-west England, etc.





  55. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 22. Part 1. Illusts, diagrams, 56pp, card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 1996. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Late Pleistocene Stratigraphy of North and West Cornwall, etc.





  56. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL TRANSACTIONS Volume 22. Part 3. Illusts, diagrams, pages numbered 89-120pp, original printed card covers. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance: 2000. £7.00
    * Contains :- Contributions of a Trio of Cornish geologists (Philip Rashleigh, John Hawkins and William Gregor) to the Development of 18th century Mineralogy.


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