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  1. Royal Institution of Cornwall TWENTY FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 1839. With 1 plate, folding table, 74pp, original printed wraps, rear wrap chipped and ragged, lacks most of spine. Truro: L.E. Gillet, 1840. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Iron Ore at Perran Consols; Health of Cornish Miners; Preparation of China Clay; Fossil Bones found in Pentewan valley and of the Stream Works now working therein, etc.





  2. Royal Institution of Cornwall TWENTY SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 1840. With 3 plates, folding table, 88pp, original printed wrappers, portions missing from head and foot of spine. Truro: L.E. Gillet, 1841. £20.00
    * Includes:- Dominican Friary, and St. Mary's in Truro; A Barrow at Newquay; Diseases of Miners, etc.





  3. 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.





  4. Royal Institution of Cornwall FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 1858. Frontis, 26 + (5)pp, original printed wraps, small portions rubbed at head and foot of spine. Truro: Heard and Sons. 1859. £10.00
    * Includes articles:- Pomarrhine Skua; Submarine Forest near Padstow, etc.





  5. Royal Institution of Cornwall FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. xvipp, original printed wraps. Truro: Heard and Sons, 1865. £4.00
    * This is the introduction only.





  6. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL No 7. April, 1867. Textual illusts and tables, pages numbered 177-282, top wrap loose, lacks lower wrap. Truro: James R. Netherton, 1867. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Bishopric of Cornwall; Inventory of a Nobleman's Personal Property in the 16th Century; Cornish Ecclesiology - Mabe; Twin Storms of January 1867, etc.





  7. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL With the Fifty-Second Annual Report. No 11. Illusts and tables, xlvii + pages numbered 147-224 + iipp, original wraps. Truro: James B. Netherton, 1870. £15.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Saints; Mylor Church; Dolcoath Mines; Dialects of Devon and Cornwall, etc.





  8. Royal Institution of Cornwall FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. With the Fifty-Second Annual Report. No 11. Illusts and tables, xlviipp, original wraps. Truro: James B. Netherton, 1870. £4.00
    * This is the separately issued introduction only.





  9. Royal Institution of Cornwall THE FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. Tables, xlixp, original printed wraps. Truro: James R. Netherton, 1871. £9.00




  10. Royal Institution of Cornwall THE FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. Tables, cipp, original wraps. head and foot of spine chipped, spotting to fore-edges and to prelims. Truro: James R. Netherton, 1872. £9.00




  11. Royal Institution of Cornwall THE FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. Tables, xlviip, original printed wraps. Truro: James R. Netherton, 1873. £9.00




  12. Royal Institution of Cornwall THE FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. Tables, xxixpp, original printed wraps. Truro: James R. Netherton, 1874. £6.00




  13. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL With the Fifty-Seventh Annual Report. No 16. October, 1874. Illusts and tables, xxix + pages numbered 144 + xipp, original wraps, slightly faded, portions chipped from spine, small institution stamp, and curious note in ink, to top wrap. Truro: James R. Netherton, 1875. £16.00
    * Includes articles:- Nangitha Cross; Tokens of Cornwall; List of Works of Geology, etc.





  14. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. VOLUME 12. Part 2. 1894-5. Plan, 120pp, complete, original wraps, lacks spine, top wrap loose and ragged, rear wrap chipped, ex-private library stamp to top wrap. Truro: Lake and Lake, 1895. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Rude Stone Monuments of Cornwall; Duloe Circular Enclosure; Inscribed Stones of Cornwall, etc.





  15. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL Volume 21. Part 1 - 1922. (Journal Nos 69 includes 'A Supplement to F. Hamilton Davey's FLORA OF CORNWALL.') Illusts, ix + 75 and xiv + 172, original printed wraps, small cellotape repair to foot of spine. Truro: O. Blackford, 1922. £20.00
    * Includes articles on Men Scrifa; The Arms of Cornwall; Kea Chalice and Paten, etc.





  16. Royal Institution of Cornwall, Radford (Charles) JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 1. Appendix 1951. REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS AT CASTLE DORE. Illusts, 119pp, original printed wraps, slightly rubbed to outer hinges, spine faded. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1951. £14.00




  17. 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.





  18. 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, name to top wrap. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1959. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Ornithology in Cornwall; Wheal Alfred; Cornish Agriculture; Penheleg Manuscript, etc.





  19. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL Supplement, 1960. Map, plans, illusts, 26pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1960. £10.00
    * Contains articles on:- Treliske, and Pendeen Earthworks.





  20. 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.





  21. 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.





  22. 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, staples slightly rusty. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1963. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Pollen Analysis from Two Cornish Barrows; Charles Morton; Early Cornish Printers, etc.





  23. 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.





  24. 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.





  25. 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.





  26. 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.





  27. 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.





  28. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 6. Part 2. Illusts, pages numbered 81-167pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1970. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Cornish Goldsmiths; Taxation and Wealth in Late Medieval Cornwall; Tobacco Trade and the Manufacture at Clay-Pipes in Cornwall, etc.





  29. 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.





  30. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. New Series Volume 6. Part 4. Illusts, pages numbered 237-322pp, original wraps. Truro: Oscar Blackford, 1972. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Ludgvan in 1770 by William Borlase; Arundell Lions; Location of Ictis; Irish Settlements in Post-Roman Western Britain, etc.





  31. 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 Tremaruustel and the Honour of St. Keus, etc.





  32. 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.





  33. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 8, part 1, 1978. Plates, 78pp, original wraps. Blackfords of Truro, 1978. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- First Cornish Photographers; A.K. Hamilton Jenkin; John Rashleigh of Fowey; Cornish Game Book; Carnsew of Bokelly and his Diary, 1576-7, etc.





  34. Royal Institution of Cornwall, compiled by P.A.S. Pool JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL INDEX 1907-1977. 31pp, original wraps, top corner of top wrap slightly creased. R.I.C., Truro: 1979. £5.00




  35. 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.





  36. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 9, part 1, 1982. Plate, 82pp, original wraps. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1982. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- The Railway in Cornwall 1835-1914; Cornish Chartists; Education by Charity in 18th century Cornwall, etc.





  37. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 9, part 2, 1983. Plate, pages numbered 81-206, original wraps. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1983. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Private Memoirs of Jonathan Couch; Tour into Cornwall to the Land's End by James Forbes in 1794, etc.





  38. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 9, part 4, 1985. Plate, pages numbered 307-388, original wraps. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1985. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Education in the Isles of Scilly, 1747-1870; Pocket Boroughs of the Eliot Family of St. Germans, Liskeard and Grampound, etc.





  39. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 10, part 1, 1986-1987. Plates, maps, 104pp, original wraps. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1987. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Migration and the Mining Industry in East Cornwall; St. Michael and his Mount, etc.





  40. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series Volume 10, part 4, 1990. Plates, pages numbered 364-475, original wraps. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 1990. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Turks, Moors and the Cornish Fishermen; Edward Bawden; Bennett Swaffield; Population of Cornwall in the Eighteenth Century, etc.





  41. 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.





  42. 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.





  43. Royal Institution of Cornwall JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL New Series 2, Volume 3, parts 3 & 4, 2000. Plates, maps, 196pp, original wraps. Cornwall Lithographic Printers, 2000. £5.00
    * Includes articles:- Rising of 1548; Painters and Writers in Newlyn; Jack Clemo's Italian Holiday; Political World of Sir Christopher Hawkins, etc.





  44. Royal Institution of Cornwall, compiled by Charles R. Hewitt. GENERAL INDEX TO THE JOURNAL AND REPORTS. of the Royal Institution of Cornwall from 1818 to 1906. vii + 216pp, original printed card boards, partly faded. Plymouth: William Brendon, 1907. £15.00

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