Altarnun POSTER To Be Let.... well-known Grassy Farm called Burland.... now in the occupation of Messrs. Hicks and Coombe.... valuable Rights of Common on Trevague Moor. 17«" x 11", with folds. Dated 21st December, 1858. £16.00

Bacon's COUNTY GUIDE AND MAP OF CORNWALL From the Ordnance Survey. Folding coloured map, linen-backed, 16pp., guide. Small 8vo boards with label. c1900. £12.00

Besley (H), Exeter, Publisher CORNWALL Map. Size 9" x 11", linen-backed and folding into 12mo boards with label. Scale 2«" = 20 miles. Inset of Scilly Isles, Polling Places, etc. Four small ink spots, some slight browning. c1860. £12.00

Bessow, Manor of COUNTERPART OF TIN AND COPPER SETT Arthur Holdsworth of Clifton Dartmouth, to Martin Stephens of Camborne. Vellum, size 21" x 27", wax seal. 1784. £55.00
¶ Grants liberty to dig for tin, copper and other metals in an area of ground defined as 'from the Dutchy lands... eastward as unto the Eastern Hedge of the Great Road leading from Helston to Wendron Church town and one hundred fathoms north and sixty fathoms south of Wheal White Cap load... provided it does not reach within twenty fathoms of... Wheal Lower Town Sett...'

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Blight (J.T) PARC-AN-CHAPEL, CAPE CORNWALL. Manuscript, signed, by Blight. With an India paper proof of a wood-engraving of the ruins of the chapel, 3" x 4", pasted under the signature. 4to, 2p, headed 'For Publication', the paper has been folded and is rather creased down one side. Loosely inserted in plain wrappers, with a cutting from an early bookseller's catalogue describing the item, and a MS note of an ancient cross found nearby, taken from Buller's 'Account of the Parish of St. Just'. c1856. £200.00
¶ The wood-engraved illustration, of which this is a proof copy, appears in Blight's Ancient Crosses and other Antiquities....
This manuscript was printed in 'Willis's Current Notes,' 1856.

Bodmin area ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXX. Covers the area from Boscastle to Luxulyan. Printed surface 24" x 37", dissected and mounted on linen, folding to 4to. c1850. £34.00
¶ With geological symbols.

Bodmin REPORT ON THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF BODMIN 2pp., with folding map, coloured in outline. Scale 2" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. 1832. £24.00

Bodmin, Newquay GEOLOGICAL SURVEY four colour-printed maps, size approx. 14" x 19", plus wide margins, comprising Sheets 335 (Trevose); 347 (Bodmin), 336 (Camelford), 346 (Newquay). Scale 1" to 1 mile. 1951-1970. £17.00

Breage JUSTICE'S WARRANT to the Constables of Helston to summon and warn James Johns of Breage, Tinner, to appear at the Guildhall to answer the Complaint of Ann Philips and Mary Priske for a Misdemeanor. Oblong sm. 4to, printed with manuscript inserts, signed. On verso is signed promise of Sarah Johns, widow to pay John Plomer 5s. 1787. £16.00

Bude Bay ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIX. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 33" x 14", plus margins, borders all round. Sea and land lightly shaded, darker shading along coast. Linen-backed and folding to large 4to, marbled sides. 1875. £12.00
¶ Shows only a small strip of coast.

Caerhays Castle BASEMENT PLAN OF CELLARS AND WINE BINS Scale 4 ft. to an Inch. Drawing in ink on paper size 12" x 21", folds. Plan shows cellars with rainwater slate tanks, drain, four bays, with elevation above showing 'Interior of Wine Bins with Nos.' (20-26 in each of the four). Signed '20.5.85. W.W.' 1885. £35.00

Camelford, Altarnun & Launceston Railway NOTICE to Owners, Lessees and Occupiers. Printed letter to owner of land required by railway, with manuscript Schedule listing 25 fields, house, etc. owned by Caroline Pearse in Lanteglos. 3p. folio, folded with docket title. 1874. £16.00

Carnbellack AN AGREEMENT by which John Hill of Helston, Gent., grants a lease of the Tenement of Carnbellack to Athanasius Pryor of Wendron, yeoman. 1p., sm. 4to, blank conjoint leaf with docket title. Signed and witnessed. 1710. £12.00
¶ 'Rent to be 20 shillings, 1 shilling for Capon and four pence for havest day, and four shillings in lieu of a Best Beast... the sd. Mr Hill reserves all Tyn...'

Collins (Capt. Grenville) FOWEY & MOUNTS-BAY Is most Humbly Presented & Dedicated To the Right Reverend Father in God Jonathan Lord Bishop of Bristoll... Fully hand-coloured chart, scale 1" to 1 mile, size 17" x 22", plus margins. Large decorative cartouche with coat of arms and figures either side, waves with mermen. Small compass rose, ship bottom left, rhumb lines. Shows Fowey with small houses along coast, Pendennick, Polruan, Menabilly, Coomb, St. Katherine's Castle, Dovehouse, Becon etc. Inset is a plan of Mounts Bay, scale 2 miles to an inch. With section below showing the 'going into Fowey when Fowey Castle beareth N6 W3 Miles', with windmill, castles etc. Trace of central fold. c1740 or earlier. £300.00

Collins (H.G) CORNWALL Lithographed map with decorative border of leaves, size 13" x 15". Inset of Scilly Islands. Traces of folds, leaf border on left trimmed away, small library stamp in bottom margin. 1852. £16.00
¶ From 'The British Gazeteer'.

Cornwall Boiler Co. ARCHITECT'S DRAWINGS Two detailed scale drawings on waxed cotton, in ink, one with some colour, size 22" x 18", showing 'Section through Rivetting Tower', 'Detail of Gate', and larger scale detail of top of rivetting tower, the other size 23" x 34", showing 'South Elevation' and 'West Elevation', of rivetting tower on a long building of two stories with 5 windows on ground floor, eight on the first floor, and a single storey extension, and a separate building with round window. Both signed by architects. Sept. 1892. £50.00

Cornwall Minerals Railway Co. MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AT A SPECIAL BOARD MEETING 22nd July 1873. Manuscript, 5p. signed by Chairman, size 15" x 9", plain wraps with MS title, horizontal fold, wraps rather grubby. Pasted in at relevant points are 3 notices, one giving notice of first Ordinary General Meeting of the new company, for electing Directors, etc., notice requesting Shareholders submit old shares for new issue under the 1873 Act, and covering letter explaining the conversion to a Parliamentary Company. 1873. £80.00
¶ 'From a personal inspection of the Works on the above Railway made within the last few days, I am satisfied that the Contractor, Sir. S. Peto, has so far advanced the work as to justify me in recommending that the payment which would be due to him under his Contract on the 7th proximo be made.... W.H. Thomas, Engineer'. The railway was revitalised under the speculator W.R. Roebuck 'he formed the Cornwall Minerals Railway, authorized on 21 July 1873' a number of standard gauge mineral lines 'all opened after feverish activity on 1 June 1874'. David St. John Thomas 'West Country Railway History'.

Cornwall Railway CERTIFICATE OF £50 SHARE Printed on green paper, size 7" x 9", made out to John Nuttal of Pimlico. Signed by Secretary. Good impressed seal diameter 2", showing shield with besants, mining tools, Prince of Wales feathers. Three small stab holes top left, in blank area. 1846. £65.00
¶ The seal has the lettering 'Incorporated 1847'.

Crowan MORTGAGE of 34 acres, part of Pengelly, and Trelabras, in Crowan, W. Williams to Jacob Lory. 3p., folio, vellum, red lined margins. 1897. £10.00

Cugar ASSIGNMENT by way of Mortgage of Chicarne in Cugar in Grade, Naboth Randle of Grade, Yeoman, to Thomas Stephens. Large vellum sheet, wax seal. 1856. £12.00

Cusgarne, Manor of LETTER to Michael Williams at Scorrier House from John Smith, Dock, 19th September 1814, giving information on the 'lives' on tenements of Chicoose Vean and Park Wells. 5 lines, 4to, conjoint leaf with address panel. 1814. £12.00

Drunkenness SIX CONVICTIONS FOR DRUNKENNESS Helston, 1812-1820. Each 1p, small folio, in manuscript, with small papered wax seal, signed by Justice, setting out conviction and fine. Folded with docket title on verso. 6 items. 1812-20. £40.00
¶ Those convicted were: James Williams, Baker; James Nicholls, Labourer; Thomas Daniell, John Perry of Sithney, William Landenyon, Butcher; Edward Bolitho of Wendron.

NEWLYN SCHOOL

Forbes (Stanhope A.) GOODBYE! OFF TO SKIBEREEN Fine etching by C.G. Murray, size approx. 20" x 15«. Art Union 1903. £150.00

Fraddon BILL on small slip of paper titled 'Mr Paynter Bill to Fradden Gate' September - January 1801, mentions 'sadle horses' 'cheas', enclosed in small sheet of paper with docket title 'the Keeper of Fraddon Gate in full to this day £0.5.8d'. 1801. £10.00

Gayre (Lt. Col. G.R) CORNISH MEAD COOKERY Part 1. Soups. Booklet, 23pp., 8vo., wraps. c1940. £4.00
¶ Includes 'Pheasant Hippocras Soup', etc.

Germoe GRANT and Conveyance of the Great Tithes of Lower Trenall in Germoe and the Rent Charge in lieu, T.P. Tyacke, Charles Lemon, and others to Charles Kempthorne of Constantine. 2 large vellum sheets, 8 small wax seals, ink on first page slightly faded, but legible. 1859. £14.00

Germoe SETT in Boscreege in Trewithen, His Grace the Duke of Leeds to Richard Tyacke, Miner. Two large vellum sheets, signed by Leeds with wax seal. Grants right to mine and denotes limits 'as far west south and east as to join Wheal Sydney Sett... as far north as the Cross Lode on which the deep adit was driven from the Great work into Wheal Sydney Mine and on the other part as far northward as to join Wheal Reeth Sett....' Grubby on the outside. 1805. £55.00

Grade ASSIGNMENT by way of mortgage of a tenement called Mount Batt in Grade, Thomas Stephens to Richard Johns, including lands enclosed out of wastrel ground called Gwendreath Common, with Common of Pasture, Furze, Turf and Heath in Goonhilly Down. Large vellum sheet, wax seal. 1847. £15.00

Grade CONVEYANCE of part of lands and house beside the road leading from Polstrangey to Kugar, and fields in Kugar called Voas an nell, with the liberty to take sand and seaweed from Poltesco Cove, J. Stephens to J. Jenkin. Large vellum sheet, wax seals. On verso is small genealogical 'diagram' referred to in text. 1876. £15.00

Grade GRANT of a freehold tenement in Kugar in Grade, John Medlyn and Philippa his wife to John Randle of three acres of land, two gardens and a dwelling house at Kugar. Two vellum sheets, size 20" x 28", wax seals. Small hole where two folds meet, with loss of two words. Affixed is a certificate relative to acknowledgement of deeds by married women. 1853. £16.00
¶ Includes the right to take away sand and seaweed from Poltesco Cove.

Gwennap COUNTERPART SETT of Ground in the Parish of Gwennap. William Robinson Hill of Carwythenack to John Williams of Scorrier House with power to dig work mine and search for tin and copper. Two large vellum sheets, signed by Williams with wax seal. Some foxing at folds. 1819. £48.00
¶ Involved Hill's share of five sixteenths in the land. Williams had to set up engines, drive certain levels, etc. within three years.

Gwinear COUNTERPART OF SETT to raise tin, lead, copper etc. in land in Gwinear limited by the Lamin Estate, Wheal Hope Sett, George Duke of Leeds to John Davies of Crowan. Vellum, size 17" x 22", wax seal. Outside dusty. Ink very slightly faded, but completely legible. 1803. £40.00

Gwinear RELEASE of the estate of Taskus in Gwinear.... Mrs W. Nicholls to R. Osborne. 2p, large folio, on paper. 1878. £10.00

Helston BOND for £520, Thomas Cock of Marazion and William Rogers of St. Hilary to John Hill of Helston. 52 lines on paper, size 22" x 16", in English, with preamble in Latin. Signed by Cock and Rogers with good small armorial wax seals. Witnessed with attractive signatures. Relates to a messuage with house and garden etc. in Wendron Street, Helston. On verso is a declaration by Thomas's son Robert that he will take over the obligation on attaining the age of 21. 16 lines, signed by him and witnessed. 1718. £30.00
¶ John Hill had begun a prosecution in the Court of the Exchequer against Thomas Cock.

Helston BOND of Daniel Harbort, John Edwards of Helston, John Buckingham, Chandler and John Eastbury? to the Mayor and Commonalty of Helston. for £115. 1p., sm. folio, conjoint leaf. 4 black wax seals, 5 witnesses. Paper browned and stained, ink faded. 1663. £10.00

Helston CONVICTION of Thomas Banfield for swearing profane oaths. Vellum, 5«" x 8", manuscript. Wax seal. Signed J. Borlase. 1816. £15.00

Helston CONVICTION of Christopher Wilson who did unlawfully 'travel and trade with Teas for sale by way of Hawking as a Hawker Pedlar or petty chapman'. 23 lines in ms, vellum, size 9" x 13". Wax seal. Signed by Mayor. 1820. £22.00
¶ Two witnesses, Honor Gonnian and Catherine Gilbert said he called at their houses and ofered teas for sale.

Helston PENALUNA family of Helston. Letters of Administration relating to the estate of Sophia Penaluna (d.1868) and William Penaluna. 11th July 1900. Printed form on parchment, 4to, information added in MS. Seal attached. 1900. £8.00

Helston RECTOR'S COMMUTATION RENT CHARGE DUE 1st July 1846. 9 double-page spreads in manuscript on folio notebook with plain wraps, manuscript title, ruled in columns for Occupier, Situation of Property, Rent Charge Apportioned, Arrears, etc. 1846. £45.00
¶ Lists 123 occupiers. Families include Borlase, Bartle, Chynoweth, Dobb, Grylls, Libby, Priske, Penaluna, Vinicombe, Wedlock.

Helston REPORT ON THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY OF HELSTONE; 2pp. with a folding plan by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline, Scale 4" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound, a few small chips at edge of text page. 1837. £20.00

Helston TWENTY THREE CONVICTIONS for having false weights. All dated May 1820, each consisting of two separate pages, small folio, one being the Information and Complain of Benjamin Moon, Surveyor of Weights and Balances for the West division of Kirrier, reporting the visit to the shop, etc., printed with manuscript inserts, the other in MS signed by 2 Justices with 2 small papered seals, setting out conviction and fine. 1820. £75.00
¶ Moon seems to have been particularly zealous in carrying out his duties. Names of those convicted include Tresidder, Julian, Hawke, Curry, Priske, James, Oliver (had false weights at his Mills), Bunny, Dreadon.

Hockin (William) & others THE MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM HOCKIN Robert Richards, William Cardell, William Vivian and Thomas Pope Rosevear. 2pp., folio, lithographed in cursive. Hockin and the others were Lords of part of the Manor of Lelant and the Bodriggy Estate. They complained that the proposed railway would reinforce the monopoly of the Cornish Copper Company: 'trains of waggons and other Carriages passing and repassing the said Bridge (belonging to the Cornish Copper Company).... would prevent the public from sailing up the said Channel or Canal and from landing their Merchandize on the Wastrell of the said estate of Bodriggy'. A plan is referred to which is not present. Some manuscript notes at bottom of page 2, address panel on verso with broken wax seal, sent to Rev. Wm. Hockin at Phillack, with a letter on blank page to 'my dear father' about the engrossing and printing of the memorial 'The notes have been inserted in this copy with a pen & ink but will be lithographed in the other copies. I have ordered 150. W.H.' Split along one fold, repaired on verso with archival tape. 1834. £45.00

Illogan ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE SEVERAL PERSONS NOW PAYING TYTHES to Illogan Rectory. manuscript on 3«p., folio, with columns for Name, Christian name, Estate, 1772, 1773, In Arrears, Due, Received. Ink very dark and in some of the heavy down strokes of the pen has flooded, occasionally obscuring the next letter, and the writing on the other side of the paper shows through. However the manuscript is legible. Some slight browning and some edge tears at left hand edge. 1773. £28.00
¶ Among the surnames of payers are: Arthur, Burrell, Blight, Craze, Basset, Harpur, Halse, Nancarrow, Paul, Paynter. Premises mentioned include Carnbray, Philbrick, Rosewithan Mill, Penventon, Trewartha, Blewstone Croft, a seat in the church.

Illogan DUPLICATE GRANT of the right to stream and work for tin on hereditaments situate in the Parish of Illogan, The Rt. Hon Viscount Clifden to William Wickett and others. Printed on vellum, in booklet form, 4to. 9 printed pages, red ruled margins, sewn. With folding plan on waxed cotton 9" x 35", scale 1/2500th, showing area from Rayle Bottom to Shuffley. 1911. £36.00

Illogan LEASE of a Plot of Ground at Carn Brea, Rt. Honble John Baron St. Levan, John Tremayne of Heligan and others to William Treloar Phillips, Miner. Vellum, 20" x 27", 3 wax seals, sketch plan 4" x 7" in corner. 1889. £14.00

Irvine to Penzance BILL OF LADING for goods on board the Tantallon in the Port of Irvine, bound for Penzance with 180 tons of Pig Iron for Holman & Son, St. Just. Printed, with manuscript inserts, vignette of ship. 1902. £12.00

Kenwyn LEASE of house and orchard at Bossore Chapple, with Common of Pasture and Turbary in Bossore Downs ('all Timber Trees of Oake Ash and Elme and all Tin Toll Tin and Tinworkes.... free liberty.... to dig and search for Tin....'), John Wilken of Kenwyn to Samuel Luke, Tinner, of Kenwyn. Paper, 16" x 20", small wax seal. Attractive engraved heading. Folded, a few small foxing spots and small edge tears. 1710. £22.00

Kenwyn OBLIGATION BOND of John Tippett of Kenwyn to Stephen Roberts of St. Agnes. 1p., in Latin and English, signed by Tippett with small wax seal, and two witnesses. Small repaired tear. 1731. £24.00

Lanhydrock Estates PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Freehold Agricultural Estates and Accommodation Lands within the Manor of Trevillis, situate in the Parishes of St. Pinnock, Braddock and Liskeard, and the Borough of Liskeard.... extending to about 726 Acres comprising Three Valuable Pasture and Arable Farms, Tenements, Cottages, Accommodation Lands.... 102 Acres of Woodland. To be Offered By Auction.... 13th April 1912. 20pp., folio, printed paper wraps, five large coloured folding plans in pocket at rear. Split at spine, due to weight of maps in pocket, repaired with document tape, tear in back wrap. Some slight waterstaining down right margin of a few leaves. 1912. £70.00
¶ Includes Penhole Farm, West and East Trevillis Farms, St. Pinnock, Emlyn's Park, Cricket Field, Stone Yard etc. at Liskeard.

Lanhydrock Estates PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Freehold Agricultural Estates... within the Manor of Trevills, situate in the Parishes of St. Pinnock, Braddock and Liskeard, and the Borough of Liskeard.... extending to about 726 Acres comprising Three Valuable Pasture and Arable Farms, Tenements, Cottages.... 102 Acres of Woodland. To be Offered By Auction at Webbs Hotel, Liskeard.... 13th April 1912. 20pp., folio, printed paper wraps, four only (of five) large coloured folding plans in pocket at rear. Prices realised and purchasers added in ink by each lot, some slight waterstaining to edges of a few pages and front wrap, back wrap with map pocket detached. 1912. £50.00
¶ Includes Penhole Farm, West and East Trevillis Farms, St. Pinnock, Emlyn's Park, Cricket Field, Stone Yard etc. at Liskeard. The missing plan showed the Liskeard Lots.

Launceston MORTGAGE of Hall, suite of rooms and site of Cottage at Wooda Road in the hamlet of Saint Thomas by Launceston, the Trustees of the Launceston Working Lads Temperance Brigade to Mary Ellen Mitchell. 2«p on vellum. 1903. £10.00

Launceston REPORT OF THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY AND DIVISION INTO WARDS OF THE BOROUGH. 3pp, with a sheet on which is a plan of town, coloured in outline, scale 4" to 1 mile and a plan of the borough, scale 1" to a mile, by R.K. Dawson. Folio, disbound, some slight off-setting, onto text. 1837. £22.00

Launceston REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF LAUNCESTON 1pp., with map, zincographed from the Ordnance Survey, coloured in outline. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Approved by Henry James. Folio, disbound. 1868. £20.00

Leans' ENGINE REPORTER And Advertiser. No. 424. December, 1846. Work performed by Steam Engines. Consists of 5p of tables for Pumping Engines, and 1 page of Stamping and Whim Engines, listing 26 mines with 19 columns for details such as Length of Stroke, Depth, Consumption of Coal, and Remarks & Engineers' Names. 7pp, 4to, uncut, red tax stamp. 1846. £40.00

Liskeard REPORT OF THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY OF THE BOROUGH OF LISKEARD. 2pp, with a folding plan, by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline. Scale 4" to 1 mile, and a Plan of the Borough, Scale 1" to a mile. Folio, disbound, some slight off-setting and waterstaining on text leaf. 1837. £22.00

Liskeard REPORT ON THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF LISKEARD. 2pp, with a folding plan by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline. Scale 2" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. 1832. £22.00

Lostwithiel BILL the Corporation of Lostwithiel to Richd. Rundle Constable. For expenses of Jury of the Inquest on the Body of Harry Goldsworthy, Constables fee, telegraph messuages to coroner etc. single 4to sheet, signed by Coroner. Oct. 1st. 1867. £16.00

Lostwithiel (Borough of) TO THE CONSTABLE OF THE SAID BOROUGH These are in his Majesty's Name to command you.... to summon Thomas Talling Junr. Cordwainer of the said Borough.... to appear before me.... to answer to the complaint and information of James Mutton Carpenter of St. Wennoe for an assault committed on him.... Printed certificate, sm. 4to, with ms inserts, signed by the Justice, P.J. Pomery. Traces of folds and a few ink blots. 8th April 1836. £20.00

Lostwithiel ORDER signed by 2 Justices of the Borough that Joseph Jenkins, Cabinet Maker, should pay arrears of wages to Richard Marks. 30 lines, 4to, in a small hand, signed. 1835. £12.00

Lostwithiel ST AUSTELL LISKEARD ROAD A390 Cornwall County Council. E. Collcutt, County Surveyor. Map so titled, printed on linen, size 27" x 59", scale 1/2500. Shows Lostwithiel and surrounding fields, road shown in red making 'U' bend across river and railway from North Street to Burn's Cottage. Folds. Three (burn?) holes in blank area. n.d. 1950's? £22.00

Lostwithiel WORK DONE ON THE BOROUGH ROADS LOSTWITHIEL for Mr Pomery Mayor. Bill, manuscript, 1p. 4to, listing payment for work in November and December 1796 by Richard White and William Cock. Receipted by White... together with... small receipt for money payed by the Mayor to Edward Way for money paid at the Archdeacon's Visitation Court, 1792, and four Notices, 1834-5, manuscript, 1p, sm. 4to, setting dates for the Special Session for the Highways at the Guild Hall, signed by Justices. 1796-35. £17.00

Lowry, Sculpt. PENDENNIS CASTLE IN CORNWALL Copper engraving showing the castle on headland with boats, etc., size 5" x 6«". Small tear through title. c1780. £10.00

Manaccan PARTICULARS and Conditions of Sale of Freehold Estates known as Tregonwell, Trelowry, comprising 109 acres.... for Sale by Auction, Helston 24th March 1886. 3p., large folio, folded with docket title, lithographic printing. Outside grubby. 1886. £12.00

CORNISH Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc. For a further selection and to receive my latest catalogue please email :- lesley@localhistory.co.uk

Newquay PHOTOGRAPH size 9" x 11", mounted on album leaf. Shows harbour with three boats moored, one with sails up, in foreground, looking across the small bay to houses on cliff. Some slight darkening at extreme bottom edge. Small name impressed bottom left which seems to be 'H. Waren'. c1890. £18.00

Newquay, Crantock, Penzance etc. BRISTOL TO PENZANCE ON BOARD S.S. COATH Photograph album recording a holiday. 40 photographs, of a very good amateur, in album size 10" x 13", cloth-covered boards, title as above painted in decorative lettering in white on first page. Seven leaves of thick card, with photographs mounted 3 - 4 to a page. Views range in size from 5" x 3" to 2" x 3". Each view titled in pencil below. c1905. £90.00
¶ The first photograph (the largest) is a fine view of the ship at Mud Dock in Bristol, with funnel smoking, St. Mary Redcliffe and Redcliffe Parade behind, very well shot to show the ship in crisp detail and the background smokey grey. Views include sailors and passengers on the deck, 'Sunday morning off the coast of Cornwall'; 'Passing the Longships', 'Rounding Lands End' (4 small views); 'landing in Small Boats'; 'St. Michael's Mount', '4 o'clock tea at St. Rumons' (smartly dressed people on lawn with bay in background); 'Pentre Head'; 'Crantock Bay'; 'Crantock over the Gunnel'; 'Tennis at St. Rumons'; 'Caverns at Porth'; 'Fishing Boat, Pier Head'; 'Trewens Mill'; 'Trenance Gardens'.

Nicholls (G.F) CORNWALL WATER-COLOURS 19 coloured plates, sm. 4to, coloured illustration on front board. A. & C. Black, 1919. £16.00

North Cornwall Railway REPORT AND STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 31st August 1887. 4pp., folio. 1887. £16.00
¶ 'The passenger traffic naturally shows a decrease, but there is a marked improvement in the goods and mineral traffic...'

Penzance, Breage, Germoe DEMISE and Assignment by Way of Mortgage of nine dwelling houses and school room in Alverton Street, Penzance and 10/119ths of 'a Mine or Adventure known as Great Work Consols situate in the parishes of Breage and Germoe together with like shares of and in... Engines Whims Tackles Machinery... all Tin and Tin Stuff...', John Boase, late of Wendron, to John Richards of Poltair. 4 large vellum sheets, wax seal. Loosely inserted is a Mortgage Bond, 1p, sm. folio, printed with ms. inserts, and a copy letter from solicitors acting as agents for John Richards to John Silvester Purser of Great Work Consolidated Mines setting out the terms of the sale, the right to various minerals, etc. 1«p, folio, in manuscript. 3 items. 1838. £50.00

Polmenna ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXVI.14, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Second edition 1907. £15.00
¶ Shows Lametton Mill, Pencrowd, Trethawle, Rosenun, Housey.

Pool COUNTERPART LEASE of a plot of land at Poole in Illogan known as Penhellick Vean, an 'old and decayed dwelling house', William Praed of Trevethow to William Willoughby. Vellum, 22" x 30", small plan coloured in outline in margin, size 7" x 2«". 1853. £15.00
¶ Lists 3 'lives'.

Probus PRIVATE CATALOGUE OF PURE-BRED SHORTHORN COWS heifers & Bulls. The Property of William Trethewy, Tregoose, Probus, (Cornwall). 31pp., 8vo., recent plain paper wraps, traces (of original wraps?) of pink paper at left edge of title page. Truro: Lake & Lake 1879. £35.00
¶ 'The foundation of this herd was laid thirty years ago, by the purchase of Ruth, a fine Cow by Harold 8131 at Lord Sherborne's Sale in 1848, at Sherborne Park....' Gives details of pedigree back to 12d or 14d. Names include 'Carn Brea', 'Tincroft', 'Lord Lanhydrock'.

Queen Anne's Bounty CERTIFICATE from the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty charging the Vicarage of St. Wendron to repay the £195 advanced for 5 years in 5 instalments. Sm. folio, printed with ms inserts, fine papered seal of the Governors, 4" deep. 1926. £15.00

Quintrell Downs ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XL.5, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". First edition, reprint 1900. £16.00
¶ Shows Manuels, Trethiggey, Kestle Mill, Chapel. Bejowan, Quarries.

Recorder of Helston DRAFT ORDER to Aldermen to meet to elect a Recorder in the place of Francis Lord Godolphin deceased. Manuscript, 1p, 4to. Written with blanks for name, place, day. 1785. £10.00

Redruth LEASE of two pieces of land part of Gweal Paul, Alfred Jenkin, Agent, to Francis Mitchell, Engineer. Large vellum sheet, wax seal. Some slight yellowing. 1836. £12.00

Redruth LETTER from John Peter, Town Hall, Redruth, March 23, 1878, to Henry Middleton, giving him notice to quit Trevarth Stamps. 1 page, small 8vo, blank conjoint leaf. 1878. £16.00
¶ He says if the tin market improves the Adventurers 'may be willing to take them again', but that now 'things re looking very bad and the tributers refuse to continue'.

Redruth MORTGAGE of premises in Redruth, R. Goldsworthy to Johnathan Wickett. On paper, 3p folio. 1861. £10.00

Redruth REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS of Messrs. Menhennet, Chapman & Co. Ltd., Tailors and Outfitters, Redruth. 4pp., folded with docket title. Gives Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account. 1942. £6.00

Restormel INK DRAWING titled in left margin 'Restormel Hall Dec. 11. 1810'. Size 6«" x 8«", showing house in far distance, among trees, framed by tree in foreground, stream on right. In dark green card mount with gold line. 1811. £22.00

Saint Keverne APPORTIONMENT OF THE RENT CHARGE IN LIEU OF TITHES in the Parish of Saint Keverne in the County of Cornwall. (xiii) + 59pp., large folio, lacks wraps. Printed in columns with Landowners, Occupiers, no. on Plan, Description, State of Cultivation, Quantity, Amount of Rent Charge. Wraps creased, front wrap ragged down right hand edge, pages dog-eared and dusty at corners, 3" tear in top margin throughout the volume. 1842 and 1844. £180.00
¶ Comprises three 'Schedules', 'Remainder of Lands', 'Summary'.

Sithney GRANT of land called Boscasack (Boscajack) in Sithney, William Paynter of Antron to to William Beauchampe the younger of Gwennap. In English, on vellum, size 9" x 12", signed by Paynter, and by 4 witnesses on verso. Some letters rubbed along folds. Tag, lacking wax seal. 1615. £30.00

Sithney MORTGAGE of House and premises at Porthleven in the parish of Sithney, Samuel Dobb to C.L. Daniell. 4pp., folio, on parchment. 1864. £12.00

St. Aubyn family OBLIGATION BOND of Sir Edward St. Aubyn of St. Michaels Mount to Martha St. Aubyn of Chertsey, Surrey, for £10,000. 2p., sm. folio. Signed with wax seal. 1869. £8.00

St. Erth AUCTION POSTER Advertising the sale of the Fee-Simple of a Tenement in Higher Leah, adjoining Tenement in Killinoon, in the occupation of Richard Woon, moiety of Killinoon Common.... Sale at the White Hart Hotel, Hayle, on Friday 15th August 1873. Size 24" x 17", several folds, few short tears to margins. 1873. £16.00

St. Ives EVANGELIST'S LETTER 3« pages closely-written on paper, size approx. 15" x 9", 2 leaves, folded, integral address panel and faded black 'St Ives - C' stamp. Addressed to Mrs Denham (the writer's mother), 100 Bermondsey Street, Southwark, London, dated Saint Ives Janry. 4th 1832, but sections dated up to 30th Jan., signed M.A. Denham. Wear at some folds, with loss of a few words. The writer appears to have been in St. Ives on a preaching mission for 2 or 3 months 'My Christian regards to our Preachers.... I've delivered my Lord's message week after week.... I believe all these unusual meetings will be given up except the children or young people's, upwards of 40 attend that, Mondays at 6.... those of the grown persons that wish for help may (attend) the new rais'd class which met last Wednesday for the first time, 9 persons (married & single) joind having previously taken notes of admittance of Mr Carvesso (?). All seem in a fair way for the Kingdom.' Jan 4th - 30th 1832. £28.00

St. Ives THEIR HERITAGE or The Story of a Cornish Family. Typescript of a story set in a Cornish fishing village on the Atlantic (obviously St. Ives). 235 typewritten pages (top copy), 4to, in card file with brown paper covers. Signed at end 'Sarah Noall. 13.1.45'. 1945. £120.00
¶ Tells the story of a young girl, 'Mary Tregarthen', growing up in St. Ives in the twenties and thirties, with a brief spell spent near Clovelly. She eventually adopts a child, and marries her childhood sweetheart who returns after World War II having earlier emigrated to America. Interesting local colour, but a rather bland storyline. There are descriptions of the fishing, preparing the town for summer visitors, storms and wrecks, washing day, 'guising', carol singing, the local shops, etc., e.g. '... and so the work of barking began. They dipped and re-dipped their nets in boiling vats of dark brown liquid, a process of dyeing done to preserve their nets for the following winter's fishing, and when all were barked they were laid on the hillock to dry and so the work of barking, mending and repairing of nets went on whenever the weather was suitable all through the Spring of the year...'

Stithians WILL Probate copy of the will of Nicholas Opie, Greengrocer, of Stithians. Vellum, size 14" x 20", manuscript, smaller administration certificate attached, printed with ms. inserts. Fine large papered seal on tag. 1899. £16.00
¶ Bequeathes his houses in East Road, his scales, weights and tools, stock in trade, etc.

Stokeclimsland, St. Ive, etc. CONVEYANCE of the fourth part of the Barton and Manor of Manaton to Lewis Wise for suffering a Recovery of the said Premises and declaring the Uses thereof... Francis Hill of Trenethick and his son John to Lewis Wise. Vellum, size 14" x 29", 3 good armorial wax seals, witnessed on verso. 1735. £30.00

Surveyor of Weights and Balances, Hundred of Kirrier THIRTEEN CONVICTIONS for giving false weights. Each 2 pages, small folio, printed with manuscript inserts. On the left page is 'The Information and Complaint of Benjamin Moon Surveyor of Weights and Balances.... ' that he visited a certain persons shop and found weights deficient 'contrary to the Standard of the Exchequer'. On facing page is the conviction and sentence at the Petty Sessions for Helston. Signed by the Surveyor, and 2 J.P.'s, folded with docket title. Together with a manuscript list of all the offenders, with fines. All the shops were at Helston. 14 items. Penaluna, Printer, Helston. 1805. £70.00
¶ Names of the offenders include Anne Williams, Anne Pascoe, Joseph Veysey, John Bunny, Thomas Hancock (whose balance was false), John Polglase.

Trelyon Bounds, St. Ives PETITION in the Stannary Court of Thomas Bolton of Elm Court, Temple, Tinner and Miner, against Samuel Higgs. Relates to 'certain tin bounds in Uny Lelant and Saint ives calle Trelyon Bounds, Trelyhon Downs Bounds, Trelyon Middle Bounds and Carniney Great Bounds and Carniney Little Bounds.' Manuscript, 4p, folio... with... Answer of Samuel Higgs, 4p., folio... with... Defendant's Account and discharge and Affadavit. 5p. folio. Gives account of ores broken and raised in Trelyon Middle Bounds and Carniney Great Bounds, 1845-9, '450 Barrows sold in the stone' etc. 5p. folio... with... Plaintiffs Statement of Facts and Affadavit, Registrar's Report, Plaintiff's Costs and 2 other Affadavits. All documents with Stannary stamps. 1849-60. £55.00

Trencreek, Trevemper ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XXXIX.8, scale 1/2500, size approx. 25" x 38". Repaired 5" tear at left edge. Revision of 1933. £15.00
¶ Shows Trerice Mill, Trevithick, Tranance Boating Lake, Hendra.

Trenethick ACCOUNT OF TREES SOLD FROM TRENETHICK Wm. Hill, Esq. 1799. 13p, folio, sewn, recording Lot number, purchaser, price... together with... Account of Trees sold from Trenethick the 7th July 1800 at the House of Thomas Colliver, Innkeeper, Helston. 2p, 4to... together with... An Account of Trees Sold at Trenethick Nov. 14th 1800 which was blown down. 1p, small folio, listing 22 trees, with type of tree (mainly elm, lime and fir) and price. 1799 and 1800. £60.00
¶ The first two items do not mention what was in each lot. Among the buyers were Richard Trevithick, Capt. Gundry, J. Borlase, Henry Vivian.

Trescowthick family AFFADAVIT OF DEBT Statement of Elizabeth Moore of Helston affirming that Mark Trescowthick of Sithney is indebted to her for the sum of £2.2s. 6d. 10 lines in manuscript on one side of small folio sheet, folded. Signed by H. Tremenhere, Mayor, and Elizabeth Moore. 1741. £16.00

Trevorgus LETTER to Wm. Sandys at St. Minver from his nephew Richard Warren. Describes the 'savage cruelty towards us and the remains of the old Lady, by that monster of iniquity John Gurney of Trevorgus'. 3p 4to, address panel with Bodmin postmark, broken black wax seal with paper torn with loss of a few words... together with... another letter to his uncle, dated one week later regarding the sale of Trewhiston 'which is in 2 tenements, Guys and Rouncewalls', and the price his brothers have offered for Bonolla. Truro Jan. 15th 1813. £28.00
¶ On their arrival for the funeral of his mother Gurney had 'locked up my wife... and the Undertaker with the Corps, and with the most blasphemous expressions swore that he would not let them out, or suffer the Corps to be interred until I or Mary had engaged to pay him £200 for the Lodgement of the Body of his Mother.' He suspected Thomas Gurney, curate of St. Allen, was behind it.

Trewey Common, Zennor ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheets LXI S.W. and LXVIII N.W. Scale 6" to 1 mile, quarter sheets. Second Edition. 1940's reprint. £14.00

Truro Boundaries REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF TRURO 3pp, with a coloured Plan by R.K. Dawson. Scale 2" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. 1832. £22.00

Truro ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Composite map, scale 25" to 1 mile, showing the western part of Truro, covering the area from Victoria Place as far west as Malabar, and from Nansavallan to as far north as Pencoose. Two sheets pasted one above the other, but with the right hand side trimmed. Water features, buildings and main roads hand-coloured. Some brownish marks from glue where the two maps overlap. First edition. 1880. £30.00
¶ The map has been used to mark a railway from near Treyew Mills northward through the west part of Truro, and another one branching off near the Cattle Market.

Truro TO MY FELLOW TOWNS'-MEN Let it be remembered, that on the 18th June, 1813 was fought that great battle which decided the fate of Europe... three years after that period, you witnessed Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, one of its greatest heroes, contending against Power and Corruption... broadside in support of Vivian, attacking Lord Falmouth, signed 'A Well-Wisher to Sir Hussey Vivian and the Peace and Prosperity of Truro. Size 11" x 7", printed on one side only. Truro, June 17, 1818. £50.00

Walker (J) & (C) CORNWALL. Folding engraved, hand-coloured map, showing Parliamentary Boundaries, dissected and mounted on linen, size approx. 15" x 12", folding into sm 8vo boards, original decorative printed label. Description with distance table etc. pasted inside front board. c1840. £25.00

Walker (J & C) CORNWALL Engraved map with outline colouring showing areas of three Fox Hunts with small circles to show places of Meets, size 13" x 15", parkland and railway line coloured. With list of polling places, boroughs etc. Inset of Scilly Isles. Centre fold. c1860. £48.00

Wendron ASSIGNMENT of a dwellinghouse in Treneer, Mary Winn to John Winn. 3p. sm. folio. Contemporary copy 1858. £12.00

Wendron PLAN OF TOLCARNE WARTHA in the Parish of Wendron the property of John Borlase Esq., Surveyed 1832 by P. Priske. Manuscript plan in ink and full wash colour on vellum, size 12" x 17", scale 4 chains to 1", folded. Scale bar, decorative title. Vellum discoloured and spotty from damp. Sewn to the edge are three pages 'Reference to Tolcarne Wortha' (1 with repaired tear), giving number on plan, name of enclosures etc., measurement of hedges and waste, clear ground. Plan shows houses, roads, stream and pool, names of adjoining owners. 1832. £40.00
¶ The lessees were John and Nicholas Reed.

West Cornwall Railway HALF-YEARLY REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 30th June, 1861. 3pp., folio, folded, with docket title. August 1861. £42.00
¶ Includes half-page report from the Engineer, R.P. Brereton. 'The relaying of the Permanent Way on portions of the Main Line, by substituting longitudinal Fish-jointed Rails for the Barlow Rails is in progress, upwards of two miles having been laid...'

West Wheal Trevelyan Mine CASE for the Opinion of Mr. N. Lindley, In the Matter of The Companies Act 1862 and of the West Wheal Trevelyan Mining Company, In the Court of the Warden of the Stannaries. 5p, in MS, folio, folded. c1865. £32.00
¶ Concerns the winding up of the company and the liablities of one Wetenhall 'a man of no means whatever.... who gains his living by loitering about the Mining Exchange and taking transfers of worthless shares in Mining Companies so as to screen the solvent transferors from liability'.

Wheal Margaret, Uny Lelant, near St. Ives SET OF QUARTERLY REPORTS 1858-1873 Separately published printed Reports, four for each year, 4to, each report 2p, printed on one side of leaf only, name of mine in decorative lettering at head. Comprises Statement of account, giving amounts for labour costs, carriage, merchants bills, Doctor, etc., and Tin sold, details of shares etc., and on the second page a detailed Agents' Report on work in the different lodes, levels etc., equipment installed etc. The earlier reports have a printed letter to the Shareholders with St. Ives and the date, presenting the report, on one side. Agents include Thomas Michell, Thomas Treweeke, John Williams. The set comprises Reports as follows: quarters ending Sept. and Dec. 1858; quarter ending Dec. 1861; the four quarters for 1862; 3 last quarters for '63; quarters for 1864; quarters for June and Sept. 1865; quarters for 1866, and Sept. and Dec. 1867; quarters for March and Sept. 1868; March and Sept. 1869. Then there is a gap of 3 years and the set ends with the two quarters Mar. and June 1873, and a printed letter, 1p., 8vo, to the Shareholders dated 17th April 1874, reporting a Meeting of Wheal Margaret Adventurers relevant to the winding down and sale of the mine materials, and a printed sheet, 2pp. 4to, St. Ives, Nov. 14th 1876, giving an account of the proceeds of the sale of the Mine and Materials. 1858-1874. £300.00
¶ 'in the western run of ore ground we are only driving one level the 90, size of lode not ascertained for several fathoms, the end being carried 4«ft. wide and 7ft. high, leaving a portion of lode on either side, and for the present all tribute is suspended, the stuff being more intimately associated with sulphur and arsenic than that raised from the North and South Russoe lodes... for the purpose of keeping the two qualities distinct we are engaged in repairing our Water Stamps together 18 heads and when complete calculate on increasing the returns from this part of the mine pretty considerably....' Wheal Margaret had been worked in the eighteenth century, restarted in 1842, and became one of the most productive mines in the area. In 1874 it became part of the Wheal Sisters group. It is rare to find mine reports in a comprehensive set such as this.

Williams & Sons THREE LETTERS to Mr Skewes at Burncoose Copper Office from E. Corrie, Williams Foster & Co. in London, regarding Messrs. Williams and Sons Annuities, and accounting matters. Each 1p 4to, address label with postmarks on verso of conjoint leaf... together with a similar letter to Michael and William Williams at Scorrier House. 4 items. 1850-53. £16.00