A Library of Important Books

"Fret - Sawing for Pleasure & Profit, William's Hand-Book How to use the Fret - Saw by an Old Amateur." First edition plt & illus comp, orig wps, ...

JOHN BRATBY ILLUSTRATIONS. "Tale of Tails, Ten Fables by Ronald Duncan." 10 colour plates by Bratby comp, limited edition of 200 signed by artist ...

INDIAN RAILWAYS. Extensive archive photograph albums, ALS notes, cuttings & loose photos regarding the career of W.S. Benton (time in India 1920 -...

GAMES FIRST TEAM CAP. Aberdeen University 1909 - 1911, Soccer, good condition. ...[more]

JOHN SPEED. good engraved map "The Isle of Man." hand coloured engr map 20 x 24 inches. Roger Rea, early 1600's, printed text English reverse ......

"Plan of the City of Washington & the Territory of Columbia." engr Lizars, approx 16 x 18 inches. ...[more]

ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." by Lewis Carroll, two copies both with col illus comp, circa 1920's and 1947. ....

Books on Cornish and other mineralogy, BOX. ...[more]

ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER. A collection of sixteen books by and about. ...[more]

Cornish and other books. BOX. ...[more]

LYSONS (D. & S.) "Magna Britannia... Cornwall." all engr plts and map complete, cont 1/2 ct, worn, 1814. ...[more]

"Geological Plan of Tintagel & District." surveyed R.S.M. MIning Geologists 1933, hand col litho map approx 24 x 28 inches, scarce. ...[more]

GREG (R.P.) & LETTSOM (W.G.). "Manual of the MIneralogy of Great Britain and Ireland." 1st edn, 1858, good. ...[more]

SOWERBY (HENRY). "Popular Mineralogy." 1st edn, 20 good hand col litho plts comp, 1850 vg. ...[more]

J.H.COLLINS. "A Handbook on the Mineralogy of Cornwall & Devon." 1st edn, 10 litho plts comp, mod 1/2 ct, 1871 vg. ...[more]

J.H.COLLINS. "Principles of Metal Mining." plus "A First Book of Mineralogy." each good condition. ...[more]

J.H.COLLINS. "Observations on the West of England Mining Region." maps and plts comp, 1912g. J.H.COLLINS. "Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon." 1969...

REV. WILLIAM BUCKLAND. "Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology." 2 Vols, 1st edn, 69 plts comp, incl col folding, or...

"Domesday Book...Cornwall." the 1861 edition. ...[more]

AGRICOLA. "De Re Metallica." 1950 Dover, plus PRYCE (WILLIAM) "Mineralogia Cornubiensis." Barton 1972 ...[more]

IAN MCNEIL COOKE. "Mother and Sun, The Cornish Fogou." signed ltd edn of 1000, 1993 fine; plus five other books. ...[more]

QUILLER-COUCH (M. & L). Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall." 1st edn, plts comp, 1894 good ...[more]

DAWKINS (W. BOYD). "Early Man in Britain." 1st edn, 1880 vg; plus quantity good quality books on mineralogy and geology ...[more]

J. T. BLIGHT. "Ancient Crosses and other Antiquities in the East of Cornwall." 1858 (two copies) ...[more]

CUMMINGS (A. H.). "The Churches and Antiquities of Cury and Gunwalloe in the Lizard District." 1875 ...[more]

BULLEN (R. A.). "Harlyn Bay and discoveries of its Prehistoric Remains." orig wps, 1982 ...[more]

REV. C. A. JOHNS. "A Week at the Lizard." 1st edn, map and plts comp, 1848 vg ...[more]

J. T. BLIGHT. "A Week at the Land's End." 1st edn, plts comp, 1861 vg ...[more]

CORNISH BOOKS. Good Quality. TWO BOXES. ...[more]

EDWARD FITZGERALD. "Rubaiyat. E Omar Khayyam." plts by E. J. Sullivan comp, 1913 good; plus one other. ...[more]

OGILBY (john). "Britannia...Principal Roads." 1939 edition, col maps comp, vg ...[more]

WALLACE (CATHERINE). "Catching the Light, The Art and Lof of Henry Scott Tuke 1858-1929." 2008 fine; plus other books on art. One box ...[more]

BOOKS. Various. BOX. ...[more]

CORNISH BOOKS. Bundle ...[more]

DEXTER (T. F. G.). "Cornish Crosses, Christian and Pagan." 1938 ...[more]

BOOKS. Various. Box ...[more]

DAVID WALLIAMS. "Gangsta Granny." signed 1st edition, unclipped dj, 2011 fine. ...[more]

SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Six various. ...[more]

EDGAR ALLAN POE. "Tales of Mystery and Imagination." illus Harry Clarke, 1971; plus six other books. ...[more]

CORNISH BOOKS. Various. BOX. ...[more]

CRICKET. W.G. Grace family photo album. 30 photos of family, some named, eg. W.G. as a young man and as a baby, contemporary Morocco, brass clasps...

HOFFMAN (DR. HEINRICH). "The English Struwwelpeter... after the fifteenth edition of the celebrated German Work." Hand col plts comp, orig bds, Le...

ALICE IN WONDERLAND & GUINNESS. "Alice Versary, The Guinness Birthday Book." Col 30illus Ronald Ferns orig wps, 1959 fine; plus 2 other Guinness. ...

CAMO. "La Ronde des Saisons." Col plts comp, orig cl-backed bds, c1920's vg. plus 6 other French Children's Books. ...[more]

OLD CORNISH DOCUMENTS. 23 schedules & Land Taxes all 1799 re lands Wendron, 30Breage Sitney, Penzance etc. (Penrose). ...[more]

ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. "Peer Gynt, A Dramatic Poem." by Henrik Ibsen, 12 coloured plates each with descriptive tissue guards complete, orig...

EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. "Treasure Island." by Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 coloured plates complete, original cloth gilt, lettering piece 4to, 1...

ERNEST NISTER MOVEABLE. "Buttercup Pictures." 7 circular chromo plates each with pull tab that transforms picture, orig cl-backed col pict bds, 4t...

EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOK. "Marmaduke Multiply's Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians... 69 hand coloured plates comp, original cloth, 16mo, Gr...

CHARLES DICKENS. "A Christmas Carol in Prose, being A Ghost Story of Christmas, by Charles Dickens." Had col etched frontis, cont cl gt, aeg, sm 1...

JOHN & WILLIAM GRIMM. "German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder und Hans Marchen, collected by M.M. Grimm, From Oral Tradition." etched p...

WALTER CRANE. "Walter Crane's Picture Books." Vols 1, 2, & 3; plus "Walter Crane's Picture Books Large Series." Vol I. all with col plts printed b...

THOMAS HUGHES & RICHARD DOYLE. "The Scouring of the White Horse, or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk." 1st edn, illus incl add title co...

CHILDREN'S POP-UP BOOK. "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer." by Robert L. May, 5 pop-up scenes comp (no missing bits) orig ring-back ups, 1939 vg. ....

JUVENILE TRACTS. "Tracts consisting of Tales & Narratives by Mrs Sherwood, and the Author of Margaret Whyte etc." Vol 3 containing 14 tracts each ...

HOSEMANN ILLUSTRATIONS. "Naughty Boys & Girls." by Dr. Julius Bahr, 20 hand col engr pp comp, orig pict bds, 4to inscr 1854 g. RAPHAEL TUCK CUT OU...

ROBERTSON (W. GRAHAM). "Gold , Frankincense, and Myrrh." 12 col plts comp, orig cl, dj, 4to, 1907 vg. ...[more]

SMALL FORMAT CHILDREN'S BOOKS. 26 various, mostly early 20th C. ...[more]

HOPWOOD (AUBREY). "The Bunkum Book." 1900vg; plus 7 other children's books. ...[more]

IVAN BILIBIN. "Le Petit Poisson d'or." col plts by Bilibin comp dated 1933 orig wps vg; plus 8 other French children's books; & 4 others. ...[mor...