The Frank Brewer Cornish Library

Charles Garton Honor. 'Fish, Tin and Copper or Cornwall Its Mines and Miners'. First edition, 78 pages plus two pages of advertisements, a well re...

Three Cornish works D.B. Barton; 'The Cornish Beam Engine', second edition, 1969, published by D.B.Barton. 8vo. 285 pages. Illustrated throughout ...

'Royal Institution of Cornwall'. Bound in at the beginning of volume 1 'Objects and Laws of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.' 1829. W. Polyblank...

'Royal Institution of Cornwall'. Reports 1855-1963 Published by James R. Netherton of Lemon Street, Truro. 8vol. Many plates, and tables at the re...

The Menhennick Family. Thomas Shaw. 'The Menhennick Family ‘Menegby Nyot’ The History and Genealogy of a Cornish Family,' first edition, printed i...

Joseph Yelloly Watson. 'A Compendium of British Mining,' 'With Statistical Notices of the Principal Mines in Cornwall; To Which is Added the Histo...

Keith Skues Cornish Heritage Published by Werner Shaw, London. An incredibly detailed family history of the Skues (or similar sounding name) evolv...

Price of Materials charged at East Wheal Crofty Mine Account book for the years 1837-48 In original marbled boards, half calf gilt lettering, ‘Mat...

Devon and Cornwall Record Society. 'The Register of Baptisms, Marriages & Burials of the Parish of Falmouth in the County of Cornwall, 1663-1812.'...

Two Cornish works G. R. Lewis; The Stannaries ‘a study of the medieval tin miners of Cornwall and Devon’ . Reprinted 1965 by D. Bradford Barton, L...

J. T. Tregellas. 'Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse With a glossary, first edition, rebound, gilt lettering with embossed spine, 16 tales with 2 p...

Philip Rashleigh (1729-1811). 'Specimens of British Minerals,' 'Selected from the Cabinet of Philip Rashleigh of Menabilly in The County of Cornwa...

David Cock Mining Engineer, St Austell A treatise technical and practical on the nature, production and uses of china-clay with several useful tab...

The China Clay Works in Cornwall & Devon of English China Clays Ltd Published by English China Clays Ltd, St Austell, Cornwall, England, printed b...

Joseph Yelloly Watson (1817-1888). 'A Compendium of British Mining with Statistical Notices of the Principal Mines in Cornwall; To Which is Added ...

The Miner’s Association of Cornwall and Devon, 1877-83 Reports and proceedings for the years 1877/1878/1879/1880/1881/1882 AND 1883 (7 years). In ...

Three works related to China Clay English China Clays Limited, St Austell, Cornwall; privately printed, this souvenir of the Duke of Edinburgh’s v...

Arthur Phillips and John Darlington 'Records of Mining and Metallurgy, or facts and memoranda for the use of the mine agent and smelter', publishe...

Cornish Chamber of Mines Year Book, 1920 Edited by Harold E. Fern. First edition, printed by Mining Publications Ltd, London and published by the ...

Thomas Spargo. 'Statistics and Observations on the Mines of Cornwall and Devon,' 'Illustrated by Maps, Plans and Sections of the Several Mining Di...

London & West Country Chamber of Mines Records 1901-1903 Secretary J. H. Collins. Published by the Chamber. This is the inaugral year book as the ...

History of The Royal Albert Bridge, Across the River Tamar at Saltash Engineer I. K. Brunel. Plate booklet, 15 pages, very scarce, Wood & Tozer, D...

'The Cornish Magazine,' three copies. A. T. Quiller-Couch. 'The Cornish Magazine,' two volumes, volume I July to December 1898, first edition, pub...

E. H. Davison B.Sc Handbook of Cornish Geology, Published by Oscar Blackford, Truro, an improved and enlarged edition to include a chapter on chin...

Arthur G. Langdon. 'Old Cornish Crosses'. First edition, signed by the author, folding map, numerous plates and illustrations in text from drawing...

Boat building and Shark fishing interest A. S. Oliver, 'Boats and Boatbuilding in West Cornwall, a study of traditional Cornish fishing craft’, pu...

China clay and pottery interest. Three works. Philip Varcoe (with a foreword by Daphne du Maurier). 'China Clay the Early Years,' first edition, 4...

Memoirs of the Geological Survey The Geology of the country around Bodmin and St Austell W. A. E. Ussher, G. Barrow and D. A. Macalister with note...

John Smeaton (Civil Engineer F.R.S.). 'Edystone Lighthouse,' 1793. 'A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edyst...

R. Morton Nance A Glossary of Cornish Sea-Words Edited by P. A. S. Pool, published by the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, in original cloth ...

V.M and F.J Chesher The Cornishman’s House ‘An Introduction to the History of Traditional Domestic Architecture in Cornwall’, published by D. Brad...

'The Cornwall Protestation Returns 1641,' by T. L. Stoate, 1974. T. L. Stoate (from a transcript by R. M. Glencross) revised and with additional p...

Kershaw & Son ‘Views of Cornwall’ Twenty four views on twelve plates, complete, circa 1850’s in original blue binding badly scuffed with gilt lett...

H. Besley's Views in Cornwall twenty three engraved plates with tissue guards, original maroon blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering, cream endpaper...

Cornish Tales The Three Monks of St Germans, A Legend of Beelzebub, with Bub’s remarks on Cook V. Jenkins, printed and published by R. J. Bazley, ...

Piers Brendon Cornish Ballads & Other Poems selected, edited and introduced, published by Kevin Reilly at the Elephant Press, St Germans. Signed o...

E. W. Meyerstein A Key to Cornish Mining Published by ‘The Mining Journal’, 167 pages in original olive green boards, first edition,1907. A good c...

Robert Sawle Donnall. 'The Trial of Robert Sawle Donnall,' 'Surgeon and Apothecary, Late of Falmouth in the County of Cornwall, For The Wilful Mur...

PETER STANIER South West Granite ‘A History of the Granite Industry in Cornwall and Devon’, first edition, 1999, published by Cornish Hillside Pub...

“THE MINING JOURNAL & COMMERCIAL GAZETTE” conducted by Henry English Esq. Vol 1, No 1, Aug 29th 1835, a continuous run to end 1909, uniform modern...

Colonel H. W. Williams Some Reminiscences (1838-1918) Published by J. A. D. Bridger, Penzance. 112 pages frontis, ’with compliments of the author...

Geology Interest Harvey Buchanan Holl 'On the older rocks of South Devon and East Cornwall' From the quarterly journal of the Geological Society, ...

R. A. Courtney A Passel of Ould Traade Printed for private circulation by Beare and Son, Penzance, gilt lettering to the spine and front cover ori...

G. R. Gayre M.A Wassail in Mazers of Mead ‘An account of mead,metheglin,sack and other ancient liquors, and of the mazer cups out of which they we...

Harold E. Fern Cornish Chamber of Mines Year Book, 1920 Published by the Cornish Chamber of Mines, original octavo cloth bords, gilt title to fron...

Allen Buckley. 'The Story of Mining in Cornwall'. First edition, illustrated throughout, foreword by Roger Burt Emeritus Professor of Mining Histo...

H. A. Abbott (One of His Majesty’s Inspectors of Mines). 'Home Office Report on the Circumstances Attending the Breaking of a Man Engine Which Occ...

Ian McNeil Cooke. 'Mother and Sun. The Cornish Fogou'. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies of which this is no.54, signed by the author, tipped...

'The Trevelyan papers'. Three works. J. Payne Collier. 'Trevelyan Papers Prior to A.D. 1558,' first edition, in original boards, a good copy, with...

Two works. Joseph Hammond. 'A Cornish Parish Being an Account of St Austell Town, Church, District and People,' first edition, a nice copy in orig...

Two works. G. H. Lewes. 'Nature Studies on the Coast of Devonshire, The Scilly Isles and Jersey (Naturstudien am Seestrande Kustenbilder aus den S...

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. 'Mines and Miners of Cornwall'. From number I. 'Around St Ives' 1961, pub by Truro Bookshop, Truro, a complete run to XVI. ...

Sir John Maclean. 'The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall,' three vols, large 4to, vIII; 710 (VI...

T. L. Stoate. 'Cornwall Hearth and Poll Taxes 1660-1664'. 'Direct Taxation in Cornwall in the Reign of Charles II,' first edition, 309 pages, smal...

Three works. J. Kitto Roberts. 'The Mevagissey Independents,' first edition, 56 pages, being a history of the town including religion and the deve...

Eleven Cornish tracts and pamphlets bound in one volume. Thurstan C. Peter 'The Churchwardens Accounts of the Parish of Camborne,' first edition, ...

Rev. H. J. Whitfield. 'Scilly and Its Legends,' first edition, 8vo, original blind stamped cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, colour printed titl...

J. O. Halliwell. 'Rambles in Western Cornwall by the footsteps of the Giants; With Notes on the Celtic Remains of the Land’s End District and the ...

Nelson Boyd (ed). 'The Mining Magazine and Review,' vol 1 & 2. 'A Monthly Record of Mining, Smelting, Quarrying and Engineering,' a rare single vo...

John Norden. 'Speculi Britanniae Pars,' 1728. 'A Topographical and Historical Description of Cornwall. With a Map of the County of Cornwall and Ea...