The Frank Brewer Cornish Library

Richard Thomas. 'Report on a Survey of the Mining District of Cornwall,' 1819. 'From Chasewater to Camborne,' first edition, all tables etc comple...

John F. Penrose and William M. Grylls, 'Copper Ore Tables,' 1858. 'Showing the Value of Any Quantity of Ore,' first edition, subscribers list show...

John Provis. 'Tables useful in Several Branches of the Copper Trade, in Four Parts,' 1832. A new edition with considerable additions and improveme...

Richard Polwhele (editor 1760-1838). 'Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall,' 1792. 2 volumes, half title, woodcut vignettes, marb...

Richard Carew of Antonie, Esq The Survey of Cornwall. First Edition, April 23rd, 1602 Printed by S. Stafford for John Jaggard and are to bee sold...

Fowey and Golant by various authors Two bound volumes titled on spine ‘’Fowey & Golant’’ with six separate works bound in being:E. W. Rashleigh., ...

Three works with an interest in archaeology, Rev. Malachy Hitchins. 'Account of Antiquities Discovered in Cornwall', gilt lettering on spine, boun...

Richard Edwin Austin Townsend. 'Visions of the Western Railways'. First edition, a good copy, in green hard back boards, dedicated to Sir Charles ...

Samuel Kelly - An Eighteenth-Century Seaman Crosbie Garstin 'Whose Days have been Few and Evil, With added remarks, etc. on places he visited duri...

Five works on Cornish Mining D. B. Barton, Historic Cornish Mining Scenes Underground, first edition 1967, published by Truro Bookshop, in origina...

Besley's Views of Cornwall. Twenty-nine plates starting with St Michael's Mount with the train in the foreground. In original blue boards with gil...

Three works Rev. George Oliver, Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon, being observations on several churches in Devonshire, with some memoranda for...

Pollard’s Catalogues Truro and Penzance Book-seller Being catalogues issued by a well-known Cornish antiquarian book-seller with particular emphas...

Three works with an interest in smuggling. Commander Henry Noel Shore R.N. 'Old Foye Days', first edition, many illustrations of Fowey by the auth...

Three works related to gold found in Cornwall Edward Smirke (vice-warden of the Stannaries). 'Some Account of the Discovery of a gold cup in a Bar...

Major General Sir Henry James. ''The Astragalus of Tin'. 'Note on the Block of Tin Dredged Up in Falmouth Harbour,' first edition, original maroon...

Penzance: Past and Present Six volumes bound as one Hardback, with various tipped-in letters and press-cuttings and the bookplate of J. A. D. Brid...

Two Anglo-Saxon Interest works bound as one. Jonathan Rashleigh. Esq, An Account of Anglo-Saxon Coins and Gold and Silver Ornaments found at Trewh...

James Wallis Pycroft. 'Arena Cornubiae'. 'Or the Claims of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to the Sea Coast and Banks of Tidal Rivers in C...

An Account of the Families of Boase or Bowes Charles William, George Clement and Frederic Boase 'Originally residing at Paul and Madron in Cornwal...

The Old Stones of the Land's End John Mitchell Signed limited edition no.206 of 250, a scarce collectable copy in fine condition. Bound in green f...

James Normington (steam ship agent) and William Bant (miner) 'Rule and Bant's Entombment in Drake Well Mine', published by J.H Harris & son, Trevi...

China clay interest. Fourteen works. R. M. Barton. 'A History of the Cornish China-Clay Industry,' first edition, Barton’s classic history of the ...

Thomas Wicksteed......Cornish Pump.....Engines, 1841. Thomas Wicksteed (Engineer to the East London Waterworks). 'An Experimental Inquiry Concerni...

Thomas Hogg. 'Historical Records of Ancient Cornwall'. (Master of the grammar school, Truro), first edition, 508 pages, bound in green boards with...

H. Michell Whitely F.G.S. Papers/tracts/booklets bound in one volume. Green hardcovers with gilt lettering to spine, as follows:I. 'Cornish Chantr...

Three works on mining in Cornwall. Cyril Noall. 'Levant. The Mine Beneath the Sea,' first edition, with the bookplate of frank brewer. a near fine...

John Forbes M.D. Three works bound in one,1822. 'On the Geology of the Land’s-End District,' first edition, author’s presentation signature to the...

J. H. Murchison F.G.S. 'British Mines Considered as a Means of Investment,' 'With Particulars of the Principal Dividend and Progressive Mines in E...

Three works on mining in Cornwall. Cyril Noall. 'Botallack,' first edition, a very good copy in clipped dustwrapper, D. Bradford Barton Ltd, Truro...

Sir John Pettus. 'Fodinae Regales,' 1670. 'Or The History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales and the English ...

John Wilcox. 'The True Christian Exemplified'. 1811. 'Being the Substance of a Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Philip Melville Esq Deputy Govern...

R. A. Courtney. 'The Hill and the Circle'. First edition, a presentation copy from R. A. Courtney (signed) to C. H. Peter (Launceston), in origina...

Three works on mining in Cornwall. E. S. Hedges (Director of the Tin Research Council). 'Tin in Social and Economic History,' first edition, a wel...

'The Lanhydrock Atlas'. Paul Holden, Peter Herring and Oliver J. Padel. 'The Lanhydrock Atlas,' first edition, published by Cornwall Editions Ltd,...

Cornish Chamber of Mines Year Book, 1918 Edited by Harold E. Fern, published by the Cornish Chamber of Mines. Three folding tables, map loosely in...

Henry T. De La Beche Report on the geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset Published by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, london. Re...

John Thomas. 'The Laws and Customs of the Stannaries of Cornwall', 'With Marginal Notes and References to Authorities. To Which are Added the Seve...

Thomas Wicksteed C.E. 'Further Elucidations of the Useful Effects of Cornish Pumping Engines, Showing the Average Working for Long Periods &c,' fi...

J. Williams (General Commission Agent). 'The Cornwall and Devon Mining Directory'. 'Classified in Districts: With Their Produce, Number of Shares,...

George Rickard. 'Practical Mining: Fully and Familiarly Described'. First edition, 72 pages with 24 page publishers catalogue inside rear cover, o...

J. H. Collings. 'A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon'. First edition, rebacked, slight spotting to edge of textblock otherwise a ne...

'The Metalliferous Mining Region of the Southwest of England'. H. G. Dines (Petrographical notes by J. Phemister)….. 'The Metalliferous Mining Reg...

William Thomas (editor). 'Transactions of the Cornish Institute of Mining, Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineers,' first editions, volumes 1-4 (1...

Three works. Tom Tremewan. 'A Builders Life in Perranporth,' first edition, a near fine copy in clipped dust jacket, Oscar Blackford Ltd, Truro, 1...

Rev. R. Polwhele 'The History of Cornwall,' First editions, 7 volumes in 2, all plates/fold out plans/trees and maps collated, with the signature ...

George Clement Boase and William Prideaux Courtney. 'Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,' 'A Catalogue of the Writings Both Manuscript and Printed of Corni...

Lady Sophia Tower. 'Sketches in the Isles of Scilly,' 1848. Eight lithograph plates complete, printed and published by Dickinson and Co, 114 New B...

William Cotton, Esq. 'Illustrations of Stone Circles,' 'Cromlechs and Other Remains of the Aboriginal Britons in the West of Cornwall: From Drawin...

Captain Joseph Needham Tayler. 1840. 'Plans for the Formation of Harbours of Refuge, Improvement of Rivers and Sea ports: With Suggestions for Ame...

Cornwall. Circa 1787. 34 pages, plus 22 plates, published by S. Hooper in the years 1786 and 1787. ...[more]

Peter Baker Smith. 'Trip to the Far West'. First edition, 192 pages, original drab cloth, from the Enys collection with John Davies Enys bookplate...

Sir John Dodridge. 'An Historical Account of the Ancient and Modern State of the Principality of Wales, Duchy of Cornwall and Earldom of Chester,'...

Two works by Charles Henderson 'Records of the Church and Priory of St Germans in Cornwall,' first edition, hardback with original covers attached...

Robert Fraser. 'General View of the County of Cornwall'. 1794 'With Observations on the Means of its Improvement,' drawn up for the consideration ...

R. Symons. 'The Rev. John Wesley’s Ministerial Itineraries in Cornwall'. 1879 'Commenced in 1743 and concluded in 1789.'as described by himself in...

W. H. Hamilton. 'The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West'. First edition, 212 pages, hardback, black cloth gilt, gilt front boa...

William George Maton. 'Observations Relative Chiefly to the Natural History, Picturesque Scenery, And Antiquities of the Western Counties of Engla...

Cury and Gunwalloe interest. Alfred Hayman Cummings. 'The Churches and Antiquities of Cury and Gunwalloe in the Lizard District, Including Local T...

Charles G. Harper. 'The Smugglers'. 'Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft,' first edition, original boards, collated complete wit...