The Frank Brewer Cornish Library

Edgar Avery Tregonning Two Centuries of a Cornish Family Edgar Backus, Cank St, Leicester, tall 8vo, in original maroon cloth with gilt lettering ...

Two works Henry Sorrell Stokes, Rhymes from Cornwall, published by John Camden Hotten, London, in green boards with gilt titles on spine contains ...

Cornish wildlife. Four works. Stella M. Turk, Seashore Life in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, D. Bradford Barton Ltd, Truro,1971, first edition...

Three works on Cornish horticulture Adelaide Ross, A wild Flower Wreath, privately printed and signed by the author on the front end paper, 1975 f...

Mark Stoyle. 'West Britons. Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State'. First edition, hardback, included in this book are transcripti...

William Ambrose Taylor. 'A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall'. First edition, 160 pages, ex libris University o...

Three works on Launceston. C. W. R. Winter. 'In Sundry Places,' first edition, the story of the Cornish Estate of Tregeare near Launceston, 208 pa...

Two works. Roger Crombleholme, Douglas Stuckey, C. F. D. Whetmath. 'Callington Railways. Bere Alston-Calstock-Callington. An account of the East C...

Sir John C. Fox. 'The Byron Mystery,' First edition, a good copy in the original publishers gilt-blocked cloth, 248 pages, notes : includes biogra...

Three works C.E.Vulliamy F. R. G. S. 'Unknown Cornwall', first edition, illustrations in colour and black and white by charles simpson, 246 pages,...

William Marshall. 'The Rural Economy of the West of England,' 1796. 'Including Devonshire and Parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire and Cornwall. To...

F. W. I. Stockdale. 'Excursions in the County of Cornwall'. Illustrated with engravings, comprising a concise historical and topographical delinea...

'The Carnmarth Deanery Monthly Magazine A. D.1907,' A record of church news in the parishes of: St Budock, St Day, Flushing, St Gluvias, Gwennap, ...

Three works. Herbert Bolitho. 'Truly Rural. Lights and Shadows on the History of North Hill Circuit (Cornwall) of the Methodist Church 1743–1946,'...

Four works with a religious interest. J.Henry Harris. 'Cornish Saints and Sinners', first edition, very good condition in pictorial boards, publis...

Three works on Penzance and its local area. P. A. S. Pool. 'The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance,' first edition, with full text of the...

'British Rainfall, 1894.' G. J. Symons and H. Sowerby Wallis. 'British Rainfall, 1894. On the Distribution of Rain Over the British Isles During t...

Cecil John Haarlem Mead. 'A Record of the Mead and West Families in County Cornwall from 1751–1941,' first edition, 12mo, 57 pages, hardcover in b...

George Oliver D.D. 'Monasticon Dioeceis Exoniensis,' 1846. 'Being a Collection of Records and Instruments Illustrating the Ancient Conventual, Col...

Walter H. Tregellas. 'Cornish Worthies,' 1884, extra illustrated, grangerised copy. 'Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families,' first edi...

George Smith. 'The Cassiterides,' 1863. 'An Inquiry Into the Commercial Operations of the Phoenicians in Western Europe, with Particular Reference...

John Budge. 'The Practical Miner’s Guide,' 1845. 'Comprising a Set of Trigonometrical Tables, Adapted to all Purposes of Oblique or Diagonal, Vert...

Stephen Michell. 'Mine Drainage,' 1881. 'Being a Complete and Practical Treatise on Direct-Acting Underground Steam Pumping Machinery,' first edit...

Sir Clement Le Neve (Inspector of Mines and Prof. Mining, Royal School of Mines). Nine papers bound in one volume, as follows:'Notes on Aberllefen...

Copper mining interest. Rowe v Brenton trial, 1830. George Concanen. 'A Report of the Trial at bar, Rowe v Brenton, tried in the Court of King’s B...

'Proceedings of the Mining Institute of Cornwall, volume 1. December, 1876 to December 1883,' All plates and folding drawings/plans collated, 400 ...

L. L. Price (Fellow of Oriel College). 'West Barbary,' 1891. 'Or Notes on the System of Work and Wages in the Cornish Mines,' first edition, autho...

Two works. G. R. Lewis. 'The Stannaries. A Study of the Medieval Tin Miners of Cornwall and Devon,' second edition, a fine copy in a clipped dustj...

George Randall Lewis. 'The Stannaries,' 1908. 'A Study of the English Tin Miner,' first edition, this work primarily concentrates on the Tin miner...

'The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed,' 1804. John Whitaker B.D. Rector of Ruan-Lanyhorne , Cornwall. 'The Ancient Cathedral of...

Joseph Yelloly Watson. 'A Compendium of British Mining,' 1843. With Statistical Notices of the Principal Mines in Cornwall; To Which is Added, The...

''The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall,' 1824. 'With Marginal Notes and References to Authorities to Which are Added the Several Acts of Parliam...

The Controverted Election for Saltash, 1808. Samuel Carpenter. 'A Statement of the Evidence and Arguments of Counsel Before the Committee of the H...

William Penaluna (Printer and Publisher). 'An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, etc,' second edition, 2 volumes, 352 pages and 356 page...

Brenton Symons. 'A Sketch of the Geology of Cornwall,' 1884. 'Including a Brief Description of the Mining Districts and the Ores Produced in Them,...

R. Tredinnick. 'A Review of Cornish and Devon Mining Enterprise 1850-1856 Inclusive'. First edition, a hand coloured map of ‘’Buller-Basset group ...

George Cocking. 'From the Mines to the Pulpit,' 1901. 'Or, Success Hammered Out of the Rock’ first edition, in original green binding with gilt le...

Edward Bosanketh. 'Tin. A Novel'. Second edition (the first edition being published in 1888 by T. Fisher Unwin, London), near fine condition, publ...

B. Thorn and Son (ed). 'Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus Provincialis,' 1782. 'Or a Survey of the Diocese of Exeter, Respecting all Matters of Ecclesiasti...

Three works on Pre-Christianity in Cornwall. Charles Thomas. 'Studies in Cornish Folk-Lore no.1 ‘’the taboo’’,' first edition, bound in original w...

Four works. R. M. Ballantyne. 'Deep Down. A Tale of the Cornish Mines,' first edition, with the bookplate of Justin Brooke, good condition, James ...

Two histories on Tin mining. John Hatcher. 'English Tin Production and Trade Before 1550,' first edition, signed by Justin Brooke, in an unclipped...

Three works. 'The Blizzard in the West Being a Record and Story of the Disasterous Storm Which Raged Throughout Devon and Cornwall and West Somers...

A. L. Rowse. A rare uncorrected proof copy, plus two others. A. L. Rowse. 'The Elizabethan Age. The Expansion of Elizabethan England, Autumn 1955,...

Two works of prose. John Harris. 'The Land’s End, Kynance Cove, and Other Poems,' first edition, with subscribers list, original red boards (sligh...

Four works. Mrs Miles (formerly Miss S. E. Hatfield of Cornwall). 'Original Cornish Ballads Chiefly Founded on Stories Humourously Told by Mr Treg...

Fowey interest. Scrap albums with newspaper cuttings, 1870-1920. Albums relating in particular to Fowey and the surrounding area, 1870s-1920s. (4)...

Mrs Craik (Dinah Maria Craik ). 'An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall'. With illustrations by C. Napier Hemy, first edition, a very good copy...

Rev. Robert Williams. 'Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum.' 1865. 'A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in Which the Words are Elucidat...

William Pryce. 'Archaelogia Cornu-Britannica,' 1790. 'Or an Essay to Preserve the Ancient Cornish Language Containing the Rudiments of that Dialec...

Canterburiensis. 'The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Sir William Courtenay'. 'Knight of Malta. Alias John Nichols Tom, Formerly Spirit Merch...

Thomas Dryden. 'Tables for Calculating the Value of a Ton of Copper Ore at Any Rate of Standard, from £80 to £180 per Ton of Fine Copper,' first e...

John Paddon. 'Tables for Copper Ore,' 1820, 'Giving the Price of a Ton of Ore from the Standard of 80l to 180l per ton of Copper at any Produce fr...

John Carne (Penzance 1789–1844 ) 'Tales of the West,' two volumes, first edition, pages uncut, the following tales are drawn from authentic source...

Three works. Joseph Henry Pearce. 'Tales of the Masque,' first edition, a fine copy, in original binding, Lawrence and Bullen, London, 1894.John C...

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. A signed and three others. 'Cornish Homes and Customs,' first edition, in dustwrapper, a fine copy, bookplate of John Blowe...

Three works on archaeology. William Copeland Borlase. Typical Specimens of Cornish Barrows, Red Feb 3rd 1881', coloured plates with numerous illus...

David Cock (Mining Engineer St Austell). 1880. 'A Treatise, Technical and Practical, on the Nature, Production and Uses of China Clay, with Severa...

Three works on geology and geography. Colin M. Bristow. 'Cornwall's Geology and Scenery. An Introduction,' first edition, a fine copy, Cornish Hil...

Two works. Henrietta Maria Bowdler. 'Pen Tamar or ‘’The History of an Old Maid’’' second edition, 244 pages with a half title, 4 plates including ...