The Frank Brewer Cornish Library

The Story of Penwartha School Perranporth Women’s Institute. The history of the primary school from the mid 1870’s to the mid 1970’s, 144 pages in...

Two works of local heraldic history. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould and Robert Twigge. 'An Armory of the Western Counties (Devon and Cornwall)'. from un...

Two works on Cornish history Arthur G. Langdon. 'Old Cornish Crosses', facsimile edition, numerous pencil illustrations of cornish crosses through...

Lostwithiel, Liskeard and Looe interest. Three works. D. de. L. Nicholls. 'Lostwithiel', 32 pages, early postcards, the bookplate of John Blowey, ...

Three first editions by C. C. Rogers. Lady Vyvyan (C.C.Rogers). 'Maria Pendragon', first edition, 69 pages, original boards, a good copy of a scar...

Two works. Rev. Henry Batten and Mr Henry William Viner (The Suffrages were composed by E. Shuttleworth). 'Responses, Suffrages, Tersanctus, and C...

'History of Free Masonry in Cornwall 1765-1828,' Bro Josepth G. Osborn P. M. with an introduction by Bro. William James Hughan P.M. 'History of Fr...

The Rev. John Penrose. 'Lives of Vice Admiral Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose (Vice Admiral of the White) and Captain James Trevenen, Knight of the ...

Two biographies of prominent Cornish Lady's. Graves Sawle Rose (nee Paynter). 'Sketches from the Diaries of Rose Lady Graves Sawle,' first edition...

B. W. J. Trevaldwyn. 'A Short Account of the Church and Parish of St. Martin-by-Looe,' first edition, 120 pages, frontis, illustrations, original ...

Charlotte Champion Pascoe. 'Walks about St Hilary, Chiefly Among the Poor'. First edition, tipped in is a parish leaflet, in original binding, goo...

Three works of Poetry. Harry R. Burke and F. A. Behymer. 'Visitation At Thatchcot,' first edition, signed by the author, 490 copies this being num...

Edmund H. Sedding. 'Norman Architecture in Cornwall,' 1909. 'A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesesiastical Architecture, With Notes on Ancient Manor ...

Maritime interest. Three works. Walter Wood (Woodcuts by C. A. Wilkinson). 'Fishing Boats and Barges from The Thames to Lands End,' first edition,...

Two works with an archaeology interest. H. O’Neill Hencken. 'The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly', first edition, a fine copy in original dustw...

Four works covering transport, aviation and wireless communications. C. J. Coulson-Thomas. 'Cornwall’s Conquest of the Air', first edition, 24 pag...

Four works on the history of Methodism in Cornwall. Henry Martyn Jeffery (ed). 'Extracts from the Religious Diary of Miss I. Grenfell, of Marazion...

'The Penwith Deanery Magazine,' 'July 1930/December 1930/September 1931/January 1932/March 1932 and October 1934,' 6 copies, news from the parishe...

The Cornubian Press. 'The Cornubian Riviera Special,' 52 pages, copious local advertisements and photographs in addition to stories, original wrap...

Three works with an interest in the arts. James Dawson. 'The Life of J. Dawson', first edition, origianl green binding, containing the subscribers...

Three works with a transport interest. L. Fisher Barham. 'Cornwall's Electric Tramcars', first edition, 84 pages, fine copy in dust wrapper, the h...

Maritime interest. Three works. Norah Ayland. 'Schooner Captain,' first edition, being the biography of Capt Shaw notably on the merchant schooner...

Prominent Cornish Women. Three works. Emily Borlase Bolitho. 'Letters and Reminiscences of Emily Borlase Bolitho,' first edition, inscribed C. H. ...

Sir Edward Smirke. 'The Case of Vice Against Thomas (w.m.),' 1843. 'Determined on Appeal Before the Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall, Wit...

Rare original comic poems, illustrative of the Cornish dialect. A bound volume containing a total of 27 very rare original comic poems, illustrati...

R. A. Courtney. 'The Evolution of the Wheel Cross. First edition, signed by the author, bound in original boards, with bright gilt lettering to sp...

Sir Christopher Hawkins, 1811. 'Observations on the Tin Trade of the Ancients in Cornwall And on the ‘’Ictus’’ of Diodorus Siculus. With a View of...

Sir George Harrison. 'Substance of a Report on the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Stanneries of Cornwall' First edition, a report into the state of...

R. A. Courtney. 'The Holy Well and the Water of Life'. First edition, bound in original boards, with bright gilt lettering to the spine and front ...

William Pole. 'A Treatise on the Cornish Pumping Engine,' 1844. In two parts, Appendix G. To the New Edition of Tredgold on The Steam Engine and o...

'Cornish Tracts,' fourteen rare Cornish works, bound in one volume. John Batten. 'Ode for the Coronation 19th July, 1821, Recited at a Public Fest...

'Mongst Mines and Miners,' 1893. J. C. Burrow Part I (How the camera was used) William Thomas Part II (a description of the subject). 'Mongst Mine...

George Abbot, Jun. 'An Essay on the Mines of England,' 1833. 'Their Importance as a Source of National Wealth and as a Channel for the Advantageou...

J. B. Hill and D. A. MaCalister. 'The Geology of Falmouth and Truro,' 'And of the Mining District of Camborne and Redruth,' first edition, frontis...

J. H. Collins. 'On Cornish Tin-Stones and Tin-Capels'. First edition, reprinted with additions and corrections from the Mineralogical Magazine vol...

Three first editions on Mining in Cornwall. A. L. Rowse. 'The Cornish in America,' first edition, tipped in ‘The Emigrant’s Farwell’, a very good ...

William Rickard. 'The Miners Manual of Arithmetic and Surveying,' 'Containing the Usual Calculations Employed by the Miner, Those Required at the ...

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. 'The Cornish Miner,' 1927. 'An Account of His Life Above and Underground from Early Times,' first edition, a near fine copy...

G. J. Drew and J. E. Connell. 'Cornish Beam Engines in South Australian Mines'. First edition, hardcover (printed boards), 192 pages, illustrated ...

R. M Prideaux. 'Prideaux, a Westcountry Clan'. First edition, original binding in dustjacket, near fine condition, Phillimore & Co Ltd, Chichester...

Cornish Coast and Shipwrecks. Four works. 'Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly. 56 Photographic Pictures of Cornwall’s Grandest and Most Beautiful Sc...

Five works R. C. Thomas. 'A Road in the Duchy', first edition, 22 pages, blue textured paper boards with blue cloth spine, paper title label on fr...

Fortescue Hitchins (compiler) and Samuel Drew of St Austell (ed). 'The History of Cornwall,' 'From the Earliest Records and Traditions to the Pres...

William Maskell. 'Odds and Ends' First edition, original hardcover in very good condition, two signatures on front end paper, a scarce collection ...

James Hill. 'The Cornish Magazine and Record of General Knowledge'. First and would appear to be the only edition published, volume in 12 parts, r...

Thomas Oliver. 'Autobiography of a Cornish Miner'. First edition, signature of Joseph Blight inside front cover, 100 pages in original green bindi...

Two works with an interest in the Cornish Language Henry Jenner. 'A Handbook of the Cornish Language, chiefly in its latest stages with some accou...

Mrs Henry Pennell Whitcombe. 'Bygone Days in Devonshire and Cornwall'. 'With Notes of Existing Superstitions and Customs,' first edition, good sou...

Edwin Norris. 'Sketch of Cornish Grammar' First edition, 94 pages in original card wraps, signed on the front cover by the author, 5th April 1859,...

Rev. W. Somerville Lach-Szyrma. '‘’Old Cornwall’’ A tale of the Men of Scryfa and Essays on Cornish Topics,' 21 pages in original red board bindin...

Three works with Cornish language interest. R. Morton Nance. 'An English-Cornish Dictionary', first edition, a very good copy, original binding, T...

Three works of poems, essays and frescoes. Lucy Newlyn (edited by). 'Chatter of Choughs a St.Edmund Hall Anthology of Poems and Essays,' foreword ...

Three works of a mining interest Richard Quiller Couch. 'A Statistical Investigation into the Mortality of the Miners in the District of Lelant,' ...

William Thomas (editor). 'International Mining Exhibition, London, 1923 . Cornwall'. 1923, published by The Cornish Institute of Mining, Mechanica...

'Report....Health of Cornish Miners,' 1904. J. S. Haldane, Joseph S. Martin (H. M. Inspector of Mines for the South-Western District) and R. Arthu...

Mining interest. Two works. Jack Penhale. 'The Mine Under the Sea', first edition, a very good copy, published by J. H. Lake & Co, Falmouth, 1962....

John Ayrton Paris. 'On the Accidents Which Occur in the Mines of Cornwall,' 1817. 'In Consequence of the Premature Explosion of Gunpowder in Blast...

John Colman Rashleigh, 1811. 'A Revised Report of a Speech Delivered at the Meeting of the Friends of Parliamentary Reform in Cornwall, Held at Bo...

John Ayrton Paris. 'Note on the Soils of Cornwall,' 1815. 'With a View to form a Rational System of Improvement by the Judicious Application of Mi...

A report of the Copper trade, 1799. 'Report from the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the State of the Copper Mines and Copper Trade of this Ki...