The Frank Brewer Cornish Library

Whitley Stokes Esq. 'Gwreans An Bys. The Creation of the World, A Cornish Mystery'. Edited with a translation and notes, first edition, 208 pages ...

Thomas Lean and Brother (registrars and reporters of the duty of steam engines). 'Historical Statement of the Improvements Made in the Duty Perfor...

'A Picturesque Guide to North Cornwall With Map and Illustrations'. 115 pages with map and various b+w etchings, an engraving by Kershaw, a fine c...

Philip Priske. 'The Land Steward and Farmers Assistant,' 'Consisting of Tables for Valuing Land, Reducing the Statute Measure of Sixteen Square Fe...

Baker Peter Smith. 'Trip to the Far West'. First edition, original cloth with embossed boards, a rare account, with bookplates of William Bolitho ...

Mrs Perrin. 'A Mother in Israel. The Life of Sarah Benney,' Truro interest, first edition, introduction by Canon Mason, 94 pages, small 8vo, origi...

John Pike Jones. 'A Botanical Tour Through Various Parts of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall'. By W. C. Pollard, North St, Exeter, first edition...

Thomas Hogg. 'A Manual of Mineralogy; In Which is Shown How Much Cornwall Contributes to the Illustration of the Science,' first edition, rebound ...

Joseph Henry Collins. 'The Hensbarrow Granite District. A Geological Description and a Trade History,' first edition, 56 pages plus 4 plates and a...

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

John Provis of Truro. 'Tables of the Most Useful Kind to Facilitate Business in Several Branches of the Copper Trade Never Before Printed and Whic...

J. Payne Collier. 'Trevelyan Papers Prior to A.D. 1558,' first edition, square octavo, 219 pages, original embossed green cloth, rubbed and bumped...

John A. C. Vincent (trans). 'Abstract of Glasney Cartulary'. 'A Quarto Manuscript Containing 96 Leaves of Parchment and Bound in Old Oak Boards; [...

Three works on mineralogy. 'Determinative Mineralogy,' first edition, generally a good copy one or two pages loose, privately printed by the Cambo...

H. L. Douch. 'The Cornwall Muster Roll for 1569'. First edition, a fine copy, published by T. L. Stoate, Bristol, 1984. ...[more]

T. L. Stoate. 'Cornwall Subsidies in the Reign of Henry VIII 1524 and 1543 and the Benevolence of 1545,' first edition, a fine copy, published by ...

Four works on Geology. Clement Reid with petrological contributions by J. J. H. Teal. 'The Geology of the Country Around Mevagissey,' 73 pages plu...

J. H. Collings. 'Cornish Mining Papers'. Multiply papers and reviews bound in one vol, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine, a good ...

C. S. Gilbert. ''An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall,' 'To Which is Added a Complete Heraldry of the Same; With Numerous Engravings,' t...

Domesday book – Cornwall, first edition. Ann Williams (editor) First printing. A fine re-issue of the Cornwall volumes of the Domesday book, 1988....

H. Neville Stokes. 'Restormel: A Legend of Piers Gaveston, The Patriot Priest and Other Verses'. First edition, 205 pages plus 6 advert pages, ori...

British Animals, 1847. Johnathan Couch. 'Illustrations of Instinct Deduced from The Habits of British Animals,' first edition, signed by Margaret ...

Jonathan Couch. 'Illustrations of Instinct. Deduced from the Habits of British Animals,' 1847 First edition, (+) xii 343 pages, hardcover very goo...

Jonathan Couch. 'A Cornish Fauna'. 'Being a Compendium of the Natural History of the County,' parts I, II, & III, bound with Thomas Couch’s handwr...

Bertha Couch. 'Life of Jonathan Couch F.L.S., etc, of Polperro, The Cornish Ichthyologist.,' 1901 As written by his daughter with the help of one ...

Jonathan Couch. 'The History of Polperro,' 1871. 'A Fishing Town on the South Coast of Cornwall,' first edition, foldin frontis, subsrcibers list,...

'The History of Polperro by Jonathan Couch, Esq, From the earliest times to the year 1867' MS written, 160 pages, half red leather, rubbed to extr...

John Hobson Matthews A History of the Parishes of Saint Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor Elliot Stock, London 560 pages, large paper copy, firs...

Board of Education Interest County of Cornwall Endowed Charities Education other than Elementary (board of education), 1921, Stationery Office, Lo...

J. Britton and E. W. Brayley. '....County of Cornwall,' grangerised, 1801 J. Britton and E. W. Brayley. 'A Topographical and Historical Descriptio...

Saint Minver Apportionment Of the Rent Charge in Lieu of Tithes in the Parish of Saint Minver in the County of Cornwall, 1838, 46 pages. Liddell a...

A Narrative of a Pedestrian Excursion to the Land’s End, A manuscript Ninety-six pages, re-perused 3rd April 1879, a folded map showing the route ...

Ellen Crewdson. 'Our Childhood at Perran and Postscript to Mother’s Diary by F. Mary Broadrick'. 94 pages, this book relates to Tredrea House, Per...

William Hals (1654-1737). 'The Complete History of Cornwall, General & Parochial'. First edition, modern half calf, generally a good copy, with th...

Philip E. B. Porter. 'Around and About Saltash,' 1905. First edition, limited edition, 305 pages, original maroon cloth, frontis and illustrations...

Alfred F. Robbins. 'Launceston, Past and Present,' 1884. First edition, signed copy by Richard Robbins (father of the author) plus presscuttings t...

Rev’d John Buller. 'A Statistical Account of the Parish of St Just in Penwith in the County of Cornwall,' first edition, rebound in a handsome qua...

James Venning An Illustrated Postal Directory with Map and Historical Notices of Twenty Parishes in East Cornwall for the new century from A.D.449...

Wilkie Collins. 'Rambles Beyond Railways; Or Notes in Cornwall Taken A-Foot,' First edition, 12 plates complete, 304 pages, half morocco with marb...

Richard Warner. 'A Walk Through Some of the Western Counties of England,' 1800. Richard Warner. 'A Walk Through Some of the Western Counties of En...

Arthur J. Jewers. 'The Registers of the Parish of St Columb Major, Cornwall from the year 1539 to 1780,' first edition, super octavo, rust cloth b...

Essays in Cornish History Charles Henderson (edited by A. L. Rowse) Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1935. Six illustrations, nice copy in ...

Auction Sales Catalogues and Various Antiquarian Booksellers Catalogues. From the early 1980’s, relating primarily to Cornwall. (86) ...[more]

Songsheets and Ephemera. Gladys Hunkin. 'Poems of Cornwall,' number one, signed by the author to the reverse, 4 page pamphlet, 2 copies.Glady's Hu...

R. Symons. 'The Rev. John Wesley's Ministerial Itineraries in Cornwall,' 1879. Original bevelled edged cloth with gilt embossed decorations, fold ...

'Journal of the Statistical Society of London,' Volume I June 1838, volume II May 1838, including a 19 page report on the statistics of the copper...

Richard & Bridget Larn. 'Charlestown. The History of a Cornish Seaport,' First edition, a fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket, with the signatur...

Two works. Diana Hartley (with a foreword by Hon. John St Aubyn). 'The St Aubyns of Cornwall 1200-1977 1977,' first edition, limited edition this ...

Two works on Cornish history. L.E. Elliot-Binns. 'Medieval Cornwall,' first edition, a very good copy in dustwrapper, Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 19...

John Troutbeck. 'Scilly Islands,' 1796. John Troutbeck (Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Leeds). 'A Survey of the Ancient and Present State of th...

'Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall,' 1753. Made at the Convocation or Parliament of Tinners, at Truro, Sep 13th Anno 27° Geo. II. In Which the La...

W. Sandys (Uncle Jan Trenoodle). 'Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect'. 'Collected and Arranged By Uncle Jan Trenoodle, With Some Introductory...

F. W. L. Stockdale. 'Excursions in the County of Cornwall'. 'Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns ...

Thomas Bond. 'Histories of East and West Looe, Cornwall,' 1823. 'Topographical and Historical Sketches of the Boroughs of East and West Looe, in t...