The Frank Brewer Cornish Library

Three works. Nigel Tangye. 'The Story of Glendorgal. A Personal View,' first edition, Glendorgal being the family home of the Tangye family, this ...

Two works of Cornish interest, published by The National Library of Wales. William Llewelyn Davies. 'Cornish Manuscripts in the National Library o...

Two works on G. W. R. in Cornwall. R. A. Cooke. 'Track Layout Diagrams of the G. W. R. and BR W. R. Section II East Cornwall,' second edition with...

John Wallis. 'The Cornwall Register'. First edition, with bookplate of Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe, fine copy, Liddell and Son, Bodmin, 1847. ....

Five works on mining in Cornwall. D. B. Barton. 'Essays in Cornish Mining History,' volumes I & II, first editions, 2 very good copies in dustwrap...

Cornwall Central Mines two volumes T. A. Morrison, Cornwall Central Mines: The Northern District, 1810-1895, first edition, 1980Together with Corn...

Three works on Camborne Sir Wifred Lawson Bart M.P, the Conquest of Camborne, April 9th, 1903, published by J. Richardson, Petersfield for private...

Miss M. A. Courtney. 'Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore'. First edition, revised and reprinted from 'The Folklore Society Journals', 1886-87 pp.viii 20...

Falmouth and Penryn Interest. R. J. Roddis, 'Penryn, the history of an ancient Cornish borough' published by D. Bradford Barton for the corporatio...

Caroline Fox - a bound typewritten diary Edited by Elise fox With letters of Caroline and John of Falmouth/Calstock and their original marriage c...

Fred W. P. Jago An English Cornish Dictionary Compiled from the best sources, subscribers list at the back in a red morocco binding with gilt lett...

Paul Broadhurst Secret Shrines in search of the Holy Wells of Cornwall with twenty actual coloured tipped in photographs and other full-page and t...

Miss Susan E. Gay, Mrs Howard Fox, Miss Stella Fox , H. Tapley-Soper. 'The Register of Marriages, Baptisms & Burials of the Parish of St Mary, Tru...

Canon James Sims Carah The Parish of Camborne Printed and published by the Camborne Printing & Stationery Co Ltd, Market Place, Camborne.This hist...

David Tew and Graham Rigby The Cornish Scene and Deserted Tin Mines Limited to two hundred copies of which this is number ninety five, with colour...

Nicholas James. 'Poems on Several Occasions,' 1742, first edition, published by Andrew Brice (born in Exeter and apprenticed to Joseph Bliss, and ...

Henry Alworth Merewether Report of the case of the Borough of West Looe in the county of Cornwall tried before a committee of the House of Commons...

Three works on Cornish niches V. M. Chesher and F.J. Chesher, The Cornishman’s House - an introduction to the history of traditional domestic arch...

Three works on Cornish history Cyril Noall, with a foreword by Daphne Du Maurier, A History of Cornish Mail and Stage Coaches, published by D. Bra...

Joseph Thomas (Late of St Michael’s Mount, Marazion). 'Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words,' first edition, a good copy in original bi...

'Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall,' 1880 Miss M. A. Courtney (West Cornwall) Thomas Q. Couch (East Cornwall). 'Glossary of Words in Use in Cor...

'The Cambrian Archaeological Association'. Truro meeting, 1862 programme, bound with a list of antiquities in the Hundreds of Kerrier and Penwith,...

William Thomas (ed). 'Transactions of the Cornish Institute of Mining'. 'Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineers Together with the Constitution & B...

James Michell. 'Parochial History of St Neots in Cornwall,' 'And an Historical Sketch of the Life and Miracles of St Neot; Together with a Descrip...

M and L. Quiller-Couch Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall Published by Chas J. Clark , London, tipped in a relevant newspaper cutting and a paper ...

C. T. Collins-Trelawny Perranzabuloe - The Lost Church found 'Or The Church of England, not a new church but ancient apostolical and independent a...

Three biographies. F. E. Halliday. 'Richard Carew of Antony. The Survey of Cornwall,' first edition, a very good copy in dustwrapper, Andrew Melro...

Two works. M. Vivian Hughes. 'Vivians,' first edition, original cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, contains black and white plates throughout, 24...

Philip E. B. Porter. ''Around and About Saltash,' Second limited edition, this one numbered 167, original binding, gilt lettering to spine and fro...

Two works on coins and tokens. Jonathan Rashleigh Esq. 'An Account of the Anglo-Saxon Coins and Gold and Silver Ornaments Found at St Austell, Cor...

The Cornwall Calender and Register for 1876. Containing a Topographical Description of Each Town Parish and Village Together with County Peerage a...

Robert Huish Esq. 'The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa for the Discovery of the Course of the River Niger, from the Unpublis...

The Life of Sir Humphry Davy. John Ayrton Paris (fellow of the Royal College of Physicians). 'The Life of Sir Humphry Davy Bart. LL.D. Late Presid...

Mrs Bray and Robert Southey. 'The Borders of the Tamar and Tavy,' 1879. 'Their Natural History, Manners, Customs, Supersritions, Scenery, Antiquit...

Thomas Tonkin (Francis Lord de Dunstanville edition). 'Carew’s Survey of Cornwall,' 'To Which are Added Notes Illustrative of its History and Anti...

Torpoint Ferry Interest. Carew-Pole Papers Correspondence, plans, surveys etc for a new ferry, 1893-1923. Vol I- 'Antony Ferry Closure Corresponde...

St Antony and Saltash interest. Carew-Pole papers. A collection of documents and publications relating to the Carew-Pole family, comprising of re...

Cornwall Railway interest. Carew-Pole Papers. Three vols of bound letters and indentures. Vol I-'Two Bills for Promoting the Railway in The County...

'Inventory & Valuation of Contents of Antony House,' 'In the Parish of Antony, Cornwall, 2nd February 1888,' MS list of household furniture, pleat...

Herbert Thomas (Editor of the Cornish Post and Mining News) Cornish Mining Interviews Copiously illustrated with portraits of celebrities and pho...

Procedure in the Court of the Vice Warden of the Stannaries By Authority New orders, rules and forms, 1884 with an appendix of statutes, published...

George Henwood M.E Four Lectures on Geology and Mining Read at the Mechanics Institutions, Leeds, Hull, Bradford, Harrogate &C, printed by Samuel ...

London and West Country Chamber of Mines Records 1904-1908 J. H. Collins (hon. general secretary)  J. H. Collins has written many reports within t...

Professor L Moissenet Observations on the Rich Parts of the Lodes of Cornwall Their form and their relations with the directions of the stratigrap...

J. H. Collins Observations on the West of England Mining Region Published by William Brendon & Son, Plymouth,18 folding litho plates comp, origina...

Thomas Spargo (Mining Engineer, Stock and Share dealer). 'The Mines of Cornwall and Devon: Statistics and Observations. Illustrated by Maps, Plans...

Rev. Richard Warner. 'A Tour Through Cornwall in the Autumn of 1808'. First edition, in original boards, frontispiece and maps complete, 363 pages...

J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Its Mines and Miners Two works bound in one volume, with sketches of scenery designed as a popular introduction to metal...

Count De Bournon Descriptions of the Arseniates of Copper and of Iron, from the County of Cornwall Twenty four pages with three foldout diagrams o...

Sir Thomas Parkyns (1664-1741). 'Progymnasmata. The Inn-Play: Or, Cornish-Hugg Wrestler'. 'Digested in a Method which teacheth to break all Holds,...

Unwin (George). 'On Tin & Copper to India and China'. 'Further Statements and Correspondence Relative to the Tin and Copper Trade Between Cornwall...

Rev. Daniel Lysons & Samuel Lysons. 'Magna Britannia, a Concise Topographical Account of Cornwall'. Volume III, first edition, foli, large paper c...

Davies Gilbert. 'The Parochial History of Cornwall'. 'Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr Hals and Mr Tonkin,' first edition, large paper co...

P. G. Embrey and R. F. Symes Minerals of Cornwall and Devon Published by the British Natural History Museum, London, first edition 1987. A fine co...

Two works on Cornwall Bernard Deacon, The Cornish Family, published by Cornwall Editions, Fowey. Loosely inserted a certificate of authernticity s...

Major E. G. Godfrey in collaboration with Major-General R. F. K. Goldsmith. 'The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1939-1945,' pub ...

Everard Wyrall. The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914–1919. First edition, pub by Methuen & Co ltd, London, 1932, green cloth boards with bri...

Major H. Sainsbury, late 1st Battalion D. C. L. I. A retrospect of interesting events in the 32nd light infantry, later 1st battalion.'Duke of Cor...

Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry Interest Nemo. 'Reminiscences of a Territorial in the D.C.L.I. on Service in Europe, Asia and Africa in The Great ...

Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry Interest. John Philip (Aberdeen City Police) late sergeant, 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. 'Remi...