Rare Books & Works on Paper

Cornwall interest. Seven works with decorative cloth bindings. Archibald Williams. 'The Wonders of Modern Mining,' part of The Wonder Library, dec...

Ten works on mining. F. Lyme Caunter. 'The Future of Metalliferous Mining in Great Britain. With Special Reference to Tin and Tungsten, and a Sugg...

[Signed] LANGDON, Arthur G. 'Old Cornish Crosses' Large paper edition, signed by author, 37/54, original cloth backed onto leather, fold out front...

Domesday Book Studies, The County Edition ‘’Cornwall’’. Two volumes, first edition thus, lacks Introduction and translation volume, publishers ori...

Helston, Mullion, Porthleven and the Lizard. Six works E. G. Harvey. 'Mullyon: Its History, Scenery and Antiquities,' original green cloth with gi...

Three works on Cornwall Dolly Pentreath Beneath The Moon, a story of Cornwall and India, 1899 second edition, Jas J. Guthrie at the Pear Tree Pres...

[Signed] Jack Penhale (Raymond Harry) 'The Mine Under the Sea' First book edition, flat signed to title page, original card wraps, a small amount ...

NANCE. R. Morton. 'A Glossary of Cornish Sea Words' First edition with subscription flyer asking for more funds, original cloth, a near fine uncli...

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

Essays in Cornish History by Charles Henderson (edited by A. L. Rowse) First edirtion, original cloth, nibbles to original dj, six illustrations, ...

F. Hamilton Davey. 'Lectures and Essays. William Pennington Cocks' 'Being an offprint from the report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society,' ...

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

E. J. Joubert de la Ferte (eldest daughter of Philip Sandys Melvill C.S.I. 'The Melvill Family. A Roll of Honour of the Descendants of Captain Ph...

HENDERSON, Charles. 'A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall' Edited by the Rev G. H. Doble, first edition, original cloth, niibbles to...

COLLINS, J. H 'The Western Chronicle of Science' First edition, rebound, fold out colour illustration of 'Patent Self-Acting Mineral Dressing Floo...

H. Spencer Toy and R. E. Davidson. Three works H. Spencer Toy. 'A History of Education at Launceston,' first edition, original cloth, pp.394, vg, ...

Three works with an interest in the Cornish Quaker movement. Norman Penney LL.D, with an introduction by L. Violet Hodgkin (Mrs John Holdsworth). ...

BORLASE, William Copeland. 'The Age of the Saints. A Monograph of Early Christianity in Cornwall,' Original dark green cloth, frontis engraving an...

TANGYE, Nigel. 'The Story of Glendorgal. A Personal View,' First edition, Glendorgal being the family home of the Tangye family, this being a sign...

Four works with interest in Heligan, The Tamar and David Penhaligan, Annette Penhaligon. 'Penhaligan', first edition, the life of David Penhaligan...

PASCOE, Charlotte Champion. 'Walks about St Hilary, Chiefly Among the Poor' First edition, original cloth with bevelled edges, some staining tot r...

MOLONY, Eileen. 'The Mermaid of Zennor,' Scarce first edition, original cloth, lacks dj, eleven illustrations by Maise Meiklejohn, Edmunnd Ward, L...

[REDDING, Cyrus]. 'An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Cornwall' Contemporary quarter leather, ex libris N. L. Storey, some spotting through...

Five works on the arts in Cornwall. Ruth Jones. 'The Path of the Son. A Biography of Bryan Pearce,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, a...

The history of Cornwall and its people. Five works by various authors Thurstan C. Peter. 'The History of Glasney Collegiate Church, Cornwall,' fir...

Biographies and tales of prominent Cornish persons. Four works John B. Cornish. 'The Autobiography of A Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of...

'Memoirs of the Late Philip Melvill,' Liet. Gov pf Pendennis Castle, Cornwall Half leather with loss to backstrip, ex libris Richard Foster, some ...

[Signed] Four works about Cornwall. A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. 'The Cornish Miner,' flat signed and inscribed by the author 'With affectionate regards...

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

A manuscript book written and prepared by William Mackenzie Williams. Of Chy-an-Dreath, Newquay, Cornwall. 'The Heraldry of Cornwall, Being the Pu...

COTMAN, John Sell. Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, A series of Etchings, of The Most Remarkable Remains in the County. Vol I, large elephant...

C. S. Gilbert. 'An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall' 'To Which is Added a Complete Heraldry of the Same; With Numerous Engravings,' thr...

MATHEWS, Cornelius (1817-1889) 'The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians' Third edition, 8vo, cloth, 338 pp, plus avertis...

William Philp. 'Itinerary of Launceston, Cornwall....A Glance at its Prospects and Commercial Advantages as Connected with the Opening of the Rai...

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

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

T.G.F. Dexter and Henry Dexter. 'Cornish Crosses, Christian and Pagan' Original cloth, 301 pages, in protected dustwrapper, a very good clean copy...

Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph. 'Specimens of Ancient Cornish Crosses, Fonts etc,' first edition, half calf, all plates collated, very good co...

KANE. Elisha Kent. 'Arctic Explorations in the Years 1853, '54, '55' Two volumes, ameture redbinding with original boards, stained, rubbed and bu...

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

G. A. Cooke. 'Cooke’s Topographical Library' 'Or British Traveller’s Pocket County Directory ‘’Cornwall’’,' contemporary full dark blue leather, i...

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

Three works related to China Clay English China Clays Limited, St Austell, Cornwall; privately printed, this souvenir of the Duke of Edinburgh’s v...

Three early 19th century 'Copy of Verses' broadsheets. James Dowing. 'A Copy of Verses, Composed by James Dowing, a Blind Soldier who Lost his Sig...

Devon and Cornwall Record Society. 'The Register of Baptisms, Marriages & Burials of the Parish of Falmouth in the County of Cornwall, 1663-1812.'...

'Poors’ Lands Charities ‘Padstow’ Scheme'. First edition, original embossed boards, good condition, printed by G. S. Drew, St Columb, Cornwall, 18...

Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry Interest. Five works Alec Adrian. 'Dunkirk Sportsmen,' first edition, Arthur H. Stockwell, 1943.Published during W...

Second World War interest Twenty two books on WW2 including Winston Churchill Winston S. Churchill 'The Second World War' in six volumes, original...

Frances Margery Hext. 'Memorials of Lostwithiel'. First edition, 226 pages, loosely inserted 4 A.L.S from the author, published for private circul...

Francis Gregor. 'The Works of Francis Gregor of Trewarthennick (Nr Tregony)'. First edition, subscribers list to the front rebound in maroon buckr...

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 ...

C. A. Cripps and Howard Wright Railway interest In the House of Lords, on appeal from His Majesty’s Court of Appeal in England between the Great W...

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

'A Book of the South West,' 'A Book of the Southwest,' first edition, tipped in is a letter from W. Gordon to a Dr Wood stating that most copies a...

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 bo...

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...

Slavery. CLARKSON, Thomas. Two volumes the History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of The Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the Br...

MARTIN (R. Montgomery) 'The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World' Eighty loose leaved engraved maps with vignettes by J. Rankin, 4to,...

'Tombleson's Panoramic Map of the Thames and Medway' Engraved map on two sheets conjoined (as published), eight folded panels, uncoloured and no b...