Rare Books & Works on Paper

A PHYSIOLOGICAL ESSAY ON THE THYMUS GLAND By John Simon FRS (1845) London: H Renshaw. Original decorative cloth (1) ...[more]

THE STORY OF ATOMIC ENERGY By Frederick Soddy FRS (1949) London: Nova Atlantis. Orig black cloth with decorative cover. Contents clean (1) ...[mo...

CRIES OF LONDON By Francis Wheatley RA 1747-1801 (1929) With an Introduction by Stanford Rayner. Art Publishing Co. Quarto. 16 pages plus 16 plate...

Cornwall interest. Ten works Rev W. S. Lach-Szyrma. 'A Church History of Cornwall and of the Diocese of Truro,' original piblishers boards, rubbed...

[Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Max Beerbohm, Henry James etc] 'The Yellow Book,' volume one Original pictorial cloth, spine panel with some su...

BURTON, Isabel. 'The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton' Volume one of two, original cloth, rubbed, bumped with loss to spine panel, ex libris ...

'Appleton's Illustrated European Guide Book' Original red full leather with gilt tooled list of countries to the spine, gilt edge to text block, e...

Captain S. W. Roskill, D. S. C, R. N. Five works 'History of the Second World War ‘’The War at Sea’’ Volume 1 ‘The Defensive’ first edition, 1954,...

Falmouth interest. Five works S. Pasfield Oliver. 'Pendennis & St. Mawes: An Historical Sketch of Two Cornish Castles,' original decorative cloth ...

[Signed] WILSON, Colin. Seventeen works. RELIGION AND THE REBEL By Colin Wilson (1957) Signed inscription. Not price clipped. Lacking fep and THE ...

JACKSON, Lesley. 'Modern British Furniture: Design Since 1945' As new in sealed plastic wrap, pp.320, colour illustrations throughout, V & A Publi...

A collection of children's stories and verse WYNKEN BLYNKEN AND NOD By Eugene Field (1925) Charles E Graham. Two copies one hard board and one pap...

TANGYE, Derek. Eight first editions. 'The Way to Minack,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, vg, Michael Joseph, 1968; 'A Drake at the D...

SMITH, David Murray. 'Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest Times to the Expedition of 1875-76' Publisher's morocco...

Cornish history and topography. Seven works. C. C. James. 'History of Gwennap,' original cloth, nibble to unclipped dj, published by the author, P...

‘Mining in Cornwall’ Images of England Series Six vols including The Central District, The County Explored, Penwith and South Kerrier, Hayle to Ke...

A. K. Hamilton Jenkin ‘Wendron Tin,' First edition, pictorial thin card wraps, profusely illustrated throughout with large fold out map, reference...

Nine mid-Victorian illustrated works for children. Maria Arthington. 'Rhymes for Harry and His Nursemaid,' tears and loss to original embossed clo...

Mining interest. Eleven works. J. A. Buckley (Ed). 'The Bailiff of Blackmoor, 1586, An examination the history, laws and customs of medieval and s...

Cornwall interest. Three works. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS IN CORNWALL By W Hawk (1929) Truro : Netherton and worth. Together with PAROCHIAL AND FAM...

Two works on Cornwall THE ROMANCE OF THE STONES. CORNWALL’S PAGAN PAST By Robin Payne & Rosemarie Lewsey (1999) Together with CORNWALL By Philip P...

Two academic works Paul Robbrecht & Hilde Daem. 'Works in Architecture,' first edition, 1998, published by the Ludion Press who has been granted t...

T. H. Hair. Northumberland and Durham, 1987. A SERIES OF VIEWS OF THE COLLIERIES IN THE COUNTIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM By TH Hair (1987) Da...

ALBUM DE REDOUTE By Sacheverell Sitwell and Roger Madol (1954) Collins. Atlas folio. Orig green cloth with 25 fine colour plates (1) ...[more]

Three works related to Cornish places Sir Alexander Cardew (Indian Civil Service retired). 'A Memoir of the Reverend Cornelius Cardew D.D. Master ...

[Signed] A. L. Rowse. Twenty two works. Including 'Poems Chiefly Cornish' (two copies one being a first edition), 'Jonathan Swift: major prophet',...

China Clay interest. R. M. Barton. 'A History of the Cornish China-Clay Industry,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, ill;ustrated throu...

The history and culture of Cornwall. Fifteen works. Cyril Noall. 'Geevor,' first edition, half title only and flat signed, compliment slip from Ge...

Two works on Cornwall / Clift Family Interest Philip Paynton, Cornwall, published by Alexander Associates, Fowey. Loosely inserted subscriber's fi...

SITWELL. Edith, Osbert and Sacheverall Twenty six works. Osbert Sitwell. Five volumes 'An Autobiography,' 'Left Hand Right Hand!' original cloth, ...

AUDUBON, John James. 'The Birds of America' First edition thus, original cloth, profuse with colour full pllate illustrations, MacMillan and Co, L...

WILDE, Oscar. 'The Writings of Oscar Wilde,' Large Paper Edition. Five volumes, original card and paper boards, loss to spines, vg textblocks, Gab...

BIELERO, D. Ambrosio Carolo 'Phytanthoza Iconographia, sive Conspectus,' Volume III, folio, full calf rebabcked with gilt tooled compartmentalized...

Folio Society Ten titles on art and the 'Wonders of the World' 'The 100 Greatest Portraits' 2004, 'Michelangelo' 2007, 'The Apocrypha' second prin...

Folio Society Seven works Ronald Blythe 'Akenfield, Portrait of an English Village' illustrated by Peter Bailey, 2002, Kevin Crossley-Holland 'Fo...

Folio Society Thirteen authors including a Jane Austen collection Jane Austen, a collection of seven titles 'Emma', 'Mansfield Park', 'Sense and S...

Topographical and history interest. Twelve works. Thomas Dingley. 'History from Marble,' printed in photolithography by Vincent Brooks, from the o...

Folio Society Eight works Hans Christian Anderson 'The Complete Tales I and II' with illustrations by numerous artists, 2005, Lewis Carroll 'The ...

SHAKESPEARE, William 'The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes' The forth edition, fifteen volumes, half black leather with marbled boa...

A collection of vintage Penguin paperbacks Over 100 titles Penguin paperbacks including Orange series (30) Blue series (42) Penguin Classics (16)...

Aviation interest Bibliotheca Aeronautica and other works BIBLIOTHECA AERONAUTICA London: Maggs Bros (1920-23) Parts 1 & 2. A descriptive catalogu...

Pepys Diary Folio Society and other works FOLIO SOCIETY : HANS ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES. Folio Society (1995) With illustrations by W Heath Robinson...

Mid 20th century fiction. Twenty one works. John Trench. 'Dishonoured Bones,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, heavy spottin g to edge...

Penguin Modern Poets Series A set of 27 books All from the 1960s - 1970s, a full set of 27, all vg or vg+ ...[more]

WEATHERS John [Cloth bindings] Commercial Gardening and other titles CLOTH BINDINGS: COMMERCIAL GARDENING Edited by John Weathers (1913) Gresham P...

J. Payne Collier. / Samuel Kelly J. Payne Collier. 'Trevelyan Papers Prior to A.D. 1558,' first edition, square octavo, 219 pages, original embos...

George Balsillie. Course of Experimental Physiology. University of Edinburgh. 1913-1914 Cloth bound sketchbook containing thirty-eight leaves of m...

Carroll Lewis 'The Complete Alice' Twenty-two book boxset with illustrations by Helen Oxenbury, Walker Books and Kenneth Grahame 'The Wind in the...

United States Air Force- Air Force Systems Command, 1st July 1965 'Space Planners Guide' For official use only, a scarce and interesting guide to ...

Folio Society Nine works R L Stevenson 'Travels with a Donkey', drawings by Edward Ardizzone, thirteenth printing 2003, William Trevor 'Beyond th...

WAUGH, Evelyn. 'Brideshead Revisited' First 'Book Society' edition, original cloth spotted with baggy backstrip, tears and loss to dj, spotting t...

CASSELL (publishers) 'The Holy Bible' and 'Pilgrims Progress' 'Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible,' full embossed leather with beveled edge and th...

Cornwall interest. Thirty three works. Mostly all produced locally with expert knowledge D. E. Hattam. 'Pumping Engines on the St. Agnes Mines,' a...

OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips. Thirty-nine works. Including 'The Lion and the Lamb' 1945, 'Sinners Beware' 1932, 'The Grassleyes Mystery' 1940, 'The Long...

Folio Society Ten works Wu Ch'eng-en 'Monkey' illustrated by Duncan Grant, 1968, Leofranc Holford-Strevens 'A Short History of Time', 2007, Malle...

Doris B. Hicks. Physiology notes. Royal East Sussex Hospital, Hastings. Two early 20th century course notebooks, fifty six leaves in the largest, ...

Travel/geography/colonial history interest Twelve works C. G. Seligman and Brenda Z. Seligman. 'Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan,' some staining ...

Torpoint and Saltash interest Two booklets 'Bye–Laws Made by the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Saltash Acting as the Urban Sanit...

A. L. Rowes. Nineteen works. Including Tudor Cornwall, The Spirit of English History, The Elizabethans and America, A Cornish Waif's Story, The Co...

Twenty works on the colonial history on the continent of Africa. H. A. MacMichael. 'A History of the Arabs in the Sudan,' first edition, two vols,...