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Four illustrated works. Aubrey Beardsley (illustrations). 'Salome. A Tragedy in One Act,' by Oscar Wilde, original cloth with embossed decoration...

ALLEN, Clement F. R. (illustrations) 'John ******* Bamboo Tree,' Original printed card wraps, illustrated throughout, pp.35, vg, scarce, [Devereu...

BERRIMAN, Hazel Crysede, the unique textile designs of Alec Walker Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1993 ...[more]

Cornish Art Interest Drawings, Verse and Belief, Bernard Leach. Published by Jupiter, 1977; Catching The Wave, Tom Cross. Halsgrove, 2002; Under ...

MANN, Jessica (Signed) Nine works, mostly crime fiction Including American first editions and six works signed by the author, mostly with dedicat...

CHAKRABONGSE, H.R.H. Prince Chula Brought Up In England (Signed) London: G.T. Foulis & Co, 1943. First edition. Bound in purple cloth covered har...

A Victorian photo album. By Robert Preston of Penzance. Forty four cabinet portraits, thought to be of people from Penzance, Trebath and St Just,...

KNIGHT Charles Knight's London Six volumes bound as three; revised and corrected to the present time by E. Walford, M.A with illustrations on stee...

(Architecture)RASCH, Heinz und Bodo. 'Wie bauen? Materialien und Konstruktionen für industrielle Produktion. Jahres-Ausgabe 1928,' Original picto...

SMOLLETT, Tobias Ten works The Works of Tobias Smollett in ten volumes, including The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The Adventures of Roderick ...

Signed works by different authors FOX, Charles; On The Brink, signed, Zuleika, 2019; WILLIAMS Marjorie, Letters from Lamledra - Cornwall 1914-191...

DISRAELI, Benjamin The Novels and Tales of ... twelve volumes, The Bradenham Edition with intro by Philip Guedalla, Peter Davis, London,, origina...

'Mangalore Tune-Book' '....Containing tunes for the Canarese and Tulu hymn-books of the Basel German Mission Church,' Second revised edition, hal...

SITWELL, Osbert Eleven works, together with one by Edith Sitwell Titles include Noble Essences of Courteous Revelations, dj discoloured on the sp...

FOLIO SOCIETY INTEREST Five explorer/adventurer works The Rise and Fall of The British Empire, The Voyage of HMS Beagle, Captain Cook's Voyages 1...

FOLIO SOCIETY Ten works Including Celtic Myths & Legends. Each with decorative boards and protective cardboard slip. ...[more]

(Folklore and fairy tales) Twelve works from around the world. Kate McCosh Clark (ed) and Robert Atkinson (illustrations). 'Maori Tales & Legends...

(Russian folk tales) B. V. Nazarevsky. 'Russian Folk Tales. Reading for Factory Workers,' contemporary binding rubbed and bumped, ink libris stam...

STRACHAN W.J. The Artist And The Book In France: The 20th Century Livre D`Artiste Tip-ins, including publisher's promotional leaflet containing p...

A mid-20th Century hand-written cookery book With over one hundred and fifty recipes Including pasties, veal patties, pigeon pie and lobster souf...

DONDERS, FC (1864) On the Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye The New Sydenham Society and Clinical Memoirs on Abdominal Tumours...

JOHNSON, Samuel The Works of the English Poets With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Fifty nine volumes of run of seventy five volumes. Missin...

Folk-lore Interest Folk-lore. Transactions of the Folk-lore Society Thirty-five publications from 1952-1972, together with A Folk Poetry publicat...

Sigmund Freud Collection Nine works Sammlung Kleiner Schriften Zur Neurosenlehre Aus Den Jahren 1993-1906 by Prof Sigmund Freud (1920) Leipzig: F...

STEVENSON, Robert Louis Two works In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson (1920) Chatto and Windus. Orig Cloth. Together with Island Nights’ ...

AUGARDE, Steve A first edition signed work, and one other THE VARIOUS By Steve Augarde (2003). First edition. First printing. Signed and dated by...

HALDANE, J.B.S. My Friend Mr Leakey First edition. Dust jacket torn at top edge of spme with loss. Contents clean. Not price clipped. In protecti...

'Welsh Costumes' Twelve uncoloured lithograph plates, oblong 8vo, original publishers thin card wraps with nibbles and staining, spotting through...

Kahkewāquonāby (JONES, Peter). Stipple engraving of the famous missionary Engraved by T.A. Dean after Matilda Jones, leaf size 28.5cm x 22cm, [18...

Russian Art Interest Three works D. I. Mitrohin, L'art Graphique Russe, limited edition of 1000 examples; foxing to limpback cover, but does not ...

CAREW, Richard. 'The Survey of Cornwall. And An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue,' New edition, contemporary ink signatu...

BORLASE, William. 'Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall,' 'Consisting of Several Essays on the First Inhabitants, Dr...

Lyson's Cornwall. 'Magna Britannia; Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain,' 'Volume the Third, containin...

BORLASE, William. 'Observations of The Antiquities, Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall,' First edition, original burr full leath...

(Binding) BORLASE, William. 'Antiquities Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall,' Facsimile of the 1769 edition, beautifully bound i...

CAREW, Richard. 'The Survey of Cornwall,' Second edition, full polished calf, front board debound, red and black printed title page, advertisemen...

POLWHELE, Richard. 'The History of Cornwall,' Vols I, II, III bound in one, rebacked diced full calf, morocco labels, lacks title page to vol II,...

LAKE, William (publisher). 'A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall,' Edited by Jospeph Polsue, four vols, uniform half maroon wit...

GILBERT, C. S. 'An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall: To Which is Added A Complete Heraldry of the Same: With Numerous Engravings,' Two...

BRITTON, J. & BRAYLEY, E. W. 'Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated, from Original Drawings by Thomas Allom.....,' A study green goat with compartmen...

PARIS, John Ayrton (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians). 'A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End,' Second edition, rebound in quart...

HUNT, Robert. 'Popular Romances of the West of England: Or, ThenDrolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall,' First and second series, ...

WARNER, Richard. 'A Walk Through Some of the Western Counties of England,' First edition, full calf, rubbed and bumped with some splitting to joi...

WARNER, Richard. 'A Tour through Cornwall in the Autumn of 1808,' First edition, quarter cloth, aquatint engraved frontis, toning and spotting th...

RUSSELL, Bertrand. Six works SCEPTICAL ESSAYS By Bertrand Russell (1928) George Allen & Unwin. First edition. With pencil marginalia. Together wi...

KIPLING, Rudyard. Three works. THE TWO JUNGLE BOOKS By Rudyard Kipling (1926) MacMillan and Co. Thin paper edition Orig decorative red cloth in n...

(Metempsychosis and Reincarnation) Late 19th century poetry. 'Metempsychosis. A Vision After Midnight,' Original blue cloth with bevelled edge, g...

WELLS, H. G. Six works THE HISTORY OF MR POLLY By HG Wells (nd) Collins Clear Type Press and IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET (nd) W Collins and THE OUTL...

SHAW, George Bernard. Three works IMMATURITY By George Bernard Shaw (1931) London: Constable and SIXTEEN SELF SKETCHES (1949) London: Constable a...

(Science) Three works WILLIAM BRAGG : OLD TRADES AND NEW KNOWLEDGE By Sir William Bragg (1933) London: G Bell & Sons. Orig cloth and CONCERNING T...

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. An unbroken run Volume 26 - Volume 44 (1980-1998) contains fascinating memorials of some of...

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrations). 'The Ingoldsby Legends. Or, Mirth & Marvels,' By Thomas Ingoldsby, early reprint, original decorative cloth, sma...

Five illustrated works. Edmund Dulac illustrations. 'Stories from the Arabian Nights,' original cloth with gilt tooled decorations, heavy spottin...

Early 20th century photo album. Containing approximately one hundred photographs, with the first half of the album showing Italy and Germany duri...

A 17th century Cornish indenture. Ink on vellum with was seal, pertaining to the liberty of a Mary John of Cornwall, [1673].Thought to be from th...

An album of greeting cards Twenty seven leaves, pasted to versos only, in a contemporary album, 1911.Thought to be from the family of Pomeroy (or...

Postcards, photograph and ephemera. A modern album with some early postcards from America, a letter from a daughter in the US to her mother in Co...

(Bindings and odd volumes) Nineteen works. 'The Antiquarian Itinerary, Comprising Specimens of Architecture, Monastic, Castellated and Domestic,'...

[Signed] WOLFE, Humbert. 'Romantic and Unromantic Poetry' 'Being the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Bristol 26th Ja...

WILLIS, Browne. 'Notita Parliamentaria: Or, An History of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales,' Vol II (only), containing the...

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