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Click here to subscribeWindsor Chair Interest Bill Cotton. 'Windsor Chairs in the South-West,' published by Area Museums Council (South-West). Many of the Windsor chairs illustrated in this 44 page work depict Cornish chairs from the early 18 century, first edition 1989, in good condition.Michael Dunbar. 'Windsor Chairmaking,' published by Stobart & Son Ltd, London, first edition, 1977. In near fine condition with clipped dust jacket.
Dan Sprod The Tregurtha Log 'Relating the Adventurous Life of Capt. Edward Primrose Tregurtha.’ first edition 1980, published by The Blubber Head Press, Sandy Bay, Tasmania. This edition is limited to 600 copies, numbered and signed, plus 30 copies (of which 25 are for sale), numbered and signed and bound in full red leather, gold blocked with a ship on the front and the title on the spine. This is one of the 30 copies. This copy is in fine condition. tipped-in frontispiece of Edward Primrose Tregurtha and 2 headpieces in colour, plus 4 b/w. Tregutha’s boyhood was spent in the villages of Newlyn, Mousehole and Penzance until at the age of 9 ½ years, he followed the family tradition and joined the Royal Navy becoming a clerk to his father. The log follows his life through the Napoleonic Wars, The East India Company’s China Run, and whaling in the South Seas. From 1858 to his death, he became shipmaster to the Port Phillip district. A well-researched work regarding the life of a young Tregurtha from the village of Paul and the journey he undertook. Loosely inserted 2 letters from the author.
'The Cornwall Protestation Returns 1641,' by T. L. Stoate, 1974. T. L. Stoate (from a transcript by R. M. Glencross) revised and with additional parishes transcribed by H. L. Douch. 'The Cornwall Protestation Returns 1641,' first edition, in original blue binding with gilt lettering to spine and front cover, published by T. L. Stoate, Almondsbury, 1974.About the year 1914 R. M. Glencross a genealogist of Cornish descent set out to transcribe The Cornwall Protestation Returns. He never completed them with 60 parishes missing from the transcript in 1941 he gave to the Society of Genealogists. The transcript was lent to Stoate for the preparation of this work for the society. H. L. Douch (curator of the R.I.C.) most generously undertook to transcribe the missing parishes and also to check and where necessary revise the whole of The Glencross Transcript. This was a massive undertaking however, very valuable in view of his extensive knowledge of cornish surnames and place names, a fine copy.
Alan Stoyel & Peter Williams Images of Cornish Tin Published by Landmark Publishing, Ashbourne. Superb full-colour photo book illustrating many aspects of Cornish tin mining, with many photos of the last working mines prior to closure. 192 pages in hardcover, first edition, 2001. Near fine condition in dust jacket.
List of Antiquities in the Hundreds of Kirrier and Penwith, West Cornwall J. T. Blight (arranged with an illustrated appendix) With references to the works in which they are described and figured, printed for the Royal Institution of Cornwall by James R. Netherton, Truro. In original paper covers 8vo, 41 pages, first edition, 1862. A scarce work in very good condition.
Cornwall Excavation Interest Lieut-Colonel F. C. Hirst, Excavations at Porthmeor, Cornwall. 1933,1934 and 1935. First edition, 1937, Oscar Blackford, Royal Printeries, Truro. Issued to subscribers to the Cornwall Excavation Fund, with plates, diagrams and a folding plate. 81 pages in original wraps in very good condition.Site at Porthmeor in Zennor (under excavation in 1933,1934 and 1935). A brief account of the Porthmeor excavations by Lieut-Colonel F. C. Hirst, Hon Director of Excavations. 10 pages in original wraps printed by Netherton & Worth, Truro in 1935. Very good condition.
William Francis Gwennap - A Descriptive Poem In Seven Cantos Published by J. May, Fore St, Redruth, private printing with XVI subscribers with list included, 171 pages, original embossed cloth, gilt lettered, hard cover ‘Long epic poem based on the lead mining industry in Cornwall’, 1845 first edition. A fine copy.
Five works with a nautical interest. A.J.Villiers. 'Falmouth for Orders', first edition, 301 pages, dustwrapper with small tears, otherwise a good copy, the story of the last clipper heading from Southern Oceans to Falmouth for orders, the author sailed on the clipper 'Herzogin Cecilie' from Melbourne, tipped in is a newspaper cutting reporting the sad loss of the clipper of the coast of Devon in 1936 in mysterious circumstances, published by Garden City Publishing Co Inc, New York, 1929.Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr. 'Wreck and Rescue round the Cornish Coast'.Vol 1. 'The Story of the North Coast Lifeboats', first edition, Bradford Barton, Truro, 1964.Vol 2. 'The Story of the Lands End Lifeboats', first edition, Bradford Barton, Truro,1965.Vol 3. 'The Story of The South Coast Lifeboats', first edition, Bradford Barton, Truro, 1965.Roland Roddis. 'Cornish Harbours', first edition, a very good copy in dustwrapper, publisher Christopher Thomas, London, 1951.
James Trathan The Ancient and Modern History of Falmouth Containing useful information with respect to the town, harbour, packet establishment etc. self-published in falmouth, 86 pages including the rates of passengers by the falmouth packets to: Surinam, Brazil, Leeward Islands, America, etc, in original boards. 1815, first edition. A good copy given the age. Scarce.Some slight staining to boards and a watermark. Its miraculous that the original publishers boards have survived, let alone in this vg condition. The pull out chart and the text block, as a whole, are in a fine condition.
Three works with an interest in the arts. Sven Berlin. 'Alfred Wallis, Primitive', first edition, lacks dustwrapper otherwise a fine copy, numerous black and white reproductions, some full page as well as eleven colour plates, the first substantial book on Wallis, tipped in a signed postcard from Barbara Hepworth, published by Nicholson & Watson, London, 1949.Caroline Fox and Francis Greenacre. 'Artists of the Newlyn School 1880-1900', third edition, 1981 .Reginald J.W. Hammond. 'Beautiful Cornwall', first edition, soft cover, 1993.
Four works with a nautical interest. C. H. Ward-Jackson. 'Stephens of Fowey, a Portrait of a Cornish Merchant Fleet 1867 – 1939', first and only edition, maritime monographs and reports, no.43, 115 pages, a factual and well researched account of a little known family who built and ran large fleet of coasters, a scarce item, published by the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, 1980.K. J. O’Donoghue & H. S. Appleyard. 'Hain of St Ives', first edition, a fascinating account of the Hain family of St Ives who in the early 1800’s started to own and operate a fleet of ships, eventually running a sizeable fleet so much so that in 1971 Hain was bought by P&O, 133 pages, a scarce item, published by the World Ship Society, Kendal, Lancs,1986.Grahame E. Farr. 'West Country Passenger Steamers', first edition, a fine copy in dustwrapper, published by Richard Tilling, London, 1956.Len Ortzen. 'Famous Lifeboat Rescues', 1971 first edition, lacks title page, ex Devon Library, 40% of the rescues are Cornish based, published by Arthur Barker, London, 1971.
S. Baring-Gould Two books Further Reminiscences, 1864-1894, 1925, first edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd, London, 1925, first edition. A fine copy in dustwrapper.Cornish Characters and Strange Events, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, lacks dustwrapper. 1909 first edition, first printing, in good condition.
W. A. E. Ussher F.G.S The Post-Tertiary Geology of Cornwall Printed for private circulation by Stephen Austin and Sons, Hertford. Coloured frontispiece, 59 pages, in original printed wrappers not in Boases and Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. First edition, 1879. In very good condition.
Gilbert H. Doble The Saints of Cornwall part 1-5 The Saints of Cornwall Part One, Saints of the Lands End district, 1960, first edition, published the Dean and Chapter of Truro.The Saints of Cornwall Part Two, Saints of the Lizard District, 1962, first edition, published the Dean and Chapter of Truro.The Saints of Cornwall Part Three, Saints of the Fal and it's neighbourhood, 1964, first edition, published the Dean and Chapter of Truro.The Saints of Cornwall Part Four, Newquay , Padstow and Bodmin District, 1965, first edition, published the Dean and Chapter of Truro.The Saints of Cornwall Part Five, Mid-cornwall,1970, first edition, published the Dean and Chapter of Truro.Five books all in good condition
Arthur H. Norway History of the Post-Office Packet Service between the years 1793-1815 Compiled from chiefly official records with additional information on the Falmouth Packets,1895 first edition, Macmillan and Co, London 312 pages, 6 plates, original cloth slightly rubbed, J. A. D. Bridger book-seller's label.
'The Hat Crusade'. Cornish Quaker interest. Samuel Fox, Edward Pickard and Edwin Tregelles. 'The Hat Crusade', first edition, printed and published privately by Edward Pickard, High St, Flushing near Falmouth, 1897.Three volumes all present, with Vol 1 a little loose, Cornish Quaker interest, tipped in to vol 1 is a signed letter by Edward Pickard to Harry Gaze thanking him for his invaluable help in the preparation of the 'The Hat Crusade'. additionally this volume is signed by the ‘authors’ 25/6/1896. Vol 2 is also signed by the ‘authors’, very scarce, 1897.Samuel Fox, Edward Pickard and Edwin Tregelles. 'The Tyranny of Custom Parts I,II and III', first edition, in paper wraps, 104 pages, some foxing, scarce, printed and published privately by Edward Pickard at Flushing near Falmouth,1899.
Three works with an archaeology interest. A. C. Todd and Peter Laws. 'Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall', first edition, published by David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972.Frank Booker. 'Industrial Archaeology of the Tamar Valley', first edition, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1967.Helen Harris. 'Industrial Archaelogy of Dartmoor', third edition, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1986.
Jack Clemo. Three Works 'Cactus on Carmel,' first edition, 52 pages uncut, a fine copy in dustjacket, Methuen & Co, London, 1967.'The Clay Verge,' first edition, 39 pages, dustjacket, a very good copy, Chatto & Windus, London, 1951.'Wilding Craft,' first edition, 294 pages, dustjacket, a good copy, Chatto Windus, London, 1948.
Three works. R. E. Evans and G. W. Prettyman. 'Pentewan,' third edition, being a brief history of the village and dock used to load/unload cargoes, 32 pages, pub Pentewan Publications, County Hall Truro, 1994, bound together with six circular walks in and around Pentewan, additionally 3 maps to the rear by Maureen Prettyman, in addition photographs are added showing the harbour tracks, buildings etc etc, long out of use, pub by the Cornwall Planning Department, 1992.John Henry Drew. 'Rail & Sail to Pentewan,' first edition, a potted history of Pentewan in 48 pages, Twelveheads Press, Truro, 1986.Kenneth Shearwood. 'Whistle the Wind,' first edition, Kenneth Shearwood after demob became a fisherman in Mevagissey for nineteen months, this is an accurate account of his time in Mevagissey, the names are actual people, K. S. left Mevagissey for Brasenose college, oxford, becoming housemaster of Lancing College, a very well written account in a fine copy with dustwrapper, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1959. (3)
Four works Bernard Moore. 'Cornish Catches and Other Verses', first edition, a good copy in dustwrapper, Erskine Macdonald, 1914.Bernard Moore. 'A Cornish Chorus,' first edition, a very good copy, Ridgwick & Jackson Ltd, London, 1919.Bernard Moore. 'A Cornish Collection' first edition, a very good copy, C. W. Daniel Company, 1933.E.F.Humphris. 'Granite & Heather Cornish Verses,' first edition, fine copy, in dustwrapper, The Camborne Printing & Stationery Co Ltd, 1935.
Cornish Tales The Three Monks of St Germans, A Legend of Beelzebub, with Bub’s remarks on Cook V. Jenkins, printed and published by R. J. Bazley, Plymouth, 1876, 37 pages in original wrap, a good copy signed by previous owner, John Blowey in 1963. A scarce item.Rev. C. Bennett, late vicar of Treverbyn, A Cornish ’Bussa’ and eight other Cornish tales in prose and verse, published by Netherton & Worth, Truro. In original binding, 100 pages with some foxing, first edition, 1898.Jan Chegwidden, The Owld Church Quire and other stories (5) in the cornish dialect, ‘first series’ 1901, printed by The Cornish Echo, 37 pages with loose binding.R. W. Treneer, 'Two Cornish Tales, Tom Soddy on Cornish miners, past and present, and Rud, whit, an’ blue , male an’ faymale temp’rance s’ci’ty'. first edition, 1882, 15 pages, in good condition.
Henry Sewell Stokes. 'Restormel'. 'A Legend of Piers Gaveston. The Patriot Priest, and Other Verses,' first edition, inscribed from the author August 1882, to E. Heard, Truro, with the bookplate of John Blowey, 205 pages plus 4 pages of adverts, in original green binding, gilt lettering to spine, a very good copy, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1882.
'Case Between Sir William Clayton, Bart and The Duchy of Cornwall,' John Haines (solicitor) main contributor. 'Case Between Sir William Clayton, Bart and The Duchy of Cornwall,' 'The History of the Constitution of the Duchy of Cornwall, and it’s Tenants … Containing a Refutation of all the Arguments of the Lord Chancellor … In His Judgement of the Clayton Case, in Respect of an Estate in Kennington … With a Few Obversations on the Acts of 33 GEO. 3d, 7th and 8th GEO. 4th, and 1st and 2nd of The Present King, Showing that these Acts have been Procured to be Passed in Direct Violation of all Former Acts Relating to the Constitution of the Duchy,' 1834 first edition, approx 405 pages, copy ex Law Society, fine cloth.
Four works with an Australian / Cornish interest. Patricia Lay. 'Cornish - Australian Heritage (a biographical register of Cornish-Australians 1788-1998),' first edition, a record of Cornish immigrants and how they contributed to their new home, a well researched work, 415 pages in original wraps, a very good copy, Heritage 2000 Plus, 1999.Oswald Pryor. 'Cornish Pasty (a book of 60 cartoons),' first edition, Oswald Prior was a South Australian cartoonist noted for his depictions of life in the copper triangle, particulary of miners from Cornwall, original wrappers in pictorial dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, a scarce item, published by Oswald Pryor, distributed by Argnaut book shop, Adelaide, Australia, 1950.Ian Glanville. 'St Just’s Point', first edition, Ian lived among the cornish descendants, these stories have evolved around these hardy cornish folk, 72 pages in original wraps, Sloans Printery, Victoria, Australia, 1990.Geoffrey Charles Buckley. 'Of Toffs and Toilers, from Cornwall to New Zealand Fragments of the Past', first edition, signed by the author, ex Cornwall Library good condition, Ross, Auckland, New Zealand, 1983. (4)
Three works Charles Causley. 'Peninsula. An Anthology of Verse from the West Country,' many contributors including A.L.Rowse, John Betjeman, Jack R Clemo, Ronald Bottrall etc, a fine copy, first edition, Macdonald, London.'Around About St Ives,' being 100 pages of verse based around St Ives, a typescript copy, signed on the front cover circa 1970’sA.H.Girdlestone. 'Cornish Visions,' a very good pamphlet, 14 pages, first edition, A.W. Jordan, 30, Truro, 1929. (3)
Three works. The Reverend F. W. Warnes (Vicar of Gulval). 'A Thousand Ages in Thy Sight; The Parish of Saint Gulval-in-Lanisley,' with a foreword by Richard St Germans, a well researched history of Gulval, 82 pages in typescript, scarce.William Wood. 'The Parish of Gulval Past and Present,' first edition, a signed copy, 83 pages, a fine copy, pub by William Wood, Chyandaunce, Gulval, Penzance, 1956.Andrew Lanyon. 'A St Ives Album,' first edition, a near fine paperback copy, Alison Hodge, Penzance, 1979. (3
Three works. Mrs Edmund Sedding. 'The Smugglers Hole,' a tale of the North Coast of Cornwall, first edition, pictorial card covers, 37 pages, bound in hardback, a fine copy, scarce, W. S. Cater & Co, circa 1910.Mrs J.Bonham (1842–1915). 'Christmas in Cornwall 60 Years Ago,' first edition, 79 pages in original binding, a very good copy with signature of F. J. Bonham, Mrs J. Bonham’s son, inside front cover, scarce, The Unicorn Press, London, 1898.Jeremey Seal. 'The Wreck at Sharpnose Point,' a descriptive account surrounding the 'Caledonia', a ship was wrecked on the jagged rocks below Morwenstowe in 1842, a fine copy, first edition, Picador, 2001. (3)
Poetry interest. Three works. R. Hambly. 'Down in a Mine and Poems of West Cornwall &C,' first edition, 94 pages in original maroon binding with silver gilt lettering, signed by the author, with the bookplate of John Blowey, a very good copy, F. Rodda, Penzance, 1897.W. Henry Harris. 'Britain Rings True and Other Poems. A Souvenir of The Great War,' 63 pages in original binding, a good copy, scarce, pub by the author, 22 Chariot road, Illogan, Redruth.W. Herbert Thomas. 'Poems of Cornwall by Thirty Cornish Authors,' first edition, 167 pages in original binding, a fine copy with gilt lettering, F. Rodda, Penzance, 1892. (3)
Three biographical works. Angus MacFarquharson. 'A Scot in Cornwall,' first edition, an account of a Scot who was advised to take his son (for health reasons) to Cornwall in the early 20’s, a factual account, all characters names have been changed, albeit they were alive at the time, 71 pages in original paper wraps, a good copy, very scarce, The Aberdeen Press and Journal Office, Aberdeen, 1929.Mary Andrews. 'A Cornish Pasty' ‘’The Journal of a Medical Student on Sick Leave in the Land of the Giants During The Great Ear’’ believed first edition, 1927, an account written in 1917 during a long sick leave from hospital, believed to based in or around St Mawes, 84 pages, in original boards, slightly loose at the spine otherwise good, Arthur H. Stockwell, London, n.d.Jessie M. Stonham. 'Daughter of Wyedean and Kernow,' first edition, an autobiography about growing up in the early years of the 20th century in Ross-on-Wye, with regular visits to family in Cornwall, a very good copy, Thornhill Press, Gloucester, 1978. (3)
Charles Bowles. 'A Short Account of the Hundred of Penwith in the County of Cornwall'. 'Compiled from Authentic Documents: With an Appendix Containing the Original Grants, Confirmations, &c,' first edition, 8vo, 46 pages, rebound in late 19th century dark maroon marocco, ex libris label, a very good copy of a rare work, printed and sold by R. Hurd, Shaftesbury, 1805."A sort of rough brief, in proof of the right of the Arundell family to wrecks and royalties in Penwith...(due to their Norman lineage)", Boase & Courtney, p39.
Two works of Cornish interest, published by The National Library of Wales. William Llewelyn Davies. 'Cornish Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales,' first edition, this work was prepared for the Celtic Congress to be held at Truro, Cornwall, September 12–17, 1939, 18 pages in a green hardcover with gilt lettering, with the bookplate of John Blowey, very good copy, scarce, printed at the Private Press of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1939.Paul J. McCartney. 'Henry de la Beche. Observations on an Observer,' first edition, 77 pages, a very good copy, in dustwrapper, Friends of the National Museum of Wales, 1977. (2)
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 supplementary index to China Clay sidings and locations + 37 pages, a good clean copy.R. A. Woodfin. 'The Centenary of the Cornwall Railway,' first edition, tipped in an invoice dated 1890, debit to G.W.R. from Jreffry Clunes Ltd for salt from Truro to St Austell and a newspaper cutting, a good copy, signed by the author, W. Jefferson & Son Ltd, Cambs, 1960 (2)
Five works on mining in Cornwall. D. B. Barton. 'Essays in Cornish Mining History,' volumes I & II, first editions, 2 very good copies in dustwrappers, D. Bradford Barton Ltd, Truro, 1968 and 1971.Cyril Noall (with an introduction by Philip Payton). 'Cornish Mining Disasters,' first edition, very good copy in dustwrapper, Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, 1989.Roger Burt. 'The British Lead Mining Industry,' first edition, very good copy in dustwrapper, Dyllansow Truran, Redruth 1984.Roger Burt. 'Cornish Mining. Essays on the Organisation of Cornish Mines and the Cornish Mining Economy,' 1969 first edition, very good copy in dustwrapper, David & Charles and Roger Burt, 1969. (5)
Three works on Camborne Sir Wifred Lawson Bart M.P, the Conquest of Camborne, April 9th, 1903, published by J. Richardson, Petersfield for private circulation. Sir Wilfred Lawson was the M.P. for Cockermouth, then Camborne, etc. He was a leader in The Temperance Society. A fine copy.Charles Thomas, Christian Antiquities of Camborne, published by H. E. Warne Ltd, St Austell, 1967 first edition. A very good copy.Edited by R. B. Geoghegan and W. A. Rubidge, Camborne school of mines magazine vol vi, no.4 april 1902, 'mongst mines and miners' and various other articles and copious local advertisements. Reasonable condition.
Miss M. A. Courtney. 'Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore'. First edition, revised and reprinted from 'The Folklore Society Journals', 1886-87 pp.viii 208, blue cloth, bevelled boards, bookplate of Richard Pearce Couch, bookmark of J. A. D. Bridger, signature of John Rosewarne, tipped in handwritten notes on the subject matter, a good copy, Beare and Son, Penzance, 1890.
Falmouth and Penryn Interest. R. J. Roddis, 'Penryn, the history of an ancient Cornish borough' published by D. Bradford Barton for the corporation of Penryn, 1964 first edition. A fine copy.John Ley Kempthorne, illustrated by Gilbert S. Sully, 'Falmouth Parish Church', published by The Cornish Echo, falmouth, tipped in a letter from the author, St Enoder Rectory, Summercourt to a Miss Wills, 1928 first edition. A good copy.'Falmouth', a photo-album, sixteen sepia photographs of Falmouth: King Harry passage , Swanpool, St Mawes, Jacob's Ladder, Falmouth, Marine Drive, etc, circa 1880’s. A fine copy.Fisher Barnham, 'Old Cornwall in Camera', 1977 first edition published by Glasney Press, Falmouth. A very good copy (4)
Paul Broadhurst Secret Shrines in search of the Holy Wells of Cornwall with twenty actual coloured tipped in photographs and other full-page and textual illustrations, limited edition of 500 copies of which this is number 217, additionally signed by the author, published by Paul Broadhurst, Trebeath, Launceston, Cornwall, first edition, 1988. A fine copy.
Canon James Sims Carah The Parish of Camborne Printed and published by the Camborne Printing & Stationery Co Ltd, Market Place, Camborne.This history is in two parts bound as one. Camborne rate book 1647-1717 (25 pages) is also bound in the back of this book. Tipped in, a letter from the author from Penponds Vicarage, Camborne, 14th February, 1930 to a friend signed with a copy of a cornish carol (enclosed) sung at the church the night before, with a signature on the title page, first edition, 1925. Scarce
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 coloured linocuts prints, coloured lithographs and photographs and black and white plates, published by Brewhouse, 1975. two volumes in a slipcase, 1975 first edition. Very fine copies.
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 April, 18th, 1822 With a preface, notes and cases illustrative of the general history of boroughs and of the law relating to them, published for Henry Butterworth, law bookseller, 7, Fleet St, between the Temple Gates , London, with 254 pges and the bookplate of the birmingham law society, 1823, first edition. Overall, a good copy.
Three works on Cornish niches V. M. Chesher and F.J. Chesher, The Cornishman’s House - an introduction to the history of traditional domestic architecture in Cornwall, published by D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1968 first edition, a good copy in dustwrapper .H. L. Douch, Cornish Windmills, published by Oscar Blackford, Royal Printeries, Truro, 1963 first edition, a fine copy.Bryan Earl, Cornish Explosives, published by the Trevithick Society, 1976 first edition. A fine copy.
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. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1963 first edition. A very good copy.H. L. Douch, Old Cornish inns and their place in the social history of the county, published by D. Bradford Barton , Truro. 1966, first edition. A very good copy.A. L. Rowse, Tudor Cornwall portrait of society, published by Dyllansow Truran, Redruth, signed by A. L. Rowse to the title page, 1941 first edition. A very good copy.
Robert Sawle Donnall. 'The Trial of Robert Sawle Donnall,' 'Surgeon and Apothecary, Late of Falmouth in the County of Cornwall, For The Wilful Murder, by Poison of Mrs Elizabeth Downing, Widow, His Mother-in-Law at the Assizes at Launceston, For The County aforesaid, On Monday, March 31st 1817, Before the Honourable Sir Charles Abbot. Taken in Short-Hand by Alexander Frazer, 27, Thavies Inn, London,' engraved map/plan of the tea room (opposite page 26), 179 pages untrimmed, in original paper boards, first edition, a very good if not fine copy, printed by and for James Lake, Falmouth, 1817.
James Michell. 'Parochial History of St Neots in Cornwall,' 'And an Historical Sketch of the Life and Miracles of St Neot; Together with a Description of the Stained Windows in the Parish Church and the Ballad of Tregagle or Dosmare Pool,' first edition, rebound, 220 pages, a very good copy, Liddel and Son, Bodmin, 1833.
Three biographies. F. E. Halliday. 'Richard Carew of Antony. The Survey of Cornwall,' first edition, a very good copy in dustwrapper, Andrew Melrose, London, 1953.John Evelyn. 'The Life of Margaret Godolphin,' first edition, a very good copy in original binding, Chatto and Windus, London, 1907.P. A. S. Pool. 'William Borlase,' first edition, The Royal Institution of Cornwall,' signed by the author to the title page, a very good copy in dustwrapper, Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1986. (3)
Two works. M. Vivian Hughes. 'Vivians,' first edition, original cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, contains black and white plates throughout, 240 pages, a very good copy, Oxford University Press, London, 1935.Wilson and Phillips (publishers). 'Who’s Who in Cornwall,' a limited edition, this copy being number 250, original cloth, a very good copy, 1935. (2)
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 Unpublished Documents in the Possession of the Late Capt John William Barber Fullerton Employed in the African service,' Tipped in is a signed note by Richard Lander 'am my dear sister ever affectionately yours R. L. Lander', first edition, frontispiece portrait, lithograph title page, map and 6 plates, 8vo, 782 pages, a fine copy, published by John Saunders, 25 Newgate St, London, 1835.Richard Lemon Lander was born in the Fighting Cocks Inn, Truro (now the Dolphin Inn) and educated at ‘’Old Pascoes’’ Truro, before joining a wealthy London family and travelling to Africa, with a prefatory analysis of the journeys Park, Denham, Clapperton this work contains accounts of Richard landers three expeditions through Africa. Lander will always be associated with the exploration of The Niger.
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 President of The Royal Society, Foreign Associate of The Royal Institute of France &c &c &c,' first edition, 2 volumes, octavo, leather bound in period half calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London, 1831.With the bookplate of John Blowey, a very fine copy.
Thomas Tonkin (Francis Lord de Dunstanville edition). 'Carew’s Survey of Cornwall,' 'To Which are Added Notes Illustrative of its History and Antiquities, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts by Francis Lord de Dunstanville. A Journal or Minutes of the Convocation or Parliament of Tinners for the Stannaries of Cornwall held at Truro in the year 1710. The Grant of the Sheriffalty to Edward, Duke of Cornwall,' second edition, published by J. Faulder, London, 1811, tipped into this work are the following letters:May 26th 1821, Upper Grosvenor from De Dunstanville relating to his friend 'Davies Gilbert'.May 29th 1821, London from De Dunstanville to J. W. Croker (John Wilson Croker Secretary to the Admiralty, M. P. for Bodmin 1820-1826, contributor to the quarterly magazine).June 1821, Upper Grosvenor from De Dunstanville relating to Mr Pascoe.July 27th 1886, Bodmin from Joseph Polsue to an unknown recipient.1812 signed note by De Dunstanville.This copy is 'extra-illustrated' with 87 plates, 5 plates drawn by J. M. W. Turner/4 by Farington/5 double page plates by S & M Buck/9 hand coloured Allom’s etc. County map. This is the 'Tonkin' edition which is widely regarded as the most comprehensive edition. The front board is loose but the contents are in an almost fine condition. gilt embossed spine blue boards.
Herbert Thomas (Editor of the Cornish Post and Mining News) Cornish Mining Interviews Copiously illustrated with portraits of celebrities and photographs of mining scenes at home and abroad, including underground scenes by J. C. Burrow F. G,. S, published/printed by the Camborne Printing and Stationery Co Ltd, Camborne. 351 pages with copious illustrations and one fold out plate, in original binding with gilt lettering to spine and front cover slightly rubbed, first edition 1896. A very good copy.
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