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Click here to subscribeTwo works on the harbours of Cornwall. E.R.Forestier-Walker. 'Port of Enterprise,' first edition, slight fading to cover otherwise a good copy, scarce, sponsored by Silley, Cox & Co Ltd, Falmouth Docks, Humphries & Co Ltd, London, 1947, Richard Pearse. 'The Ports and Harbours of Cornwall,' reprinted with corrections, hardback, good clean copy, H.E Warne Ltd, St Austel,1964. (2)
Rev. Gilbert Hunter Doble. Two works. R. M. Catling and J. .P. Rogers. 'G.H. Doble', second edition, scarce, original binding, Sydney Lee, Exeter;Rev. Gilbert H. Doble. 'The Lanalet Ponttifical', first edition, 19 pages, included is a letter to C.K.K. Andrew from the author dated 1934 and signed by G.H.Doble. Burliegh Press, Bristol, 1934. (2)
Tom Tremewan. Two works. Tom Tremewan. 'Cornish Youth Memories of a Perran Boy (1815-1910),' 1968, first edition, Oscar Blackford, Truro, hardcover, dust jacket, very good condition. Perranporth in the early days of its development, 128 pages.Together with; Tom Tremewan. 'A Builders Life in Perranporth. Memories of a Perran Man (1918-1938),' first edition, 1974, Oscar Blackford, Truro, hardcover, dust jacket, very good condition. (2)
Cornish in the USA and Mexico interest. Two works. A.C.Todd. 'The Search for Silver, Cornish Miners in Mexico 1824-1947', first edition, the story of Cornish miners who went to Mexico to re-open the silver mines illustrating the problems they faced, hard cover with dust jacket, a very good copy, The Lodenek Press, Padstow, 1977;Arthur Cecil Todd. 'The Cornish Miner in America', hardcover with dust jacket, 279 pages, b & w illustrations throughout, a very good copy, H. E. Warne Ltd, St Austell, 1967. (2)
Looe sea angling interest. Two works. Brigadier J.A. Lyde Caunter. 'Under the Surface,' first edition, dust jacket, black and white photographs, John Blower copy, very good condition, H.E.Warne Ltd,.St Austel, circa 1958.'Shark Angling in Great Britain,' first edition, original dust jacket, good condition, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, very good copy in original dust jacket, 1961. (2)
Two works on Cornish immigration to South Africa. Graham B. Dickason. 'Cornish Immigrants to South Africa: The Cousin Jacks contribution to the development of mining & commerce / 1820-1920,' first edition, hard cover with dust jacket, being the history of the cornish miner/settlers to Namaqualand, Kimberley, Witwatersrand and lists the names of the immigrants, a very good copy, A. A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1978.Richard D. Dawe. 'Cornish Pioneers in South Africa ‘’Gold and Diamonds, Copper and Blood’’' first edition, Cornish Hillside Publications, St Austell, 1998. (2)
The Cornish in Australia interest. Two works. Dr Philip Payton. 'The Cornish Miner in Australia', first edition, hardback with dust jacket, a fine copy, Penryn Litho, Mabe,1984;Dr Philip Payton. 'The Cornish Farmer in Australia or Australian Adventure: Cornish Colonists and the Expansion of Adelaide and the South Australian Agricultural Frontier, first editon, hardback with dustjacket, 142 pages, a fine copy, A. Wheaton, Exeter, 1987. (2)
E. W. Rashleigh. 'Where to Fish, When to Fish', A brief guide to edible Cornish fishes'. First edition, in original paper wraps, stapled so a little loose otherwise a very clean good copy of a scarce work, a well researched booklet breaking down the types of fish landed in each Cornish port, from the smaller Charlestown and Gorran to Penzance and Mevagissey, taken from the returns of 1893, together with the number of working boats in each port taken from the returns of 1889, published by J.Wellington, Chemist, Fowey, Cornwall, 1894. in original paper wraps, stapled so a little loose otherwise a very clean good copy of a scarce work.reserve : £20
Charles Garton Honor (Minister of the Gospel). 'Fish, Tin and Copper'. 'or Cornwall its Mines and Miners'. First edition, a fine rebinding from the original card covers to marbled boards, black half calf with gilt lettering and raised bands to the spine, 78 pages, with 2 pages of advertisements at the back, a well researched work concerning the main industry in Cornwall in the 19th century, a near fine copy of a very scarce work, published by William Lister, London, 1869.
F. Cecil Lane. 'Guide to Falmouth & Helford Harbours'. First edition, bound in at the front a map of the greater Falmouth area by F. Cecil Lane, 1890, 110 pages, plus a tariff by the Great Western Railway for the conveyance of canoes and small boats, 6 pages of local advertisements, in it’s original boards with gilt lettering to the front cover, a little foxing, a good copy, published by W. Frank Westcott, Plymouth and Truro,1890.
Richard Thomas. 'A Falmouth Guide', 1815 'Containing a concise account of the history, trade, port and public establishment of Falmouth; directions to the publice offices, lodging houses, inns, taverns etc and an appendix noticing everything of interest in its vicinity, being a complete directory to strangers going abroad in the packets', with a list of Admiralty Packets and their Commanders for the year 1812, rates for passengers by the falmouth packets etc, pencil notes in 1830 stating that there is 40 packets sailing from Falmouth with 3 lost, first edition, a very scarce first edition of what is regarded as one of the town’s first guides, bound in later brown, half calf marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine, a fine copy, published by J. Lake, Falmouth, 1815. There are no illustrations for this work (as called for). This is a fine copy with some erased notes to p74-75. A very scarce survivor in this condition.
The China Clay Works in Cornwall & Devon of English China Clays Ltd Published by English China Clays Ltd, St Austell, Cornwall, England, printed by Richmond Hill Printing Works Ltd, Bournemouth. In original stiff patterned brown boards raised lettering on front cover, this work is limited to 1,000 copies only (it appears this is no.1), first printing, first edition, circa 1930.An exhaustive illustrated history documenting mangement, offices, departments, numerous clay pits, settling pits, mica drags, drying kilns and linhays, ground china stone mills, the engine power houses, water wheels, employees houses, transport, workshops and stores, shipping etc. frontispiece a coloured chart of the china clay, a very clean copy no marks bookplates in very good condition folio. Very scarce.
Robert Were Fox. 'Observations on Mineral Veins,' 1837. First edition, in original boards, a little faded, otherwise a near fine copy, with hand coloured plates, a rare work on the geology of various minerals found in cornwall in the late 18th Century and early 19th Century, Robert Were Fox was born in Falmouth in 1789, becoming one of the foremost geologists of the period, he lived at Penjerrick and wrote many papers, printed by J.Trathan, Market Strand, Falmouth, 1837.
F. C. Hingston-Randolph. 'Cornish Fonts & Crosses,' 1850. First edition, in original binding, marbled boards, half calf rubbed, gilt lettering to spine with two pages loose at the back, otherwise a good copy of an enlarged edition, with the 13 pages of full text (many do not) and 57 lithographic plates (standard editions have 40 plates), consequently this an extra illustrated copy, tipped in is a letter dated 1877 from ‘’St Enoder’ (presume vicarage) referring to Mr Hingston-Randolphs book etc, published by W. J. Cleaver, London, 1850.
A collection of Cornish tales. Four works. Rev. John Isabell (former Curate of Padstow). 'Eight Cornish Temperance Tales in the Cornish Dialect', first edition, 64 pages, original wraps, in very good condition, published by Neterton and Worth, Lemon St, Truro, 1883.Rev. C. Bennett. 'A Cornish ‘’bussa’, and eight other Cornish Tales in Prose and Verse, (in the cornish dialect)', second edition, 105 pages, plus advertisements mainly local, published by Netertyon and Worth, Truro, 1910.'Lands End Laughs' by Betts, 16 pages, a series of cartoons circa 1950’s.'Ow Be'ee m'Dears?', by Stil ‘A West Country Souvenir’ fourth edition, 16 pages, circa 1950’s.
William Pryce. 'Cornish Grammar and Vocabbulary'. Archaelogica Cornu-Britannica; or an essay to preserve the Ancient Cornish Language containing the rudiments of that Dialect in a Cornish Grammar and Cornish-English Vocabularly'. William Pryce, M. D. Redruth, Cornwall (1749-1823). First edition, in half brown, calf over marbled boards, spine raised bands, slight rubbing otherwise a a near fine copy, gilt and blind tooling, gilt title to black label, binding by E.Riley and Son, loosely inserted a post office telegram dated 19th Feb 1936, from Caradar (A.S.D.Smith) Perranporth to Miss Cook, Eaton Crescent, Clifton in Cornish, compiled from a variety of materials which have been inaccessible to all other authors, which includes 14 pages of letters from Edward Lhuyd to Thomas Tonkin, translation of the Lord’s Prayer, a list of Cornish British names, Cornish grammar which is translated into Cornish, English & Welsh, publshed by W.Crutwell, Sherborne and sold by Dilly, Poultry, London, Grigg and Son, Exeter, 1790.
Three works with flora and wildlife interest. Edward Step F.L.S. 'A Naturalists Holiday, Idle Hours on the Cornish Coast', first edition, hard pictorial boards, a good copy, all plates collated, slight foxing, Thomas Nelson and Sons, circa 1905;Charles Nicholson. 'The Milkweed Butterfly in Cornwall', an offprint from the R.I.C Journal, Oscar Blackford, Truro, 1936;L. J. Margetts & R. W. David. 'A Review of the Cornish Fauna, fine copy in dustwrapper, The Institute of Cornish Studies, Redruth, 1981. (3)
Four works from early mid century, covering Helston, Newquay, Falmouth and a Cornish Royal Tour. Oscar Blackford (Compiler). 'His Majesty King George VI in Cornwall', a record of the Royal Tour from Launceston to Camborne, December 1st, 1937, with short histories of The City of Truro, the bishopric and cathedral, first and only edition, scarce hardcover, in fine condition with dustwrapper, 1937;S. Teague Husband. 'Old Newquay', first edition, hard cover, good condition, F.E.Williams & Co, Bank st, Newquay, 1923;A. S. Oates. 'Around Helston in the Old days', first edition, original boards, good condition, 140 pages, Oates Publication Committee, Marazion,1951;'The Falmouth Opera Singers 1923 to 1946', a potted history over this period especially the involvement of M & E Radford in pamphlet form, 8 pages, published by J.H.Lake & Co Ltd, Falmouth 1946, with later addenda in 1949. (4)
North Cornwall & Devon. Three works. Enys Tregarthen. 'North Cornwall Fairies and Legends', first edition, original cloth, good copy, scarce, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, London, 1906;John Smyth. 'Notes on Cornwall and North Devon, Rhyming Records of Recent Rambles', first edition, original boards, good clean copy, bookplaye of john blowey, Paternoster and Hales, Hitchin, 1877;Hilda Hambly. 'Old North Cornwall', first edition, soft cover, Bossiney Books, St Teath, 1991. (3)
Two works on Falmouth, Helford and the castles of St Mawes and Pendennis. F. Cecil. Lane. 'The Guide to Falmouth & Helford Harbours, their Rivers, Creeks and Adjacent Coasts', first edition, with chart and illustrations, 112 pages, hard cover, very good copy of a scarce item, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, London, 1890;Pasfield Oliver. 'Pendennis & St Mawes, an Historical Sketch of Two Cornish Castles', first edition, hard cover, with gilt lettering to spine and front cover, good cop, W.Lake,Truro,1875. (2)
Cornish flora. Two works. Harry Roberts. 'The Chronicle of a Cornish Garden', illustrations of an ideal garden by F. L. B. Griggs, first edition, original full cloth, decorative binding, slight foxing, otherwise a very good copy, John Lane: The Bodley Head, London, 1901;F.Hamilton Davey. Flora of Cornwall and Supplement', being an account of the flowering plants and ferns found in the County of Cornwall, including The Scilly Isles, dust jacket, very good condition, E. P Publishing Ltd, 1978. (2) reserve : £25
The flora of Cornwall. Six works. Edgar Thurston. 'British and Foreign Trees and Shrubs in Cornwall', first edition, hardback in dust wrapper, good condition, published for the Royal Institution of Cornwall by the Cambridge Press, 1930;Edgar Thurston. 'A Supplement to Hamilton Daveys Flora of Cornwall', first edition, signed by the author, good condition, Oscar Blackford, Royal Printeries, Truro, 1922;Fred Hamilton Davey. 'A Tentative List of the Flowering Plants, Ferns Known to Occur in the County of Cornwall including the Scilly Isles,' first edition, 276 pages, private printing, not publicly sold, scarce, F.Chegwidden, Penryn, 1902;Edgar Thurston. 'The Alien & British Plants of Par and Charlestown Harbours, Falmouth Docks and Eastern Green, Penzance, Oscar Blackford, Truro, 1928;Edgar Thurston. 'Notes on the Cornish Flora (Flowering Plants and Ferns) an offcut from the R.I.C Journal, Oscar Blackfors, Truro, 1936;Edgar Thruston. 'Note on the Cornish Flora 1935', an offcut from the R.I.C Journal, Oscar Blackford, Truro, 1936. (6)
Two works. Alphonse Esquiros. 'Cornwall and its Coasts,' 304 pages, original cloth, with much information on the Scilly Isles, hardcover, first edition, clean copy, Chapman and Hall, London, 1865.J. T. Tregellas. 'Peeps Into The Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall,' first edition, cloth has little foxing, overall good condition, James R. Netherton, Truro, 1868.
William Roberts Perranporth, Cornwall (north coast) 'Reminiscences of Perranporth from the Year 1833. Its Former Industries: Mines, Fisheries: Names, Personal and General Characteristics (with map),' first edition, 192 pages, hardback, some repairs to map, but otherwise a good clean copy, Oscar Blackford, Truro, 1939.
Four works covering the houses and gardens of Cornwall, with a history of The Royal Cornwall Show. Richard Q. Couch. 'A Cornish Fauna being a Compendium of the Natural History of the County', first edition, 164 pages, 21 plates all collated, a fine copy in paper in wraps, L. E. Gillet, Truro, for the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1844;Jean A. Paton. 'Wild Flowers in Cornwall', first edition, dust wrapper, fine condition, Bradford Barton, Truro, 1968;Helen McCabe. 'Houses and Gardens of Cornwall, first edition, fine condition, in dust wrapper, Tabb House, Padstow, 1988;Christopher Riddle. 'A History of the Royal Cornwall Show 1793-1993', first edition, fine copy, in dust wrapper, The Royal Cornwall Association, Wadebridge, 1993. (4)
J. M. Roach. 'West Cornwall,' 'Being a description of the principal towns, parishes & villages with their antiquities and general notabilities and giving explanations of various other interesting objects', first edition, not found in Boase & Courtney or the British Library catalogue (1975), scarce hard back, good binding very good condition, City of London Publishing, 1840
Two works with Royal Yacht Club interest. C. J. H. Mead. 'The History of the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club 1871-1949', first edition, folding illustrations, 235 pages, tipped in a letter, dated 29th June 1906, from The Royal Western Yacht Club of England, Plymouth, good condition, Underhill (Plymouth) Ltd, 1951.'Royal Cornwall Yacht Club', rules ,bye-laws and list of members and yachts,16 pages, + 14 pages for the list of members, hardback white cloth with gilt embossed lettering, with the gilt Prince of Wales emblem, scarce, circa 1909. (2)
Three works with Fowey and St Austell interest. Cyril Bunn. 'The Book of St Austell, The Story of a China Clay Town', first edition, 148 pages, hardback with dust wrapper, very good condition, limited edition, no.332, dustwrapper not clipped, Barracuda Books, Buckingham, 1978, Wilson MacArthur. 'The River Fowey', 180 pages, good condition, in dust jacket, Cassell and Co, London, 1948, Jim Lewis. 'A Richly Yielding Piece of Ground', first edition, hard cover with dustwrapper, 161 pages, drawings maps and photographs, some dampstaining otherwise a good copy, Hillside Publications, St Austell, 1997. (3)
Browne Willis Esq 'Notitia Parliamentaria,' 1716. 'Or, An History of the Counties, Cities and Boroughs in England and Wales,' volume II containing the counties of Cornwall, Cumberland Derby, Devon, Dorset and Durham,' first edition, a fine binding, rebacked, Cornwall is the largest contributor to this work with 176 pages, printed for Robert Gosling at the Mitre and Crown, Fleet st, London, 1716.Lord Ashburton. 'Substance of a Speech Made in The House of Lords, 11th April, 1821, On the Bill for Transferring the Elective Franchise from Grampound in Cornwall to Leeds in Yorkshire,' thin paper wraps, written on the front page 'Viscount Palmerston with the author’s compliments', very good condition, T. and J. Allman, London, 1821. (2)
Liddell and Son (Lithographers), Bodmin. 'Outline or Skeleton Maps of the Diocese of Exeter. Part I. Containing, in Thirteen Plates, The Archdeaconry and County of Cornwall, In Which the Boundaries of all the Deaneries, Hundreds, Subdivisions of Hundreds, And Parishes, Are Accurately Described,' first edition, a very good copy in hardback, 1825.
Two works Rev. F. C. Hingston-Randolph, The Architectural History of the conventual and parochial church of St Germans, Cornwall, Netherton & Worth, Truro, 1902 first edition, in original blue binding, gilt lettering to front cover. A good copy.John Pearce, The Wesleys in Cornwall, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, tipped in ’What is Episcopacy’’ by R. L. Frank, four pages, 1964 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.
JOHN LLOYD WARDEN PAGE The Coasts of Devon and Lundy Island Horace and Cox, London, of this edition on large paper two hundred and fifty copies are printed this copy is number one hiundred and twelve, original morocco backed cloth very slightly scuffed otherwise a very good copy, 1895 first edition.
The Western Antiquary Three Volumes W. H. K. Wright (edited by), The Western Antiquary or note book for Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, volume vi, June 1886 to May 1887, first edition 1887, published by W. H. Luke, plymouth, together with volume vii, June 1887 to June 1888, first edition and volume ix, July 1889 to June 1890, first edition. Three volumes in original bindings, scuffed but good.
Six works on Cornwall John Keast, The King of Mid-Cornwall being the life of Joseph Thomas Treffry (1782-1850),1982 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.H. M. Cresswell Payne, The story of the Parish of Roche, second edition. A good copy in dustwrapper .A photo-album, ’St Austell and vicinity’, published by B. Julyan in original gilt embossed green covers, 16 b/w photos: Fowey, Gorran-haven, Mevagissey, Charlestown, St Austell and various views, etc. Circa 1890’s.F. Brittain, Arthur Quiller-Couch - a biographical study, The University Press, Cambridge, tipped in page 116 a two page letter from ‘q’, 1947 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.Ken Phillips, Catching Cornwall in flight, being the author’s early years growing up in Roche, 1994 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.Judith Cook, To Brave Every Danger, being the life of Mary Bryant from growing up in Fowey, a highwaywoman and convicted felon in the 18th century to becoming a friend of James Boswell and a free woman, 1993 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.
George Blaxland Rogers. 'The Practice of the Sheriffs Court of the County of Cornwall: With a Collection of the Most Modern Forms of Precedents of Process and Useful Pleadings &c,' First edition, page edges uncut, light foxing, original pale blue covered boards, neatly rebacked with the bookplate of John Blowey, a very good copy, E. Heard, Truro, 1824,Dedicated to John Samuel Enys, High Sheriff of the County of Cornwall, Boase and Courtney p585.
John Magor Boyle. 'Cithara Danmonii: Gorlaye,' 'Or a Tale of the Olden Tyme, in Four Cantos,' first edition, 180 pages uncut, rebound in black leather, binding with gilt lettering to the spine, a very good copy, J. Brokenshir, Truro, 1835.John Magor Boyle was the son of a Wesleyan minister, born at Penzance but emigrated to the U. S. A.
Edgar Avery Tregonning Two Centuries of a Cornish Family Edgar Backus, Cank St, Leicester, tall 8vo, in original maroon cloth with gilt lettering at spine and front cover, illustrated with black and white plates and a fold out diagram to the back, with the bookplate of John Blowey, 1950 first edition. A very good copy. Scarce.
Two works Henry Sorrell Stokes, Rhymes from Cornwall, published by John Camden Hotten, London, in green boards with gilt titles on spine contains poems such as ‘The Padstow Lifeboat and Bodrigans Leap’, with ten pages of advertisements at the back, 1871 first edition. Overall a good copy. Scarce.Thomas Hardy, The famous tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonesse, a new version of an old story arranged as a play for Mummers in one act requiring no theatre or scenery. Published by Macmillan & Co, London, in dustwrapper (torn), 1923 first edition, however the book itself is in very good condition.
Cornish wildlife. Four works. Stella M. Turk, Seashore Life in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, D. Bradford Barton Ltd, Truro,1971, first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.C.C.Vyvyvan, Our Cornwall, Westaway Books Ltd London, 1948 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.C.C.Vyvyvan, A Cornish Year, Peter Owne Ltd , London, 1958 first edition. a very good copy in dustwrapper.Rennie Bere, Wildlife in Cornwall - a naturalist’s view of Britain’s south-western peninsula, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1970 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.
Three works on Cornish horticulture Adelaide Ross, A wild Flower Wreath, privately printed and signed by the author on the front end paper, 1975 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.C. C. Vyvyan, Letters from a Cornish Garden with a foreword by Daphne Du Maurier, published by Michael Joseph, London, 1972 first edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper.C. C. Vyvyan, Journey up the Years, published by Peter Owen, London, 1966 first edition. A good copy in dustwrapper.
Mark Stoyle. 'West Britons. Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State'. First edition, hardback, included in this book are transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents and a list of some 300 Cornish Royalist Officers of special interest to civil war enthusiasts, as new, University of Exeter Press, 2002.
Three works on Launceston. C. W. R. Winter. 'In Sundry Places,' first edition, the story of the Cornish Estate of Tregeare near Launceston, 208 pages in dustwrapper, a fine copy, pub by Forget-Me-Not-Books, 1999;R & O. B. Peter. 'The Castle and Town Defences of Launceston,' 61 pages, taken from Histories of Launceston & Dunheved, in boards, a good copy with a folding west view of Launceston Castle, circa 1900;H. Spencer Toy. 'A History of Education at Launceston,' first edition, signed by the author, a very good copy in dustwrapper, pub by Wordens of Cornwall Ltd, Marazion, 1966. (3)
Two works. Roger Crombleholme, Douglas Stuckey, C. F. D. Whetmath. 'Callington Railways. Bere Alston-Calstock-Callington. An account of the East Cornwall Mineral Railway and the Southern Railways branch line....together with notes on the Mines and Shipping whose stories are Inseparably linked with the History of these Railways,' 1967, first edition, pub by Branch Line Handbooks, a good copy.Rev. R. Dew. 'A History of the Parish and Church of Kilkhampton,' 1926, first edition, pub by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co Ltd, London, a signed copy in original boards, a good copy. (2)
Sir John C. Fox. 'The Byron Mystery,' First edition, a good copy in the original publishers gilt-blocked cloth, 248 pages, notes : includes biographical references, subjects Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824) marriage, Byron, Anne Isabella, Milbanke Noel Byron Baroness (1792-1860) etc, tipped in is a speech given by Sir John Fox at a Byron dinner at the Lyceum club 13.5.29, bookplate Sir John Fox, signed by the author, Grant Richards, London, 1924.
Three works C.E.Vulliamy F. R. G. S. 'Unknown Cornwall', first edition, illustrations in colour and black and white by charles simpson, 246 pages, a good copy, John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd, London, 1925.J. Stephen Flynn. 'Cornwall Forty Years After 1917', first edition, 210 pages, a very good copy, Truslove & Hanson Ltd, London, 1925.John Penwith (pseudo). 'Leaves from a Cornish Notebook', first edition, 64 pages, in original dustwrapper, a good copy, published by the Cornish Library, Morrab road, Penzance,1950. (3)
William Marshall. 'The Rural Economy of the West of England,' 1796. 'Including Devonshire and Parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire and Cornwall. Together with Minutes in Practice,' first edition, 2 volumes, engraved folding frontispiece map, rebound in boards, fine copies, G. Nichol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall Mall, London, 1796.William Marshall (1745-1818) was born in North Yorkshire the son of a farmer. In the early 1790’s he suggested the formation of a department of rural affairs and a national survey of farming, but both ideas were appropriated by Sir John Sinclair. (2)
Three works. Herbert Bolitho. 'Truly Rural. Lights and Shadows on the History of North Hill Circuit (Cornwall) of the Methodist Church 1743–1946,' first edition, 1947, pub by John Whitehead & Son, Leeds, tipped in a letter to Mr Wardle Richards from the Rev. Ernest Porter confirming Mr Bolitho had requested me to send you a copy of this book dated 17.5.49, additionally a second letter from the Rev. Ernest Porter to Mr Wardle Richards confirming receipt of 5/6 for this book also dated 17.5.49, a very good copy.H. Spencer Toy. 'The Cornish Pocket Borough,' first edition, signed by the author, with a letter from H. Spencer Toy to Mr Cole dated 23rd January 1969, a very good copy in dustwrapper, Wordens of Cornwall Ltd, Penzance, 1968.Mary French. 'Cornish Gold,' first edition, a fine copy, pub by Chantry Press, Liskeard, 1979. (3)
Four works with a religious interest. J.Henry Harris. 'Cornish Saints and Sinners', first edition, very good condition in pictorial boards, published by John Lane, The Bodley Head, London,1926.Thomas Shaw. 'A History of Cornish Methodism', first edition, tipped in a letter from The Treasurer of the Moravian Church, Hornsey, London to Mr S. W. Twine (this copy is signed by Twine) a fine copy in dustwrapper, published by D. Bradford Barton, 1967.G. H. Doble. 'Cornish Church Kalendar being a Kalendar of Saints for the use of the Diocese of Truro 1933, published by the Kings Stone Press, Long Compton, Shipston-on-Stour, 1933.Reverend John Adams. 'Chronicles of Cornish Saints', II-S. Petrock reprinted from number ix of the journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall 1868. ‘with the author’s compliments’, printed by Netherton, Truro, 1868. (4)
Three works on Penzance and its local area. P. A. S. Pool. 'The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance,' first edition, with full text of the charters of the town from 1322 to 1934, with 19 plates, textual illustrations, 291 pages, dustwrapper covered with a loose plastic sleeve, signed by the author to the title page, very good condition, The Corporation of Penzance, 1974.T. Reynolds. 'The Chapels and Curates of Market Jew,' first edition, a good copy in dustwrapper, Worden (Printers) Ltd, Marazion, 1963.Henry R. Jennings (Canon Jennings). 'Historical Notes on Madron, Morvah and Penzance,' first edition, a good copy in boards, Saundry, Chapel St, Penzance, 1936. (3)
'British Rainfall, 1894.' G. J. Symons and H. Sowerby Wallis. 'British Rainfall, 1894. On the Distribution of Rain Over the British Isles During the Year 1894, As Observed at More than 3000 Stations in Great Britain and Ireland,' first edition, with the frontispiece of a street in St Ives after a flood, various reports from Cornish stations over the year, original blue boards with gilt lettering to the front cover and spine, a very good copy, Edward Stanford, Cockspur St, London, 1895.
Cecil John Haarlem Mead. 'A Record of the Mead and West Families in County Cornwall from 1751–1941,' first edition, 12mo, 57 pages, hardcover in black and brown cloth, 2 genealogical charts to the rear, the first being the Mead family tree and the second tree being the Harvey/Mead family tree, a very good copy of a scarce work, Cornish Echo Co, Falmouth, 1941.
Three Cornish works D.B. Barton; 'The Cornish Beam Engine', second edition, 1969, published by D.B.Barton. 8vo. 285 pages. Illustrated throughout with photo plates and text drawings. A survey and history and the development of the beam engine in the mines of Cornwall and Devon from before 1800 to the present day, with something of its use elsewhere in Britain and abroad. A good copy in dustjacket.T.R. Harris; 'Arthur Woolf, The Cornish Engineer, 1766-1837', first edition 1966. Published by D. Bradford Barton Ltd, Truro. 8vo. 112 pages including appendices and detailed index. 6 excellent black and white photographic plates. this is a comprehensive account of the life of this noted Cornish engineer. In pictorial dark blue covers. A good copy.Jack and Nora Parsons; 'Cornish Fisherboy to Master Mariner, part four - Steam, Sail and Shipwreck'. Being the life of Henry Blewett from fisherman in Mousehole. In part four, 1881-1891, Henry returns to fishing in Cornwall before returning to steam on S.S. Umtata, a fateful tragic voyage. With the bookplate of Dorset County Library. A good copy (3)
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