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Cornwall's maritime industry. Eight works. R. Morton Nance. 'A Glossary of Cornish Sea-Words,' first edition, compliment slip from P.A.S. Pool, original cloth, later uniform library dj, spotting to edge of DJ, good, The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1963; Cyril Noall. 'Cornish Seines and Seiners. A History of the Pilchard Fishing Industry,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, vg, Bradford Barton, Truro, 1972; A. S. Oliver. 'Boats and Boatbuilding in West Cornwall. A Study of Cornish Fishing Craft,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj with uniform library backstrip, spotting to prelims, D. Bradford Barton, 1971; With five other works about the Cornish maritime industry. (8)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

MICHELL, John 'The Old Stones of Land's End,' First edition, unclipped dj, with 76 illustrations, Garnstone Press, London, 1974.John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

Five signed works Including Dame Laura Knight interest David Green, 'Sarah Duchess of Marlborough', signed and inscribed to Ella and Charles Naper, together with an interesting letter from the author to Mariella Pigott discussing Laura Knight and how 'Laura Knight speaks more than once about destroying her paintings because she was dissatisfied with them', second impression, 1967; Nancy Mitford (translated by), 'The Princess De Cleves - Madame de Lafayette', signed by Mitford, first edition, Euphorion Books, 1950; Mary Nethercot, 'Louise', signed, Sentinal Publications Limited, first edition, 1947; Janet Dunbar, 'Mrs G.B.S - A Biographical Portrait of Charlotte Shaw', signed to Ella Naper, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1963; Phyllis Bottome, 'The Life Line', signed, third impression, 1946 (5)

(Falmouth and Penryn) Three works. S. Pasfield Oliver. 'Pendennis & St. Mawes: An Historical Sketch of Two Cornish Castles,' Original bevelled cloth with pictorial gilt tooling, rubbed with some staining, ex libris label to pastedown, spotting to prelims, gilt edge, illustrations, pp.101, W. Lake, Truro, 1875; Thurstan C. Peter. 'The History of Glasney Collegiate Church, Cornwall,' first edition, original cloth, frontis and plates, original cloth, some spotting to prelims, pp.175, vg, Camborne Printing and Stationary Co, 1903; R. J. Roddis. 'Penryn. The History of An Ancient Cornish Borough,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj with later backstrip taped, ex libris label, very light spotting to edge of text block, plates, g to vg, pp.166. D. Bradford Barton, 1964. (3)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

'101 Fine Art Photographs of Cornwall,' Hartnoll Brothers, Newquay, [c.1900], alternative title inside reads 'One Hundred and One Views. Places of Interest in Cornwall, with alternative publishers Rock Bros. Ltd, London, faux snakeskin backed onto card with gilt lettering, staple bound with some loose leave, generally vg, scarce, [n.d but c.1900]; Reg Watkiss. 'The Lands End Peninsula,' first edition, pictorial printed card wraps, b+w photographs throughout, vg, Whites of Alverton, Penzance, 1975; With 'Devon and Cornwall Illustrated. Through the Lens of a Postcard Photographer,' by Robin A. Fenner. (3)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

POTTER, Beatrix. Seven works 'The Pie and The Patty-Pan,' first edition, first printing with date on title and mottled lavender endpapers, colour frontispiece and 9 colour plates, front free endpaper cut, a vg copy, Frederick Warne and Co, Lond, 1905; 'The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle,' original boards, vg, Frederick Warne and Co, London, n.d; With five other early works including 'The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes', 'The Tale of Samuel Whiskers', 'The Tale of Tom Kitten', 'The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle' and 'The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit'. (7)

BURGESS, Anthony. 'A Clock Work Orange,' First edition, first issue, bound in black boards and with the wide-flapped dust jacket priced 16s, extra glassine wrap taped to pastedown with yellowing of tape, spotting to edge of text block, fair to good, Heinemann, London, 1962. Not without its faults, this increasingly scarce print as in a more than salvageable condition. Although with some questionable taping and quite the fitted glassine wrap, I believe it has preserved the dj very well indeed. The text block is tight and the black cloth appears to have only suffered towards the head where exposed. The cataloguer has not removed the dj (and probably wont).

SHACKLETON, Ernest. 'The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909,' Two volumes, first edition, original blue cloth with gilt decorations, town and loose backstrio to vol I, both rubbed and bumped with staining to spines, cocked, gilt top edge, spotting throughout, plates and maps, folding chart in pocket at end, fair to good (but mostly good), William Heinemann, London, 1909. (2)

(Arctic exploration) PARRY, William Edward. 'Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of the NW Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;' 'performed in the years 1819-20 in his Majesty’s ships Hecla and Griper with appendix, containing scientific and other observations,' 1821, FIRST EDITION, John Murray, Errata slip. 310pp + nine appendices. 20 plates and folding maps as called for. Full brown leather binding. Negligible foxing and browning. Binding firm.Very sound and attractive copy.

PASCOE, Charlotte Champion 'Walks about St Hilary, Chiefly Among the Poor' Original binding with later dj, good condition and tight textblock; printed for private circulation, first edition, Beare & Son, Penzance, 1879.

William Prideaux Courtney. 'The Parliamentary Representation of Cornwall to 1832'. First edition, original quarter goat, front board with slight split to head, a good copy, seventy five copies only, printed for private circulation, London, 1889.

Transport interest. P. W. Gentry. 'Tramways of the West of England,' second edition, original cloth, unclipped dj with later backstrip taped on, vg, The Light Railway Transport League, 1960; L. Fisher Barham. 'Cornwalls Electric Tramcars,' original cloth, unclipped dj, cvg, Glasney Press, Penryn, n.d; Brian Butt and Tony Fairclough. 'Great Western Steam in Cornwall,' first edition, unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, D. Bradford Barton, 1972; Peter Waller. 'Englands Railway Heritage from the Air,' unclipped dj, b+w photographs throughout, vg to fine, English Heritage, 2018; With a large collection of limp back, booklets and reports etc. (20+)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

OLIVER, Thomas. 'Autobiography of a Cornish Miner'. First edition, original brown cloth, some toning but otherwise a very good copy, printed by the Camborne Printing and Stationery Co Ltd, 1914. John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

(Arctic exploration) KOLDEWAY, Capt 'The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70 and Narrative of the wreck of the ‘Hansa’ in the Ice,' First edition, Trans by Rev L. Mercier, full leather with gilt shield to front board and morcoo label to spine, marbled eps and page edges, clean and tight, prize label to front pastedown, pp.590, two col maps, four chromo lithographic plates, two portraits in steel and numerous woodcuts, vg, Sampson Lo et al, London, 1874.A very attractive copy

GILBERT, Davies 'The Parochial History of Cornwall. Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr Hals and Mr Tonkin,' First edition, large paper copy in four volumes, original publishers boards loose with loss to back strips, good to very good text blocks, J. B. Nichols and Son, London, 1838; J.L. Vivian & Henry. H. Drake. 'The Visitation of the County of Cornwall in the Year 1620,' original cloth worn with backstip loose, bookplates of John Blowey and two others, vg text block, The Harleian Society, London, 1874. (5)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

LAWRENCE. T. E. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom,' First trade edition, original cloth with some markings, frontis and plates, some light toning to deckled edge, vg, Jonathan Cape, London, 1935.

Mid-century newspapers with world-changing headlines The Daily Telegraph newspapers, including:Friday, December, 11th, 1936, London Late Edition, 'King Edward Abdicates'; Tuesday, August 7th, 1945, 'Allies Invent Atomic Bomb: First Dropped on Japan'; Wednesday, June 3rd, 1953, 'Elizabeth II Is Crowned'; Saturday, November 23rd 1963, 'President Kennedy is Assassinated'; Monday, January 25th, 1965, 'Sir Winston Churchill Dead'; Monday, July 21st, 1969, 'Americans First On The Moon'; Friday, August 9th, 1975, 'Nixon Tells America 'I Resign'.

EINZIG, Suzanne, (illustrations) Miss Richards' Mouse Written by Norah Pulling, with lithographs in colour and black & white, Noel Carrington, London & Transatlantic Arts Inc., New York, 1946. Scarce.Einzig was a Central School artist working under Farleigh, Kestelman and William Roberts from 1939 to 1942. She later worked for the War Office as a technical draughtsman before Noel Carrington commissioned her first books.Together with eleven Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit books, seven Alison Uttley children's books, four A. A. Milne works, including 'The House At Pooh Corner', first edition, Methuen & Co, 1928.

Studio Pottery Interest 'The Potter's Palette' and six other books related to the subject Christine Constant; Steve Ogden, 'The Potter's Palette', The Apple Press, 1998; Emmanuel Cooper & Derek Royle, 'Glazes for the |Studio Potter', B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1992; Reginald Marlow, 'Pottery Making & Decorating', The Studio Publications; Dora M. Billington, 'The Technique of Pottery', first edition, B.T. Batsford, 1962; George Wingfield Digby, 'The Work of The Modern Potter in |England', John Murray, first edition, 1952; Christine Rowe, 'The Potter's Workbook', B.T. Batsford, 1992; and John B. Kenny, 'The Complete Book of Pottery Making', Greenberg; sixth printing, 1953. (7)

Industry in Cornwall Twenty works. Bernard Hollowood. 'Cornish Engineers,' first edition, quarter leather with green cloth, later uniform library dj, plates and descriptive guards, Holman Bros, Camborne, 1951; Cyril Noall. 'A History of Cornish Mail and Stage Coaches,' first edition, forward by Daphne Du Maurier, original cloth, later uniform library dj, plates, vg, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1963; Frank Booker. 'The Industrial Archaeology of The Tamar Valley,' first edition, original cloth, later dj, light spotting to edge of text block, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1967; John Ferguson. 'Forged and Founded in Cornwall,' first edition, unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, vg, Cornish Hillside Publications, 2000; Helen Harris and Monica Ellis. 'The Bude Canal,' first edition, unclipped dj, plares, vg, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972; H. L. Douch. 'Cornish Windmills,' original cloth, later dj, some light spotting to prelims, Oscar Blackford, Truro, 1963; John Ferguson and Charles Thurlow. 'cornish Brick Making and Brick Buildings,' first edition, unclipped dj, fine, Cornish Hillside Publications, 2005; With nine other books and four booklets. (20)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

Denys Val Baker. Eleven first editions, one signed omnibus. 'Summer at the Mill', 'Rose', 'Upstream at the Mill', 'A View from the Valley', 'The Tenant', 'Spring at Land's End'. 'Adventures Before Fifty' being the signed edition. (12)

M'Culloch, J.R 'Principles of Political Economy: With a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science' Edinburgh: Printed for William and Charles Tait: And Longman and Co, London, 1825, first edition.Some very sporadic spotting to the title page, X, paignation runs true to p.423, graphite notes to the margins of of p.18, p.96, 118, 190-1, 220-1, 222-3, 302-3, with sporadic graphite X throughout, burn hole to head margin of p.137.Generally speaking this book is in a very good condition.

(Homo erotica) Tom of Finland 'The Original Tom of Finland's Circus,' American version, illustrated wraps, duotone illustrations, sterling price label to front wrap, moderate shelf wear, minor bump to tail fore-edge corner, very minor soiling to edges, vg, [no date, but mid 1970's]; John S. Barrington. 'The Tom Album,' vol III only, first edition limited to 1,000, pictorial thin card wraps, staple bound, some loose leaves, minor finger soiling, vg, 1974. (2)

BLIGHT, J. T. 'A Week at Land;s End,' First edition, half calf with marbled boards and morocco label, rubbed and bumped with paper label pasted to stuck board, ex libris label for Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott, later dj, staining and spotting to prelims, plates and maps complete as called for, a very interesting copy in good condition, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London, 1861; With a limp back Alison Hodge edition, 1989. (2)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

Mining in Cornwall Thirteen works. T. R. Harris. 'A Short History of the Cornish Explosives Industries,' typescript, staple bound, fourth general meeting held at the Camborne School of Mines, Wednesday 27th January 1971; F. Lyde Caunter. 'The Future of Metalliferous Mining in Great Britain. With Special Reference to Tin and Tungsten, and Suggestion for Saving Dollars,' original embossed cloth, pp.56, vg, Philip & Sons, Liskeard, [1956]; Bryan Earl. 'Cornish Explosives,' full cloth bound by Cramp of Cornwall, speckled red ink edge, pp.317, vg to fine, The Trevithick Society, 1978; 'Geology of the Lizard and Meneage,' second edition, original l titled cloth, plates and frontis, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Braitain, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1949; Roger Burt (ed). 'Cornish Mining. Essays on the Organisation of Cornish Mines and The Cornish Mining Economy,' first edition, unclipped dj with spotting and later library backstrip, vg text block, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1969; J. H. Collins. 'A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon,' second edition reprinted, original cloth, unclipped dj with library backstrip, vg, D. Bradford Barton, 1969; John Greenwood. 'The Industrial Archaeology and Industrial History of South Western England. A Bibliography,' first editpp.253, fine, Merton Priory Press, Cardiff, 1999; With six other works. (13)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

Prose and creative writing Eight works. J. D. Hosken. 'Verses by the Way,' introduction by Arthur Quiller-Couch, original decorative cloth, engraved title page, deckled edge, some toning, pp.81, advertisements to the rear, vg, Methuen & Co, London, [1893]; Jack Clemo. 'Cactus on Carmel,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, uncut leaves, vg to fine, pp.52, Methuen, 1967; A. L. Rowse. 'Poems Chiefly Cornish,' first edition, lacks dj, original cloth, pp.78, fine, Faber and Faber, London, 1944; Frank Baron. 'Cornish Yarns,' printed card wraps, pp.88, light spotting to edge of text block, John W. Saundry, Penzance, [1953]; With two copies of 'My Cornwall' with contributions by Daphne du Maurier, Denys Val Baker, Derek Tangye, Jack Clemo, etc; With two others. (8)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

C. Napier Hemy (illustrations). 'An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall,' original blue cloth with bright gilt tooled St Michael's Mount to front board, back strip loosening with some loss, vg text block with illustrations throughout, MacMillan and Co, London, 1884; 'John Norden's Manuscript Maps of Cornwall and its Nine Hundreds,' facsimile, cloth boards, colour illustrations with essay by William Ravenhill, some light spotting, University of Exeter, 1972; 'A Topographical and Historical Survey of Cornwall in 1650,' facsimile, card wraps, Frank Graham, 1966; R. C. E. Quixley. 'Antique Maps of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly,' first edition, pub by the author, Penzance, 1966; Andrew Lanyon. 'The Rooks of Trelawne', written with Charles Thomas's book on Cornish photographers & their work, card wraps, vg, the Photographers Gallery, 1976; With eight other works including Thurston's 'Trees & Shrubs in Cornwall' and Hartings 'Rodd's Birds of Cornwall'. (13)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

The Industrial Revolution. John Farey. 'A Treatise on the Steam Engine. Historical, Practical, and Descriptive (1827),' reprint, two volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj with sun bleaching to spines, spotting to prelims and edge of text block, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1971; Lawrence P. S. Piper. 'Camborne School of Mines. A History of Mining Education in Cornwall,' first edition, unclipped dj, fine, Trevithick Society in celebration of 125th anniversary of the Camborne School of Mines, 2013; Tony Brooks & John Watton. 'King Edward Mine. An Illustrated Account of Underground and Surface Operations 1897-2001,' photographic card wraps, images throughout, vg, Cornish Hillside Publications, St Austell, 2002; Neil Cossons & Barrie Trinder. 'The Iron Bridge. Symbol of the Industrial Revolution,' first edition, unclipped dj illustrations throughout, vg, Moonraker Press, 1979; With a large collection of other works. (30+)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, 1882. Horace N. Pym (ed) 'Memories of Old Friends Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall from 1835-1871,' first edition, pages uncut, original,publisher's velum-backed boards, a very good copy, Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1882.Caroline Fox (1819-1871) the daughter of Robert Were Fox, geologist and inventor, a member of an English Quaker family, recorded her observations of prominent scientists and intellectuals of her time. John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

Mining and surveying. Five works. J. H. Collins. 'Observations on the West of England Mining Region,' first edition, original cloth with tears and rubbed, flat signed Herbert V. Thomas Dolcoath Mine to front free endpaper, fold out map, lithograph plates, printed for the Author by William Brendon & Son, Plymouth, 1912; J. B. Johnson. 'The Theory and Practice of Surveying,' sixteenth edition, original cloth, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1907; A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. 'The Cornish Miner,' first edition, original cloth sun bleached, ink libri stamps to endpapers Camborne School of Mines, plates, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1927; Bennett H. Brough. 'A Treatise on Mine-Surveying,' ninth edition, original cloth, ink initials R.C.A.H, Charles Griffin & Company, London, 1902; With a rough copy of James D. Dana's 'Manual of Mineralogy & Petrography, 1895. (5) From the estate of Ron Hooper, M.V.O., A.C.S.M., F.I.M.M.Born in St.Agnes, he graduated from Camborne School of Mines. After a short career mining in the Gold Coast of Ghana he joined the Camborne School of Mines, eventually becoming Senior Lecturer in Surveying. At the same time, he acted as an independent mining engineer and was appointed mineral agent for several Cornish estates including the Duchy of Cornwall, Tregothnan, and the Godolphin Estate (amongst others).

CORNISH, John B The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809,' first edition, orginal cloth, frontis illustration, printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New Street Square, London, published by Gibbings & co, London, J. Pollard, cornwall, 1894

Antarctic and Arctic exploration Twenty eight works. Fridtjof Nansen. 'Farthest North,' two vols, rebound in a contemporary green cloth, copious plates throughout, speckled red ink edge, vg, George Newnes, London, 1898; George Binney. 'With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic,' original cloth, sun bleached backstrip, spotting to edges of leaves through, copious plates as called for, vg, Hutchinson & Co, London, n.d; Sir Douglas Mawson. 'The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914,' first edition thus, original cloth, splitting to rear joint, spotting to prelims and edge of text block, plates and fold out maps, good to vg, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1930; Martin Lindsay. 'Sledge. The British Trans-Greenland Expedition 1934,' first edition, lacks dj, original cloth, spotting to prelims and edge of text block, plates, Cassell and Company, 1935; Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary. 'the Crossing of the Antarctica,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting throughout, good, Cassell, London, 1958; With twenty two other works. (28)

(Cornish history and topography) Fifteen works. A. C. Todd. 'Beyond the Blaze. A Biography of Davies Gilbert,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, vg, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1967; D. E. Benney. 'An Introduction to Cornish Watermills,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, vg to fine, Bradford Barton, 1972; C. T. Andrews. 'the Dark Awakening. A History of St. Lawrences Hospital. Bodmin,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, fine, Cox & Wyman, London, 1978; A. C. Bizley. 'The Slate Figures of Cornwall,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj with uniform library backstrip, vg Worden Printers, Marazion, 1965; With eleven other works on Cornwall. (15)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

Cornish history Six good works. H. Spencer Toy. 'The History of Helston,' first edition, light staining to original cloth, later uniform library dj, spotting to prelims and edge of text block, pp.652, fold out illustration of Loe Pool, ink owner inscription to front free endpaper, good, Oxford University Press, London, 1936; Charles Henderson. 'A History of the Parish of Constantine in Cornwall,' edited by G. H. Doble, first edition, original cloth, later uniform library dj, ink signature to title page, spotting throughout, plates, fair to good, The Royal Institution of Cornwall, The Kings Stone Press, 1937; 'St. Columb Major, Church & Palace Cornwall,' first edition, printed card wraps, plates, some sporadic light spotting but generally vg, pp.71, The Kings Stone Press, Shipston-On Stour, [1930]; Alfred Hayman Cummings. 'The Churches and Antiquities of Cury & Gunwalloe in the Lizard District, including Local Traditions,' first edition, original green cloth boards with bevelled edge and gilt tooled lettering, rubbed and bumped, later dj, some light sporadic spotting and toning, plates, E. Marlborough & Co, Truro, 1875; H. R. Coulthard. 'The Story of an Ancient Parish. Breage with Germoe,' first edition, original light blue cloth with gilt lettering, later dj, ex libris label, spotting to edge of text block, plates, pp.154, vg, The Camborne Printing and Stationery Company, 1913; With C. C. James 'A History of the Parish of Gwennap in Cornwall. (6)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

RASHLEIGH, Philip. 'Specimens of British Minerals, Selected from The Cabinet of......With General Descriptions of Each Article,' First edition, volume I (of II), later cloth backed card boards, ex libris label to pastedown, tape repair to the hinge of title page verso and introduction, tape to hinge of p.13 and p.25, p.54-55-56 uncut, p.49-50-51-52 uncut, thirty three plates as called for, pp.56, table titled Specific Gravities of Several Minerals to rear, sparse and slight incidences of spotting, a vg text block with fine aquatint plates illustrated by Henry Bone (1755-1834) of Truro, W. Bulmer & Co for G. Nicol, London, 1797.Philip Rashleigh (1729-1811) of Menabilly was a renowned collector of mineral specimens, particularly of tin, much of which is on display at the Royal Cornwall Museum with portions at the Natural History Museum. By 1794 he had acquired over 4,000 mineral specimens and started to look for "a good clever man to draw and colour some of my minerals,". He settled on the well known Cornish enamel painter, Henry Bone (1755-1834) whose paintings were used to produce the plates for this scarce, early illustrated work on mineralogy. A very good copy of the first volume.

Cornish Biography Ten works. L. V. Hodgkin. 'A Quaker Saint of Cornwall. Loveday Hambly and Her Guests,' first edition, compliment slip from the author slipped in, cloth backed drab boards, later uniform library dj, spotting to deckled edge, plates, 228, Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1927; 'The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809,' first edition thus, original cloth, unclipped dj with taped library backstrip, ex libris label, very light spotting to edge of textblock, vg, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1971; Tom Tremewan. 'cornish Youth. Memories of a Perran Boy (1895-1910),' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj with taped library backstrip, some sp;otting to prelims, good to vg, Oscar Blackford, Truro, 1968; William Frederick Collier. 'Tales and Sayings of William Robert Hicks, of Bodmin,' third edition, enlarged, staining to original cloth, some sporadic spotting, good, Simkin et al, London, 1893; P. A. Boyan & G. R. Lamb. 'Francis Tregain. Cornish Recusant,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj with taped library backstrip, vg, Sheed and Ward, London, 1955; With five other works. (10)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

(Signed) Du MAURIER, Daphne 'The Winding Star. Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall,' Flat signed and inscribed to front free endpaper 'For Betty Farrell Slightly harder reading- take your time!.....February 1977, first US edition, original cloth, nibbles to unclipped dj, spotting to edge of text block, ex libris label, Doubleday & Company, Inc, New York, 1977.

JH Patterson 'Man-Eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures' Illustrated slipcase and illustrations throughout, 1907.I believe this to be a first edition, but it is probably a second issue as it lacks the gilt tooled lion to the front board.

SIMMONS, O 'Book of Bread' 1903, First Edition, Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh, Maclaren & Sons, London.

BANNISTER, John. 'A Glossary of Cornish Names, Ancient and Madern, Local, Family, Personal, &c.: 20,000 Celtic and Other Names, Now Formerly in Use in Cornwall,' First edition, five parts with original wraps bound in one volume, half green leather, slight cracking to front joint, ex libris label, speckled edge, pp.212, vg, James R. Netherton. Truro, 1869.John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

(Signed) DETMOLD, Edward J. 'The Fables of Aesop,' Signed limited first edition numbered 121/750, original cloth with gilt decorations, large loss to head of backstrip, ex libris label for Windermere Public Library, twenty five colour plates as called for, vg text block, Hodder and Stoughton, london 1909.

KANE, Elisha Kent 'Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin,' Two volumes, first edition, half calf with marbled board, rubbed and bumped with loss to morocco labels, engraved portrait frontispieces, additional engraved titles, 18 plates, 3 maps, of which 2 folding, illustrations, spotting, bookplate, vol. 1 with advertisements at beginning, ex libris label to vol II H. & B. Stothert, good to very good, Childs and Peterson, Philadelphia, 1856; With a cloth bound reprint, vg, London, 1894. (3)

GRAHAM, Winston. The first five works. 'Ross Poldark,' second impression, reprint, unclipped dj by Charles Mozley with later uniform library blackstrip, spotting to prelims and edge of textblock, fair to good, The Bodley Head, London, 1965; 'Demelza,' second impression, reprint, unclipped dj by Charles Mozley with later uniform library blackstrip, spotting to edge of text block, good, The Bodley Head, London, 1965; 'Jeremy Poldark,' reprint, unclipped dj by Charles Mozley with later uniform library blackstrip, spotting to edge of text block, good,T. Werner Laurie, London, 1961; 'Warleggan,' reprint, unclipped dj by Charles Mozley with later uniform library blackstrip, spotting throughout, Werner Laurie, London, 1961; 'The Black Moon,' first edition, clipped dj, vg, Collins, London, 1973. (5)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

J Harris 'Bulo; Reubon Ross, A Tale of the Manacles; Hymn, Song and Story' first edition, rebound, 1871.

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 boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 352 pages, some foxing otherwise good copy, handwritten letter tipped in, Hamilton, Adams and Co, London, 1881.

[THURSTAN, Peter] 'History of Cornwall for My Children by Their Father,' First edition, original cloth with a small amount of staining, inc owner inscription to front pastedown, pp.52, vg, Houlston and Sons, London, 1891.John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

(Signed) DAWSON, Lucy. 'Dogs As I See Them,' First edition, flat signed by the author and dated 1936 to front free endpaper, light bleaching to original cloth, lacks dj, illustrated throughout, vg, Collins, London, 1936.

Occult Interest Star Cats Martin and Jill Leman, illustrations by Martin and the text by Jill, first edition, Pelham Books, 1980; Joan Hodson, 'The Stars & The Chakras - The Astrology of Spiritual Unfoldment', first edition, not price-clipped, White Eagle Publishing Trust, 1990.

Cornish shipwrecks and rescue. Seven works. Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr. 'Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast,' three vols, first editions, original cloth, later uniform library dj, some toning to edges of leaves, vg, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1964-65; Cyril Noall. 'Cornish Lights and ShipWrecks,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj with uniform library backstrip added, spotting to edge of text block, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1968; Richard Larn and Clive Carter. 'Cornish Shipwrecks,' three volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj with uniform library backstrip added, David & Charles, Newton Abbott, 1971. (7)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

SVERDRUP, Otto 'New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions,' Two volumes, first English edition, original blue cloth with silver gilt decorations, Hornsey County School tooled to front boards, prize labels to pastedown, plates throughout, colour maps to rear pocket of vol II, vg, Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1904. (2)

NICHOLS, Wallace Six works 'Ode in the Atomic Age', signed, Worden Ltd, 1955; 'Saint Caedmon's Feast', inscribed to Ella Naper and signed, Ward, Locke & Co, 1933; 'Prometheus in Piccadilly', first edition, Ward, Locke & Son, 1927; 'Tapestries - Poems:1928-1933', first edition, Ward, Locke & Co, 1934 and two other pamphlets (6)

Tobias Martin 'Remains of the Late Tobias Martin of Breage in Cornwall, Mine Agent' Helston: printed at the Temple of the Muses by W. Penaluna, First Edition, 1831

George Orwell The Road to Wigan Pier 1937, The Left Book Club, London: Victor Gollancz, First edition, original orange paper boards (1)

ROWE, Samuel. 'A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor,' Large paper edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is No.26, staining to original cloth, frontis and plates, vg text block, James G. Commin, Exeter, 1896; With a first edition 'High Dartmoor' by Eric Hemery. (2)

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. 'The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes First edition, first issue with "you" for "your" on p.13, fine original cloth with gilt tooled decorations, ink inscription to front free endpaper 'To Mary J. Loggesh all from mother Easter 1903', half title, small 1.5cm tear to margin of pp.343 not effecting text, evidence of previous dog earing, sixteen plates as called for, George Newnes, London, 1902.A very good to fine copy. The red line has been digitally inserted by an enthusiastic photographer and is not physically on the page. This is a fine copy.

BURDEKIN, Kay (Katherine) Two works, both inscribed to Ella Naper 'The Children's Country', with eight colour plates. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered orange on spine and front cover with colour illustration onset to cover showing a fairy like figure moving towards a young man whose seated in a wood. Inscribed 'Ella, with love from Betty', William Morrow & Co, New York, first edition, 1929.'The Rebel Passion', first edition, inscribed by the author 'Ella, from K. B' and dated April 13th 1929, NY: William Morrow & Company, 1929. Katherine Burdekin was the younger sister of Rowena Cade, the creator of The Minack Theatre.

Andrew Lanyon (1947) 'Now You See It "A Cornish Illusion"' First edition, limited to 250 copies this being number 19, illustrated throughout, thin card wraps, fine condition, 1994.

Christianity in Cornwall Thirteen works. W. S. Lach-Szyrma. 'A Church History of Cornwall and of the Diocese of Truro,' first edition, original embossed cloth with gilt tooled lettering, sun bleaching to spine with the tape marks, four leaves of advertisements to front, contemporary ink owner signature to title, pp.142, a vg copy, Elliot Stock, London, [1887]; 'Records of St. Eart Village Methodism,' original cloth, gilt lettering to front board, ink owner inscription to front free endpaper, pp.36, a scarce work in vg condition, John W. Saundry, Penzance, 1913; J. F. Odgers. 'Early Methodism in Camborne. Wesley Chapel 1828-1958,' printed card wraps, staple bound, illustrations, pp.151, vg, the Camborne Printing and Stationery Co, [1959]; With nine other works including 'The Celtic Christanity of Cornwall' by T. Taylor, and works by G. H. Doble. (13)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

Melodrama and high adventure. Thirteen Cornish works. Silas K. Hocking. 'Tales of a Tin Mine,' first edition, vg original pictorial cloth with gilt titles, corners slightly turned in, presentation label to pastedown from Pickering Primitive Methodist Sunday School, four plates, pp.127, small amount of spotting to prelims, some instances of finger soiling, eight loosely connected stories (with two being supernatural), generally vg, Horace Marshall & Son, London, 1898; George Manville Fenn. 'Menhardoc: A Story of Cornish Nets and Mines,' original decorative cloth with bright gilt tooling, protected by loose library dj, cracked inner joint, ink owner inscription to front free endpaper, seven plates, pp.352, pp.32 bok catalogue to rear, some finger soiling, a good to very good copy, Blackie & Son, London, 1885; J. C. Tregarthen. 'John Penrose. A Romance of the Land's End,' original cloth with split and sun bleached backstrip, loosely inserted note with the provenance '....the book was the late Creswell-Payne ....who new Tregathan well', a fair to good copy, John Murray, London, 1923; With ten other works including series one and two of Mark Guy Pearse's 'Daniel Quorm', 'The Terror of the Mine' by G. Manville Fenn, 'Deep Down' by R. M. Ballantyne, 'Wheal Darkness' by H. D. Lowry and C. A. Dawson etc. (13)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.

HARRIS, Robert (1581-1658) Sammelband volume of Sermons Full polished calf with chips to end of back strip and splitting to joints, toning throughout, seven full separate publications, including;'Samuels Funeral: Or A Sermon Preached at the Funerall of Sir Anthonie Cope, Knight and Baronet,' vignette woodcut to title page, headpiece, dedication to Lady Anne Cope, pp.25 runs true, printed by the Assignes of Thomas Mann, &c. and are to be sold by John Bartlet, ath the golden Cup in Goldsmiths Row in Cheape-side, London, 1630;'The Drunkards Cup....Esay 5. 22,' vignette woodcut to title page, tears to pp.1 with no loss to print, dedication to his 'Maiesties' (Majesties) Justice of the Peace, pp.29, Thomas Man for John Bartlet, 1930.'Gods Goodness and Mercie. Laid Open in a Sermon, Preached at Pauls- Corsse, on the last of June. 1622,' fourth edition corrected, headpiece, dedication to Sir Baptist Hicks, tide mark visible throughout being stronger to the rear, some contemporary ink markings and notes to margins, postscript, pp.29 runs true, W. I. for John Bartlet, 1931.'Peters Enlargement upon The Prayers of the Church,' eighth edition, headpieces, dedicated to the reader, pp.46, T. P. for John Bartlet, 1634.'Hezekiahs Recovery. Or a Sermon Shewing what use Hezekiah did, and all should make of their deliverance from sickness,' vignette woodcut to title page, woodcut head piece with Hebrew text, tide mark visible throughout not effecting text, pp.48 runs true, John Haviland for John Bartlet, 1630.'Sixe Sermons of Conscience,' separate pagination for each sermon, loss to margin of title page and to edge of textblock not effecting print from pp.33 to pp.66 of first sermon, some toning and finger soiling throughout, H. L. for John Bartlet, 1630.'The Way to True Happiness. Deliuered in XXIV. Sermons upon the Beatitudes....Also, A Treatise of the New Covenant,' vignette woodcut to title page, headpiece, pp.322 runs true, John Bartlet, 1632.''Seventeenth Sermon,' lacks title page, slight tide mark. pp.186 runs true, binders page with contemporary ink inscription by Elizabeth Grace, [c.1630].The final two sermons lack title pages and have a mixed paignation, titles could be 'A Tretise of the Covenant' and 'Of Siftness of Heart'.A good to very good survivor of Robert Harris's sermons; the Puritan preacher, member of the Westminster Assembly and President of Trinity College.