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Click here to subscribeAn 18ct gold hunting cased keywind fob watch, the gilt three-quarter plate movement detailed 'Douglas R. Samuel Liverpool No. 5210', the similarly signed enamelled dial with black Roman hour numerals, the case with engine turned decoration, Chester 1868, total weight 50.8g, case diameter 4cm.
An International Watch Co (IWC) Yacht Club Automatic steel cased gentleman's wristwatch, the signed and jewelled C8541 caliber movement numbered '1828492', the signed silvered dial with baton hour markers and date aperture, the signed case back interior detailed 'R 811 AD' above '1848632', case width 3.5cm, on a black leather strap.
A STAR SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND CLUSTER DRESS RING The circular sugarloaf cabochon sapphire within a surround of old European cut diamonds, approximately 1.20 carats total, the shank stamped 18ct Size/dimensions: finger size R Gross weight: 15.9 grams Condition Report: The star is not strong, pale colour, numerous typical inclusions some surface reaching. Some general wear to the settings, a couple of the claws holding the diamonds are missingCondition Report Disclaimer
A SILVER GILT AND ENAMELLED COMMEMORATIVE TABLE BELL STUART DEVLIN, LONDON 1973, NO. 27 Commemorating the marriage of H. R. H. Princess Anne to Captain Mark Phillips 14.11.73, with a textured body to an enamelled leaf and floral terminal 22cm (8 3/4in) high 329g (10.55 oz) gross With a Stuart Devlin box
1 500-ml bts Carl Loewen Riseling Auslese 2003 Leiwener Laurentiuslay hf, bs 1 bt Carl Loewen Leiwener Laurentiuslay Riesling Auslese 2004 sl bs 2 x 37.5 bts Dönnhoff Riesling Auslese Oberhäuser Brücke 2003 raised caps bs 1 50-cl bt Geiben Karlsmuhle Lorenzhöfer Riesling Auslese 2004 M-S-R bs 2 hf bts Riesling Auslese Weingut Johannishof 2004 Johannisberger Hölle hf 2 500-ml bts Leitz Riesling Auslese Rüdesheimer Kirchenpfad Auslese 2004 bs 3 bts Schloss Lieser Niederberg Helden Riesling Auslese 2005 1 cdl Above 12 various sized bottles
1 bt Reichsrat Von Bühl Forster Pechstein Riesling Kabinett 1994 Pflaz 2 bts Reichsrat Von Buhl Reiterpfad GG 2009 1 bt Bert Simon Herrenberg Serrig Würtzberg Riesling Kabinett 1994 M-S-R 1 bt Leitz Riesling Kabinett 2005 3 bts Leitz Rüdesheimer Rosengarten Riesling Kabinett 2009 Above 8 bottles
1 bt Howard Park Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot 1994 Western Australia i.n, bs 1 bt R B J Theologicum Mouvèdre Grenache 1996 Tanunda i.n 1 bt Vasse Felix Heytesbury 1996 Barossa Valley, Western Australia i.n 1 bt Parker Terra Rossa First Growth 1998 Coonawarra Estate i.n 1 37.5 cl bt Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut 2000 Clare Valley hf Above 4 bottles and 1 37.5 cl bottle
1 bt Schloss Plettenberg Kreuznacher Brückes Riesling Auslese 1989 1 bt Serriger Vogelsang Riesling Auslese 1989 M-S-R bs 1 50-cl bt Staatliche Weinbaudomaine Niderhausen Schlossbockelheim Hermansberg Riesling Spätlese 1992 2 bts Michael Schafer Burg-Layer Schlosskapelle Riesling Spätlese 2001 Nahe 1 bt Walter Riesling Trocken 2009 Mosel 3 bts Stepp 'S' Riesling Kallstadter Saumagen 2013 Marks and Spencer Above 8 bottles and 1 50-cl bottle
GORDON HAYES, J 'Antarctica. A Treatise on the Southern Continent,' First edition, original cloth with gilt lettering, sun faded and lightly rubbed, spotting to prelims and edge of text block, frontis, copious full plates, pp.448, vg, The Richards Press, London, 1928; 'The Conquest of the South Pole: Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931,' first edition, original cloth, sun bleached backstrip, rubbed and bumped, frontis, plates, spotting to edge of text block, good to vg, Thornton Butterworth, London, 1932; R. E. Peary. 'Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906,' first UK edition, original cloth, splitting to joint, rubbed and bumped, frontis debound, one plate loose, fold out map to rear, text block generally vg, Hutchinson & Co, London, 1907; Herbert G. Ponting. Fridtjof Nansen. 'The First Crossing of Greenland,' vol II only, original cloth with silver gilt decorations, chips to ends of backstrip with a small split along joint, some sporadic spotting throughout, engravings throughout, good to very good, Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1890; 'The Great White South,' first edition, original cloth with chips to backstrip, loose frontis, spotting to edge of text block, copious plates, Duckworth & Co, London, 1921; With two other works including a first edition Charles Turley 'Nansen of Norway' and 'Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901-1904' by The Blandford Press'. (7)
FOSTER, Birket (illustrations) 'Poems by Thomas Hood,' Original decorative cloth with gilt tooled text and borders, chips to ends of backstrip, gilt edge, some spotting throughout, tissue guards to illustrations, large margins, good to very good, E. Moxon, Son & Co, London, 1872; 'Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book; With Poetical Illustrations by L. E. L,' original full embossed cloth with ornate gilt tooling to spine, rubbed and bumped, gilt edge, ink owner inscription to front free endpaper, some finger soiling and spotting but generally good to very good text block, H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, London, 1835; With 'Scottish Loch Scenery' with numerous plate and with slightly battered original decorative cloth, fair to good, [c.1882]. (3)
Netherton & Worth (publishers) Four works. I. T. Tregellas. 'Peeps into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall,' illustrated by R. H. Carter and J. King James, original cloth rubbed and bumped, later library dj, text block detaching from cloth, ex libris label, some spotting and staining to textblock, fair to good, Netherton & worth, 1879; W. B. Forfar. 'Pengersick Castle; A Cornish Tale,' half leather with marbled boards, rubbed and bumped with splitting to head front joint, engraved title page, toning throughout as expected, vg, J. R. Netherton, 1862; 'Timothy Towser and 19 Other Cornish Tales in Prose and Verse,' reprinted from Netherton's Cornish Almanacks, original printed card wraps, some loss to spine, advertisements, pp.153, vg, Netherton & worth, 1890; 'Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse by Various Authors,' charming printed wraps with the title 'A Cornish Love Story,' small amount of loss to spine but others vg, slight spottin g to edge of text block, advertisements pp.75, 1893. (4)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
DAWSON, James. 'The Autobiography of Mr.....,' Original embossed cloth with a bevelled edge and gilt tooled title, ex libris label of Thurstan C. Peter, book sellers label for J. Pollard, graphite price to title page, pp.171, vg to fine of this scarce work, J. R. Netherton, Truro, 1865.John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
PENROSE, George (curator). 'Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Miniatures in the Alfred A. de Pass Collection,' Cornwall County Museum and Art Gallery Truro, an inscription to half title reads Pictures marked X sold at Christie's 1965-1966, printed thin card wraps, plates to rear, a very useful record, The Cornish Riviera Press, Truro, 1936; With twelve other booklets including 'Exhibition of Manuscripts and Printed Books on the cornish Language', 'A Guide to Cornish Place Names; by R. Morton Nance' and 'Catalogue of Exhibition of Documents Relating to The History of Cornwall'. (13)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
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.
Archaeology in Cornwall Thirty seven good booklets. C. E. Vulliamy. 'Prehistoric Remains in West Penwith,' nibbles to printed thin card wraps, toning, scarce, James Lanham, St Ives, 1921; C. A. Ralegh Radford. 'Castle Dore. Interim Report on the First Season (1936) of Excavations,' printed card wraps, staple bound, vg, Oscar Blackford, Truro, 1937; R. Ashington Bullen. 'Harlyn Bay and the Discoveries of its Prehistoric Remains,' printed red card wraps with some slight tears and staining, graphite notes to half title, good, colonel Bellers, Harlyn Bay, 1912; Vivien Russell. 'West Penwith Survey,' printed card wraps, ex libris label, vg, Cornwall Archaeological Society Parochial Checklist Survey, Truro, 1971; Rev C. B. Crofts. 'Interim Report of 1939 and 1948 Seasons Excavations at Maen Castle Cornwall'; Charles Thomas. 'People and Pottery in Dark Age Cornwall,' West Cornwall Field Club (WCFC), 1960; A. Guthrie. 'The Ramno-British Native Settlement at Goldherring, Sancreed,' WCFC, 1959; 'Site at Porthmeor in Zennor (Under Excavation in 1933, 1934 and 1935),' Cornwall Excavations Committee, 1935; Rev C. B. Crofts. 'A Guide to the Excavations at Bodrifty, Mulfra,' WCFC, 1954; Charles Thomas. 'Christian Sites in West Penwith Excursion Guide, Thursday, June 27, 1974,' the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1974; C. A. Ralegh Radford. 'the Early Christian Inscriptions of Dumnonia,' The 1974 Holbeche Corfield Lecture, Cornwall Archaeological Society, 1975; Florence Nankivell (ed). 'The Principal Antiquities of the Newquay-Padstow District,' Cornwall Archaeological Society, 1962; A. C. Thomas, 'Minor Sites in the Gwithian Area (Iron Age to Recent),' Gwithian Reports No 3, [1964]; Charles Thomas. 'The Principal Antiquities of The Land's End District,' WCFC, 1954; Lieut-Col F. C. Hirst. 'Notes upon three Excavation Sites in Zennor: Porthmeor, Trewey-Foage, Kerrow And upon A Wayside Museum,' WCFC, 1937; With twenty two other booklets, including some multiples. (37)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
(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.
(Restormel, Ludgvan, Launceston, Land's End, Lostwithiel &c., &c) Booklets and ephemera Otho B. Peter. 'Launceston Priory. The Substance of a Lecture by...... Read Before the Launceston Scientific and Historical Society, 7th January, 1889,' printed thin card wraps, staple bound, front wrap loose, some toning and light spotting, plates, pp.19, J. Brimmell, Launceston, [1889]; J. W. Higgins. 'An Ancient Cornish Town. Lostwithiel,' thin card wraps, staple bound, plates, pp.44, vg, W. R. Higgins, Lostwithiel, n.d; Richard Larn & G. Edwin Mills. 'Shipwrecks at Land's End,' thin card wraps, staple bound, plates, pp.34, vg, Clarke, Doble & Brendon, Plymouth, 1970; With twenty six others including a 'Land's End Experience' visitor pack. (29)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
DUGDALE, William. 'Monasticon Anglicanum: or, The History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches..., the Whole Corrected, and Supplied with many useful Addition,' Full embossed calf with compartmentalized spine, front board debound, nibbles to corner of prelims including engraved frontis and black and red title page, complete with 103 engraved plates including 8 double-page (many after Hollar), a vg text block, R. Harbin for D. Browne & J. Smith, 1718.
Mid to late 19th century Cornish poetry. Five works. Charles T. Bath. 'Poems and Prose,' printed thin card wraps detached, rust to staple bind, graphite notes to title page, vg text block, a very scarce work with a humerous preface '...I was always a backward child, a gift that I have no control over......I may say in conclusion I have never read a book in my life, not even a novel. This book is written from my own experience and observation', Camborne Printing and Stationary Company, [1909]; W. Herbert Thomas. 'The Socialist's Longing and Other Poems,' card backed canvas wraps with gilt tooled lettering, sun bleached and rubbed, pp.85, vg, F. Rodda, Penzance, 1893; 'Poems of Cornwall by Thirty Cornish Authors,' original cloth with gilt lettering, photographic frontispiece, short bio of each author, vg to fine, F. Rodda, Penzance, 1892; Rev R. S. Hawker. 'the Cornish Ballads and Other Poems,' original green cloth with bevelled edges and gilt decorations, rubbed and bumped, ex libris label, in joint splitting, vg text block, James Parker and Co, Oxford and London, 1869; Henry Sewell Stokes. 'The Voyage of Arundel,' signed by the author to title page, new edition, original cloth, later dj, vg, Longmans, Green, & co, London, 1884. (5)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
JACOB, Giles 'A New Law-Dictionary,' '...containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law, as also the law and practice, under the proper heads and titles ...,' second edition, full calf, rubbed and bumped with chips, loss to head of title page not affecting text, vg text block, E. and R. Nutt et al, Savoy, London, 1732.
The Great Western Railway. 'Through the Window. Paddington to Penzance (Cornish Riviera Route),' number one in the series, original blue cloth, later uniform library dj, gilt edge, plates and maps throughout, vg, The Great Western Railway, 1924; G. H. Anthony. 'The Hayle, West Cornwall and Helston Railways,' card wraps, later dj, vg, The Oakwood Library of Railway History, The Oakwood Press, 1968; R. J. Woodfin. 'The Centenary of the Cornwall Railway,' original orange cloth, later dj, fold out map for frontis, plates, vg, W. Jefferson & Son, ely, 1960; 'The Ocean Coast,' second edition, original cloth with card wrap bound in, plates, vg, Great Western Railway, London, 1927; S. P. B. Mais. 'The Cornish Riviera,' third edition, vg printed card wraps, later dj, plates and illustrations throughout, some spotting to margins otherwise a vg copy, Great Western Railway Company, London, 1934; E. T. MacDermot and C. R. Clinker. 'History of the Great Western Railway,' three volumes, 1833-1863, 1864-1922, 1923-1948, revised editions, original cloths, later dj's, vg, Ian Allen, 1964, 1964, 1967; With twenty one other works and a collection of booklets. (29+)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.
NANCE, R. Morton and SMITH, A. S. D (trans) 'Passyon Agan Arluth. Cornish Poem of the Passion,' Spotting to thin card wraps, staple bound, ex libris label, typescript, each leaf showing two columns in Kernewek and English, scarce, Kesvd an Tavas Kernewek, 1972; Donald R. Rawe. 'Petroc of Cornwall. A Play,' printed card wraps, flat signed by playwright to verso of front wrap, staple bound, pp.42, vg, The Lodenek Press, Padstow, [1970]; 'The Trials of St. Piran,' printed card wraps, staple bound, pp.55, vg, The Lodenek Press, Padstow, [1971]; 'Souvenir Programme of the Gorsedd of the Bards at Trippet Stones, near Bodmin, on Saturday, the 20th August, 1938,' printed thin card wraps, staple bound with rust, a scarce survivor; With three other works. (7)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.
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.
Pamphlets, booklets and publications related to the Cornish Language Including R. Morton Nance, 'A Glossary of Celtic Words in Cornish Dialects'. Published by The Royal Cornish Polytechnic Society, thirty-nine pages, 1923; A. S. D. Smith, 'The Story of the Cornish Language - Its Extinction and Revival', printed by The Camborne Printing and Stationary Co., Ltd, twenty pages, wraps detached, 1947; two copies of T. F. G. Dexter's 'Cornish Names', both 1968 reprints; and nine other works (13)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
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.
(Camborne) Five scarce works. J. Sims Carah. 'The Parish of Camborne. Some Note on its History, its Antiquities and its People,' two vols, vol I sign and inscribed by the author to title page, printed card wraps, rust to staple bind, spotting to wraps and edge of text blocks, The Camborne Printing & Stationery Co, [c.1925]; 'Camborniana. Stories of Our Parish, Its People, And its Past. With Several Illustrations,' heavy toning and spotting throughout but perfectly readable and crucially intact, printed card boards with later leather back strip stapled, sturdy text block as a result, fair, The Camborne Printing & Stationery Co, 1897; 'Mate's Illustrated Guides. Camborne. Official Guide of the Urban District Council,' printed canvas wraps with some light staining, text block debound, profuse with advertisements and photographs including in mines by J. C. Burrow, later slip, vg, ink owner inscription to first page of text reads 'Lady Smith With J. R...19 Nov 1904, an intriguing and scarce work, no imprint or date (although inscription suggests c.1904); With a spotted short history of Camborne Literary Institution, 1829-1929. (5)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
Cornwall Railway interest. Carew-Pole Papers. Three vols of bound letters and indentures. Vol I-'Two Bills for Promoting the Railway in The County of Cornwall, 1844-1846,' bound in uniform blue cloth.Vol II-'Cornwall Railway Correspondence and Indentures for the Purchase of Land in the County of Cornwall, Antony Estate, Cornwall, 1855-1864,' indentures and MS relating to the railway 'Heads of Agreement for Land No 193, the Company have agreed to [the] procurement [of the] following lands in the parish of St Stephens.....together with the rights ...Carew...,' Includes detailed reports on Requisitions and Billing, with map, uniformly bound in blue cloth, 1855-1864.Vol III- 'Cornwall Railway/ G. W. R Correspondence, 1862-1902,' amended indentures, MS letters, and telegrams etc, all showing the working mechanisms of purchases of land by The G. W. R. from the Carew-Poles' of St Antony, uniformly bound in blue cloth, 1862-1902. (3)
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.
(Mining) Reports and Surveys. 'Climax Illustrated,' published as a representation of the original by the Trevithick Society, photographic card wraps, staple bound, the story of the CLIMAX War Effort, illustrated throughout, vg to fine, pp.50, #r. Booth, Penryn, [c.2005]; 'Our Work During the Great War,' published as a representation of the original by the Trevithick Society, printed colour wraps, illustrations throughout, fine, R. Booth, Penryn, 2005; 'The Minions Area Project. Cornwall's Heritage,' a report commissioned by Caradon District Council, card wraps, staple bound, illustrations, Dartington Institute, Caradon District Council, July 1986; With a number of surveys and reports including vol II of 'The Minions Survey', The Mineral Tramways Project and Camborne School of Mines Journal 1973. (10)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
A large collection of works. Mostly Cornish published limpbacks. I. S. Maxwell. 'Historical Atlas of West Penwith'; Peter Shepard. 'The Historic Towns of Cornwall. An Archaeological Survey'; C. H. Ward-Jackson. 'Stephens of Fowey. A Portrait of a Cornish Merchant Fleet 1867-1939'; Cornwall Archaeological Unit. Annual Report 1985-86; Charles Thomas. 'Military Insignia of Cornwall' with supplement (2); 'The Trinty House Museum. A Feasibility Study' by Poynton Bradbury Associates Architects; 'Census 1971. Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly' Parts I, II and III; 'The Ship Registers of the Port of Hayle' National Maritime Museum; Myrna Combellack. 'A Survey of Musical Activities in Cornwall,' 1974; E. M. R. Ditmas. 'Tristan and Iseult in Cornwall,' 1969; Gladys and F. L. Harris (ed). 'The Making of a Cornish Town. Torpoint and Neighbourhood Through Two Hundred Years,' 1976; A. C. Canner. 'the Parish of Tintagel. Some Historial Nores'; Malcolm Saville. 'Come to Cornwall'; With over fifty other works including subjects such as Archaeology, Redruth, Bodmin, Cornwall County Council, Mining, Callington, Trevithick &c. &c. (50+)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
Cornish history and culture A large collection of booklets. John Vivian. 'Tales of Cornish Miners'; Michael Tangye. 'Portreath. Some Chapters in its History'; Nigel Tangye. 'The Story of Glendorgal'; Winifred M. White. 'Walks in West Cornwall. Penzance and St. Ives'; H. Hugh Breton. 'The North Coast of Cornwall'; 'A first Cornish Anthology'; D. B. Barton. 'The Story of Cornwall's Enginehouses'; Cyril Noall. 'the Story of Cornwall's Ports and Harbours'; J. A. Williams. 'Cornish Tokens'; A. A. Clinnick. 'The Cornish Year'; S. V. Daniell. 'The Story of Cornwall's Churches'; P. A. S. Pool. 'The Life and Progress of Henry Quick of Zennor'; Frank Graham. 'Old Inns and Taverns in Cornwall'; Richard Gillis. 'Wrecks Around the Cornish Coast'; 'Jack and the Giants. A Story of Land's End in the Time of King Arthur'; Burness Bunn. 'The boy and the Bucca'; R. D. Penhallurick. 'Birds of Cornwall. Sea and Shore'; with double amount more, a fine collection. (30+)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
(Cornwall) Two maps and an engraving. Thomas Kitchen. 'Cornwall,' published in England Illustrated, by R & J Dodsley, 1764, vg, mounted, glazed and framed measuring 36cm x 38cm; 'North East View of Pendennis Castle , In the County of Cornwall,' by J. & N. Buck, 1734, vg, mounted, glazed and framed measuring 36cm x 54cm; With a spotted Robert Morden. (3)'North East View of Pendennis Castle , In the County of Cornwall,'A really good copy. Most of the better maps in this sale have come from the same vendor and this one is no exception. Some toning as to be expected, the ink in the description is slightly smudged in the middle, otherwise very good indeed.
Newman & Co (lithographers) 'Truro and Neighbourhood' Lithograph with contemporary hand colouring, a couple of small blemishes but otherwise in vg to fine condition, title covered by mount, glazed and frame measuring 50cm x 67.5cm, published by J. R. Netherton, Truro, [c.1850].A scarce copy in great condition.
Railway and GWR. Twenty five works. Philip J. Kelley. 'Road Vehicles of the Great Western Railway,' 1973; 'John Vaughn. 'The Newquay Branch and its Branches,' 1991; Mike Oakley. 'Cornwall Railway Stations,' 2009; Gordon Biddle and O. S. Nock. 'The Railway. Heritage of Britain. 150 Years of Railway Architecture and Engineering,' 1990; 'G. W. R. Timetables,' 1913; Stanley C. Jenkins. 'The Helston Branch Railway,' 1992; LTC Rolt. 'The Making of a Railway,' 1971; With eighteen other works. (25)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
Cornish directories. Five works. R. Symons. 'A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the County of Cornwall,' original red cloth with bevelled boards and gilt tooled lettering, later uniform library dj, front board loosening, prelims debound, tape repairs to verso of fold out map, some light spotting to margins throughout, good to very good, F. Rodda, Penzance, 1884; John Wallis. 'The Cornwall Register; Containing Collections relative to the Past and Present State of the 209 Parishes....,' original green cloth vg, later dj, some spotting to edges of text block and prelims, good, Liddell and Son, Bodmin, 1847; 'Venning's Postal Directory of East Cornwall, 1887,' original green cloth, copious advertisements, fold out map, numerous engravings, good to very good, pp.228, 1847; 'The Cornwall Directory. Blue Book, 1929,' original blue cloth with gilt lettering, vg, Plymouth Printers, 1929; With a directory of Places for the Fire Brigade. (5)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.
Mining in Cornwall A very good collection of twenty five works. H. G. Dines. 'The Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England,' two volumes, original cloth with embossed lettered titles to front board, later uniform library dj, folded maps in pockets to rear, vg to fine, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London, 1956; D. B. Barton. 'The Cornish Beam Engine,' flat signed and dedicated by the author, first edition, original cloth, later dj, vg, Wordens of Cornwall, Marazion, 1965; 'A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon,' first edition, original cloth, spotting throughout, good to very good, D. B. Barton, Truro, 1964; Robert R. Pennington. 'Stannary Law. A History of the Mining Law of Cornwall and Devon,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, vg, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973; Tony Brooks. 'A History of Iron Mining in Cornwall,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Cornish Hillside Publications, St Austell, 2011; Bryan Earl. 'Cornwall Mining. The Techniques of Metal Mining in the West of England, Past and Present,' first edition, original cloth, later dj, spotting to edge of text block, vg, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1968; R. M. Barton. 'An Introduction to the Geology of Cornwall,' first edition, 1964; J. B. Austin. 'The Mines of South Australia,' facsimile, some light spotting, vg, 1968; D. B. Barton. 'A History of Copper Mining in Cornwall and Devon,' second edition, unclipped dj, some spotting, 1968; Arthur Cecil Todd. 'the Cornish Miner in America,' first edition, good to vg, 1967; A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. 'the Cornish Miner. An Account of His Life Above and Underground from Early Times,' third edition, vg, 1962; H. W. Dickinson. 'The Cornish Engine,' clipped dj, vg, Art and Techics, 1951; G. R. Lewis. 'The Stannaries. A Study of the Medieval Tin Miners of Cornwall and Devon,' reprint, vg, 1965; William Pryce. 'Mineralogia Cornubiensis,' facsimile, light spotting to edge of text block, vg, 1972; Allen Buckley. 'Dolcoath Mine. A History,' original cloth, unclipped, dj, fine, The Trevithick Society, 2010; D. B. Barton. 'A History of Tin Mining and Smelting in Cornwall,' first edition, vg, 1967; Edmund Vale. 'The Harveys of Hayle,' first edition, spotting to pastdown, vg, 1966; With seven other works. (25)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
The History of China Clay. David Cock. 'A Treatise on China Clay,' original board with backstrip missing and text block completely debound, lacks titlepage, contents are good though, advertisements, [Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1880]; John Penderill-Church. 'William Cookworthy 1705-1780,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting to pastedown, plates, vg, Brasford Barton, Truro, 1972; Hubert Fox. 'The Story of William Cookworthy,' printed card wraps, staple bound, vg, written for the Cookworthy Museum in Old Grammar School at Kingsbridge, March, 1972; Kenneth Hudson. 'The History of English China Clays. Fifty Years of Pioneering and Growth,' first edition, unclipped dj with uniform library backstrip, some light spotting, plates, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, n.d; With two copies of R. M. Barton's 'A History of the Cornish China-Clay Industry' and another Kenneth Hudson; plus booklets. (14)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
Railway interest. Twenty three works. A. J. Mullay. 'Streamlined Steam. Britain's 1930s Luxury Expresses,' 2002; Alan A. Jackson. 'London's Local Railway,' 1999; Jack Simmons. 'The Railways of Britain,' 1986; 'The Railway in Town and Country 1830-1914,' 1986; C. F. Dendy Marshall and R. W. Kidner. 'History of the Southern Railway,' vols 1 and 2 combined, 1968; gordon Biddle. 'Britain's Historic Railway Buildings,' 2003; E. L. Ahrons. 'The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825-1925,' 1987; With sixteen other works. (23)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
(Penzance and St Michael's Mount) Nine works. 'Saundry's One and All Almanac,' printed card wraps debound, rust to staple bind, profuse with advertisements, vg text block, 1933; Edgar A. Rees. 'Old Pezance,' first edition, original cloth, later dj, spotting to prelims but generally vg, plates, pp.124, Printed by the Author, 1956; Reg Watkiss. 'Penzance and Newlyn. Early Photographs,' first edition, printed card boards, b+w photographs throughout, vg, Peter Dalwood, Penzance, 1975; Canon J. R. Fletcher. 'Short History of St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall,' first edition, origin al cloth, clipped dj, ex libris label, plates, some spotting, published at St Michael's Mount, 1951; With five other works. (9)John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.
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