The Frank Brewer Cornish Library

J. H. Collins. 'The Western Chronicle of Science'. First edition, rebound, fold out colour illustration of 'Patent Self-Acting Mineral Dressing Fl...

Charles Stokes Edsall (accountant). 'Copper Ore Tables,' 1854. 'Shewing the Prices of Ores,' first edition, subscribers list at the back showing 9...

James Dugdale. 'The New British Traveller (Cornwall),' 1819. 'Or Modern Panorama of England and Wales, Exhibiting an Account Historical, Topograph...

Cornish Worthies Walter H. Tregellas ‘Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families', published by Elliot Stock, London. This is a grangerised...

William Prideaux Courtney. 'The Parliamentary Representation of Cornwall to 1832'. First edition, original quarter goat, front board with slight s...

Ornithology in Cornwall. Two works. Hilda M. Quick. 'Marsh and Shore. Bird Watching on the Cornish Coast,' first edition, 136 pages, frontispiece ...

Thomas Hewitt Williams. 'Picturesque Excursions in Devonshire and Cornwall,' 1804. First edition, 8vo, part 1, subscribers list, large paper copy,...

John Jope Rogers. 'Opie and His Works: Being a Catalogue of 760 Pictures,' 'By John Opie, Preceded by a Biographical Sketch by John Jope Rogers,' ...

Two works. Cornwall County Council. 'Illustrated Special Edition of the West Briton and the Cornwall Advertiser, Thursday, June 20th 1889,' red co...

Rev. R. Polwhele. 'The Language, Literature, and Literary Characters of Cornwall'. First edition, 201 pages, later hard back binding, very good co...

An inquiry into charities relating to the County of Cornwall, 1837. 'The Reports of the Commissioners Appointed in Pursuance of Various Acts of Pa...

Four works on Cornish artists Sven Berlin. 'Alfred Wallis Primitive,' 1992 by Redcliff.Leonard J. Fuller. 'Cornish Pasty. A Painter’s Adventures i...

E. J. Joubert de la Ferte (eldest daughter of Philip Sandys Melvill C.S.I.). 'The Melvill Family. A Roll of Honour of the Descendants of Captain ...

Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, 1882. Horace N. Pym (ed). 'Memories of Old Friends Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Pen...

Three works. W. Wood. 'Wood’s Hand-Book to Cornwall with Map and Illustrations,' card wraps, fold out map, 142 pages plus advertisements, a good c...

Rendel Harris. 'The After Glow Essays'. 'Number One ‘’Up The Camel River‘’' first edition, 72 pages, card covers, tipped in a letter from the univ...

Jack and Nora Parsons. 'The Life of Henry Blewitt'. 'Cornish Fisherboy to Master Mariner ‘’The Life of Henry Blewitt’’' in 4 parts, part 1 'Mouseh...

Three works on sea rescue. Sir John Cameron Lamb. 'The Lifeboat and Its Work,' first edition, hardcover, no jacket, 88 pages, illustrations, photo...

'Stanhope A. Forbes A.R.A. and Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes A.R.W.S,' By Mrs Lionel Birch, first edition, original binding, good copy, Cassell and Co...

Thomas Pellow edited with an introduction and notes by Dr Robert Brown. 'The Adventures of Thomas Pellow of Penryn, Mariner. Three and Twenty Year...

Launceston interest. 'The Dunheved Mirror and College Ventilator (an amateur magazine) by A.A.G.H. and H.M.P,' volume 2, parts 1–12, 192 pages, in...

Cornubiae. 'Illustrissimi Principis Ducis Cornubiae,' 1688. (Illustrious Principal of the Duke of Cornwall), first edition, a collection of 17th c...

'The Lawrences of Cornwall,' By Edith Durning-Lawrence, first edition, scarce family history, original cloth with embossed coat of arms to front b...

J. Philp. 'The Selector, or Cornish Magazine'. 'Devoted to Original and Select Articles on Literary Subjects Combining Instruction with amusement,...

Royal School of Mines interest. Miss Margaret Reeks. 'Register of the Associates and Old Students of the Royal School of Mines and History of the ...

Richard Stephen Charnoch. 'Patronymica Cornu-Britannica'. 'Or the Etymology of Cornish Surnames,' first edition, original cloth with bevelled edge...

Rev R. Polwhele. 'The Fair Isabel of Cotehele, a Cornish Romance, in Six Cantos'. Signed from the author’s son to his friend a fellow collegian 18...

I. T. Tregellas. Seven Cornish tracts bound in one volume. Dating from 1856–1863, some are rare, three are signed by the author;'Rozzy Paul & Zack...

I. T. Tregellas. 'Cornish Tales'. 'The Amusing Adventures of Josee Cock the Perran Cockfighter....and the True Tale of Titus Teague of Wheal Busy ...

Scarce humorous Cornish dialect poems. H. J. Daniel (the Cornish poet). 'Cornish Tales; A Batch of Humourous Tales and Sketches,' first edition, t...

Three early 20th century guides. Felix J. C. Pole. 'Around the Coast With Rod and Line. Sea Water Angling Including Haunts and Hints for Anglers,'...

Two works by H. J. Daniel (The Cornish poet) 'A Companion for the Cornish Thalia Being Original Humerous Pieces in the Cornish and Devonshire Dial...

Four early guide books. 'Newquay. On the Cornish Coast,' 96 pages + advertisements, 37 pages of text, including copious photographs and a map of N...

Edwin Hadlow Wise Dunkin. 'The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall'. First edition, bound in publishers bevel edged brown cloth boards, gold title to t...

'Some Account of the Proceedings at the Election for Truro August 3rd–6th 1830'. 'As Reported in the West Briton Together With Extracts from that ...

Thomas Flindell (publisher). 'The Works of Francis Gregor of Trewarthennick Esquire,' first edition, original paper publishers boards, printed pap...

'Anastic Drawing Society ‘’Cornwall’. First edition, 20 plates/engravings some with text, the object of the society is to delineate the remains of...

Four works. Clifton at Bude and Butcombe. The Story of a School in Evacuation,' first edition, original cloth, a good copy, published for the Old ...

'Poors’ Lands Charities ‘Padstow’ Scheme'. First edition, original embossed boards, good condition, printed by G. S. Drew, St Columb, Cornwall, 18...

A manuscript book written and prepared by William Mackenzie Williams. Of Chy-an-Dreath, Newquay, Cornwall. 'The Heraldry of Cornwall, Being the Pu...

Francis Gregor. 'The Works of Francis Gregor of Trewarthennick (Nr Tregony)'. First edition, subscribers list to the front rebound in maroon buckr...

'A Book of the Southwest,' 'A Book of the Southwest,' first edition, tipped in is a letter from W. Gordon to a Dr Wood stating that most copies ar...

O. J. Padel. 'Cornish Place Name Elements,' First edition, a fine copy in a dustwrapper, published by The English Place-Name Society, 1985. ...[m...

Three biographies. A.C.Todd. 'Beyond the Blaze. A Biography of Davies Gilbert,' first edition, a fine copy in dustwrapper, D. Bradford Barton Ltd,...

Three works. William Bottrell (an old celt). 'Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall,' first edition, 287 pages, index and subscribers...

'An Account of a Most Horrid Murder'. 'Committed in the Town of Redruth, on Thursday Evening the 4th of March, 1824, on the Body of a Lad about se...

'Sentences of the Prisoners Tried at the Lent Assizes, Launceston,' 'On Saturday the 26th Day of March, 1808,' listing prisoners in both Launcesto...

Six printed broadsheets and ephemera. J. S. Enys [1866]. 'On Flint Flakes. A Paper Read before the Royal Institution of Cornwall, November 1866,' ...

Two early 19th century broadsheets. The 'Assizes' and wilful murder. 'Sentences of Prisoners Tried this Lent Assizes, held at Launceston, on Tuesd...

[Davies Gilbert]. 'A Cornish Cantata'. Broadside, 270mm x 22cm, printed vertically, drop head title, one verse in English above eight verses in Co...

'To the Inhabitants of the Parish of Mylor Flushing, Jan. 13, 1817...,' A double sided small folio sheet, 327mm x 203mm, in the form of a written ...

Three early 19th century Cornish printed broadsheets. 'The Death of an Infidel, Who Burnt His Bible!!! This Affecting Narrative may be depended up...

G. Alexander Stevens. 'Lecture upon Heads'. 'G. Alexander Stevens, Will Exhibit His Lecture upon Heads. In Five Parts...[listed] The Doors to be O...

[Sir Hussey Vivian] (1818). Three propaganda broadsheets for the 'Truro Election, 1818'. 'Anniversary of Waterloo!! Truro Election!! The Glorius ...

Ephemera. A silk printed tribute and four others. [Matthew Brougham, Printer Falmouth]. 'Elegiac Tribute To the Memory of the Late Mr. Matthew Bro...

Three early 19th century 'Copy of Verses' broadsheets. James Dowing. 'A Copy of Verses, Composed by James Dowing, a Blind Soldier who Lost his Sig...

Two broadsheets printed by James Jenkin Trathan. 'Street Conversations' quarto sheet, 227mm x 183mm, no publisher, but in the style of Trathan, Fl...

Two Cornish printed broadsheets. 'Assizes' & 'Horrid Murder'. 'Sentences of Prisoners, that were tried at the Lent Assizes which commenced on Mond...

'The Last Dying Speech & Confession of John Rowe,' 'Who was Executed at the New Drop at Launceston, on Tuesday the 20th of August 1818, for Sheep ...

The Assizes and crime. Three broadsheets printed in Cornwall. 'Sentences, Tried at the Lent Assizes, Holden at Launceston, on Thursday March 27th,...