Cornwall
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Fifty-Sixth Annual Report Of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1888
by Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
Eighty-Second Annual Report Of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society New Series Volume 3 Part I - 1915
by Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
St Just-In-Roseland, Which Comprises the Villages Of St Mawes and St Just
by St Just-In-Roseland Parish Council
Cornwall Books & Ephemera
The Story of Cornwall
by Jenkin, A.K. Hamilton
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. 1935. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Bookplate to the preliminary pages. Gift inscription and previous owner's name to reverse of frontispiece. Mild age-toning to free endpapers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps to endpapers. 152 pages. A book by a recognised authority who can connect history with present day interests. . Reprint. Hardback.
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$14.56
The Story of the Cornish Language
by Peter Berresford Ellis
Tor Mark Press, Penryn, Cornwall, 1990. Second Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Near Fine Condition. Peter Berresford Ellis, historian, literary biographer and novelist, has published 50 books to date under his own name and that of his pseudonym Peter Tremayne. An expert on Celtic history and culture, he is best known in Cornwall as the author of The Cornish Language and its Literature (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974) which is still regarded as the definitive history of the language...
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$6.33
THE CORNISH FAUNA: A COMPENDIUM OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY. PART 1. THE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS, AND CRUSTACEANS.
by Couch, Jonathan
1878. Book. Illus. by Abbreviated. Fine. Paperback. Second Edition. 8vo. 127 pages. Covers fine. Contents clean and tight, unread, no inscriptions. A fine copy. This is an extraordinary copy that must have been put away and forgotten, it appears unread..
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$53.21
CORNWALL
by Salmon, Arthur L
London: Methuen, 1918. Book. Illus. by B.C. Boulter. Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 8vo. 288 pages; b/w illustrations, large fold out map to the rear. Original hardback binding, good with some general rubbing, faded to the spine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, unmarked. A good copy..
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$11.40
THE BLIZZARD IN THE WEST: BEING A RECORD AND STORY OF THE DISASTROUS STORM WHICH RAGED THROUGHOUT DEVON AND CORNWALL, AND WEST SOMERSET, ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH 9TH 1891 with Illustrations
by Unknown
London, Devonport: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.; A. H. Swiss, 1891. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 168 pages [7advertising] ; b/w illustrations. Covers very good with light general wear, spine strip missing. Contents clean and tight, just a few marks, no inscriptions. A very good copy..
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$57.01
The Mammals of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
by Groves, David (editor)
Cornwall: Cornwall Mammal Group, 2013. Book. New. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. New mammal atlas for Cornwall, The first comprehensive book about Cornwall's mammals, 208 pages illustrated with full-colour photographs and drawings. A collaborative project between the Cornwall Mammal Group, the Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (ERCCIS) and many other local organisations. Detailed descriptions of each of the 56 species of mammals found in, around, and above Cornwall....
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$25.34
THE STORY OF CORNWALL
by Daniel, S
Truro: Tor Mark Press. 1988. Paperback. 38 pages. B/W illustrated. Very Good
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$4.43
Shipwreck: Photographs by the Gibsons of Scilly
by Fowles, John
London: Sphere, 1981. Reprint . Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. paperback,illustrated throughout,pages un-numbered,very good.We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.Shelf B124.
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$3.80
Cousin Jacks & Jennys The Cornish In South Australia
by Hancock, Diana C. and Paterson, Roslyn M
Myrtle Bank, SA: The Cornish Association of South Australia. 2003. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Staple-bound. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 43 pages. A brief history of the Cornish in SA - one of oldest, major ethnic groups in the State. . Revised Edition. Softcover.
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$14.56
Shipwreck
by FOWLES, John
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Photographs by the Gibsons of Scilly. Small, oblong quarto. Small erasure mark on rear pastedown, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with closed one-inch tear on topedge on front panel, two short tears on bottom edge.
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$40.00
Shipwreck
by John Fowles
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 10.5". The Gibsons of Scilly. An exceptionally bright first edition of this fascinating collection of photographs of shipwrecks on the coast of the Isles of Scilly, signed by Fowles, and with descriptive passages from him. The first edition, first impression of this work, with Fowles's signature pasted to the front free endpaper.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.This fascinating work combines the...
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$152.02
Shipwreck: Photographs by the Gibsons of Scilly
by Fowles, John
Hardback. Very Good.
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$6.13
The Cornish Mineral Industry Past Performance and Future Prospect: A Personal View 1937-1951
by Trounson, John H. ; Edited by Roger Burt and Peter Waite
United Kingdom: Association of Mining History Organisations. 1989. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Faint and tiny stain to the upper edge of first few pages. xxii, 197 pages. Commemorates the work of Jack Trounson who was one of the leading 20th century authorities on Cornish mining. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus....
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Cornwall's History: An Introduction
by Payton, Philip
Redruth: Tor Mark Press ,. 48pp. A study of the historical and cultural identity of Cornwall written by the Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in Truro. Slightest hint of rubbing. Stapled binding. Very clean and bright. Very good copy. . Pamphlet. 2002.
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$4.43
Shipwreck
by Fowles, John
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1983. Book. Illus. by Photography by the Gibsons of Scilly. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8h x 10w. A real nice clean 48 page1st American edition softcover. "Four generations of the Gibson family have photographed dramatic shipwrecks off the Cornish coast of Southwest England". Oversize [about 10" x 8"] format, unpaginated, illustrated with full page black-and-white photographs of shipwrecks..
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$10.00
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND OF THE MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY. Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1873 and 1875
by Hunt, Robert [Appendix]
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1874. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp xv 282 complete with title pages bound in. Cloth spine with some wear, gilt lettering and marbled paper covered boards again with some wear and loss to paper, board corners worn and rounded. Contents clean and tight, cancellation stamp to the rear endpaper from Devon Library services. Text block is firm and clean without annotation. A very good scarce copy of this title..
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$133.01
Shipwreck
by FOWLES, John
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Photographs by the Gibsons of Scilly. Small, oblong quarto. Small erasure mark on front fly, else fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with closed tears along the topedges.
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$35.00
