Online specials

Although have not yet ventured into online sales (or indeed the horrendous work of cataloguing the entire shop contents) we will be posting regularly a list of highlighted titles from our stock.

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CURRENT HIGHLIGHTS

Antiquarian list: a mixed selection of our antiquarian and other scarce books.

Roman list: a recently acquired collection, all in excellent condition, of academic books on many aspects of the Roman period

Cornwall books: a selection of hard-to-find modern books relating to mining history.

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A Humument

Tom Phillips, Thames & Hudson, London, 1980

First trade edition

Tom Phillips' classic work of art and experimental fiction made by creatively overpaintng the text of William Hurrell Mallock's 1892 novel A Human Document. Good condition, wth dustjacket (contact us if you require more detailed description).

£85 + postage

     
ANTIQUARIAN LIST - updated Nov 2008
Author / Title / Subtitle / Publisher / Location / Date / Notes / Price
  / The History of the Devil / Ancient & Modern / Thomas Allman / London / undated /  / £10
  / The Rites and Worship / of the Jews As described in the / Bible, and by / Jewish Writers / The Religious Tract Society / London / 1835 /  / £20
  / Besley’s West of / England Pocket Journal   / Henry Besley & Son / Exeter / 1876 / Some pages missing, torn or annotated / £12
  / Sailings Over the Globe / or The Progress of Maritime Discovery. The East and the West. John Cassell / London / 1850 /   / £15
  / Bacon’s Large Scale / Plan of Birmingham   / W. G. Bacon & Co. / London /   /  / £10
Addison, / Joseph Collected / Essays from the Tatler   / Robert Urie / Glasgow / 1754 /  / £10
Atkinson, Rev. J. C. / British / Birds’ Eggs & Nests / Popularly Described / Routledge, Warne & / Routledge / London 1862 /   £30
Birkett, Lady (ed) / Hunting Lays and Hunting Ways / An anthology of the chase / Bodley Head / London /    / £25
Barman, T. G. / Cook’s / Traveller’s Handbook to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland /   / Simpkin Marshall Ltd. / London / 1936 / DW / £30
Bramston, R. A. & Leroy, A. C. / Historic Winchester / England’s First Capital / Longman’s, Green & Co. / London / 1884 / Blue Cloth/Gold Lettering. Spine bumped at top & bottom / £20
Burney, Fanny / Evelina / The History of a Young Lady’s Introduction to the World / Various subscribers / London / 1810 / Two Volumes (Vols. 38 & 39 of The British Novelists series) / £25
Cavendish / The Laws & Principles of Whist Stated & Explained on an Original System by Means of Hands Played Completely Through / Thos. de La Rue & Co. / London / 1876 /  / £10
Douglass / Memories of Mummers / and the Old Standard Theatre / The “Era” / London /   /   / £15
Farleigh, John / Graven Image / An autobiographical textbook / Macmillan / London / 1940 / orig dustjacket / £40
Fleming, Ian / The Man With The Golden Gun / / Jonathan Cape / London / 1965 / 1st Edn. DW - one small tear on front. Plastic cover / £70
Fordham, Hallam / Hey Nonny Yes / Passions & Conceits from Shakespeare / Saturn Press / London / 1947 / Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone / £30
Fraser, Lovat / Pirates /   / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co. /   /   / Bookplate on ffep. Bashed at top of spine. No DW / £35
Gardiner, W. F. / Barnstaple 1837 -97 /   / Ralph Allan / Barnstaple / 1897 / Blue cloth/No DW/ Small marks & tears / £60
Gray, Thomas / Poems of Thomas Gray /   / unknown / London / 1937 / slight spotting, dirt & wear to cover / £20
General Staff, War Office / Musketry Regulations Part I /   / HMSO / London / 1914 / 1914 Reprint, with amendments of 1909 edition / £25
Great Western Railway / Rules and Regulations / For the Guidance of the Officers & Men / Waterlow & Sons Ltd. / London / 1913 / Some annotation / £30
Hardy, Thomas / Life’s Little Ironies /   / Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. / London / 1894 / 1st Edn. No DW. Green cloth - goodish. No tears. Plastic cover. / £100
Haslam, Jeremy / Anglo-Saxon Towns in Southern England /   / Camelot Press / Southampton / 1984 / orig jacket / £20
Herschel, Sir John F. W. / Treatise on Astronomy /   / Longman et al / London / 1833 / Front Cover detached / £30
Holme, Charles / Peasant Art in Sweden, Lapland and Iceland /   / The Studio / London, Paris & New York / 1910 / slight scratching & damp damage to cover / £75
Hunt, Leigh / The Months / Descriptive of the Successive Beauties of the Year / Ivor Nicholson & Watson / London / 1936 / gc, frayed jacket corners /  
Johns, Capt. W. E. / Biggles Hunts Big Game /   / Hodder & Stoughton / London / 1950 / 2nd Impression. DW - small tear at top of spine. Plastic cover / £25
Jourdain, HFN / A History of the Mess Plate of the 88th the Connaught Rangers /   / Ballantyne Press / Edinburgh / 1904 / quarter-leather binding, section torn from suaface of front cover / £125
Johns, Capt. W. E. / Sgt. Bigglesworth CID /   / Hodder & Stoughton / London / 1950 / 3rd Impression. DW - excellent. / £20
Jowett, Rev. J. H. / The Spirit of Christmas / A Prayer / Lister/Dutton / London/New York /   /   / £25
Laing, Allan M. (collected) / Prayers And Graces / A little book of extraordinary piety / Victor Gollancz / London / 1944 / Illustrated by Mervyn Peake / £10
Lanciani, Rodolfo / Ancient Rome / in the light of recent discoveries / Macmillan / London / 1897 /   / £35
Le Lievre, Audrey / Miss Willmott of Warley Place / Her Life and her Gardens / Faber & Faber / London / 1980 / Small tear at bottom of spine / £50
Lees, William / Acoustics, Light & Heat / Lectures on Natural Philosophy / William Collins Sons & Co. / London & Glasgow /   /   / £10
Lovatt, Richard / Norwegian Pictures / Drawn with Pen and Pencil, containing also a glance at Sweden and the Gotha Canal / Religious Tract Society / London / 1890 / vgc, gold-printed cover / £20
Marksman / The Dead Shot or Sportsman’s Complete Guide / Being a treatise on the use of the gun / Longman et al. / London / 1861 /   / £50
Marryat, Capt. / The Pacha of Many Tales / Collection of Ancient & Modern British Authors Vol. XCIII / Baudry’s European Library / Paris / 1835 / No DW. Split edge of spine / £35
Marvels of Creation / Volcanoes & Their Phenomena /   / Lothrop & Co/G. T. Day & Co. / Boston/London / 1870 /   / £12.50
Morley, Henry / Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair /   / Frederick Warne & Co, / London /   /   / £30
Nansen, F / Farthest North / Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram / George Newnes / London / 1898 / 2 vols. / £60
Peach, L. du Garde / King Alfred the Great / Ladybird Book - Adventures From History Series No. 561 / Wills & Hepworth Ltd. / Loughborough /   / DW slightly scuffed at top & bottom of spine / £20
Pope, Alexander / Poetical Works /   / J. Walker / London / 1819 /   / £30
Poucher, WA / Escape to the Hills /   / Country Life Ltd / London & Watford / 1943 / slight warping, worn orig jacket / £15
Rogerson, Sidney / Both Sides of the Road / A Book about Farming / Collins / London / 1949 / orig. jacket / £60
Porter, Rev. J. L. / The Giant Cities of Bashan / and Syria’s Holy Places / Nelson & Sons / London / 1866 / Blue Cloth, much stained. Gold Lettering. Tiny tears to top & bottom of spine / £60
Schmitz, Dr. Leonhard / History of Rome / from the earliest times to the death of Connodus AD 192 / Chas Taylor / London / 1898 / Blue Cloth, good condition. No DW / £20
Sheringham, H. T. / Coarse Fishing /   / A & C Black / London / 1912 / Green Cloth, stained. Ripped & threadbare at top & bottom of spine / £35
Smiles, Samuel / Thrift /   / John Murray / London / 1877 /   / £10
Stanley, Edward / A Familiar History of Birds; / Their Nature, Habits and Instincts / John W. Parker / London / 1838 / In 2 volumes / £100
Stevenson, Robert Louis / St. Ives / Being the adventures of a French prisoner in England / Heinemann / London / 1898 / Black cloth/No DW/Small dents/book plate in ffep / £50
Swift, Jonathan / Poems /   / Martins, Apollo Press / Edinburgh / 1778 / Four Volumes in Two / £45
Thomson, James / The Seasons & Castle of Indolence /   / C & L Rivington / London / 1826 /   / £45
Tunnicliffe, CF / Shorelands Summer Diary /   / Collins / London / 1952 / orig jacket mended with poly cover / £100
Walton, Isaak / The Complete Angler / or The Contemplative Man's Recreation / Foulis / London & Edinburgh / 1925 / slight damage to edges / £30
White, Gilbert / The Natural History of Selborne /   / Bickers & Son / London / 1880 / Red cloth/Gold Lettering. Slightly bumped & faded / £85
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ROMAN BOOK LIST - updated Nov 2008
AUTHOR / TITLE / SUBTITLE/DETAILS / PUBLISHER / DATE / PRICE
Adcock, FE / The Roman Art of War under the Republic / - / Barnes & Noble / 1995 / £6.50
Alfoldi, Andrew (trans. Mattingly, Harold) / The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome / - / Clarendon Press, Oxford / 1998 / £7.00
Birley, Eric / Roman Britain and the Roman Army / Collected papers / Titus Wilson, Kendal / 1961 / £20.00
Boardman/Griffin/Murray / The Oxford History of the Classical World / - / OUP / 1986 / £15.00
Bowman, Alan K / Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier / Vindolanda and its people / British Museum Press / 1994 / £10.00
Collingwood/Wright (ed) / The Roman Inscriptions of Britain / Full set: Vol 1, Vol 2 (8 books), Indices (2 books) / Alan Sutton / 1995 / £185.00
Corcoran, Simon / The Empire of the Tetrarchs / Imperial Pronouncements and Government, AD 284-324 / Clarendon Press, Oxford / 1996 / £40.00
Dixon, KR & Southern, P / The Roman Cavalry / From the First to the Third Century AD / Batsford / 1992 / £10.00
Edwards, HJ (trans) / Caesar's The Gallic War / Loeb / Harvard University Press/Heinemann / 1946 / £6.50
Elton, Hugh / Frontiers of the Roman Empire / - / Batsford / 1996 / £25.00
Foster, Sally M / Picts, Gaels and Scots / Early Historic Scotland / Batsford / Historic Scotland / 1996 / £10.00
Frank/Embleton / Hadrian's Wall in the days of the Romans / - / Frank Graham / 1998 / £7.50
Grant, Michael / The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire / - / Routledge / 1999 / £7.50
Grant, Michael / Greeks and Romans / A Social History / Weidenfeld & Nicholson / 1992 / £6.50
Greene, Kevin / The Archaeology of the Roman Economy / - / Batsford / 1986 / £10.00
Hanson, WS / Agricola and the Conquest of the North / - / Batsford / 1987 / £15.00
Henig, Martin / Religion in Roman Britain / - / St Martin's Press / 1984 / £30.00
Higham/Jones / The Carvetii / Peoples of Roman Britain series / Alan Sutton / 1991 / £10.00
Hobbs, Richard / British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum / - / British Museum Press / 1996 / £35.00
Hornblower/Spawforth (ed) / The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization / - / OUP / 1998 / £15.00
Johnson, Stephen / Later Roman Britain / Britain before the Conquest series / Routledge & Kegan Paul / 1980 / £6.50
Kirschenbaum, Aaron / Sons, Slaves and Freedmen in Roman Commerce / - / Magnes Press / Catholic University of America Press / 1987 / £8.00
Laing, Jennifer / Art and Society in Roman Britain / - / Sutton Publishing / 1997 / £6.75
Llewellyn, Peter / Rome in the Dark Ages / - / Constable, London / 1993 / £6.50
MacCulloch, JA / The religion of the ancient Celts / - / Constable, London / 1991 / £20.00
Rich/Shipley (ed) / War and Society and the Roman World / - / Routledge / 1993 / £30.00
Rickman, Geoffrey / The corn supply of Ancient Rome / - / Oxford, Clarendon Press / 1996 / £15.00
Sawyer, PH / From Roman Britain to Norman England / - / Methuen / 1978 / £6.50
Sherwin-White, AN / Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament / The Sarum Lectures 1960-1961 / Clarendon Press, Oxford / 2000 / £6.50
Simkins, Michael / Warriors of Rome / An Illustrated Military History of the Roman Legions / Blandford / 1992 / £6.50
Speidel, Michael P / Riding for Caesar / The Roman Emperors' Horse Guards / Batsford / 1994 / £7.00
Sutherland, Elizabeth / In Search of the Picts / A Celtic Dark Age Nation / Constable, London / 1995 / £12.00
Syme, Ronald / History in Ovid / - / Oxford, Clarendon Press / 1997 / £6.00
Underwood, Richard / Anglo-Saxon Weapons and Warfare / - / Tempus / 1999 / £12.50
Wacher, John / The Coming of Rome / - / Routledge & Kegan Paul / 1979 / £6.50
Watson, GR / The Roman Soldier / Aspects of Greek and Roman Life series / Thames & Hudson / 1982 / £10.00
Webster, Graham / The British Celts and their Gods under Rome / - / Batsford / 1986 / £6.75
Webster, Graham / The Roman Imperial Army / of the first and second centuries AD / A&C Black / 1981 / £6.00
Wilson, Roger / Roman Forts / An Illustrated Introduction to the Garrison Posts of Roman Britain / Bergstrom & Boyle / 1980 / £6.75
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CORNWALL BOOKS - updated Oct 16 2007
Author / Title / Subtitle / Publisher / Locn / Date / Notes / Price
Barton, RM / A history of the Cornish China-Clay Industry / - / Bradford Barton / Truro / 1966 / - / £20.00
Barton, DB / A History of Tin Mining and Smelting in Cornwall / - / Bradford Barton / Truro / 1967 / - / £30.00
Todd, CA / The Cornish Miner in America / - / Bradford Barton / Truro / 1967 / - / £25.00
Barton, DB / A History of Copper Mining in Cornwall and Devon / - / Bradford Barton / Truro / 1968 / - / £12.00
Earl, B / Cornish Mining / The techniques of metal mining in the west of England, past and present / Bradford Barton / Truro / 1968 / - / £12.00
Dines, HG and Phemister, J / The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England / Geological Survey of Great Britain / HMSO / London / 1956 / 2 vols / £100.00
Pennington, RR / Stannary Law / A history of the mining law of Devon and Cornwall / David & Charles / Newton Abbot / 1973 / - / £20.00
Todd, AC / The Search for Silver / Cornish miners in Mexico, 1824-1947 / Lodenek Press / Padstow / 1977 / - / £25.00
Coate, M / Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum 1642-1660 / - / Bradford Barton / Truro / 1963 / - / £70.00
Todd, AC and Laws, P Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall - David & Charles Newton Abbot 1972 - £20.00
Woolf, C / An Introduction ot the Archaeology of Cornwall / - / Bradford Barton / Truro / 1970 / - / £15.00
Barton, DB / The Cornish Beam Engine / - / Cornwall Books / Wheaton / Exeter / 1989 / - / £25.00
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