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		ANTIQUARIAN LIST - updated Oct 16 2007 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. Historuc 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 Introductio 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 Crawford, OGS The Long Barrows on the Cotswolds a description of long barrows, stone circles and other Megalithic remains in the area covered by Sheet 8 of the Quarter-Inch OS-comprising the Cotsuolds and the Welsh Marches Bellows Gloucester 1925 ragged cover edge £100 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 General Staff, War Office Musketry Regulations Part I   HMSO London 1914 1914 Reprint, with amendments of 1909 edition £10 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 Kuhner & Romagnesi Flore Analytique des Champignons Superieurs - Agarics, Bolets, Chanterelles   Masson Paris 1953 home-made jacket £40 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 BACK TO TOP ROMAN BOOK LIST - updated Oct 16 2007 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 Bowder, Diana (ed) Who was who in the Roman World 753BC-AD476 Phaidon 1980 £7.50 Bowman, Alan K Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier Vindolanda and its people British Museum Press 1994 £10.00 Bradley, Richard The social foundations of prehistoric Britain themes and variations in the archaeology of power Longman 1987 £10.00 Burnham, Barry C & Wacher, John The 'Small Towns' of Roman Britain - Batsford 1990 £12.50 Casey/Reece Coins and the Archaeologist second edition Seaby, London 1988 £15.00 Collingwood/Wright (ed) The Roman Inscriptions of Britain Full set: Vol 1, Vol 2 (10 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 Esmond Cleary, AS The Ending of Roman Britain - Batsford 1989 £15.00 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 Hartley, Brian & Wacher, John (ed) Rome and her Northern Provinces Papers presented to Shepard Frere on his retirement Alan Sutton 1983 £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, Anne Roman Forts of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD in Britain and the German Provinces A&C Black 1983 £20.00 Johnson, Stephen Later Roman Britain Britain before the Conquest series Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980 £6.50 Jones, Horace Leonard (trans) The Geography of Strabo 8 volumes, Loeb Harvard University Press/Heinemann 1989 £65.00 Keppie, Lawrence The Making of the Roman Army From Republic to Empire Batsford 1987 £8.50 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 Le Bohec, Yann The Imperial Roman Army - Batsford 1989 £8.50 Liebeschuetz, JHWG Continuity and change in Roman religion - Oxford, Clarendon Press 1996 £15.00 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 Magie, David (trans) The Scriptores Historiae Augustae 3 volumes, Loeb Harvard University Press/Heinemann 1980 £25.00 Reece, Richard Roman Coins - Ernest Benn Ltd 1970 £15.00 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 Rolfe, JC (trans) Suetonius 2 volumes, Loeb Harvard University Press/Heinemann 1997 £15.00 Rolfe, John C (trans) Ammiabus Marcellinus 3 volumes, Loeb Harvard University Press/Heinemann 1986 £40.00 Sawyer, PH From Roman Britain to Norman England - Methuen 1978 £6.50 Sherwin-White, AN The Roman Citizenship - Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973 £15.00 Sherwin-White, AN Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament The Sarum Lectures 1960-1961 Clarendon Press, Oxford 2000 £6.50 Shipley, Frederick W (trans) Velleius Paterculus / Res Gestae Divi Augusti Compendium of Roman history Harvard University Press/Heinemann 1992 £7.50 Simkins, Michael Warriors of Rome An Illustrated Military History of the Roman Legions Blandford 1992 £6.50 Southern, Pat Augustus - Routledge 1998 £10.00 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 Webster, Graham The Cornovii Peoples of Roman Britain series Alan Sutton 1991 £10.00 Williams, W Glynn (trans) Cicero, The Letters to his Friends Volume 1 of 3, Loeb Harvard University Press/Heinemann 1965 £7.50 Wilson, Roger Roman Forts An Illustrated Introduction to the Garrison Posts of Roman Britain Bergstrom & Boyle 1980 £6.75 BACK TO TOP 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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