CORNWALL


NORDEN (JOHN) Speculi Britanniae pars. A Topographicall and Historicall Description of Cornwall, engraved additional title, frontispiece, dedication leaf, and 10 folding maps, letterpress table of distances, some browning and spotting, contemporary calf, worn [Quixley 25], 4to, William Pearson, for the editor, 1728--BORLASE (WILLIAM) Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall, engraved map and 23 plates (one folding), engraved illustrations in the text, single thread of worming at gutter margin of approximately 30 leaves (just touching a a single letter on a few), Oxford, 1754; The Natural History of Cornwall, folding engraved map, 28 engraved plates, early nineteenth century manuscript note concerning grasses in Penwith (see footnote) loosely inserted, 1758, contemporary calf, spines gilt-tooled with red morocco lettering label, worn, folio, Oxford, for the Author--PRYCE (WILLIAM) Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica; or, an Essay to Preserve the Ancient Cornish Language, FIRST EDITION, half-title, a little light dampstaining, modern half calf, 4to, Sherborne, W. Cruttwell, for Dilly; and the Cornwall volume of Edward Twycross' The Mansions of England, 1846 (5)
|Provenance: Second and third mentioned, William Veale, Trevaylor [near Gulval], ownership inscription on front free endpaper, and loosely inserted is a nineteenth century note from Mr. Moyle of Penzance, with a diagram map advising a Miss Veale where she might find a clump of Panicum Dactylon grasses near Gulval. Fourth mentioned, John Prideaux, early ownership inscription on title.