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PRYCE (WILLIAM) Mineralogia Cornubiensis; A Treatise on Minerals, Mines and Mining: Containing the Theory and Natural History of Strata, Fissures, and Lodes, with the Methods of Discovering and Working of Tin, Copper and Lead Mines, engraved portrait by James Basire, 7 engraved plates (3 folding), 2 folding letterpress tables, toning to title, nineteenth century pigskin, g.e., worn with small losses to extremities of spine, upper hinge weakened [Ward Carozzi 1820], folio (355 x 222mm.), for the Author, 1778--CONCANEN (GEORGE) A Report of the Trial at Bar, Rowe v. Brenton, Tried at the Court of King's Bench, Westminster... as the Right to Minerals in the Assessional Lands of the Duchy of Cornwall, folding hand-coloured lithographed map (off-setting), contemporary calf gilt, W. Walker, 1830--ST. AUBYN (JOHN) The Miners' Association or Cornwall and Devonshire, 13 plates (5 folding, one with small repair at margin), modern half calf gilt, Truro, Heard, 1867, 8vo--BURROWS (J.C.) and WILLIAM THOMAS. 'Mongst Mines and Miners; or Underground Scenes by Flash-light: A Series of Photographs, with Explanatory Letterpress, Illustrating Methods of Working in Cornish Mines, 27 woodburytype prints mounted on 14 sheets (including frontispiece view of "The Chief Mining District of Cornwall"), one folding table, early cloth, rebacked, rubbed, g.e., 4to, Simpkin, Marshall, 1893; and 4 nineteenth century works relating to laws relating to mines bound in one volume (5)
|Provenance: First mentioned, Thomas Curtis, nineteenth century bookplate; Seymour Redmayne Schofield, son of the American Impressionist painter Walter Elmer Schofield, ownership inscription (1938) and bookplate.