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Author: various
Copyright: 1884

Description: 148 pages (* pages 297 - 442 plus index), many leading scholars of the day were members of this society. The book is a fascinating look at the society's activities for the year 1883-84.

Subjects include: Excursions into the Penwith Countryside, Monthly Temperature & Rainfall Penzance, Flora & Fauna, Cornish Mining, Stone Circles of Cornwall, Cornish witchcraft, Cornish names, Penwith churches, Cornish folklore and much much more. 

Book is scanned at 300 DPI grayscale, but is full indexed and searchable. Detail -> 

Item: BB031
Price: $ 10.00

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Author: various
Copyright: 1885

Description: 110 pages (* pages 1 - 110), many leading scholars of the day were members of this society. The book is a fascinating look at the society's activities for the year 1885-86.

Subjects include: Excursions into the Penwith Countryside, Lichens of East Cornwall, Dragonflies of Cornwall, Flora & Fauna, Cornish Mining, Stone Circles of Cornwall, Cornish Folklore of the Sea, Cornish names, Cornish folklore, Cornish Saints, History of Botany in Cornwall, Land Tenure and much much more. 

Book is scanned at 300 DPI grayscale, but is full indexed and searchable. Detail ->

Item: BB032
Price: $ 10.00

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Author: various
Copyright: 1886

Description: 101 pages (* pages 110 - 211), many leading scholars of the day were members of this society. The book is a fascinating look at the society's activities for the year 1885-86.

Subjects include: Excursions into the Penwith Countryside, Fresh Water Algae of West Cornwall, Cross of St. Ia, Birds of the Scilly Islands, Flora & Fauna, Cornish Mining, Stone Circles of Cornwall, Cornish witchcraft, Cornish names, Cornish folklore, Cornish Saints, and much much more. 

Book is scanned at 300 DPI grayscale, but is full indexed and searchable. Detail ->

Item: BB033
Price: $ 10.00

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Author: various
Copyright: 1887

Description: 89 pages (* pages 211 - 300), many leading scholars of the day were members of this society. The book is a fascinating look at the society's activities for the year 1886-87.

Subjects include: Excursions into the Penwith Countryside, Sea Anemones, Lepidoptera of West Cornwall, Hailstorm of 1886, Flora & Fauna, Cornish Mining, Stone Circles of Cornwall, Cornish witchcraft, Cornish names, Cornish Measures, Cornish folklore, Cornish Saints, Midsummer Fires, Dartmoor, Seaweeds of Cornwall, Cornish Heraldry and much much more. 

Book is scanned at 300 DPI grayscale, but is full indexed and searchable.  Detail ->

Item: BB034
Price: $ 10.00

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Author: various
Copyright: 1888

Description: 90 pages (* pages 300 - 390 plus index), many leading scholars of the day were members of this society. The book is a fascinating look at the society's activities for the year 1887-88.

Subjects include: Excursions into the Penwith Countryside, Monthly Temperature & Rainfall Penzance, Flora & Fauna, Cornish Mining, Stone Circles of Cornwall, Cornish witchcraft, Cornish names, Penwith churches, Cornish folklore, Roll of the manor of Arundell of Lanherne, Cornish Heraldry, old Cornish rhymes, Mosses of Cornwall and much much more. 

Book is scanned at 300 DPI grayscale, but is full indexed and searchable.  Detail ->

Item: BB035
Price: $ 10.00

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Author: various
Copyright: 1889

Description: 98 pages (* pages 1 - 98 ), many leading scholars of the day were members of this society. The book is a fascinating look at the society's activities for the year 1888-89.

Subjects include: Excursions into the Penwith Countryside, St. Buyan Sanctuary, Ludgvan Church, St. Michael's Mount, Madron, Newlyn, Flora & Fauna, Garden Snails of Cornwall, Parson Rudall and the Botathen ghost, foreign plants in West Cornwall, bird nesting on Scilly, the Cornish and Manx languages compared and much much more. 

Book is scanned at 300 DPI grayscale, but is full indexed and searchable.  

Item: BB036
Price: $ 10.00

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Author: various
Copyright: 1890

Description: 91 pages (* pages 99 - 190), many leading scholars of the day were members of this society. The book is a fascinating look at the society's activities for the year 1887-88.

Subjects include: Excursions into the Penwith Countryside, Lelant, Gwinnear, Chysauster, Bosporthennis, Flora of Guernsey compared with the flora of West Cornwall, communion plate at St. Mary's Church Penzance, foreign plants in West Cornwall, notes from a journal made during a riding tour in Cornwall in the year 1754, plants growing in Tresco Abbey Gardens Scilly Isles, the anatomy of the hedgehog, starch production, and much much more. 

Book is scanned at 300 DPI grayscale, but is full indexed and searchable. 

Item: BB037
Price: $ 10.00

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Author: various
Copyright: 1894

Description: 119 pages (* pages 300 - 390), many leading scholars of the day were members of this society. The book is a fascinating look at the society's activities for the year 1893-94.

Subjects include: Excursions into the Penwith Countryside, Monthly Temperature & Rainfall Penzance 1860-87, Fauna, Curious Fungi, Cornish Mining, Stone Circles of Cornwall, Whale Catching With Nets off New Zealand, Pre-Aryan People of Ancient Cornwall, Comprehensive Guide to the Lepidoptera of Cornwall.

Item: BB038
Price: $ 10.00

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Author: Hal Wyn
Copyright: 1927

Description: 115 pages. This is a must for all students of the Cornish language, a classic.

This book can be thought of as a supplement to Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language. Hal Wyn was the pen name of Ralph St Vincent Allin-Collins,  and like Jenner he too claimed he was taught Cornish whilst it was still a living language. Like Jenner and Nance, Hal Wyn was also made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd. Both Jenner and Nance contributed to this work by Hal Wyn which was privately printed by the author in a very limited number, hence its scarcity these days.

The book is comprised of a series of short stories, broken down with glossary and grammar for each as well as exercises for the student of the language. Because of the poor print quality we had to scan this book at 600DPI and do a lot of manual editing to get nice enough quality, the book is fully searchable in Adobe Acrobat to make it easy to locate the exact word you are looking for, much easier to use than the expensive original if you could locate a copy.

Item: BB039
Price: $ 15.00 

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Author: W. H. K. Wright
Copyright: 1883

Description: Being a medium of intercommunication for Antiquaries and Others interested in the History, Literature, and Legendary Lore of the Western Counties.

Devon & Cornwall Notebook, edited by W. H. K. Wright with an introduction by W. Copeland Borlase. Originally published in 1883 by Latimer & Son, Plymouth. 216 pages

This is the second year for the famous "The Western Antiquary" which covers the year 1882. Each week in the newspaper The Weekly Mercury a column ran where those interested in any aspect of Cornwall or Devon could write and either ask questions, or respond to questions previously asked. Many luminaries of the period were regular contributors, including Boase, Hunt, Borlase, Courtney, Hawker, & Lach-Szyrma. Detail ->

Item: BB040
Price: $ 15.00