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Antiquities

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Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall	By M. & L. Quillar Couch	Published 1894 (~259 pg)

Ancient Crosses & Other Antiquities in the East of Cornwall	By J.T. Blight	Published 1858

Ancient Crosses & Other Antiquities in the West of Cornwall	By J.T. Blight	Published 1858

Old Cornwall Crosses	By Arthur G. Langdon	Published 1896

Specimens of Ancient Cornish Crosses and Fonts	By F.C.H.	Published 1850

Churches of West Cornwall with notes of Antiquities of the District	By J. T. Blight	Published 1865

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Biography

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Autobiography of Passmore Edwards		printed in August 1905, not for sale, but for private circulation
Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham;	by J.S. Buckingham	1855

Biographical Sketches in Cornwall Vol. One	by The Rev. R Polwhele	Published 1831
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Biographical Sketches in Cornwall Vol. Two	by The Rev. R Polwhele	Published 1831
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Biographical Sketches in Cornwall Vol. Three	by The Rev. R Polwhele	Published 1831
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Traditions and recollections; domestic, clerical and literary Vol. one	By Richard Polwhele	Published 1826
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Traditions and recollections; domestic, clerical and literary Vol. two	By Richard Polwhele	Published 1826
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The life of George Grenfell, Congo missionary and explorer	By George Hawker	Published 1909
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Cornish Worthie s Vol. One	by Walter H. Tregellas	Published 1884
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Cornish Worthie s Vol. Two	by Walter H. Tregellas	Published 1884
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The Life of Viscount Exmouth ( Edward Pellew)	by Edward Osler	Published 1835
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A Narative on the Expedition to Algiers in the year 1816. Under the command of The Right Honorable Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth	By Mr. A. Salame	Published 1819
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Life of Richard Trevithick Vol. One with an account of his inventions.	by Francis Trevithick C.E.	Published 1872
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Life of Richard Trevithick Vol. Two with an account of his inventions.	by Francis Trevithick C.E.	Published 1872
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Life of Lord Courtney	by C.P. Gooch	Published 1920
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Men of Invention and Industry includes a chapter on Murdock	by Samuel Smiles	Published 1885
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Lives of the Engineers Vol 1. Mentions Trevithick, Davy & Murdoch	by Samuel Smiles	Published 1879
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Lives of Boulton and Watt: Principally from the Original Soho Mss ...lots about their time in Cornwall.	by Samuel Smiles	Published 1865
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Memorials Literary and Religious	by Thomas Garland	Published 1868
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The Life of Sir Humphry Davy	by John A. Paris	Published 1831
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart Vol. One	by His Brother John Davy M.D.	Published 1839
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart Vol. Two	by His Brother John Davy M.D.	Published 1836
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Trelawny Papers	Edited by William D. Cooper F.S.A.	Published 1853
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The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688	By Agnes Strickland	Published 1866
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Edward Octavious Trevellas , Civil Engineer and Minister of the Gospel	by Sarah E. Fox	Published 1842
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The Life and Extrodinary Life of Sir William Courtney	by Canterburiensis	Published 1838
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Lives of Vice Admiral Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose K.G.B. and Captain James Trevenen	By Rev. John Penrose	Published 1850
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The Adventures of Thomas Pellow. of Penryn, Mariner.	Autobiography	Published 1840
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Memories of Mr. John Edward Trezise of St Just in Penwith.	By Richard Treffrey Jnr.	Published 1837
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Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall	By R.S. Hawker	Published 1903

The Life and Letters of R.S. Hawker	By C.E. Byles	Published 1905
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Memorials of the Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker M.A.	By Rev. F.G. Lee D.C.I,	Published 1876

The Vicar of Morwenstow, A Life of R.S. Hawker M.A.	By S. Baring Gould M.A.	Published 1876
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Shelburne Essays	By Paul Elmer More	Published 1907
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Prisoners of War in France 1804 - 1814	By John Tregarthen Short & Thomas Williams, of St Ives, Cornwall	Published 1914
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The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler - Captain Henry Carter of Prussia Cove - 1749- 1809	Autobiography	Published 1900
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John Knill 1733 - 1811	J.J.R. of Penrose.	Published 1871
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A History of the Rev. Hugh Peters M.A. Principal Chaplain to the Lord Protector 1640 - 1660	By Rev. Samuel Peters M.A.	Published 1807

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Bibliography

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Bibliotheca Cornubiensis Vol. One, A-O	By George Clement Boase & William Prideaux Courtney	Published 1874
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Bibliotheca Cornubiensis Vol. Two P-Z	By George Clement Boase & William Prideaux Courtney	Published 1878
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A Catologue of the Books of the Penzance Public Library (Morrab Gardens) With an index of Titles and Subjects	Edited by John Kinsman	Published 1874

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Cornish Notes & Queries

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Cornish Notes & Queries (First Series)	Edited By Peter Penn	Published 1906

Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries

Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries Vol. 9	Edited by John Amery & others	Published 1917

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Church History

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County Churches "Cornwall	by J.Charles Cox L.L.D. F.S.A.	Published 1912
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The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall	by Thomas Taylor M.A. F.S.A.	Published 1916
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The History of Glasney Collegiate Church	by Thurston C. Peters	Published 1903
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Churches of West Cornwall	by J.T. Blight	Published 1885
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Caradoc, or the Church in the Sands	by Sampson Waters	Published 1908
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The Bishopric of Truro, 1877 - 1902	by Rev. Aug. B. Donaldson M.A.	Published 1902
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Home Reunion, two papers read at the diocesan Conference held at Truro	by Rt. Hon. Earl Nelson & Rev. Paul Bush	Published 1881
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Mother Charlotte, (Mrs Broadley of Carnmenellis)	by Louisa Herbert	Published 1882
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The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Vol. one	by John Whitaker B.D.	Published 1804
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The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Vol. two	by John Whitaker B.D.	Published 1804
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The Anglo Saxon Episcopate of Cornwall	by E H Pedler	Published 1856

A Collection of Sufferings of People Called Quakers	by Joseph Besse	Published 1753

Historical Sketch of the Parish of St Neot, Cornwall	by William A. Axworthy	Published 1906
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The Cornish See and Cathedral, Historical & Architechtural Notes	by	Published
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Sermons preached in the Parish Church of St Feock, Cornwall	by the late William Hitchens B.A.`	Published 1851
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The Story of Stratton Church	by Frederick James Bone M.A.	Published 1919
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Perranzabuloe, The lost church found	by Charles Trelawny Collins - Trelawny	Published 1846
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The age of Light,or, Truth Unveilled	by A Cornish Tinner	Published 1818

Receipts & Expenses in the building of Bodmin Church	by Rev. John James Wilkinson M.A.	Published 1874


The Churches and Antiquities of Cury & Gunwalloe in the Lizard District, Including Local Traditions	Alfred Haymans Cummings	Published 1875

Parochial accounts, seventeenth century, St. Neot's, Cornwall	by General Sir J.H. Lefroy	Published 1891

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History

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The History of Cornwall	Dr ..Samuel Fortescue Hitchins	Published 1824

Devon & Cornwll Illustrated from original drawings by Thomas Allom, W.H. Bartlett, &c., with historical and topographical descriptions by J. Britton & E.W. Brayley.		Published 1832

A Compendium of the History of Cornwall	by Rev. J. J. Daniel	Published 1880
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An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall Vol. 1	by W. Penaluna	Published 1838

An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall Vol. 2	by W. Penaluna	Published 1838
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The Parochial History of Cornwall Vol. 1	by Hal / Tonkin / Davies	Published 1838
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The Parochial History of Cornwall Vol. 2.	by Hal / Tonkin / Davies	Published 1838
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The Parochial History of Cornwall Vol. 3.	by Hal / Tonkin / Davies	Published 1838
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The Parochial History of Cornwall Vol. 4.	by Hal / Tonkin / Davies	Published 1838
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The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall Vol. 1.	Edited by William Page	Published 1906

Parochial and family history of the parish and borough of Bodmin, in the county of Cornwall	Sir John McClean	Published 1840
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Historical Records of the 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry now the 1st Battalion the Duke of Cornwall's L.I. from the formation of the Regiment 1702 down to 1892	Compiled and Edited by Colonel G. C. Swiney	Published 1893
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A Report on the case of the Borough of West Looe	by H.A. Merewether	Published 1823
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Official History of the Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board	by H.M. Stiles	Published 1919
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Half a century of Penzance (1825-1875)	by Louise Courtney & John S. Courtney	Published 1878
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A guide to Penzance and its neighbourhood, including the islands of Scilly ...	by J. S. Courtney	Published 1845
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The Fabulous History of the Ancient Kingdom of Cornwall	by Thomas Hogg	Published 1827
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Pendennis and St. Mawes: An Historical Sketch of Two Cornish Castles	by S. Pasfield Oliver	Published 1875
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Stratton Hill; a tale of the civil war Vol. 1	?	Published 1829

The Gael and Cymbri : or, An inquiry into the origin and history of the Irish Scoti, Britons, and Gauls, and of the Caledonians, Picts, Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons	by Sir William Betham	Published 1834
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Civilisation in Britain	T.F.G. Dexter	Published 1900

The Great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland: A List of All Owners of 2000 + acres.	by John Bateman	Published 1883

The Survey of Cornwall, And, An Epistle Concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue	by Richard Carew	Published 1769

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Social History

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A Glossary of Cornish Names	by Rev. John Bannister LL.D	Published 1871
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The Blizzard in the West 1891	by Various	Published 1891
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The Western Antiquary 1884/1885	Edited by W.H.K. Wright	Published 1885
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A plain statement of the bullion question in a letter to a friend	By Davies Gilbert	Published 1811

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Cornish Language

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Lexicon cornu-britannicum a dictionary of the ancient celtic language of Cornwall	Robert Williams	Published 1865

Archaeologia Cornu-British: An essay to preserve the ancient Cornish Language	William Pryce M.D.	Published 1740

Sketch of Cornish Grammer	Edwin Norris	Published 1859
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The preverbal particle Re in Cornish	J.P. Williams	Published 1908
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Gwreans an Bys =: a Cornish mystery	William Jordon	Published 1864
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A handbook of the Cornish language : chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history	Henry Jenner	Published 1904
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Mount Calvary; or, The history of the passion, death, and resurrection, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, written in Cornish (as it may be conjectured) some centuries past;	Davies Gilbert FRS. FSA.	Published 1826

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Cornish Names

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Patronymica Cornu-Britannica, Or, The Etymology of Cornish Surnames	By R.S. Charnock	Published 1870
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A glossary of Cornish names	By John Barrister	Published 1869

The history and genealogy of the Cornish families in America	Joseph E. Cornish	Published 1907

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Genealogy

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Catalogue of Phillimore's parish register series, 1913	Phillimore	Published 1913

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 2	Phillimore	Published 1902

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 3	Phillimore	Published 1902

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 4	Phillimore	Published 1902

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 5	Phillimore	Published 1900

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 6	Phillimore	Published 1900

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 7	Phillimore	Published 1905

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 8	Phillimore	Published 1905

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 9	Phillimore	Published 1906

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 10	Phillimore	Published 1905

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 11	Phillimore	Published 1900

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 12	Phillimore	Published 1905

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 13	Phillimore	Published 1905

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 14	Phillimore	Published 1905

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 15	Phillimore	Published 1909

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 16	Phillimore	Published 1905

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 17	Phillimore	Published 1905

Cornwall parish registers. Marriages Vol. 24	Phillimore	Published 1915

The parish registers of Redruth in Cornwall, 1560-1716	Thurston Peters	Published 1894

The registers of the parish of St. Columb Major, Cornwall, from the year 1539 to 1780	Arthue J. Jewels	Published 1881

The first book of the parish registers of Madron in Cornwall,	George B. Millett	Published 1877

Heraldic church notes from Cornwall : containing all the heraldry and genealogical particulars on every memorial in ten churches in the deanery of East, with copious extracts from the parish registers, annotated with notes from wills, etc. ([1889])	Arthur John Jewers	Published 1889

The history and genealogy of the Cornish families in America	Joseph E. Cornish	Published 1907

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Cornish Dialect

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Specimens of Cornish provincial dialect	by Jan Trenoodle	Published 1846
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The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall : with an enlarged glossary of Cornish provincial words : also an appendix, containing a list of writers on Cornish dialect, and additional information about Dolly Pentreath, the last known person who spoke the ancient Cornish as her mother tongue	by Fred W.P. Jago	Published 1882
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Glossary of words in use in Cornwall	by M.A. Courtney & Thomas Q Couch	Published 1880
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Randigal rhymes, and a glossary of Cornish words	by Joseph Thomas	Published 1895
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Tales and sayings of Wiliam Robert Hicks of Bodmin	by W.F. Collier	Published 1903
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The wizard of West Penwith, a tale of the Land's-End;	by W.B.Forfar	Published 1871
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Brand's popular antiquities of Great Britain. Faiths and folklore; a dictionary of national beliefs, superstitions and popular customs, past and current, with their classical and foreign analogues, described and illustrated (1905)	By W Carew Hazlitt	Published 1905

Cornish Catches and other Verses	By Bernard Moore	Published 1914

Cornish tales in prose and verse	by I T Tregellas	Published 1868

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Music

Devosow Dons Kernow: Ritual Dances in Cornwall March 2009	Dances rituals, ceremonies and associated traditions in Cornwall Devon and Cornwall Pagan Federation Conference 07/03/09	pdf file

Folk tradition, families, and cross generational perspectives:	CAVA conference - Narratives of the family Aug 2008	pdf file

It Just Belongs to be:	Rosyer Lecture, London Cornish, July 2008	pdffile

Post Modern Bagpipes:	Cornish Music Symposium, Tremough Campus Exeter University Feb 2008	pdf File

RACCA : Cornish Tunes for Cornish Sessions.	Musicians in the county have submitted over 250 traditional and modern tunes which are now published here in RACCA 2. All tunes submitted have been included and all tunes are published with chords. This book, a non-profit making venture, was conceived out of love for the music of Cornwall and with the passionate desire to hear this music given the playing it deserves.	This is a large file and make take time to load. PDF File

Cross Border Raids:	Conflicting interpretations of folk music collected in the borderlands of the Tamar Valley and Dartmoor. - Paper presented at CAVA Conference 22nd March 2007	pdf file

Scoot Dances - The Cornish Dance Tradition:	book published by Francis Boutle & co Aug 2009	pdf file

Folklore & Legends

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Legend Land. Vol. 1	George Basil Barnum Talking Book	Published 2007

Cornish characters and strange events	S. Baring Gould	Published 1909

Cornish Saints & Sinners	J. Henry Harris	Published 1915

Traditions and hearthside stories of West Cornwall vol 1	William Bottrell	Published 1873

Traditions and hearthside stories of West Cornwall Vol 2	William Bottrell	Published 1873

Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall;	William Bottrell	Published 1880

Popular romances of the west of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and superstitions of old Cornwall;	Robert Hunt FRS	Published 1908

North Cornwall fairies and legends	Enys Tregarthan	Published 1906

The Piskey-purse : legends and tales of North Cornwall	Enys Tregarthan	Published 1905

The Age of the Saints: A Monograph of Early Christianity in Cornwall, with the Legends of the ...	William C. Borlase	Published 1893

King Arthur in Cornwall	William Howship	Published 1900

The lost land of King Arthur	John C. Walters	Published 1909

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Mining

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The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall: To which are Added the Several Acts of Parliament ...	Tregonning	Published 1808
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English industries of the middle ages, being an introduction to the industrial history of medieval England	By L.F.Salzman	Published 1913

The stannaries, a study of the English tin miner Vol 3	By George Randell Lewis	Published 1907

Substance of a Report on the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Stannaries in Cornwall	By Sir George Harrison	Published 1835
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Observations on the rich parts of the lodes of Cornwall,	Prof. L. Moissenet	Published 1877
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A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon: With Instructions for Their Discrimination ...	J.H. Collins FRS	Published 1871
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Observations on the tin trade of the ancients in Cornwall, and on the 'Ictis' of Diodorus Siculus	Christopher Hawkins	Published 1811
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Interviews with Mining Engineers	Thomas A. Rickard	Published 1922
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Manual of mining tools, illustrated by an atlas	William Morgans	Published 1871
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Mining Camps ; a study of American Frontier Government	Charles E Shinn	Published 1885
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The Land Laws	Sir Frederick Pollock	Published 1883 / 87 / 96
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The tin resources of the British Empire	N.M. Penzer	Published 1921

Tin Deposits of the World: With a Chapter on Tin Smelting	Sidney Fawns	Published 1907

A Sketch of the Geology of Cornwall: Including a Brief Description of the Mining Districts and ...	B. Symonds	Published 1884
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales	H.M.S.O.	Published 1846
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The Geology of Falmouth and Truro and of the Mining District of Camborne and Redruth	J.B. Hill	Published 1906
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A History of the Trade in Tin	Phillip William Flower	Published 1880

Observations on the Detrital Tin-ore of Cornwall	W.J. Henwood	Published 1873
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Cornwall: its mines and miners	J.R. Liefchild	Published 1855
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The Shirley letters from California mines in 1851-52; being a series of twenty-three letters from Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) to her sister in Massachusetts, and now reprinted from the Pioneer magazine of 1854-55; with synopses of the letters, a foreword, and many typographical and other corrections and emendations	Dame Shirley	Published 1922
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The recent geology of Cornwall	William A E Ussher	Published 1879
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West Barbary', or Notes on the system of work and wages in the Cornish mines	L.L. Price	Published 1891

An Enquiry into the Original State and Properties of Spar, and Sparry Productous, Particularly, the Spars, or Crystals Found in the Cornish Mines, Called Cornish Diamonds.	In a Letter to Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Esq; F. R. S. from the Rev. Mr. Wm. Borlace	Published 1753

Extract from Two Letters, Dated December 7th and 12th, 1765, Subject Sample of Native Tin.	From the Rev. Mr. William Borlase, of Ludgvan, in Cornwall, F. R. S. to Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Librarian, &c. to the Royal Society	Published 1765

An Account of a Specimen of Native Tin Found in Cornwall, and Now Deposited in the Museum of the Royal Society	Letters from the Rev. Dr. William Borlase, F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan in Cornwall, to Charles Morton, M. D. F. R. S. and from Mr. Rosewarne, of Truro, to Dr. Borlase;	Published 1769
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Travel and Description

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A Week at the Lizard	Rev. C.A. Johns	Published 1848

The Cornwall Coast	Arthur L Salmon	Published 1910
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Cornwall and its Coast	Alphonse Esquiros	Published 1865
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Nooks & Corners of Cornwall	C.A. Dawson Scott	Published 19--?
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An unsentimental journey through Cornwall;	D.M.M. Craik	Published 1884
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Excursions in the county of Cornwall : comprising a concise historical and topographical delineation of the principal towns and villages, together with descriptions of the residences of the nobility and gentry, remains of antiquity, and every other interesting object of curiosity : forming a complete guide for the traveller and tourist : illustrated with fifty engravings, including a map of the county	F.W.L. Stockdale	Published 1824

The Cornish Coast, North	Charles G Harper	Published 1910
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The Cornish Coast, south, and The Isles of Scilly	Charles G Harper	Published 1910
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A Handbook for Travellers in Cornwall	John Murray	Published 1882
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An illustrated itinerary of the county of Cornwall	Cyrus Redding	Published 1842
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The Land's End : a naturalist's impressions in West Cornwall	William Hudson	Published 1908
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A tour through Cornwall, in the autumn of 1808.	Richard Warner	Published 1809
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Rambles beyond railways, or, Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot	Wilkie Collins	Published 1852
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Rambles in Western Cornwall by the footsteps of the giants; with notes on the Celtic remains of the Land's End District and the Islands of Scilly	J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps	Published 1861
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Cornwall	Arthur L. Salmon	Published 1950
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Cornwall	S. Baring-Gould	Published 1910
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Cornwall	Mitton, G. E.	Published 1915
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Tourist's guide to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles: containing succinct information concerning all principal places and objects of interest in the county	Walter H. Tregellas	Published 1878
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A guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End; comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of western Cornwall	Paris, John Ayrton	Published 1828
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A west country pilgrimage	Phillpotts, Eden	Published 1920
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Cornwall New York State USA	Beach, Lewis	Publish 1873
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Cornwall's wonderland	Quiller-Couch, Mabel	Published 1914
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Days in Cornwall	C. Lewis Hind	Published 1907
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A book of Cornwall	S. Baring-Gould	Published 1906

The Cornish Riviera	Sidney Heath	Published 1911
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Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall	Arthur H. Norway	Published 1900

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Railways

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Life of Richard Trevithick Vol. One with an account of his inventions.	by Francis Trevithick C.E.	Published 1872
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Life of Richard Trevithick Vol. Two with an account of his inventions.	by Francis Trevithick C.E.	Published 1872
A History of the Great Western, being the story of the Broad Gauge.	George Agustas Sekon (Nokes)	Published 1895

The Great Western, Cheltenham and Great Western, and Bristol and Exeter railway guides ... with a preliminary description of the construction of the Great Western and other railways	James Wyld	Published 1839

The Broad Gauge - The bane of the Great Western Railway Company.	By £.s.d.	Published 1846

Speech of counsel, on the 30th May, 1848, before a select committee of the house of commons, on behalf of the head, lower and assistant masters of Eton : against the great western railway extension from Slough to Windsor	by ?	Published 1848

Appendix to Railway practice : containing a copious abstract of the whole of the evidence given upon the London and Birmingham, and Great Western railway bills, when before Parliament, properly digested and arranged, wth marginal notes : to which is added, a glossary of technical terms, used in civil engineering, explaining and illustrating every word in ordinary use; and the details of Hawthorne's celebrated locomotive engine, for the Paris and Versailles Railway -	Brees, S. C. (Samuel Charles)	Published 1839
The Cornish Riviera:	Great Western Railway	Published 1905

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History of Parishes

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The story of an ancient parish, Breage with Germoe, with some account of its armigers, worthies and unworthies, smugglers and wreckers, its traditions and superstitions	H.R. Coulthard	Published 1913
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A history of the parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor : in the county of Cornwall	J. H. Mathews	Published 1892
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Notes on the Parish of Mylor, Cornwall	Hugh P. Olivet	Published 1907
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The registers of the parish of St. Columb Major, Cornwall, from the year 1539 to 1780	Arthur A. Jewers	Published 1881
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The first book of the parish registers of Madron in Cornwall,	George B Millett	Published 1887
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Parochial and family history of the parish and borough of Bodmin, in the county of Cornwall	Sir John Mclean	Published 1870
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Historical sketch of the parish of Saint Neot (Cornwall). Including the life of Saint Neot, together with a description of the Parish church and its windows, and the Ballad of Tregeagle	William A. Axworthy	Published 1906

Statistical Account of the Parish of St. Just: In Penwith, in the County of Cornwall	John Buller	Published 1842
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Parochial accounts, seventeenth century, St. Neot's, Cornwall	J.H. Lefroy	Published 1891?
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Mullyon: its history, scenery and antiquities; narratives of shipwrecks on its coast; its agriculture, fisheries, and mining; tales of the days of wrecking and smuggling; longevity of its inhabitants; names of places, their true Cornish renderings and significations, &c. ..	Edmond George Harvey	Published 1875
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A Cornish parish: being an account of St. Austell, town, church, district and people	Joseph Hammond	Published 1897
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The Cornwall Register : containing collections relative to the past and present state of the 209 parishes, forming the county, archdeaconry, parliamentary divisions and poor law unions of Cornwall, to which is added, A brief view of the adjoining towns and parishes in Devon, from Hartland to Plymouth	John Wallis	Published 1847
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Old Falmouth	Susan E Gay	Published 1903
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Launceston, past and present; a historical and descriptive sketch	Sir Alfred Robbins	Published 1888
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An itinerary of Launceston, Cornwall : containing some account of its antiquities, compiled from various sources, with a glance at its prospects and commercial advantages, as connected with the opening of the railway	Gibbons	Published 1865
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The History of Mount's Bay, comprising Saint Michael's Mount, Marazion, Penzance, Newlyn, Mousehole, &c, &c	J. Thomas	Published 1820
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Parochial and family history of the parish of Blisland	J.M.	Published 1867

The Parochial and Family History of the Parishes of Forrabury and Minister	Sir John Mclean	Published 1873

Parochial and family history of the parishes of St. Teath and Temple, in the county of Cornwall	Sir John Mclean	Published 1876

The ancient borough of Helston; a short history and survey	Spencer H. Toy	Published 1912

The Case of the Borough of West Looe	H.A. Merewether Esq.	Published 1823

Topogrphical and historical sketches of thr boroughs of East and West Looe	Thomas Bond	Published 1823

Walks about St. Hilary, chiefly among the poor	Pascoe, Charlotte Champion; Rogers, Charlotte; Rogers, Mary	Published 1879

Old Foye days, being the true story of a Cornish haven	Com. Hom. Henry N. Shore R.N.	Published 1896

The parish registers of Redruth in Cornwall, 1560-1716	Hoblyn & Taylor	Published 1894

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Fiction

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A Cornish Droll	Eden Philpott	Published 1920

Deep down; a tale of the Cornish mines	R. M. Ballantyne	Published 1883

Bridgetstowe; Some Chronicles of a Cornish Parish,	Mark Guy Pearse	Published 1907
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The Gaverocks; a tale of the Cornish coast Volume one	S. Baring-Gould	Published 1887
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The Gaverocks; a tale of the Cornish coast Volume Two	S. Baring-Gould	Published 1887
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The Gaverocks; a tale of the Cornish coast Volume Three	S. Baring-Gould	Published 1887
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Tregeagle's head : a romance of the Cornish cliffs	Silas K. Hocking	Published 1890

Hugh Trebarwith - a Cornish romance	Edward Foskett	Published 1900

In a Cornish township with old Vogur folk.	Dorothy Pentreath	Published 1893
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Ande Trembath : a tale of Old Cornwall England	S. K. Mathew	Published 1905
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The watchers on the Longships	James F Cobb	Published 1905
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Kits Woman - a Cornish idyll	Mrs Havelock Ellis	Published 1907

My Cornish neighbours	Mrs Havelock Ellis	Published 1906

Trelawny of Trelawne: A Romance of the West	Anna Eliza Bray	Published

By the Cornish Sea	Rev. John Isabell	Published 1885
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Tamsin Rosewarne and her burdens	Nellie Cornwall	Published 1892
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Fields of Fair Renown	Joseph Hocking	Published 1896
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The Birthright	by Joseph Hocking	Published ?

Mistress Nancy Molesworth	Joseph Hocking	Published 1898

Follow the Gleam: A Tale of the Time of Oliver Cromwell	Joseph Hocking	Published 1903

A Flame of Fire	Joseph Hocking	Published 1903

And Shall Trelawney	Joseph Hocking	Published 1897
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The wizard of West Penwith, a tale of the Land's-End;	William B. Forfar	Published 1871
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Pendower: A STORY OF CORNWALL IN THE TIME OF HENRY THE EIGHTH.	M. Filleul	Published 1877
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Tregarthen Hall: a novel. Volume 1	James Garland	Published 1871
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Tregarthen Hall: a novel. Volume 2	James Garland	Published 1871

Tregarthen Hall: a novel. Volume 3	James Garland	Published 1871
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Our Little Town and Other Cornish Tales and Fancies	Charles Lee	Published 1912
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A Cornish harbour; a story of old Newquay	James Payn	Published 1916
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In the roar of the sea; a tale of the Cornish coast	S. Baring-Gould	Published 1892
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Kynance cove, or, The cornish smugglers : a tale of the last century	William B. Forfar	Published 1865
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Stratton hill : a tale of the civil wars Volume one	John Carne	Published 1829

.Trevethlan : a Cornish story vol. 1	William Davy Walson	Published 1848

Trevethlan : a Cornish story vol. 2	William Davy Walson	Published 1848

Trevethlan : a Cornish story vol. 3	William Davy Walson	Published 1848

Stratton hill : a tale of the civil wars Volume two	John Carne	Published 1829
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Stratton hill : a tale of the civil wars Volume three	John Carne	Published 1829
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St. Knighton's keive: A Cornish Tale. With a Postscript and Glossary	Francis Talbot O' Donoghue	Published 1864

The Cornish Penny	Coulson Cade	Published 1922
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The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man Volume 1	Robert Paltock	Published 1853
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The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man Volume 2	Robert Paltock	Published 1853

St. Ives	Robert Louis Stevenson	Published 1812

Miller Manning; or, a Story of Cornish Life	Mathew Forrester	Published 1881

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Cornish Explorers and World Travellers

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Adventures of a Younger Son	Edward John Trelawny	Published 1840
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Trelawny papers	James P. Baxter	Published 1884
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Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger volume 1	Richard and John Lander	Published 1832
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Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger volume 2	Richard and John Lander	Published 1832

Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger volume 3	Richard and John Lander	Published 1832.

Captain Bligh's second voyage to the South Sea	Ida Lee	Published 1920

.The Coast of Romance	Crosbie Garston	Published 1922

A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty: And the Subsequent Voyage	William Bligh	Published 1838
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The story of Australasia: New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, New Zealand	G. P. Tregarthan	Published 1893

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Poetry & Prose

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A Budget of Cornish Poems	Various	Published c 1890

Poems of Cornwall	Edited by W. H. Thomas	Published 1892
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.St. Michael's mount in Cornwall, a poem	By Thomas Hogg	Published 1811
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.Echoes from Old Cornwall	By Robert Stephen Hawker	Published 1846
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Reeds shaken with the wind [poems]. The second cluster, by the vicar of Morwenstow [R.S. Hawker].	By Robert Stephen Hawker	Published 1844

The Cornish Ballads and Other Poems	By Robert Stephen Hawker	Published 1869

Footprints of former men in Cornwall	By Robert Stephen Hawker	Published 1869

Cornwall, the English Riviera; a poem	By P. J. Kislingbury	Published 1911
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.Sibyl of Cornwall ... and other poems	By Nicholas Michell	Published 1869
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The Voyage of Arundel and Other Rhymes from Cornwall	By Henry S. Stokes	Published 1884
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Warlike ode to faithful Cornwall [signed R.P.].	By Richard Polwhele	Published 1803
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The West country garland: selected from the writings of the poets of Devon and Cornwall, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, with folk songs and traditional verses	By R. N. Worth	Published 1875
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Jason of the golden fleece, a Cornish idyl of today ; a three volume novel in verse	By Manners Stephenson	Published 1895
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The inspiration of song, and other poems	By Annie E. Argall	Published 1894
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Vagabond Verses	By Crosbie Garstin	Published 1917

The ballad of the Royal Ann	By Crosbie Garstin	Published 1922
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The fair Isabel of Cotehele, : a Cornish romance, in six cantos.	By Richard Polwhele	Published 1815
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Original Cornish ballads [by M. Gervis] chiefly founded on stories told by mr. Tregellas. To	By Marrianne Gervis	Published 1846
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Reeds shaken with the wind [poems]. The second cluster, by the vicar of Morwenstow [R.S. Hawker].	By Robert Stephen Hawker	Published 1844

Cornish Catches and other Verses	By Bernard Moore	Published 1914
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Poems	By Alfred Capel Shaw	Published 1874

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Drama

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The old Cornish drama : with illustrations from ancient Cornish sacred poems and miracle plays of other lands : a lecture	By Peter Thurston Collins	Published 1906
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The ancient Cornish drama Vol. one	By Edwin Norris	Published 1859
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The ancient Cornish drama Vol. two	By Edwin Norris	Published 1859
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Gwreans an bys : the Creation of the World, a Cornish mystery	By Whitley Stokes	Published 1864
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English miracle plays and moralities	By E. Hamilton Moore	Published 1907

Beunans Meriasek. The life of Saint Meriasek, bishop and confessor. A Cornish drama	By Whitley Stokes	Published 1872
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The wreckers = Les naufrageurs : Cornish drama in 3 acts	By Ethel Smythe	Published 1909

Dorset Cornwall - Records of Early English Drama	By Various	Published 1999

Love in Danger - Three Cornish Plays	Mrs Havelock Ellis	Published 1915

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Natural History

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A Cornish Fauna: Being a Compendium of the Natural History of the County	By Jonathan Couch	Published 1878
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A supplement to F. Hamilton Davey's Flora of Cornwall	By Edgur Thurston & others	Published 1922
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Wild life at the Land's End : observations of the habits and haunts of the fox, badger, otter, seal, hare, and of their pursuers in Cornwall	By J.C. Tregarthen	Published 1904
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The story of a hare	By J.C. Tregarthen	Published 1912
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The life story of an otter	By J.C. Tregarthen	Published 1909
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The blizzard in the West : being a record and story of the disastrous storm which raged throughout Devon and Cornwall, and West Somerset, on the night of March 9th, 1891	By ?	Published 1891
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The crustacea of Devon and Cornwall	By Alfred Merle Norman & Thomas Scott	Published 1906
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The Christian naturalist	By Rev. Edward Budge B.A.	Published 1838

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Society Reports and Journals

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Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume I 1814-1818 Kindle
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume 4 Kindle

Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume 5 Kindle
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume 6

Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume 7 Kindle

Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume 8 Part one MOBI or send to Kindle
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume 9 Part one Kindle
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume 10 1878-1887 Kindle
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Volume 1I 1895 MOBI or send to Kindle
Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 28th Annual Report 1841 MOBI or send to Kindle
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
General Index to the reports of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society No 66 (1898) - No. 75 (1907) inclusive, Kindle

Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society

Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1861 MOBI or send to Kindle

Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1883 Kindle

Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1911-1913 MOBI or send to Kindle

Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1917-1921 Kindle

Observations on Mineral Lodes by Robert Were Fox, For the R.C.P.S. 1837 MOBI or send to Kindle
Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall
Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Voll 2 1866 - 1867 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Voll. 3 1868 - 1870 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Voll. 4 1871 - 1873 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol 5 1874 - 1877 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 6 1878-1881 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 7 1881-1883 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 8 1883-1885 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol 9 1886 1889 MOBI or send to Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 10 1890 1891 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 11 1891-1892 MOBI or send to Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 12 1893-4-5 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 13. 1895 - 1898 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 14 1899 - 1900 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 15 1901 - 1902 Kindle

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Vol. 16 1903 - 1905 Kindl

Articles from the Journal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Notes on Observations of Sun and Stars in Some British Stone Circles. Fourth Note. The Botallek Circles, St. Just, Cornwall

An Account of Some Trees Discovered Under-Ground on the Shore at Mount's-Bay in Cornwall: In a Letter from the Rev. Mr. William Borlase, F. R. S. to the Rev. Dr. Lyttelton, Dean of Exeter

An Account of a Remarkable Agitation of the Sea, July 28, 1761, and of Two Thunder-Storms in Cornwall: In a Letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society, from the Rev. William Borlase, M. A. F. R. S.

An Account of the Late Mild Weather in Cornwall, of the Quantity of Rain Fallen There in the Year 1762: In a Letter from the Rev. William Borlase, M. A. F. R. S. to Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S.

Meteorological Observations at Ludgvan in Mount's-Bay, Cornwall, 1770: By William Borlase, D. D. F. R. S. Communicated by Dr. Jeremiah Milles, Dean of Exeter, and F. R. S.

Meteorological Observations at Ludgvan in Mount's-Bay, Cornwall, 1771: By William Borlase, D. D. F. R. S. Communicated by Dr. Jeremiah Milles, Dean of Exeter, and F. R. S.

An Extract of a Letter from the Late Mr. Edw. Lhwyd to Dr. Tancred Robinson; Giving an Account of Some Uncommon Plants Growing about Pensans and St. Ives in Cornwall

An Account of the Earthquake in the West Parts of Cornwall, July 15th 1757. By the Rev. William Borlase, M. A. F. R. S. Communicated by the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, LL. D. Dean of Exeter, F. R. S.

An Account of a Storm of Thunder and Lightning, Near Ludgvan in Cornwall, in a Letter from the Rev. Mr. Wm. Borlase, M. A. F. R. S. to the Rev. Dr. Lyttelton, Dean of Exeter

An Account of the Effects of Lightning upon the Steeple and Church of Lestwithiel, Cornwall; In a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, President of the R.S. By Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

An Account of the Effects of a Storm of Thunder and Lightning, in the Parishes of Looe and Lanreath, in the County of Cornwall, on the 27th Day of June, 1756. Communicated to the Rev. Jeremiah Milles, D.D. F.R.S. in Two Letters, One from the Rev. Mr. Dyer, Minister of Looe, and the Other from the Rev. Mr. Milles, Vicar of Duloe, in Cornwall

An Account of the Quantity of Rain Fallen at Mount's-Bay in Cornwall, and of the Weather in That Place: In a Letter from the Rev. William Borlase, M. A. and F. R. S. to the Right Rev. Charles Lord Bishop of Carlisle, F. R. S.

An Account of Some Antiquities Found in Cornwall: In a Letter from the Rev. William Borlase, M. A. F. R. S. to the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, L. L. D. Dean of Exeter

An Attempt to Examine the Barrows in Cornwall, by Stephen Williams, M. D. F. R. S.

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Scilly Isles

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Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly: And Their Importance to ...	By William Borlase	Published 1756
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A view of the present state of the Scilly islands	By Rev. George Woodley	Published 1822
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Scilly and Its Legends	By Henry John Whitfield	Published 1852
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Scilly and the Scillonians	By J. G. Uren	Published 1904
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The Cornish Coast, south, and The Isles of Scilly	By C. G. Harper	Published 1910
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The Isles of Scilly Their Story, Their Folk and Their Flowers	By I.W. North M.A. Chaplain	Published 1919
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A Week in the Isles of Scilly	By I.W. North M.A. Chaplain	Published 1850

A week in the Isles of Scilly	Revised and rewritten by Leonard H. Courtney (1867)	Published 1867
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A guide to Penzance and its neighbourhood, including the islands of Scilly ...	By J.S. Courtney	Published 1845
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The geology of the Isles of Scilly	By George Barrow	Published 1906
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The Shipwreck of Sir Cloudesley Shovell on the Scilly Islands, in 1707	By James H Cooke	Published 1883
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Unvisited places of old Europe	By Robert Shackleton	Published 1922
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A Londoner's walk to the Land's End; and a trip to the Scilly isles	By Walter White	Published 1855

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Science

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The scientific papers of John Couch Adams Volume 1	Edited by J C Adams	Published 1896
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Lectures on the Lunar Series	Edited by J C Adams	Published 1900
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Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc., with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence	By Sir Humphry Davy	Published 1858
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Salmonia; or, Days of fly fishing. In a series of conversations. With some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo	By Sir Humphry Davy	Published 1851

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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

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On the Art of Reading	Q.	Published 1920
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The Astonishing History of Troy Town	Q.	Published 1898
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The Mayor of Troy Town	Q.	Published 1906
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Hocken and Hunken, A Tale of Troy Town	Q.	Published 1912
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Poems and Ballads	Q.	Published 1896
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I Saw Three Ships And Other Winter Tales	Q.	Published 1898
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The Delectable Duchy	Q.	Published 1893
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IA	Q.	Published 1896
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The Laird's Luck And Other Fireside Tales	Q.	Published 1896
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Two Sides of the Face Mid-Winter Tales	Q.	Published 1903
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The White Wolf And Other Fireside Tales	Q.	Published 1902
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Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts	Q.	Published 1900
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The Splendid Spur	Q.	Published 1898
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Dead Man's Rock	Q.	Published 1887
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From a Cornish Window	Q	Published 1906

Poison Island	Q.	Published 1907
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Shining Ferry	Q.	Published 1905
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The Adventures of Harry Revel	Q.	Published 1903
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Merry - Garden And Other Stories	Q.	Published 1907
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A Spanish Maid	Q.	Published 1898
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News From The Duchy	Q.	Published 1914
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Noughts & Crosses	Q	Published 1891
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Shakespeare's Christmas And Other Stories	Q	Published 1905
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Corporal Sam	Q	Published 1910
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The Delectable Duchy	Q	Published 1899

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Places where the Cornish went.

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A history of the northern peninsula of Michigan and its people; its mining, lumber and agricultural industries	Alvah L. Sawyer	Published 1911

Picturesque iron and copper mining of northern Michigan	A Witteman	Published 1891

Mining town memories--Colorado and Mexico : oral history transcript / and related material,	Bessie Launder Richards	Published 1967

Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the principal views of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Sutro	Jas. H, Cockwell	Published c.1890

University of Colorado historical collections	Colorado University	Published 1918

The Klondike, a souvenir;	George G. Cantwell	Published c.1900

Mining camps of British Columbia : a souvenir of Rossland, Nelson, Greenwood, Phoenix, Grand Forks, Kaslo, Revelstoke, Cranbrook, Fernie and the Kootenay, Boundary and Crow's Nest Districts ; illustrated with fifty excellent views of typical scenes	?	Published 1900

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Smuggling

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The Kings Customs	By Henry Atton & Henry H. Holland	Published 1908
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The Kings Customs Volume Two	By Henry Atton & Henry H. Holland	Published 1910
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Kings Cutters and Smugglers 1700 - 1855	By E. Keble Chatterton	Published 1912
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The smugglers; picturesque chapters in the story of an ancient craft	by Charles George Harper	Published 1909
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An Alphabetical Abridgment of the Laws for the Prevention of Smuggling: From 12 Car. II. to 58 ...	By Government of Great Britain	Published 1818

Kynance cove, or, The Cornish smugglers. A novel	William Bentinck Forfar	Published 1865

The autobiography of a Cornish smuggler	By Capt. Harry Carter	Published 1900

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