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An Essay on the Mines of England by George Abbot junior, 1833 (GB - 5.49 MB)

Abstracts of Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol 1, 1800-1830 (GB - 20.4 MB)

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, Vol 1, 1890 (IA - 65.2 MB)

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, Vol 2, 1894 (IA - 61.8 MB)

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, Vol 3, 1900 (IA - 90.0 MB)

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, Vol 4, 1902 (IA - 96.8 MB)

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, Vol 5, 1906 (IA - 127 MB)

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office, Vol 6, 1915 (IA - 88.5 MB)

The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery by George James Aungier, 1840 (GB - 33.7 MB)

Cornwall by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1910 (IA - 17.6 MB)

The Miners' Sons Martin Luther and Henry Martyn by Charles Dent Bell, 1853 (GB - 2.71 MB)

Ancient Crosses and other Antiquities in the East of Cornwall by John Thomas Blight, 1858 (GB - 4.46 MB)

Topographical and Historical Sketches of the Boroughs of East and West Looe by Thomas Bond, 1823 (GB - 7.27 MB)

Observations of the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly by William Borlase, 1756 (GB - 5.04 MB)

Nænia Cornubiæ by William Copeland Borlase, 1872 (IA - 28.6 MB)

An Historical Treatise of Cities and Burghs or Boroughs by Robert Brady, 1777 (GB - 10.1 MB)

Devonshire and Cornwall Illustrated by John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, 1832 (GB - 15.8 MB)

Statistical Account of the Parish of Saint Just in Penwith by John Buller, 1842 (GB - 3.97 MB)

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England by John Burke, 1838 (GB - 36.4 MB)

The Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew, 1769 (GB - 13.6 MB)

Local Etymology: A Derivative Dictionary of Geographical Names by Richard Stephen Charnock, 1859 (GB - 7.24 MB)

Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1226-1516, Vol 5, 1916 (IA - 57.7 MB)

A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland by Edward Daniel Clarke, 1793 (GB - 9.73 MB)

Trevelyan Papers Prior to AD 1558 by J Payne Collier, 1857 (GB - 10.3 MB)

Trevelyan Papers 1446-1643 by J Payne Collier, 1863 (GB - 5.7 MB)

A Treatise on the Law Relating to Mines by Robert Porrett Collier, 1849 (GB - 4.88 MB)

A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon by Joseph Henry Collins, 1871 (IA - 28.4 MB)

Rambles Beyond Railways or Notes in Cornwall by William Wilkie Collins, 1851 (GB - 5.56 MB)

Perranzabuloe, The Lost Church Found by Charles Trelawny Collins-Trelawny, 1846 (GB - 8.42 MB)

A Guide to Penzance and its Neighbourhood by John Sampson Courtney, 1845 (GB - 7.42 MB)

The Churches of Cornwall by John Charles Cox, 1912 (IA - 18.6 MB)

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphrey Davy by John Davy, 1836 (GB - 13.7 MB)

The Life, Character and Literary Labours of Samuel Drew by Jacob Halls Drew, 1834 (GB - 19.2 MB)

The Land's End District by Richard Edmonds, 1862 (GB - 8.11 MB)

The Egerton Papers by Francis Egerton Ellesmere, 1840 (GB - 12.2 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1307-1319, Vol 2, 1912 (IA - 38.6 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1319-1327, Vol 3, 1912 (IA - 41.2 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1327-1337, Vol 4, 1913 (IA - 79.8 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1356-1368, Vol 7, 1923 (IA - 61.1 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1383-1393, Vol 10, 1929 (IA - 63.9 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1391-1399, Vol 11, 1929 (IA - 53.0 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1399-1405, Vol 12, 1931 (IA - 53.0 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1405-1413, Vol 13, 1933 (IA - 50.2 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1413-1422, Vol 14, 1934 (IA - 83.4 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1422-1430, Vol 15, 1935 (IA - 45.1 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1430-1437, Vol 16, 1936 (IA - 64.1 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1437-1445, Vol 17, 1937 (IA - 59.3 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1445-1452, Vol 18, 1939 (IA - 48.9 MB)

Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: 1452-1461, Vol 19, 1939 (IA - 46.1 MB)

The Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 1 by Davies Gilbert, 1838 (IA - 54.5 MB)

The Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 2 by Davies Gilbert, 1838 (IA - 31.5 MB)

The Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 3 by Davies Gilbert, 1838 (IA - 38.3 MB)

The Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol 4 by Davies Gilbert, 1838 (IA - 125.0 MB)

The Works of Francis Gregor of Trewarthennick Esq, 1816 (GB - 13.5 MB)

A Practical Treatise on the Law of Tolls by Frederic Gunning, 1833 (GB - 7.84 MB)

Case Between Sir William Clayton Bart and the Duchy of Cornwall by John Haines, 1834 (GB - 13.5 MB)

The Land's End, Kynance Cove and other Poems by John Harris, 1858 (GB - 2.66 MB)

A Story of Carn Brea, Essays and Poems by John Harris, 1863 (GB - 5.13 MB)

Substance of a Report on the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Stannaries of Cornwall by George Harrison, 1835 (GB - 5.13 MB)

Echoes from Old Cornwall by Robert Stephen Hawker, 1846 (GB - 1.31 MB)

Specimens of Ancient Cornish Crosses, Fonts &c by Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph, 1850 (GB - 2.13 MB)

The Poems of Francis Hingeston by Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph, 1857 (GB - 4.27 MB)

Observations on the Tin Trade of the Ancients in Cornwall by Christopher Hawkins, 1811 (GB - 2.0 MB)

Sermons Preached in the Parish Church of St Feock, Cornwall by William Hichens, 1851 (GB - 3.94 MB)

St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, a Poem by Thomas Hogg, 1811 (GB - 2.87 MB)

The Fabulous History of the Ancient Kingdom of Cornwall by Thomas Hogg, 1827 (GB - 9.71 MB)

A Week at the Lizard by Charles Alexander Johns, 1848 (GB - 4.58 MB)

A Botanical Tour Through Various Parts of the Counties of Devon and Cornwall by John Pike Jones, 1820 (GB - 1.8 MB)

The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall, 1808 (GB - 5.04 MB)

Historical Statement of the Improvements made in the Duty Performed in the Steam Engines in Cornwall by Thomas Lean, 1839 (GB - 5.2 MB)

Cornwall: Its Mines and Miners by John R Leifchild, 1855 (GB - 18.2 MB)

A Journey Into Cornwall by George Lipscomb, 1799 (GB - 10.4 MB)

Patronymica Britannica by Mark Antony Lower, 1860 (GB - 24.8 MB)

Catalogue of the Manuscript Maps, Charts and Plans and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum, Vol 1, 1844 (GB - 23.7 MB)

Memoirs of the late Philip Melvill Esquire, Lieutenant Governor of Pendennis Castle, Cornwall, nd (IA - 31.0 MB)

Report of the Case of the Borough of West Looe by Henry Alworth Merewether, 1823 (GB - 14.7 MB)

The Mining Almanack, 1849 (GB - 23.7 MB)

The Mining Manual and Almanack, 1851 (GB - 17.0 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 1, Jul-Dec 1853 (GB - 35.1 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 2, Jan-Jun 1854 (GB - 53.4 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 3, Jul-Dec 1854 (GB - 34.9 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 4, Jan-Jun 1855 (GB - 21.5 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 5, Jul-Dec 1855 (GB - 36.6 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 6, Jan-Jun 1856 (GB - 26.3 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 7, Jul-Dec 1856 (GB - 32.1 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 8, Jan-Jun 1857 (GB - 37.9 MB)

The Mining Magazine, Vol 9, Jul-Dec 1857 (GB - 30.2 MB)

The Mining Magazine and Journal of Geology, Vol 1, Nov 1859-Jul 1860 (GB - 33.0 MB)

A Handbook for Travellers in Devon & Cornwall by John Murray, 1851 (GB - 10.6 MB)

The Ancient Cornish Drama by Edwin Norris, 1859 (GB - 11.4 MB)

A Week in the Isles of Scilly by Isaac William North, 1850 (GB - 4.0 MB)

Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset etc by George Oliver, 1857 (GB - 37.9 MB)

A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End by John Ayrton Paris, 1828 (IA - 10.2 MB)

The Life of Sir Humphry Davy by John Ayrton Paris, 1831 (GB - 24.4 MB)

The Anglo-Saxon Episcopate of Cornwall by Edward Hoblyn Pedler, 1856 (IA - 17.2 MB)

An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, Vol 1 by William Penaluna, 1838 (GB - 11.3 MB)

An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall, Vol 2 by William Penaluna, 1838 (GB - 11.2 MB)

Transactions of the Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Penzance, 1845-50 (GB - 12.6 MB)

Figures and Descriptions of the Pal�ozoic Fossils of Cornwall, Devon & West Somerset by John Phillips, 1841 (GB - 8.76 MB)

Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall by Richard Polwhele, 1792 (GB - 3.59 MB)

Warlike Ode to Faithful Cornwall by Richard Polwhele, 1815 (GB - 539 KB)

The Fair Isabel of Cotehele by Richard Polwhele, 1815 (GB - 6.33 MB)

Traditions and Recollections by Richard Polwhele, 1826 (GB - 10.0 MB)

Biographical Sketches in Cornwall by Richard Polwhele, 1831 (GB - 18.5 MB)

Reminiscences in Prose and Verse by Richard Polwhele, 1836 (GB - 13.7 MB)

Procedure in the Court of the Vice Warden of the Stannaries, 1856 (GB - 6.93 MB)

Tables to Facilitate Business in Several Branches of the Copper Trade by John Provis, 1801 (GB - 19.3 MB)

Mineralogia Cornubiensis by William Pryce, 1778 (GB - 22.7 MB)

An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Cornwall by Cyrus Redding, 1842 (GB - 13.6 MB)

Memoirs of the Celts or Gauls by Joseph Ritson, 1827 (GB - 7.07 MB)

A Perambulation of the Antient Forest of Dartmoor by Samuel Rowe, 1848 (GB - 16.2 MB)

26th Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 1858 (GB - 25.6 MB)

Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol 1, 1818 (GB - 8.72 MB)

Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol 2, 1822 (GB - 10.8 MB)

Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Vol 4, 1838 (GB - 11.6 MB)

28th Annual Report of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 1841 (GB - 1.41 MB)

Report of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1838 (GB - 20.4 MB)

Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect by William Sandys, 1846 (GB - 2.53 MB)

The Selector, or Cornish Magazine, 1826 (GB - 42.0 MB)

Thirteen Years Stewardship of the Islands of Scilly by Augustus John Smith, 1848 (GB - 2.1 MB)

Trip to the Far West by Baker Peter Smith, 1840 (GB - 3.34 MB)

Excursions in the County of Cornwall by Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale, 1824 (GB - 6.44 MB)

The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall by Thomas Taylor, 1916 (IA - 26.0 MB)

A Guide to the Coasts of Devon & Cornwall by Mackenzie Edward C Walcott, 1859 (GB - 5.67 MB)

The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, 1847 (GB - 9.05 MB)

A Tour Through Cornwall in the Autumn of 1808 by Richard Warner, 1809 (GB - 11.9 MB)

A Compendium of British Mining by Joseph Yelloly Watson, 1843 (GB - 3.97 MB)

The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, Vol 3, 1810 (GB - 18.0 MB)

The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall by John Whitaker, Vol 1, 1804 (GB - 24.1 MB)

The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall by John Whitaker, Vol 2, 1804 (GB - 28.8 MB)

A Londoners Walk to the Land's End by Walter White, 1855 (GB - 11.0 MB)

Scilly and its Legends by Henry John Whitfeld, 1852 (GB - 5.15 MB)

Journal and Letters of the Reverend Henry Martyn by Samuel Wilberforce, 1837 (GB - 15.5 MB)

Picturesque Excursions in Devonshire and Cornwall by Thomas H Williams, 1804 (GB - 6.76 MB)

A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands by George Woodley, 1822 (GB - 10.0 MB)

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