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Period 18th century

Associated Places Cornwall (England : County)

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1. Speculi Britanniae pars : a topographical and historical description of Cornwall : with a map of the County and each hundred; in which are contained the names and seats of the several gentlemen then inhabitants, as also, thirteen views of the remarkable curiosities in that county / by the perambulation, view, and delineation of John Norden ; to which are added, The west prospect of the some-time Conventual Church of St. Germans ; and a table of the distances of the towns from each other ; with some account of the author.

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Creator:: Norden, John, 1548–1625?
Date:: 1728
Physical Description:: [24], 104 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., maps (some folded) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall : consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, druid-superstition, customs, and remains of the most remote antiquity in Britain, and the British Isles, exemplified and proved by monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language / By William Borlase, LL.D. F.R.S., Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall.

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Creator:: Borlase, William, 1695–1772
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: xvi, 464 p., 37 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 37 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. An historical account of the ancient and modern state of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornwall, and earldom of Chester / collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and divers ancient authors by Sir John Doddridge, knight.

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Creator:: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555–1628
Date:: 1714
Physical Description:: [16], 147, [1] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The natural history of Cornwall : the air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides ; of stones, semimetals, metals, tin, and manner of mining ; the constitution of the stannaries ; iron, copper, silver, lead, and gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, rare birds, fishes, shells, reptiles, and quadrupeds : of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, plays or interludes, exercises, and festivals ; the Cornish language, trade, tenures, and arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the county, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from original drawing taken on the spot / by William Borlase, A.M. F.R.S. Rector of Ludgvan, and author of the Antiquities of Cornwall.

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Creator:: Borlase, William, 1695–1772
Date:: MDCCLVII [1758]
Physical Description:: xix, 326 p., XXIX leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The survey of Cornwall. And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue./ By Richard Carew ... with the life of the author, by H C* Esq.

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Creator:: Carew, Richard, 1555–1620
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: xxv, [8] p., 159 leaves, [8], 13, [1] p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts