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COTTON (WILLIAM) Illustrations of Stone Circles, Cromlechs, and Other Remains of the Aboriginal Britons, in the West of Cornwall: from drawings made on the spot in 1826, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 25 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "With the author's kind regards. Sept. 12th 1827" on front free endpaper, 11 engraved plates, later calf gilt, 4to, James Moyes, 1827--POLWHELE (RICHARD) The Old English Gentleman, a Poem, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "Mr. Fothergill from the Author, Polwhele near Truro, July 28th, 1822" on half-title, contemporary tree calf, scuffed, Cadell and Davies, 1797--HARRISON (GEORGE) Substance of a Report on the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Stannaries in Cornwall, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "John Borlase ... Steward of the stannaries with the best regards of the author" on the title, contemporary diced calf, Longman, 1835--BRIGHT (J.C.) List of Antiquities in the Hundreds of Kirrier and Penwith, West Cornwall, additional hand-coloured engraved map laid on linen, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED IN AN EARLY HAND, contemporary red half morocco, Truro, James Netherton, 1862--[POLSUE (JOSEPH)] A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 4 vol. in 2, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with approximately 9 photographs (including Saltash Bridge, portraits of the author and his gravestone, a cromlech), and 60 maps and plates, numerous cuttings, an ink drawing of Bodmin church, an ALS from Polsue, and others, numerous manuscript notes and corrections (?by Polsue), later half morocco, joints slightly weakened, Truro, William Lake, 1867-1872--BLIGHT (J.T.) A Week at Land's End, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with upwards of 50 additional plates, pencil drawings, etc., green half morocco by Bayntun, t.e.g., Longman, Green, 1861, all but the first 8vo; and 2 others on Cornwall, of which one extra-illustrated (9)