Works of Cornish interest featured prominently in the August 22 sale held by David Lay (18% buyer’s premium) of Penzance, among them those from the library of the writer and scholar, PAS Pool.
A 1758 Oxford first (in modern half calf) of one of William Borlase’s works, The Natural History of Cornwall, made £800, but more of a surprise was a £780 bid for a volume of half-a-dozen pamphlets.
The one identified in the catalogue was an Account of the Exploration of Subterranean Chambers at Treveneague, in the Parish of St Hilary, Cornwall.