I can help with all resources marked , copyright permitting.

I do not sell books! The small prices at the end of some listings are there as a guide only.

• National Maritime Museum [pub.]. The Ship Registers of the Port of Hayle; from the series Maritime Monographs and Reports, no. 20; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: 1975. Includes many West Penwith ship owners.
• Norden, John. See maps.
• Noall, Cyril. Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks; D. Bradford Barton, Truro: 1968.
• ———Cornwall’ early lifeboats; Tor Mark Press, Penryn: 1989. ISBN 0-85025-317-9. Based on “The story of Cornwall’s Lifeboats” published earlier.
• Norway, Arthur H. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall; Macmillan, London: 1897.
• Olson, Lynette. Early monasteries in Cornwall; Boydell: 1989. ISBN 0 85115 478 6. £22
• Orme, Nicholas. The Saints of Cornwall; Oxford University Press: 2000 ISBN 0-19-820765-4 Reputedly gives the locations of old chapels. £75
• Page, John Lloyd Warden. The north coast of Cornwall; W. Crofton Hemmons, Bristol & Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London: 1897.
• Page, William [ed.]. The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall. Volume I; James Street, London: 1906 The only volume published to date but still an active project.
• Pascoe, F. R. Cornwall education week handbook; 1927 History of education in Cornwall
• Payton, Philip [ed.]. Cornish Studies Second series (Annual publication. Issue 1 (1993) includes "Liberals and Conservatives in West Cornwall, 1832–1868", Issue 2 (1994) includes "Writing skills in C17^th West Cornwall");University of Exeter: 1993— £13 each new
• ———Cornwall; Alexander Associates, Fowey: 1996. ISBN 1 899526 60 9. A big glossy coffee table book but written by a good historian. See the note above Second edition in paperback and updated, Cornwall Editions: 2004 ISBN 1-904880-00-2
• ———The Cornish Overseas; Alexander Associates, Fowey: 1999. ISBN 1 899526 95 1. The second in the trilogy.
• ———…a vision of Cornwall; Alexander Associates, Fowey: 2002. ISBN 1 899526 02 1. The third and final part, looking to the future.
• Pearce, Keith & Fry, Helen Eds. The lost Jews of Cornwall—From Roman times to the 19th century. Redcliffe Press, Bristol: 1999. ISBN 1-900178-27-3. It includes transcripts with translation of the Falmouth and Penzance Jewish Cemeteries. £13 new
• Penney, Norman. Record of the sufferings of Quakers in Cornwall; Friends Historical Society, London: 1928. Extracts are online on this site.
• Phillimore, W. P. W et. al. Cornwall Parish Registers—Marriages (26 volumes); Phillimore, London: 1900–35. £50 each (Facsimile on microfiche (Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6 only); Ancestor Publishers (Ancestorspy) [link broken 2018], Arvada, Colorado. All 26 volumes available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project, Cinderford: 2001. £8.50 per three volumes All 26 volumes available in facsimile on CDROM from S & N Genealogy, Salisbury: 2003. £10 per volume Volumes 2, 10, 13, 14, 23 and 24 are available in facsimile on CDROM and ONLINE from United Kingdom Genealogy, Warminster: 2002–03. £5 per volume
• Polsue, Joseph. A complete parochial history of the county of Cornwall; William Lake, Truro & John Camden Hotten, London: 1867–72. The 4 volumes are in alphabetical order of parish. I. Advent to Falmouth. II. Feock to Landulph. III. Laneast to Newlyn in Pydar. IV. North Hill to Zennor. There are also some supplementary papers which are sometimes bound with volume IV. There are large extracts on this web site linked from each parish page. Relevant extracts are available online on this site. £250 set. Reprinted with an introduction by Prof. Charles Thomas about the sources used, including William Hals and Thomas Tonkin; EP Publishing, Wakefield: 1974 for Cornwall County Library ISBN 085409539X. It is reported that they are about to be reprinted again by Tredinnick Press. Available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project. £17
• Polwhele, Richard. The history of Cornwall, civil, military, religious, architectural, agricultural, commercial, biographical & miscellaneous; (3 volumes) Cadell & Davies, London: 1803–08. (additional material making 7 volumes); Law & Whitaker, London: 1816. (Facsimile reprint (original? 3 volumes); Kohler & Combes, Dorking: 1978.)
• Pool, P. A. S. The Penheleg Manuscript; Journal of the RIC (New Series 3/3 p163–228): 1959.
• ———The death of Cornish (1600–1800); The author, Penzance: 1975.
• Potts, Richard [ed.] A calendar of Cornish glebe terriers 1673–1735; D & CRS, Exeter: 1974. £14
• Pounds, Norman J. G. The parliamentary survey of the Duchy of Cornwall (two volumes—New series Vols. 25 & 27); Devon & Cornwall Record Society, Exeter: 1982 & 1984. £28 pair
• Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas [ed.]. The Cornish magazine. Joseph Pollard, London: 1898–99. This magazine was published monthly from July 1898 to June 1899 (at least), but the only examples I have seen are in publishers bindings in two volumes.
• Quiller-Couch, M. & L. Ancient and holy wells of Cornwall; Clark, London:1894 (Republished Tamara, Liskeard: 1994. ISBN 0 9512822 5 5.)
• Raymond, Stuart A. Cornwall—A genealogical bibliography; S. A. & M. J. Raymond, Exeter: 1989. ISBN 0-9588144-1-4. I have the first edition, there is a second expanded edition available 1998.
• Robinson, O. F. The register of Walter Bronescombe, bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280; University of Rochester Press, New York: 1995–2000. 3 volumes being nos. 82, 87 & ? in the Canterbury and York Society series.
• Rowse, A. L. Tudor Cornwall, portrait of a society. 1947. £15
• Smith, R. M. (ed.) Alka-Seltzer guide to the pubs of Cornwall; Bayard, London: 1976 ISBN 0 220 66657 1.
• Spargo, Thomas. The mines of Cornwall: Statistics and observations (6 slim volumes); 1865 Republished by D. B. Barton, Truro: 1959–61.£9 each
• Stoate, T. L. Cornwall hearth and poll taxes 1660-64; The author, Almondsbury: 1981. £45 (Facsimile on microfiche; Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1998 available from Bernard D. Welchman [link broken 2018].)
• ———Cornwall subsidies in the reign of Henry VIII 1524 & 1543 and the benevolence of 1545; The author, Bristol: 1985. (Facsimile on microfiche; Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1999 available from Bernard D. Welchman [link broken 2018].)
• ———Cornwall military survey 1522 with the loan books and tinner’s muster roll c1535; The author, Bristol: 1987. £45 (Facsimile on microfiche; Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1998 available from Bernard D. Welchman [link broken 2018].) The Cornwall Lookup Exchange [link broken 2018] can help with this book.
• ———Cornwall manorial rentals and surveys; The author, Almondsbury: 1988. £48 (Facsimile on microfiche; Harry Galloway, Weston-super-Mare: 1998 available from Bernard D. Welchman [link broken 2018].) The Cornwall Lookup Exchange [link broken 2018] can help with this book.
• Stride, S. A shelf list of the Society’s collections (Devon & Cornwall Record Society); West Country Studies Library, Exeter: 1986.
• Tamblin, Stuart. HO27 Criminal register indexes; Family History Indexes, Northampton (on microfiche). Volumes 2 (1805–16), 25 (1817–28) & 66 (1829–40) cover Cornwall.
• Sturt, John. Revolt in the west—The western rebellion of 1549; Devon Books, Exeter: 1987. ISBN 0 86114-776-6.
• Thomas, Charles (ed.) Cornish Studies: Journal of the Institute of Cornish Studies; Annual publication Issue 1 (1973), Issues 13–15 (1985–87) University of Exeter:1973–1992?
• Thompson, W. Harding. Cornwall, a survey of its coast, moors, and valleys, with suggestions for the preservation of amenities; University of London for the Council for the Preservation of Rural England: 1930.£40
• Thorn, Caroline & Frank [eds.] Domesday book: Cornwall; Phillimore, Chichester: 1979. ISBN 085033 155 2. From a draft prepared by Oliver Padel. £15
• Tonkin, Thomas. The natural history of Cornwall; 1736–39 The was prepared independently of Hals’ work. The only known (manuscript) copy of this work is in the Courtney Library at the RIC and consists of the general history volume. The two remaining volumes of the histories of the hundreds were never prepared, though notes may exist. Extracts were printed in Lake’s Parochial History and relevant ones are available online on this site..
• Townsend, Sheila. Nonconformist registers for Cornwall; Cornwall Legacy, Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire: 2001. A book (6 volumes £75) and CDROM £30 transcript of those registers at the PRO.
• Tregellas, I. T. Cornish Tales in Prose & Verse; Truro: 1865. Available in facsimile on CD-ROM from Belerion Books, Florida.
• Tregellas, I. T. Peeps into the haunts and homes of the rural population of Cornwall; Truro: 1879. £35
• Trounson, J. Mining in Cornwall (2 volumes); Dyllansow Truran, Redruth: 1980. ISBN 0903485 79 6. Volume 1 covers the Redruth/Camborne mines, volume 2 does the rest.
• Vivian, J. L. & Drake, H. H. The visitation of the county of Cornwall in the year 1620; Harlean Society, London: 1874. £80 Available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project.
• Vivian, J. L. Visitations of Cornwall 1530, 1573 & 1620; Exeter: 1887. £720 Also published on CD-ROM by Cornish Roots [link broken] in partnership with The Library Service of Cornwall County Council. £32 Also available in facsimile on CDROM and ONLINE from UK Genealogy Archives, Warminster: 2003. £20
• Vyvyan, C. C. Our Cornwall; Westway, London: 1948.
• Wallis, John. The Cornwall Register; Liddell, Bodmin: 1847. This work is very much an anticipation of a Cornwall Diocesan Handbook but with the mistaken assumption that the cathedral town would be Bodmin. Even so, it contains some interesting statistics for the rest of the county. Available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project.
• Western Morning News (pub.) Doidge’s Western counties illustrated annual; Western Morning News, Plymouth: 1868–1949+. I have 1949 and 1911 is published on CDROM by Belerion Books.
• Wilcox, Anthony. National index of parish registers, Volume 8, Part 4, Cornwall; Society of Genealogists, London: 1999. ISBN 1-85951-603-3. Also includes non-conformist registers and other information.
• Williams, B. H. Ancient westcountry families and their armorial bearings; Bridger, Penzance: 1916. Volume 1. Available in facsimile on CDROM from the Archive CD Books Project.
• Wright, Mary. Cornish guernseys & knit-frocks; Alison Hodge: 1979. ISBN 0 905788 07 9. £4 With a lot of background information.
• Wright, W. H. K. ed. The Western Antiquary or Devon and Cornwall Note-Books; Plymouth: 1881–1894. Originally published in the Weekly Mercury and subsequenly issued by quarterly subscription into annual volumes, of which 12 were published. Volumes 1 & 2 are available from Belerion Books. There is an index to all 12 volumes by David Gale on GENUKI.
• Various tourist guide books of Cornwall covering the late C19th and C20th including.
  • Black’s Guide to the Duchy of Cornwall; Black, Edinburgh: 1873. £16 The 1879 edition is online in facsimile at Rosemary Rodliffe, Thornbury: 2001 (was on CD-ROM), an 1884 edition has also been seen.£9
  • Salmon, Arthur L. Cornwall; Methuen, London: 1927 (first ed. 1903).
  • Mais, S. P. B. The Cornish Riviera; GWR, London: 1934 (3^rd. ed.)
  • The blue book guide to Cornwall; Liddicoat, Newquay: 1947 and a later edition (c 1955?).
  • Muirhead, L. Russell. Cornwall; Penguin: 1947 (first ed. 1939)
  • Creswell Payne, H. M. The north coast of Cornwall; Homeland, London: c1950.
  • Arnold, E. C. & Morris W. G. Dear old Cornwall; Homeland, London: c1950 (photographs).
  • Delderfield, Eric R. The visitors’ brief guide to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; Raleigh Press, Exmouth: c1962.
  • Saville, Malcolm. Come to Cornwall; Ernest Benn, London: 1969.
  • Around Cornwall—A motorist’s guide; Tor Mark, Truro: c1970? Actually four volumes bound together—Cornwall’s southern coast, Cornwall’s Atlantic coast, Cornwall’s far west & Around the Lizard.

I can recommend Ambra Books which has a good selection of books on Cornwall available for sale by post via a monthly catalogue.

For new books about Cornwall, try Just Cornish (in St. Just) or Truran Books for a wide selection.