BORLASE, William.
The Natural History of Cornwall.
The Natural History of Cornwall.
The air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides; of the stones, semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the 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 country, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from Original Drawings taken on the Spot.
Stock Code 103713
Oxford, Printed for the author; by W. Jackson: sold by W. Sandby, at the Ship in Fleet-Street London; and the booksellers of Oxford, 1758
The Natural History of Cornwall is also notable for a chapter on human geography of the region, including a section on the 'Cornish tongue' which of the Brittonic languages is 'reckoned more pleasing in sound because less guttural than the Welsh, and indeed than the other dialects. Thus, for instance, the Welsh say Lech or Llech, a flat stone, the Cornish, Lêh. For Lhwch, (in Welsh a lake) the Cornish say Lûh, &c' (p.314).
Illustrated with 29 engraved plates, including a folding double-page map of the county with inset for the Scilly Isles.
First edition; folio (36.5 x 24 cm); 29 engraved plates including a large folding map, list of subscribers and errata leaf, tear to margin of D1; contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, joints cracked but firm, corners worn, spine rubbed; xix, [1], 326, [2]pp.
ESTC T139226.
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