Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 61225, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025

Page Size: 382 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76	Seth Lister Mosley	A History of British Birds, Their Nests, and Eggs	Huddersfield	1884 and 1887.	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,690.20
77	Thomas Moore	British Ferns and Mosses	London	c.1896	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
78	Samuel Lewis	A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland comprising the several Counties, Island, Cities, Burgh and Market Towns, Parishes and Principal Villages...	London	1847	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 75.12
79		Greenwood publishers Suffolk, Middlesex and Bedford		1831; 1829; 1831.	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 137.72
80	George Cole and John Roper	[The British Atlas]	London	1835	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 162.76
81		(Americana) Three facsimile atlases		1974	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
82		(Cartography) Two good works	New York	1978	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
83		(Industrial Revolution and Engines) Three works	London	1952	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
84		A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark with the contiguous buildings from an actual Survey ' copied from an original by John Rocque in 1746,		1971	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 100.16
85		London Actually Survey'd and A Prospect of London and Westminster by William Morgan.1682		1971	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 100.16
86		(Isle of White and Hampshire) A very good collection of pocket maps and one other			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
87		Bacon publishers Two maps			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
88	(Wiltshire) Greenwood publishers	Map of the County of Wiltshire, from actual survey in the years 1819 & 1820		1820	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 901.44
89	William Stanford (ed)	Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs (Revised Edition)	London	c.1911	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 375.60
90	Sidney Hall	A New British Atlas; Comprising A Series of 54 Maps, Constructed from the most Recent Surveys	London	1833	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 75.12
91	J. W. Lowery	Lowry's Table Atlas. Constructed and Engraved from the most recent Authorities	London	c.1853	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
92		Ordnance Survey Parish of Harlow	London	1875	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 162.76
93		Greenwood & Co Map of the County of Cornwall from a detailed Survey made in the Years 1826 and 1827	London	c.1827	GBP 400.00 - 800.00	GBP 626.00
94	Isaac Taylor	County of Gloucester		c.1777	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,001.60
95		Greenwood, Pringle & Co Map of the County of Devon	London	c.1827	GBP 400.00 - 800.00	GBP 525.84
96	JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith	'The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography,'	Edinburgh and London	1874	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 56.34
97	J. and C. Walker publishers	Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas; Containing Separate Maps of Every County in England, and The Three Ridings of Yorkshire	London	c.1860	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 313.00
98		Bacon's Map of London 1881	London	1881	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 751.20
99	Sidney Hall	A Travelling Atlas: with All the Coach ad Rail Roads	London	1842	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 125.20
100	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings	London	1962	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,001.60

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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