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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
101 J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

London 1976 GBP 180.00 - 220.00 GBP 175.28
102 J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

London 1956 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 162.76
103 Ian Fleming

Two works

1964 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 313.00
104 Raymond Blathwayt, David Belasco and John Luther Long

The Darling of the Gods. Theatre programme, Monday December 28th, 1903, and Every Evening at 8.15

London c.1903 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 100.16
105

(Ukiyo-e) An early 20th century Japanese woodblock print book

early 20th century GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 100.16
106

Meiji era woodblock print

circa1900 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
107

(A. & C. Black 20 Shillings series) A. Henry Savage Landor Tibet & Nepal

London 1905 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.60
108

(Penguin Books No.1) Andre Maurois Ariel

1985 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.56
109

(Pop Art) Two scarce works

London 1967 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 200.32
110 Richard Adams and John Lawrence (illustrations)

Watership Down

London 1976 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 100.16
111 Siegfried Sassoon and Paul Hogarth (illustrations)

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

New York 1981 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
112 Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935)

British Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-13 'Osman' the lead huskey

[1911, copyright 1913 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
113 Berry, Kelley & Chadwick publishers

Twenty six stereoscopic cards

Philadelphia 1903 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
114 Berry, Kelley & Chadwick publishers

Eighteen stereoscopic cards

Philadelphia 1903 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 50.08
115

Miscellaneous stereoscopic cards and two viewers Thirty four

Philadelphi 1905 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
116 Berry, Kelley & Chadwick publishers

Fourteen stereoscopic cards

1900 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 100.16
117

Bibliotheca Steevensia A Catalogue of the Curious and Valuable Library of George Steevens, ... Which Will be Sold by Auction, ... by Mr. King, ... on Tuesday, May 13, 1800

London 1800 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 375.60
118

(Salisbury) Charles Haskins Four works from the library of Charles Haskins

Salisbury 1910 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.34
119

(India, Pakistan and Afghanistan) Government of West Pakistan publishers

1962 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 87.64
120

The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea

London 1929 1930. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 112.68
121 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles

London 1798 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
122 Maurice Lalau, Edmund Dulac and Willy Pogany

Maurice Lalau, Edmund Dulac and Willy Pogany Three illustrated works

London 1910 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 112.68
123

(Literature) Eleven works

London 1858 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 50.08
124

(Cookery) Seven works

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
125

A large collection of late 19th century theatre correspondence, letterheads, MLS and signatures

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 137.72
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