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
126		A 1960's Aerial view of Dubai Large photographic print		c.1960's	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 2,504.00
127		(Cornwall and early photography)		late 19th Century	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
128	Herbert Cescinsky and Malcomb R. Webster	English domestic Clocks	London	c.1910	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
129	Francis Thompson	The Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson	London	1913	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 25.04
130	Lucas Janzoon	Waghenaer Zee caerte van Engelants Eijndt, Alsoe hem tselfde Landt verthoont beginnende van Sorlinges tot Pleijmondt	Antwerp,	circa 1590	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 876.40
131	John Norden	Speculi Britanniae Pars:			GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 563.40
132	Richard Carew	The Survey of Cornwall and An Epistle concerning the Excellences of the English Tongue	London, Penzance	1769	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.68
133	(Netherton & Worth publishers)	Ye Booke of Ye Bazaare A printers sample book	Truro	1906	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
134	Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes	The Paper Chase		1908	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 626.00
135	G. H. Doble	(The hagiography of Cornwall) G. H. Doble A wonderful collection of fifty eight booklets.	Exeter,	c.1949	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 313.00
136	Fortescue Hitchins (compiler) and Samuel Drew (ed)	The History of Cornwall, from the Earliest Records and Traditions, to the Present Time	Helston	1824	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
137	[Benjamin Martin]	The Natural History of England; or, a Description of each particular County, in regard to curious Productions of Nature and Art- Cornwall and Devonshire	London	1749	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
138	Robert Hawker	Zion's Pilgrim	London	1803	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
139	John C. Bellamy	A Thousand Facts in the Histories of Devon & Cornwall, in Chronological Order	Plymouth,	1850	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
140		(Falmouth and Penzance) Three guides	Truro	1876	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
141	George Woodley	Cornubia: A poem in five cantos, descriptive of the most interesting scenery, natural and artificial in the County of Cornwall...	London	1819	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
142	Richard Carew	Carew's Survey of Cornwall; To Which are Added, Notes Illustrative of its History and Antiquities, by The late Thomas Tonkin	London	1811	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 150.24
143		Hearder's Guide to the River Tamar	Plymouth	1841	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 237.88
144	Craig Green and Oliver Hurst (illustrations)	Captured! The Incredible Tru Story of Thomas Pellow	Plymouth	2015	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
145	Reverend R. S. Hawker	Echoes from Old Cornwall	London	1846	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
146		Mrs Bray Trelawny of Trelawne; Or, The Prophecy: A Legend of Cornwall	London	1837	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
147	I. T. Tregellas	Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall	Truro	1879	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
148		Bligh family of Botathan An important archive of indentures concerning Londona, Landunna or (currently) Landinner of Alternun Parish.		1584-85	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 275.44
149		Judas of Penpont A 19th Century anonymous satirical poem		19th Century	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
150	William Borlase	Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall		1754	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 626.00

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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.

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

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