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
151	William Borlase	The Natural History of Cornwall	Oxford	1758	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 626.00
152	Charles Henderson	Charles Henderson Four scarce booklets		1937	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 100.16
153		(Standing Stones) Two scarce booklets	Penzance	1941	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
154		(Cornwall) Seven chapters, or part works		circa 1637	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
155		(Falmouth) Two scarce booklets	Falmouth	1897	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 62.60
156	Joseph Farington	'Britannia Depicta....Pat VI....Cornwall,' 1814. 'A Series of Views (With Brief Descriptions) of the Most Interesting and Picturesque Objects in Great Britain.	London	1814	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 275.44
157	F. W. L. Stockdale	Excursions in the County of Cornwall	London	1824	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 250.40
158	Miss M. A. Courtney	Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore	Penzance	1890	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 125.20
158A		(Isles of Scilly) A good collection of seventy three glass lantern slides			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 350.56
159		(Marginalia) Epitaph for the Tomb of Gnatho A Unique 18th Century Epitaph Manuscript on Croft Herbert's The Abbey of Kilkhampton (Third Edition, 1780)		1834	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
160		Palk, Littleton and Griffin families of Devon and Cornwall Family Bible with Genealogical Records	London	1749	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
161		Cornwall Constabulary Interest (Pre-Amalgamation)		1950's	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
162		(Cornwall) Great Domesday Book	London	1987	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
163		(Mining) Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy		1904-1931.	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 62.60
164		Dartmoor Consolidated Tin Mines Share Certificate	London	mid to late 19th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
165		(Mining) A set of 386 colour photographs on slides showcasing various Cornish engine houses		Circa1970s.	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 313.00
166		(Mining) Nine good works	London	1914	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 150.24
167		(Cornwall) Eleven works	Truro	1971	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
168		(Mining) Fourteen good works	London	1969	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
169		(Cornwall and Mining) Fifty seven booklets and limp backs		1972	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 87.64
170		(Cornwall) Sixty six booklets and limp backs		1983	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
171		(Cornwall) Fifteen illustrated works	Buckingham	1978	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
172		(Cornwall) Forty booklets and limp backs		1994	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
173		(Cornwall) Fourty eight works		1989	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
174		(Mining) Seventeen works		1964	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82

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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