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
199 Henry M. Stanley

The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration

London 1885 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 62.60
200

A 19th century silhouette of John George Lambton 1st Earl of Durham.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
201

(Art Interest) Three works

London 1928 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
202

(Talwin Morris decorations) The Gresham Publishing Co. Thirteen works in uniform binding

London c.1905 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
203

(The Wool Trade and Textiles) Thirty three works

London 1916 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 137.72
204

Four early 19th century works

Glasgow 1817 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
205 John Betjeman

John Betjeman Twenty one works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
206 Henry Moore

Henry Moore Seven works

London 1968 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 18.78
207 Reginald R. Sharpe (ed).

'Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688....,'

London 1889 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 18.78
208

(Cartography) Four works

London 1964 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
209

(India Pakistan, Oman &c. &c.) Twenty interesting works

Lahore 1985 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 43.82
211 Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson and Edmund Dulac

'Grimm's Fairy Tales', 'Han's Andersen's Fairy Tales' and 'Perraults Fairy Tales',

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.16
212

(The Folio Society) Empires of the Ancient Near East

London 2007 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 56.34
213

(Cornish Art) Twenty three works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 62.60
214

(Archaeology) Eighteen works

London 1925 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
215

(Mining and Metallurgy) Eighteen works

London 1963 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.16
216 A. S. Murray

Tasmanian Rivers, Lakes, and Flowers, with Facsimile Reproductions in Colour of Numerous Sketches by the Author

London 1900 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
217

(Architecture) Twelve works

2001 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
218

(Folio Society) Thirty six works

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.56
219 Graham Green

The Confidential Agent

London 1939 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 25.04
220 Michel Frizot (ed)

A New History of Photography

London 1998 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.52
221

(British Art) Ten works

London 1990 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
222

(Letters and Biography) Thirty four works

London 1888 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 31.30
223

(Bibliography and Maps) Fifteen works

Liverpool 1855 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
224

(Mining) Twenty four works

Bilston 1873 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 438.20
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