Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 81425, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Date: August 14, 2025 - August 14, 2025

Page Size: 311 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
98	Andrew Wright	Court hand restored: or the Student`s Assistant in Reading Old Deeds, Charters &c.	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
99	Richard Walker	(Angling) Signed Richard Walker No Need to Lie	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
100	Richard Walker	(Angling) Signed Richard Walker Four important works	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 187.80
101	Peter Stone	(Angling) Signed Peter Stone Four signed works	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
102	Fred J. Taylor	(Angling) Signed Fred J. Taylor Seven Works	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 125.20
103		(Angling) Nine signed works and two firsts	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 225.36
104	Chris Yates	(Angling) Signed Chris Yates Eleven signed copies	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 313.00
105	Bernard Venables	(Angling) Signed Bernard Venables 'The Angler's Companion,'	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 87.64
106	J. March (publisher).	The Jolly Angler or Waterside Companion. Containing an Account of All the Best Places for Angling....,'	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
107	Joseph Polsue (compiler)	A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
108	The Rev. John Penrose	Lives of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose, and Captain James Penrose	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
109	G. B. Worgan	General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall. Drawn Up and Published by Or	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 200.32
110	[Robert and John Naylor]	From John O'Groats to Land's End, Or 1372 Miles on Foot. A Book of Days and Chronicle of Adventures by Two Pedestrians on Tour	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
111	J. T. Blight	J. T. Blight Four works	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
112		(Madron, Cornwall) Two works	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
113		(Medicine) Histoire de La societe Royal de Medecine Anne MDCCLXXIX	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
114		(Presentation Bible) Robert Trefusis Presented by the People of Huntsham Parish, Devon -- Honouring Robert Trefusis	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 112.68
115	Jawaharlal Nehru	Glimpses of World History	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,690.20
116	Rabindranath Tagore	Gitanjali (Song Offering)	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
117		(Church monuments and epitaphs, Devon) Fifteen works	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 187.80
118	James Taylor (editor)	The Victorian Empire: A Record of the Progress and Expans	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
120	Laura Knight	Oil Paint and Grease Paint	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
121	Mary Mitford and Stanhope A. Forbes	Mary Mitford and Stanhope A. Forbes (paintings) Sketches of English Life	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 56.34
122	Winston Churchill	The Second World War	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 175.28
123	J. G. Wilkinson	Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 626.00

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Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
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