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
149	Hugh Thompson	Hugh Thompson illustrations Two works	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
150	Gaston Maspero	History of Eygpt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 150.24
151	Olaudah Equiano	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olauda	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,627.60
152	Thomas Hobbes	Tracts of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury....Part I only 'Behemoth, the History Of the	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
153	Sir Francis Bacon	The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, ... With a Table of	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
154	Nicholas Bernard	The life and death of .... Dr James Ussher, late Archbishop of Armagh	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 275.44
155	[Fournier (Georges)]	Traite' des Fortifications ou Architecture Militaire	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 125.20
156	(Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl)	Shaftesbury Characteristicks	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
157		(Decorative Cloths) Fifteen works	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
158		Nine Antiquarian Works	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
159	(Prize Binding) Isaaz Walton and The Rev. John Keble (arranged by)	The Works of the Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With an Account of His Life and Death	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
160		(Waterloo Battle) The Battle of Waterloo Containing the Series of Accounts Published by Authority ..	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 200.32
161	Bern Conner	The History of Poland, in Several Letters to Persons of Quality	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 651.04
162	(Ireland) William Monck Mason	The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 225.36
163	(Ireland) John Lodge	The Peerage of Ireland: Or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of t	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 237.88
164		(Ireland) Ten good works	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 438.20
165	Laurence Echard	The History of the Revolution, and the Establishment of England in the Year 1688. I	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 500.80
166	John Evelyn	The Life of Mrs. Godolphin	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 375.60
167	[Jane Collier]	An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; With Proper Rules for the Exercise of	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 100.16
168	Reginald Lloyd (Director)	Twentieth Century Impressions of Chile: Its History, People, Commerce, Ind	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 851.36
169	John Russell Bartlett	Personal Narrative of Explorations & Incidents in Texas, New Mexic	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
170	Joshua Sylvester	Christmas Carols and Ballads	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
171	John Derricke	The Image of Irelande with A Discoverie of Woodkarne	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 212.84
172		(Ireland) A large collection of book catalogues	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
173		Naturalist's Library Four volumes showing butterflies, moths and insects	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 112.68

Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
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.
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.