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

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 14, 2025 - August 14, 2025
Page Size: 311 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
199 Alfred Munnings

'The Second Burst,'

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 43.82
200 Louis Wain illustrations

A Cat Alphabet and Picture-Book for Little Folk

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 137.72
201 Jane Austen

The Novels of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R. W. Ch

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 275.44
202 (Angling) G. Lawton Moss

How to Build Your Own Split Cane Fishing Rod

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.56
203

(Agriculture during WWII) The Small Holder Three bound volumes. 1941-1944

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 100.16
204

Melody Maker

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 237.88
205 Elizabeth Rogers

Bull The Awkward Youth

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
206 Carol Stewart and Robert Colquhoun (lithographs)

Poems of Sleep and Dream

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.16
207

(Bindings) Thirty three works

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.16
208 M. L. De Farcy

Notices Archeologiques sur Les Tombeaux des Eveques D'Angers par....

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
209

Journals of the Royal Institution of Cornwall Eighty four issues. 1907-2013

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.64
210 Thomas Bodkin

Twelve Irish Artists

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
211 Lewis Carroll

The Hunting of the Snark

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 75.12
212

(The Geology of Cornwall)

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
213 Lysons (Daniel & Samuel)

Magna Britannia; Being a concise topographical account..., volume 3 only, C

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 50.08
214 Richard Polwhele

The History of Cornwall

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 162.76
215 William Copeland

Borlase Naenia Cornubiae, A Descriptive Essay....

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.64
216

Illustrated Childrens Works Seventeen works

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 125.20
217

(The Literature of Cornwall)

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
218

(Lives of the Saints)

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.08
219 A. L. Rowse

A. L. Rowse Twenty two works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 137.72
220

(Japanese Arts and Crafts) Eight works

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
221

(Japan) The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.56
222

(Asia and Travel) Fourteen works

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 150.24
223

(Eric Gill Illustrations) The New Temple Shakespeare Forty two volumes

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 137.72
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  • 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.
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