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
124

The Spiritual Help

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 112.68
125

A finely bound 1785 miniature Almanack

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 400.64
126 (Signed) Tom Stoppard

Plays One

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 125.20
127 Lewis Carrol

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
128 Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac

Two illustrated works Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
129 Madonna

Sex

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 175.28
130

(Mining in Cornwall) Thirteen works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
131 Samuel Puffendorffi

De Officio Hominis & Civis juxta Legem Naturalem libri duo

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 31.30
132 Eric Gill

Twenty-Five Nudes Engraved by....,'

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 137.72
133 Bernard Leach

(Signed) Bernard Leach Drawings, Verse and Belief

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 75.12
134

(Bindings) Six volumes

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 62.60
135

Six works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 18.78
136

(Illustrated Children's Works) Two works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
137

(Cornish Ordinalia, Folk Dances and Passion Plays) Thirty two works

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 162.76
138

(Cornwall) A good collection of scarce publications and limpbacks

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.60
139

(The Cornish Diaspora) Fourteen works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 75.12
140

(Farming and Equestrian) Thirty seven works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
141

The Sexton Blake Library Forty four issues

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
142 Kim Jong IL

On the Art of Cinema, April 11, 1073

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
143 Alexander Jacob

A Complete English Peerage. Containing a Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 313.00
144 George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane

The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the Peop

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 50.08
145

'Books of all Sorts Bound and Gilt &c. by John Harris, Penryn' A rare 18th century Penryn bookseller

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 43.82
146

(Aviation) Forty five works

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 87.64
147

(Bindings and Literature) Sixteen works

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 100.16
148

(Signed) William of Gloucester. Pioneer Prince A signed b+w photograph used as frontispiece

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
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