Lay's Auctioneers: The Cornish Library of John Stengelhofer: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 30724, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 07, 2024 - March 08, 2024

Page Size: 513 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76	Rev H. Hugh Breton.	'Land's End and The Lizard,'	Plymouth	[c.1913]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.15
77		The Cornish Almanack and Camborne Guide,' Seven issues		1934-1945,	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 24.20
78		Doidge's Western Counties Illustrated Annual for 1913,'	Plymouth	1913	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 72.60
79		Guides on Cornwall and Devon. Thirty works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 133.10
80		Religion in Cornwall. Nine works.	Truro	[c.1887]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 30.25
81	Lieut Col. C. J. H. Mead.	'Cornwall's Royal Engineers,'	Plymouth	n.d;	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 12.10
82		Illustrated works on Cornwall Twelve works.		n.d	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 30.25
83		Biography Eighteen works	London	[c.1889]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 72.60
84		Industry in Cornwall Twenty works.	Camborne	1951	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 72.60
85		Transport interest.		1960	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 42.35
86		The Journal of Industrial Archaeology' Volume 1 Number 1 to Volume 2 Number 4		1964-D1965	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 24.20
87		The Trevithick Society.			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 96.80
88	Martin Veall and James Howard Harris	'Porthleven: Past and Present. Scenes from the History of a Cornish Village,'	London	1885	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 121.00
89	LACH-SZYRMA, W. S.	'A Short History of Penzance, St Michael's Mount, St Ives and the Lands End District,'	Truro	1878	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 72.60
90	MILLET, G. B (editor)	'Official Guide to Penzance,'	Penzance	[1929]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 24.20
91		Six town illustrated town histories.	St. Austell	1960	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 72.60
92		Industiral Archaeology Review 1966-1996			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 60.50
93		Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society'			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 12.10
94		'Cornish Magazine Illustrated. For One and All,' Vol. 1 No. 1		late 50's early 60s	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 36.30
95	Lyson's Cornwall	'Magna Britannia; Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain,'	London	1814]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 84.70
96		(Cornwall, Zennor, Penzance, Camborne &c. &c.) Booklets and ephemera			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 24.20
97		(Morwenstowe, Mullion, Saint Mawes, Marazion &c. &c.) Booklets and ephemera			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 36.30
98		(Crowan, Camborne, Charlestown &c. &c.) Booklets and ephemera			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.15
99		(Fowey, Falmouth, Feock, Flushing &c. &c.) Booklets and ephemera			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 30.25
100		(St. Ives, St. Just &c. &c.) Booklets and ephemera			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 48.40

Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection
London auction, 11 June
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Christie’s, Explore now: The Holkham Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew, decorated manuscript on vellum [Toledo, 2nd quarter 13th century]. £1,500,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Crosby-Schøyen Codex. In Coptic, manuscript on papyrus [Upper Egypt, middle 3rd century / 4th century]. £2,000,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Geraardsbergen Bible. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands, late 12th century]. £700,000–1,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now : Jean de Courcy (fl. 1420). The Chronique de la Bouquechardiere. In French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1480]. £200,000–300,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The ‘Catherine de Medici’ Hours. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1485]. £120,000–180,000
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE BAL FIRST BINDING. $12,000 - $18,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY in wrappers. SIGNED BY PUZO. $3,000 - $5,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HUGHES, Langston. Scottsboro Limited. 1932. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO NOEL SULLIVAN. $6,000 - $8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HOMANN, Johann Baptist, HOMANN HEIRS, and Georg Matthäus SEUTTER. [Composite Atlas]. [maps dated between 1728-1765]. $30,000 - $40,000.
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Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, Advance Readers Copy of Uncorrected Proof with a letter from Heller on his personal stationary

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Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, first edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Something Happened, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, first edition, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

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