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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
126 HAWKINS, Henry.

'Through West Cornwall with a Camera, Or, An Artist's Pilgrimage Amongst Miners and Methodists,'

 London [c.1896] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 121.00
127

Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly,' 'Containing 100 Photographic Pictures of Cornwall's Grandest and Most Beautiful Scenery, with Descriptive Notes,'

 Plymouth [c.1904] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 24.20
128 (Mullion) HARVEY, E. G.

'Mullyon : Its History, Scenery and Antiquities'

 Truro 1875 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 24.20
129

Diverse collection of twenty four works.

 Penzance 1894 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 133.10
130

Fistral Bay Building Estate, Newquay Cornwall The Properties Development Ltd, 1894

 London 1894 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 108.90
131

Newquay, North Cornwall Plan Of The Building Sites on the Porth Veor Estate, 1881

 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,185.80
132 C. Napier Hemy (illustrations).

'An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall,'

 London 1884 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 42.35
133

Mining in Cornwall A very good collection of twenty five works.

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 205.70
134

Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall

 1843 - 2017, GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 133.10
135

(Falmouth and Penryn) Three works.

 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 24.20
136

Railway interest. Twenty three works.

 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 36.30
137

The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser,' No.2 Friday the 27th of July and No.3 Friday August the 3rd 1810.

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 193.60
138 BOURNE, John C.

'Bourne's Great Western Railway,'

 [1970] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 133.10
139

A large collection of works. Mostly Cornish published limpbacks.

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 72.60
140 W. G. Blackie.

The Imperial Gazetteer and the History of England Four volumes.

 Glasgow and London 1855 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 24.20
141

The Isles of Scilly. Twenty three works.

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 48.40
142 GASKELL, Ernest

'Leaders of Cornwall. Social and Political,'

 London [c.1910 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 24.20
143

Various works on Cornwall.

 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 42.35
144 Denys Val Baker (editor)

'The Cornish Review,'

 1949-1952 GBP 70.00 - 130.00 GBP 363.00
145 A. K. Hamilton Jenkins

'Mines and Miners of Cornwall,'

 1970 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 363.00
146

The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Annual reports. A continuous run from 1834 to 1926.

 1834 to 1926 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,210.00
147

(Caroline Fox and Davies Gilbert) Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. A granderised collection of the first reports thought to be Caroline Fox's own.

 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 GBP 4,961.00
148

(Important Cornish manuscript) 'Plans of the whole Parish of Sithney, in Cornwall. 1824' MS survey of parishes in Cornwall, showing field boundaries, with detailed tables of land use.

 1824 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 992.20
149

Plan of the Land of C. Wallis Popham Esq. In the Parish of Breage, 1860'

 1860 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 169.40
150

(Cornwall and Devon)Indentures and leases.

 1787 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 48.40
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