Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 110625, Cornwall

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 490 items in 20 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
373

Bindings Five Works

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.20
374 E. F. Strange (ed) and Warwick Goble (illustrations)

(Illustrated Works and Cloth Bindings) Twenty works

London 1911 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 313.00
375 Emily A.

Beaumont Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines

1861 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 87.64
376

The Jameson Raid Frank Rhodes - A Memoir (Private Circulation)

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 525.84
377 David Livingstone

Missionary Travels in South Africa

1857 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.56
378 Captain Gerald S.

(Antarctica) Doorly In The Wake

Melbourne GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 137.72
379

(Art Nouveau Bindings) Forty nine works

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 187.80
380

Charles Booth Labour & Life of The People - East London

1889 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,026.64
381

Karl Baedeker Two Works

1907 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 18.78
382 Robert Hichens

Egypt And Its Monuments

1908 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
383

(Travel) Five works

New York 1893 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
384 Bertolt Brecht

Trumpets and Drums - Harvard Summer School Players Script (c.1965)

Harvard 1965 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
385 Ernest H. Shepard and A. A. Milne (intro)

(Illustrated works) Twenty six works

London 1927 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 162.76
386 J.M. Staniforth

Boer War Interest Six Works

1902 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 75.12
387

Boer War Interest Six Works

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
388

WWI & WWII Interest Eleven Works

c.1922 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 18.78
389

(Decorative Cloth) Thirty one works

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 200.32
390 Cecile Walton (illustrations)

(Decorative Cloth) Thirty three works

London 1911 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 438.20
391

Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

Broadway, Ludgate Hill, Glasgow, Manchester, and New York [c.1890] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.60
392 Jane Austen and C. E. Brock

illustrations Sense & Sensibility

London [c.1922] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.20
393

Laura Knight Oil Paint and Grease Paint

London 1936 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.56
394 John Baynard Trotter

Two biographical works

London 1811 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
395 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl

Shaftesbury Characteristicks

1749 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
396

(Signed) Mrs Hugh Fraser A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan

1899 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.34
397 Sir Francis Bacon

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, ... With a Table of the Ancients

London 1691 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.60
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    Available for Immediate Purchase
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