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
124

British topographical views Eight works

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 150.24
125 John Le Keux and Thomas Wright

Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge

London 1842 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 187.80
126 (Maritime) J. Spurling and Basil Lubbock Sail

The Romance of the Clipper Ships

London 1927-07-01 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
127

(Maritime) Nine illustrated works

London 1842 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 626.00
128 E. W. Cooke

(Maritime) Fifty Plates of Shipping and Craft, Drawn and Etched by....

London 1829 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 162.76
129

Stanfield Clarkson Stanfield's Coast Scenery. A Series of Views in the British Channel

London 1836 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 275.44
130 [John Feltham]

A Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places: With a Description of the Lakes

London [c.1806] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 275.44
131 [William Combe]

The Tour of Dr. Syntax.... In Search of the Picturesque, In Search of Consolation, and In Search of a Wife

London 1855 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.60
132 Arthur Rackham illustrations

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie

London 1910 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 187.80
133 J. Britton & E. W.

(Cornwall) Brayley Devon & Cornwall Illustrated

London 1832 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.64
134 J. Britton & E. W. Brayley Devon & Cornwall

(Bindings & Cornwall) Illustrated, from Original Drawing

London 1832 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 313.00
135 J. Britton & E. W. Brayley Devon & Cornwall

(Bindings & Cornwall) Illustrated, from Original Drawing

London 1832 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 125.20
136 J. Britton & E. W. Brayley Devon & Cornwall

(Bindings & Cornwall) Illustrated, from Original Drawing

London 1832 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 162.76
137 J. Britton & E. W. Brayley Devon & Cornwall

(Bindings & Cornwall) Illustrated, from Original Drawing

London 1832 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 150.24
138 Thomas Martyn

(Cornwall) A New and Accurate Map of the County of Cornwall, from Actual Survey

London 1844 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,003.20
139 F. W. L. Stockdale

(Cornwall) Excursions in the County of Cornwall

London 1824 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 175.28
140 Henry Besley publishers

(Cornwall) Two scarce works

Exeter [c.1853] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 275.44
141 G. A. Cooke

(Cornwall) 'Topographical Survey of the County of Cornwall,'

London [c.1810] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 162.76
142 William Borlase

(Cornwall) The Natural History of Cornwall

Oxford 1758 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 400.64
143

(Cornwall) Three works

London 1853 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
144 Thomas Cross

Five works

London 1904 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.20
145

(Natural History and Ornithology) Twelve works

London 1918 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 212.84
146 W. H. Bartlett

Findden's Views of the Ports, Harbours of Watering Places of Great Britain

London 1842 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.34
147 John Sanford

(Plymouth and Portsmouth) Five works

London 1828 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.16
148

(Chapbook) The Book of Trades, Or Library of the Useful Arts

London 1806 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 25.04
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