Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 80824, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 08, 2024 - August 08, 2024
Page Size: 270 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26A Mervyn Peake

Gormenghast Gormenghast

London 1950 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 187.80
27 (William Blake)

The Folio Society 'Night Thoughts' by Edward Young

London 2005 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 400.64
28 NIVEN, Larry

Ringworld

London 1972 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 150.24
29 (Tolkien) Barbara Strachey

Journeys of Frodo. An Atlas of J.R.R. Tolkien's Th Lord of the Rings

London 1981 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 87.64
30 Alfred and Cecily Sidgwick

(Lamorna and Newlyn art colonies) Alfred and Cecily Sidgwick A small archive of letters and photos.

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 75.12
31 Alfred and Cecily Sidgwick

(Lamorna and Newlyn art colonies) Alfred and Cecily Sidgwick Twenty eight works

London 1912 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 56.34
32 Charles David Jones Bryant (1883-1937)

An original colour woodblock titled A Fresh Breeze

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.34
33

(Cornish art) James Lanham Ltd Exhibition catalogue, scarce for detailed list of artist exhibited.

St Ives, thought to be c.1950's. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
34

(Cornish Art) St. Ives Society of Artists A collection of early exhibition catalogues

St Ives 1931 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 100.16
35 Crosbie Garstin

Garstin's very own bound copies of his writings of 'The Ladies Home Journal'

Philadelphia 1925- 1927. GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.56
36 (Signed) Crosbie Garstin

'The Mud Larks Again,'

London 1919 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
37 Crosbie Garstin

Crosbie Garstin Thirteen works

London 1928 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
38 Sydney Herbert Baker CARR (1864-1917)

The Black Monks

c.1910. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 112.68
39 Marion Grace HOCKEN (1923-1987)

Personal Photograph Album of the Cornish Painter

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.12
40 Charles Simpson

Charles Simpson Fifteen works

London 1925 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
41

(Art criticism and early 20th century bindings) Eleven good works

London 1911 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.34
42

(Cornwall) fifteen works

London 1908 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
43

Fifteen works

London 1938 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
44

(Cambridge University) Granta Magazine Three bound volumes from 1909-1912

London 1923 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
45 David Tovey

(Cornish Art) David Tovey Eight works

2010 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.64
46

'Atlas of Tanganyika, East Africa' Third edition

Dar Es Salaam 1956 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 75.12
47 Stan LEE (1922-2018)

The Invincible Iron Man #1 - Big Premiere Issue (2016)

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 600.96
48 CARLYLE, Thomas

(Bindings) Carlyle's Works, nineteen volumes

London 1868. 19 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.56
49 Shakespeare

The First Folio of Shakespeare The Norton Facsimile

New York and London 1996 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 50.08
50 Stephen Gooden

(Stephen Gooden illustrations) Nonesuch Press Three works

London 1926 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 100.16
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
    Gonnelli
    Futurism
    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
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