Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 81425, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Date: August 14, 2025 - August 14, 2025

Page Size: 311 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
1		(London) Survey of London by the Greater London Council A large collection of facsimile maps, charts	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 375.60
2		S.S. Titanic Six contemporary Daily Mirror issues	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 275.44
3		(Hackney, London) A 17th century genealogy and indenture	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 150.24
4		(The Anglo-Somali War) An MS telegram draft from Chief to S.O.C.	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 275.44
5	[Francis Arthur Fahey]	The Child's Irish History in Rhyme	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 175.28
6	Okura Magobei	Okura Magobei Woodblock book	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.08
7	Dr. Nathaniel Vincent	Dr. Nathaniel Vincent (1634-1772) Manuscript Letter of Recommendation Signed by Six Prominent Figure	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,126.80
8	Emma Pescatore, Benjamin Vallotton and Albert Froidevaux	(ALS archive) Emma Pescatore, Benjamin Vallotton and Albert Froidevaux Patience!....	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 726.16
9		(Railway Plans) London and North Western Railway Company Plan of the Mold and Treiddyan Railway. Ext	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 87.64
10		Military archive of the Ellingworth family	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 500.80
11		German Aviation Research Group (Garg) Luftwaffe damage reports	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 87.64
12		(Early Aviation and Lanark Aviation Ground) Thirteen signed postcards by aviation pioneers	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 851.36
13		Aerospace Publishing Ltd Photograph collection	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
14		A late Victorian photograph album	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
15		Gun Makers labels Six scarce and ephemeral original prints	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
16		Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa (1847--1910) Naval service certificates	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
17		(Cornwall) An album of Carte De Visite	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
18	Count A. D. R. Metaxa	Count A. D. R. Metaxa Two Manuscript Journals from HMS Resolution and HMS Cambrian, 1921--1924	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 350.56
19	Count A. D. R. Metaxa	Count A. D. R. Metaxa Photographs and Ephemera	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
20		(Winston Churchill and WW2) Ministry of Information Leaflet Beating the Invader. A Message from the	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
21	George Frederick Handel	(Sheet Music) Belshazzar. A Sacred Oratorio, in Score Composed in the Year,	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 313.00
21A	John Frederick Zuckert	(Sheet Music) John Frederick Zuckert Two published Sonatas	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
22		(Sigfried Sassoon) An original MS for a BBC Radio 3 broadcast	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 400.64
23		(ALS and MLS) Aproximatley One hundred from 1840's to 1920	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
24		Toy Theatre Sheets Eighteen colour lithographs	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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