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Books, Manuscripts & Maps Sale - Timed Auction
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David Lays Auctioneers Alverton
Alverton
Penzance, Cornwall
TR184RE
United Kingdom
Books, Manuscripts & Maps Sale - Timed Auction

TIMED AUCTION

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Auction dates
Starts: 01 Oct 2021 17:00 BST
Ends from: 15 Oct 2021 14:00 BST
Auction currency
GBP
There are 625 lots within this auction
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DAVID TEW. 'The Oakham Canal.' Signed author, ltd edn, Illustrated by Rigby Graham, Two postcards
40 GBP
30 - 60 GBP
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EDAWARD THOMAS. 'In Pursuit of Spring.' First Edition, original cloth, top edge etc gilt, 1914, very
90 GBP
100 - 200 GBP
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DYLAN THOMAS. 'Under Milk Wood.' First edition, vg condition with slightly worn dj, 1954; 'Collected
110 GBP
40 - 80 GBP
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STREATFEILD, NOEL, Harlequinade. Lithographs by Clarke Hutton, lacks dj. good; BLAKELOCK, DENYS.
40 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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CHARLES DAVID BADHAM. 'A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England.' Ten hand-coloured plates
40 GBP
40 - 80 GBP
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T. E. LAWRENCE. 'The Mint.' Limited edition of 2000, of which this is Number 1040, goatskin-backed
50 GBP
60 - 120 GBP
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. 'The Tower.' Original cloth gilt, designed by Thomas Sturge Moore, vg
230 GBP
100 - 200 GBP
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Father Tuck Little Books. 28 vols, plus 4 in the "A Pixie Book" series. All in dustjackets and in
75 GBP
40 - 80 GBP
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MERVYN PEAKE. 'Shapes and Sounds.' Village Press, 1974. Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor. The
0 GBP
30 - 60 GBP
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AGNES CATLOW. 'Popular Garden Botany: A Familiar and Scientific Description.' 20 hand-coloured
60 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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ANES CATLOW. 'Popular Greenhouse Botany.' Twenty hand-coloured plates complete, uncut, 1857,
65 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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THOMAS MOORE. 'A Popular History of the British Ferns and Allied Plants, comprising the Club-Mosses,
25 GBP
15 - 30 GBP
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DEREK TANGYE. 'Somewhere a Cat is Waiting.' Signed title page by author, very well bound in morocco,
95 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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DEREK TANGYE. 'A Cat at the Window.' Signed title page by author, well bound by Sangorski and
45 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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DOREEN TOVEY. 'Raining Cats and Donkeys.' Illustrated by Maurice Wilson, six line dedication to
55 GBP
60 - 120 GBP
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DOREEN TOVEY. 'Cats in May.' Illustrated by Maurice Wilson, first edition, 1959; 'Donkey Work,'
0 GBP
30 - 60 GBP
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THE DECORATIVE ART OF LEON BAKST. Appreciation by Arsene Alexandre. Notes on the Ballets by Jean
330 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Tempest.' By William Shakespeare, 40 tipped in coloured plates with
25 GBP
25 - 50 GBP
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DICCIONARIO DE LA LENGUA CASTELLANA. 'por la Real Academia Espanola.' Orig marbled leather,
0 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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MURIEL HANDLEY SPICER. 'Toy Dogs and How to Breed and Rear Them being The Life of a Griffon
0 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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LAURA KNIGHT. 'Oil Paint and Grease Paint.' 3 vols., first Penguin edition, 1941, vg; Plus other
55 GBP
100 - 200 GBP
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W. T. GREENE. 'Birds I have Kept in Years Gone By.' Sixteen colour litho plates comp, orig cloth
50 GBP
40 - 80 GBP
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W. LAUDER LINDSAY, MD. 'A Popular History of British Lichens, comprising an account of their
30 GBP
30 - 60 GBP
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AMBROSE HEATH. 'Good Food from the Aga.' Cover and decorations by Edward Bawden, second impression
20 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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ARTHUR G LANGDON. 'Old Cornish Crosses.' With an article on their ornament by J Romilly Allen,
20 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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SAM SMITH. 'Rover's Regatta Day.' Illustrated glazed boards, profusely illustrated by the sculptor
45 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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MARRIOTT EDGAR. 'Albert Arold and Others compiled and written by Marriott Edgar. Performed by
15 GBP
15 - 30 GBP
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G F SCOTSON-CLARK. 'Cut-Outs.' The Shadow Picture Book. 23 0f 24 cut-outs which have been cut out.
45 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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MAX VAN BOEHN. 'Dolls and Puppets.' Translated by Josephine Nicoll, illustrated by 30 plates in
0 GBP
15 - 30 GBP
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WILLIAM HODGSON HOPE. 'Men of the Deep Waters.' Second (Cheap) edition, 1921, original cloth,
45 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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EISHIRO ABE. 'The Hand Made Paper of Izumo.' Hand-printed paper-covered boards, hand-made paper
45 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. 'Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology. Modern Architecture being the Kahn
130 GBP
60 - 120 GBP
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THOMAS WRIGHT. 'Heart's Desire, Being principally a presentment from various translations of the
0 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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FINE BINDING. 'Lettres de Mon Moulin,' by ALPHONSE DAUDET. Pochoir plates complete. Limited
110 GBP
120 - 240 GBP
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EDWIN MULLINS. 'Alfred Wallis: Cornish Primitive Painter.' Orig cloth, dj in which tears have been
75 GBP
80 - 160 GBP
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ALFRED WALLIS, 1855-1942. October 21 - November 21 1992. Very rare catalogue issued by the Mercury
45 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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EARLY CHILDREN'S CHAPBOOK. 'The Life of Jack Sprat, his Wife, and his Cat.' 16pp each with woodcut
55 GBP
60 - 120 GBP
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RICHARD CAREW. Rare Elizabethan Indenture re lease by Richard Carew of Antony (the early Cornish
520 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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ENYS-GALPIN Two rare Elizabethan Indentures dated 1588. Condition: please request a condition report
100 GBP
150 - 250 GBP
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142 WILLIAM STOBBS Good original pen and ink drawing of a mouse in an oriental cloak; C WALTER
55 GBP
60 - 120 GBP
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BERNARD LEACH. 'An Exhibition of the Art of Bernard Leach. His Masterpieces loaned by British
95 GBP
30 - 60 GBP
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JAPANESE SHOJI PAPER SAMPLE BOOK with 30 examples bound in purple silk covered book. vg condition.
85 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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GODFREY BLOUNT. 'A Book on the Nature - Development of Imaginative Design for the Use of Teachers
0 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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MICHAEL JEFFERSON-BROWN. 'Narcissus.' 1991. vg condition; JAMES S WELLS. 'Modern Miniature
0 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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JOE EARLE. 'Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century.' 2005, vg. Condition: please
40 GBP
40 - 80 GBP
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JAPANESE CERAMICS TODAY. 'Masterworks from the Kikuchi Collection.' Original cloth, glassine dj,
0 GBP
25 - 50 GBP
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MICHAEL CARDEW. 'Pioneer Pottery.' Orig cl, dj, unclipped, First Edition, 1969. good from the
40 GBP
40 - 80 GBP
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BERNARD LEACH. 'A Potter's Book.' Orig cl, dj unclipped slightly frayed, 1945; plus four others by
40 GBP
40 - 80 GBP
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BERNARD LEACH. 'W H Lane & Son Auction Catalogue.' 'Bernard Leach Ceramics/Oriental Objets d'Art.'
0 GBP
60 - 80 GBP
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SHOJI HAMADA CATALOGUE. Japanese text, dated 1981, good condition; Plus SUSAN PETERSON. 'Shoji
85 GBP
50 - 100 GBP
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CERAMICA QUADERNI DOMUS TRIENNALE No 5. Showing work by Berndt Friberg, Bruno Gambone, Fausto
25 GBP
40 - 80 GBP
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FLORENTINE FINE BINDING. 'Echoes of Old Florence, Her Palaces and Those who have Lived in Them.'
90 GBP
100 - 200 GBP
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HERBERT GRANVILLE FELL. 'The Book of Job.' Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, fully illustrated with
900 GBP
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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PHIL ROGERS. 'Throwing Pots: Ceramic Handbooks.' Orig wps, 1995, vg; PAUL SCOTT. 'Ceramics and
25 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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STEPHEN MURFITT. 'The Glaze Book: A Visual Catalogue of Decorative Ceramic Glazes.' Glazed boards
20 GBP
30 - 60 GBP
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ALFRED R SEARLE. 'The Clayworker's Handbook: A Manual for All Engaged in the Manufacture of Articles
15 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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D. H. LAWRENCE. 'Pansies.' Cloth backed boards, small stain on first three pages, 1929, g; T. S.
45 GBP
20 - 40 GBP
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DON IRVING. 'A Guide to Growing Marijuana in Cool Climates.' Card covers, 1995, good; RICHARD BLUM &
30 GBP
30 - 60 GBP
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