Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 22626, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026

Page Size: 350 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	W. M. Flinders Petrie	(Egyptology and the Egypt Exploration Fund) Flinders Petrie and Guy Brunton et al Twenty eight reports by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt	London	1917	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 375.60
2		(Antarctic and Natural History) Report on the Collections of Natural History Made in the Antarctic Regions During the Voyage if the "Southern Cross"	London	1902	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 901.44
3		(Geology) David Dale Owen Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; And Incidentally of A Portion of Nebraska Territory		1852	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 50.08
4	John Ralfs and Edward Jenner (illustrations)	(Natural History and the British Museum) Fourteen works	London	1848	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 150.24
5	(Carl Linnaeus)	Caroli Linnaei or Caroli a Linne Amoenitates Academicae seu, Dissertationes Variae Physicae, Medicae, Botanicae.....		1749--1785	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 350.56
6	John Woodward	(Early Medicine) Twelve works	London	1718	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 375.60
7	La Dame de Pique [The Queen of Spades]	A. Pouchkine [Alexander Pushkin] and Vasily Shukhaev (illustrations)	Paris	[1923]	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 475.76
8	James Sowerby and Sir James Smith	(Fine Binding) English Botany	London	1790-1814	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,629.20
9	Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)	Vulgar Errors & Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk		1658	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 500.80
9A	Simon Wilkin (ed)	The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Including His Life and Correspondence	London, Norwich	1836	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
10	Hiob Ludolf	(Ethiopia) A New History of Ethiopia, being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia...	London	1682	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 688.60
11	Melesina Trench	(Early Irish Female Poetry and Authors presentation copy with marginalia) Campaspe, An Historical Tale; and Other Poems	Bath	1815	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,377.20
12		[Geneva or Breeches Bible in English]	[but printed (?) in Amsterdam]	1599 [after 1600]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,316.20
13	Alfred Munnings	(Signed) Ballads and Poems of Sir Alfred Munnings	London	1957	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
14	Elhanan Winchester	(William Penaluna Publisher) A Course of Lectures on the Prophecies That Remain to be Fulfilled	Helston	1813	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
15	John Nichols editor and publisher	(Antiquities) The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester	London	1795-1815	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
16	John Nichols editor and publisher	(Antiquities) Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica	London	1780 to 1791	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 563.40
17	John Thorpe	(Diocese of Rochester) Registrum Roffense	London	1769	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
18	Edmund Sawyer	Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly) fromt the Original Papers....Sir Ralph Winwood	London	1725	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 2,879.60
19	Robert Heath	(Islands of Scilly) A Natural and Historical Account of the Islands of Scilly	London	1750	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 212.84
20	George Woodley	(Islands of Scilly) A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands	Truro and London	1822	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 187.80
21	William Borlase	Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall	Oxford	1754	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 313.00
22	Frederick Arthur	(Heraldry and Genealogy) Crisp List of Parish Registers and Other Genealogical Works	Grove Park, Denmark Hill	1897	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
23	Daphne Du Maurier	(Signed First Edition) Rebecca	London	1938	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,502.40
24	Richard Baker	(British Monarchy) Four works	London	1684	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 525.84

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.