Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 22626, Cornwall
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 249 | Lieut.-Col E.W.C. Sandes | The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan |
Chatham | 1937 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 31.30 |
| 250 | (Cornwall) Twenty seven works |
Oxford | 1935 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.12 | |
| 251 | Alan Villiers | (Maritime) Nine works |
New York | 1951 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | GBP 12.52 |
| 252 | Bertolt Brecht | Trumpets and Drums - Harvard Summer School Players Script (c.1965) By Bertolt Brecht, based on Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer |
(c.1965) | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 25.04 | |
| 253 | Mohammad Ali | (Signed) The Greatest. My Own Story |
St Albans | 1977 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 187.80 |
| 254 | Bernard Leach | A Potters Book |
London | 1955 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 25.04 |
| 255 | Muriel Spark | (Literature) Twenty works |
London | 1968 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 18.78 |
| 256 | Phillippe Bruneau, Mario Torelli and Xavier Barral i Altet Sculpture | (Art) The Great Art of Antiquity From the Eighth Century BC to the Fifth Century AD |
Koln | 1991 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold |
| 257 | Jessie M. King (endpapers and illus.) | (Children's Illustrated Literature) Thirty eight works |
1925 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.60 | |
| 258 | Arthur Waley | (China and Japan) Three scarce limpbacks |
Oxford | 1919 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold |
| 259 | J. P. Neale (illustrations) | Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland |
London | 1818-1823 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 175.28 |
| 260 | James Hannay (Introduction) | The Complete Works of William Hogarth |
London and New York | [c.1860] | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 25.04 |
| 261 | David Roscoe, editor | Rolls Royce 75 Years 1904-1979 |
[1979] | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | |
| 262 | Silas K. Hocking | (Cornwall) 'The Awakening of Anthony Weir' |
Newton Abbot | 1967 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 43.82 |
| 263 | (Atlases) Nine 'Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough' |
London | c.1820 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 726.16 | |
| 264 | (Penguin Publishers) A large collection of Penguin 60's Classics, including Eliot, Doyle, Kafka, Wilde, Poe, Cervantes, Twain &c. &c. |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 56.34 | ||
| 265 | Agatha Christie Fifty nine works |
London | 1971 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 175.28 | |
| 266 | (Penguin Publishers) A large collection of paperbacks |
N/A | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 162.76 | ||
| 267 | P. G. Wodehouse | Thirty nine works |
London | [1947] | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 50.08 |
| 268 | (Cornwall) A large collection of booklets |
1899 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 43.82 | ||
| 269 | (Children's Illustrated) A good collection |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 125.20 | ||
| 270 | (Children's Illustrated) A good collection of small format works |
N/A | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 150.24 | ||
| 271 | Ladybird Books One hundred works (approx) |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 87.64 | ||
| 272 | (Two early 19th century juvenile works) |
[1835] | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 37.56 | ||
| 273 | The Cornhill Magazine Six volumes. January 1860 to December 1862 |
London | 1860-1862 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 25.04 |
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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 AprilSotheby’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.