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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 324 | (Pipe Tobacco) Waccamaw Low Country |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 500.80 | ||
| 325 | (Pipe Tobacco) A large quantity Mostly in kilner style jars, tins and vacum packed, mostly ms labled with dates |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,001.60 | ||
| 326 | (Pipe Tobacco) A large quantity Mostly opened in kilner style jars, tins etc, many ms lables with dates |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 939.00 | ||
| 327 | Thomas Ewbank | A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines For Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine |
London | 1842 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 112.68 |
| 328 | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There |
London | 1921 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 162.76 |
| 329 | R. Dagley Death's Doings; In Twenty Four Plates |
London | 1826 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 330 | The Popular Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Third edition |
London | n.d. [c.1890] | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 56.34 | |
| 331 | Winston Churchill | The Second World War |
1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1954 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 162.76 | |
| 332 | Alex J. Finberg | Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley Hall |
London | [c.1990] | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 112.68 |
| 333 | Derek Tangye | (Signed) Fourteen works |
1980 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | |
| 334 | (Art) The Tate Magazine |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 335 | (Bibliography and Book Design) The Private Library Sixty six issues |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 43.82 | ||
| 336 | Rabelais and Samivel illustrations | (Children's Illustrated Literature) Nine wonderful works |
Paris | 1956 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 18.78 |
| 337 | Robert Medley illustrations Samson Agonistes | (Signed Limited Edition) A Dramatic Poem by John Milton |
Norwich | 1979 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 100.16 |
| 338 | 1940s Photographs of Cornwall and other places contained in two folders |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 18.78 | ||
| 339 | Brayley (Edward Wedlake and Britton, John) | The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of each County |
1801-15 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 340 | Paul Rycaut | (Christianity) Six works |
London | 1685 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 341 | Edward S. Curtis | (Photography) Portraits From North American Indian Life |
New York | 1972 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 342 | Robert Harling | Ravilious, Eric, illus. 'Notes on the Wood-Engravings of Eric Ravilious' |
1947 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 75.12 | |
| 343 | Geoffrey Grigson and John Craxton (illustrations) | Visionary Poems and Passages Or The Poet's Eye |
London | 1944 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 150.24 |
| 344 | John Lodge | Twenty-Three English County Maps |
1783 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.56 | |
| 345 | John Cary (1754-1835) | Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmoreland & Cumberland |
c.1800 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | |
| 346 | Westmorland & Cumberland Four Maps |
Glasgow | c.1840 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 25.04 | |
| 347 | Suffolk Interest Ten Maps |
Ten 19th Century | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 348 | Edward Weller | Australasia Interest Fourteen Maps |
c.1860 | 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.