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
25	William Sanderson	(British Monarchy) Eight works	London	1656	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 563.40
26	[William Bentley]	(Early form of Guillotine) Halifax, and its Gibbet-Law Placed in a true Light	Halifax	[1761]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
27	John Gerard	(Botany) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes	London	1636	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,101.76
28	Rudyard Kipling	The Power of the Dog		December 12th, 1923	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 688.60
29	Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel)	Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; being a Correct Coppy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England & Wales....	London	1720	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 438.20
30	James Sullivan	(Americana) The History of the District of Maine	Boston	1795	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 751.20
31	David Ramsay	(Americana) The History of the American Revolution	Philadelphia	1789	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 563.40
32	THEOPHRASTUS. (ca 371-ca 287 B.C.)	De Historia Plantarum... [edited by] Joannes Bodaeus a Stapel...	Amstelodami	1644	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
33	Samuel Purchas	Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in al[l] Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation unto this Present	London	1617	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 162.76
34	Robert Plot	Two works	Oxford	1686	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 250.40
35	A[lexander] R[oss]	Arcana Microcosmi: or, the Hid Secrets of Man's Body Discovered		1652	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 400.64
36	Henry Boswell	The Antiquities of England and Wales Displayed	London	1795	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
37	Samuel Hartlib	Samuel Hartlib His Legacy of Husbandry. Wherein are bequeathed to the Common-wealth of England, not onely Braband, and Flanders....	London	1655	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 350.56
38	[Robert Ferguson Laurence Braddon, or Hugh Speke]	(Murder of the Earl of Essex) An Enquiry into, and Detection of Barbarous Murther of the late Earl of Essex or, a Vindication of that Noble Person, from the guilt and infamy of having destroyed himself		[1684]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
39	H. H. Wilson	(India) A Dictionary in Sanscrit and English; Translated, amended, and enlarged from An Original Compilation....	Calcutta	1832	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 500.80
40		(An Unrecorded Chapbook: An American Protestant Moral Tale, 1842) The Patriarch: An Account of a Family in North Carolina	Bristol	1842	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 175.28
41	F. O. Morris	(Ornithology) A History of British Birds	London	1851-1857	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 375.60
42	F. O. Morris	(Lepidopterology) A Natural History of British Moths		1871	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 225.36
43	Thomas Martyn	(Botany) Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations: intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables	London	1741	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 137.72
44	W. Scoresby	(Arctic) An Account of the Arctic Regions, With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery	Edinburgh	1820	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 225.36
45	Nehemiah Grew	Musaeum Regalis Societatis. A Catalogue of the Natural & Artificial Rarities of the Royal Society... With Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts	London	1681	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 187.80
46	Philip Miller	(Horticulture) The Gardeners Dictionary	London	1731	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 375.60
47	John Prince	(Devon) Two works	Exeter	1701	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
48	Richard Polwhele	(Devon) The History of Devonshire	Exeter, London	1797, 1798 and 1806	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.36
49	Otto Sverdrup and Ethel Harriet Hearn (trans)	(Antarctic Exploration) Four works	London	1904	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.36

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.