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
50	Thomas Dimmock et al	(St Louis Botany) The Missouri Botanical Garden		no imprint or date [preface dated 1890]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
51		(Apiculture) Thirteen works and scarce ephemera		[c.1910]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
52	Henry Rowlands	(Wales) Mona Antiqua Restaurata, An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities,... of the Isle of Anglesea	Dublin	1723	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 125.20
53	Thomas Wildman	(Apiculture) A treatise on the management of bees; wherein is contained the natural history of those insects; with the various methods of cultivating them, both Antient and Modern.....	London	1768	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 200.32
54	Moses Harris	(Natural History) An Exposition of English Insects	London	1782	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 250.40
55	Charles Darwin	(First Edition) Three works	London	1862	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 137.72
56	[Thomas Maurice]	(India) The History of Hindostan, Sanscreet and Classical, From the Birth of Brahma	London	[c.1806]	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 162.76
57	Bronte (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)	Novels of the Sisters Bronte, edited by Temple Scott	Edinburgh	1924	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 400.64
58		(Botany) The Fern Manual: Being a Description of All the Best Stove, Greenhouse, and Hardy Ferns, Cultivated in British Gardens	London	[c.1863]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
59	Arthur Collins (compiler) and Sir Henry Sydney et al	Letters and Memorials of State, in the Reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, Part of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's Usurpation		dated 1745	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
60	Jean Riolan and Nicholas Culpepper (trans)	A Sure Guide, Or, The Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chyrurgery	London	1657	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 187.80
61	Sir Winston	Churchill Divi Britannici: Being a remark upon the lives of all the kings of this isle, from the year of the world 2855. unto the year of grace 1660	London	1675	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 150.24
62	R. Rennie	Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat Moss	Edinburgh	1810	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
63	[John Clapham]	The Historie of Great Britannie	London	1606	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 275.44
64	Francis Bacon	Three works	London	1631	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 563.40
65	J. R. R. Tolkien	Seven works	London	1974	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
66	Samuel Ireland	Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, from Pictures, Drawings, and Scarce Prints in the Possession of Samuel Ireland	London	1794	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
67		[Richard Verstegan] A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation	London	1655	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
68	William Salmon	(Herbal) Botanologia. The English herbal: or, History of plants		1710	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 175.28
69	William Camden	Six works	London	1657	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 563.40
70	Richard Kilburne	(Kent) A Topographie, or Survey of the county of Kent. With some Chronological, Historicall, and other matters touching the same: and the several Parishes and Places therein	London	1659	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
71	[David Lloyd]	State-Worthies. Or, The States-Men and Favourites of England since the Reformation their Prudence and Policies, Successes and Miscarriages, Advancements and Falls...	London	1670	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 150.24
72	[John Speed]	[The Historie of Great Britaine]	[London]	[1632]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 237.88
73	Delahay Gordon	(Trials) A General History of the Lives, Trials, and Executions of all the Royal and Noble Personages, That have suffered in Great-Britain and Ireland for High Treason, or other Crimes...	London	1760	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 225.36
74	William Burton	A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or Journals of the Roman Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain	the Inner Temple-Gate	1658	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 313.00

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.