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
99	Francoise Henry (study)	The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin	London	1974	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
100	G[uillaume] A[ntoine]	Oliver Atlas to Illustrate the Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Persia	London	1801	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
101	E. Smith	(Cookery) The Complete Housewife: Or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion	London	1744	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 250.40
102		(Atlas) The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World	London	1882	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
103	Walter Raleigh	The Historie of the World		1614	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 275.44
104		The Works of Thomas Hearne Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle	London	1810	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
105	Samuel Johnson	(Bindings) A Dictionary of the English Language	London	1825	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 175.28
106	Richard Bradley	(Husbandry and Agriculture) Thirteen works	London	1726	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 250.40
107	Thomas Fuller	The History of the Worthies of England	London	1662	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 237.88
108	Charles Deering	(Nottingham) Five works	Nottingham	1751	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
109	Henry Chamberlain	(Topography and Antiquities) Five Works	London	[1770]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 100.16
110	Joseph Hunter	(Sheffield) Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York	London	1819	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
111	[Duncan Campbell]	(Scotland) Nine works	Inverness	1888	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 525.84
112	Thomas Hutchinson (ed)	(Bindings) Ten works		1904	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 187.80
113	Lord Alfred Douglas (ed)	(Antisemitic pre WWII propaganda) Plain Speech	London	1921	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 162.76
114	William Makepeace	(Bindings) Thackeray Miscellanies	London	1865	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
115	George Eliot	(Bindings) George Eliot The Works of....	Edinburgh and London	1877-1880	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
116	Sir Walter Scott	(Bindings) The Waverley Novels	Edinburgh	1851-53	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 162.76
117	Lewis Carroll	(The Easton Press) Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There	Connecticut	1969	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 112.68
118		British Society of Master Glass-Painters Journals		1926-1965	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
119	William Walker	Treatise of English Particles Shewing Much of the Variety of their Significations and Uses in English	London	1686	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
120	Colonel Maurice Harold Grant	F. Lewis Publishers Ten works	Leigh-On-Sea	1947	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
121		F. Lewis Publishers Royal Society of British Artists Members Exhibiting 1824 to 1962	Leigh-on-Sea	1973 to 1977	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
122	S. H. Paviere	F. Lewis Publishers Fifteen works	Leigh-on-Sea	1966	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
123	Henry & Sidney Berry-Hill	F. Lewis Publishers Six works	Leigh-On-Sea	1970	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04

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.