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
200	Sir Walter Scott	Ballads and Lyrical Pieces	Edinburgh	1806	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
201	Sir Walter Scott	(Douglas & Foulis Bindings) The Journal of.....From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford	Edinburgh	1891	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
202	Sir Walter Scott	Waverley Novels		1901-10	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
203	Sir Walter Scott	(Bindings) Waverly Novels	Edinburgh	1867-1869	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
204	Hamish Henderson	(Scottish Poetry) Elegies For The Dead In Cyrenaica	London	1948	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 175.28
205	Sydney Goodsir Smith and Rendell Wells (illustrations)	(Signed Scottish Prose & Poetry) Carotid Cornucopius. The First Hauf Galloon	Edinburgh	1964	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
206	Robin Graham Bell (ed)	(Scottish Poetry) Twelve scarce works	New Jersey, New York	1970	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
207	Hugh MacDiarmid	(Scottish Poetry) Two works	Preston	30th June 1967	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
208	Alexander Scott	(Scottish Poetry) Akros Publications Eighteen scarce works	Preston	1968	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
209	Alan Riddell (ed)	(Scottish Poetry) Lines Review. New Poetry Scotland	Edinburgh	Summer 1953	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
209A	Albert Mackie	(Scottish Poetry) Sixteen works	Glasgow	1944	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 137.72
210	Hugh MacDiarmid	(Scottish Poetry) Hugh MacDiarmid and Akros Publications Scarce publications		1863	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 125.20
211	William Christie	(Scottish Poetry) Castledaw Press Nine scarce works	Peeblesshire	20th August, 1971	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
212	John Locke	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	London	1731	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
213	Leonard Eckstein Opdyke (translated)	(Limited Edition) The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldesar Castiglione (1528)	London, New York	1902	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
214		(Scotland) Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus Memoirs of a Highland Lady. Being The Autobiography of......Afterwards Mrs. Smith of Baltiboys 1789-1830	Edinburgh	1897	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
215	Enid Blyton	Thirty four reprints		N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
216		(Isles of Scilly) The Scillonian. The Quarterly Magazine		1987	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
217	Jessie Mothersole	(Islands of Scilly) A large collection of works		[1914]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
218	[Thomas Burnet]	(Geodesy) 'The Sacred Theory of the Earth: containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the General Changes which it hath undergone, or is to undergo, till the Consummation of all Things...	London	1726	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
219	H[ilda] D[oolittle]	Hymen	London	1921	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
220		Britain in Pictures Sixty-Seven Works		N/A	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 150.24
221		Guinness Christmas Booklets Seven works		1934	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 187.80
222	Joseph Urban	(Signed Limited Edition) Theatres	New York	1929	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
223	Arthur Rackham	(Signed Limited Edition) The Chimes by Charles Dickens	London	1931	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 125.20

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.