Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 61225, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025

Page Size: 382 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	(Petrarch and Early Venetian Printing)	Le Osservationi di m[esser]. Francesco Alunno da Ferrara Sopra il Petrarca	Vinegia [Venice],	1550	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
52	[John Worlidge] J. W. Gent	Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered... to which is added, Kalendarium Rusticum, or the Husbandmans Monethly Directions	London	1698	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 62.60
53	Thomas Hale	A Compleat Body of Husbandry, Containing Rules for performing, in the Most Profitable Manner, The whole Business of the Farmer, and Country Gentleman	London	1756	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 137.72
54		(Agriculture and Husbandry) Three good works	London	1802	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 62.60
55		(Agriculture) Nine works	London	1796	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 137.72
56		(19th century Agriculture) The Complete Farmer; Or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry	London	1807	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 137.72
57	Arthur Young	Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts		1784, 1808	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,314.60
58	J. Mortimer	The Whole Art of Husbandry: Or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land	Dublin	1721	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.68
59	Martin Doyle [William Hickey]	A Cyclopaedia of Practical Husbandry and Rural Affairs in General	Dublin	1839	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 112.68
60	Jean Florimond Boudon	Voyage Agricole, Botanique et Pittoresque dans une Partie des Landes de Lot-et-Garonne et de Celles de la Gironde....	Agen, Paris	1818	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
61		A sammelband of agricultural works including Irish farming and revolutionary discourse Seven scarce works bound in one volume			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 350.56
62		Board of Agriculture Communications to the Board of Agriculture; On Subjects Relative to The Husbandry, and Internal Improvement of the Country	London	1800	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
63	R. W. Dickson	Practical Agriculture; Or, A Complete System of Modern Husbandry: With the Best Methods of Planting, and the Improved Management of Live Stock. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings	London	1807	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 187.80
64	G. B. Worgan	General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall. Drawn Up and Published by Order of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement	London	1811	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 375.60
65		(The Prince of Wales and The Duchy Provenance) Mr Marshall The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs....	London	1790	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
66	Edward Laurence	The Duty of a Steward to his Lord	London	1727	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 212.84
67	Charles Vancouver	General View of the Agriculture of the County of Devon	London	1808	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 125.20
68	P. Priske	The Land Steward and Farmer's Assistant, Consisting of Tables....	Helston	1813	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
69		(Agriculture and Husbandry) Twelve works	Edinburgh	1815	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 237.88
70		(Agriculture and Husbandry) Fourteen works	London, Edinburgh	1832	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 275.44
71	James MacDonald Stephens'	Book of the Farm. Dealing exhaustively with every Branch of Agriculture	Edinburgh and London	1908	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 125.20
72		The Pipe Roll Society New Series. A complete run from vol one to sixty.	London	1925 to 2016.	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 125.20
73		The Pipe Roll Society Kraus Reprint. Vol 1 to 34	Vaduz	1966	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
74		An Account of the Operations of Second Army in Europe 1944-1945 Compiled by Headquarters Second Army		1945	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 563.40
75		An important Victorian 'Birthday Book' With over eighty signatures from Victorian high society	London	1881	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold

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