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
249	Lieut.-Col E.W.C. Sandes	The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan	Chatham	1937	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
250		(Cornwall) Twenty seven works	Oxford	1935	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
251	Alan Villiers	(Maritime) Nine works	New York	1951	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 12.52
252	Bertolt Brecht	Trumpets and Drums - Harvard Summer School Players Script (c.1965) By Bertolt Brecht, based on Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer		(c.1965)	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
253	Mohammad Ali	(Signed) The Greatest. My Own Story	St Albans	1977	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 187.80
254	Bernard Leach	A Potters Book	London	1955	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
255	Muriel Spark	(Literature) Twenty works	London	1968	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
256	Phillippe Bruneau, Mario Torelli and Xavier Barral i Altet Sculpture	(Art) The Great Art of Antiquity From the Eighth Century BC to the Fifth Century AD	Koln	1991	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
257	Jessie M. King (endpapers and illus.)	(Children's Illustrated Literature) Thirty eight works		1925	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
258	Arthur Waley	(China and Japan) Three scarce limpbacks	Oxford	1919	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
259	J. P. Neale (illustrations)	Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland	London	1818-1823	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 175.28
260	James Hannay (Introduction)	The Complete Works of William Hogarth	London and New York	[c.1860]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
261	David Roscoe, editor	Rolls Royce 75 Years 1904-1979		[1979]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
262	Silas K. Hocking	(Cornwall) 'The Awakening of Anthony Weir'	Newton Abbot	1967	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
263		(Atlases) Nine 'Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough'	London	c.1820	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 726.16
264		(Penguin Publishers) A large collection of Penguin 60's Classics, including Eliot, Doyle, Kafka, Wilde, Poe, Cervantes, Twain &c. &c.			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
265		Agatha Christie Fifty nine works	London	1971	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 175.28
266		(Penguin Publishers) A large collection of paperbacks			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 162.76
267	P. G. Wodehouse	Thirty nine works	London	[1947]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 50.08
268		(Cornwall) A large collection of booklets		1899	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
269		(Children's Illustrated) A good collection			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 125.20
270		(Children's Illustrated) A good collection of small format works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 150.24
271		Ladybird Books One hundred works (approx)			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 87.64
272		(Two early 19th century juvenile works)		[1835]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
273		The Cornhill Magazine Six volumes. January 1860 to December 1862	London	1860-1862	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04

Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.