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
324		(Pipe Tobacco) Waccamaw Low Country			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 500.80
325		(Pipe Tobacco) A large quantity Mostly in kilner style jars, tins and vacum packed, mostly ms labled with dates			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,001.60
326		(Pipe Tobacco) A large quantity Mostly opened in kilner style jars, tins etc, many ms lables with dates			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 939.00
327	Thomas Ewbank	A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines For Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine	London	1842	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 112.68
328	Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There	London	1921	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 162.76
329		R. Dagley Death's Doings; In Twenty Four Plates	London	1826	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
330		The Popular Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Third edition	London	n.d. [c.1890]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
331	Winston Churchill	The Second World War		1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1954	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 162.76
332	Alex J. Finberg	Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley Hall	London	[c.1990]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 112.68
333	Derek Tangye	(Signed) Fourteen works		1980	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
334		(Art) The Tate Magazine			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
335		(Bibliography and Book Design) The Private Library Sixty six issues			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
336	Rabelais and Samivel illustrations	(Children's Illustrated Literature) Nine wonderful works	Paris	1956	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
337	Robert Medley illustrations Samson Agonistes	(Signed Limited Edition) A Dramatic Poem by John Milton	Norwich	1979	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
338		1940s Photographs of Cornwall and other places contained in two folders			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
339	Brayley (Edward Wedlake and Britton, John)	The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of each County		1801-15	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
340	Paul Rycaut	(Christianity) Six works	London	1685	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
341	Edward S. Curtis	(Photography) Portraits From North American Indian Life	New York	1972	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
342	Robert Harling	Ravilious, Eric, illus. 'Notes on the Wood-Engravings of Eric Ravilious'		1947	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
343	Geoffrey Grigson and John Craxton (illustrations)	Visionary Poems and Passages Or The Poet's Eye	London	1944	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 150.24
344	John Lodge	Twenty-Three English County Maps		1783	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
345	John Cary (1754-1835)	Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmoreland & Cumberland		c.1800	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
346		Westmorland & Cumberland Four Maps	Glasgow	c.1840	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
347		Suffolk Interest Ten Maps		Ten 19th Century	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
348	Edward Weller	Australasia Interest Fourteen Maps		c.1860	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04

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.
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.