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
75	Peter Heylyn	Three works	London	1656-57	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 275.44
76	Tobias Venner	(Early Tobacco Treatise) Via recta ad vitam longam	London	1660	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 150.24
77	[John Hunter]	[A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds]	[London]	[1794]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.68
78	[Walter Raleigh]	[The Historie of the World]	[London]	[1634]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 150.24
79	John Brand and Henry Ellis	Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions	London	1813	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 56.34
80	Cs. Szabo Laszlo	(Hungarian Literature) Thirty one works	Rome	1953	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
80A	Doczi Lajos Szechy Maria.	Torteneti Szinmu	Budapest	[c.1885)	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
81	Thomas Green	(Botnay) The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary	London	[1824]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 112.68
82	Henry Bowman and J. S. Crowther	The Churches of the Middle Ages	London	[c.1850]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
83	[H. Owen and J. B. Blakeway]	A History of Shrewsbury	London	1825	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
84	Thomas Dunham Whitaker	(Yorkshire) Four works	London	1878	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
85	Samuel Rudder	(Gloucestershire) A New History of Gloucestershire	Cirencester	1779	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
86	Francis Peck	Academia Tertia Anglicana; or, The Antiquarian Annals of Stanford in Lincoln, Rutland and Northampton Shires	London	1727	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 237.88
87	Dugald Stewart	The Works of William Robertson	London	1840	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
88	William Henry Hall and Thomas Augustus Lloyd	The New Encyclopaedia Or Modern Universal Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences	London	n.d [circa 1798, 1795 and 1795]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 62.60
89	[Thomas Vicars]	The sword-bearer. Or, The Byshop of Chichester's Armes emblazoned in a Sermon preached at a Synod		1627	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
90	Oscar Wilde	(Riviere Binding) Poems by Oscar Wilde	London	1928	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 237.88
91	L. H. Sigourney	(Early American Female Prose & Poetry) The Young Ladies' Offering; Or Gems of Prose and Poetry	Boston	1848	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 150.24
92	Arthur Golding (trans), [Israel] Gollancz and W.H.D. Rouse (editors)	Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses	London	1904	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.68
93		(Japanese Woodblock) Two works		c.1878	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
94	Charles Alias (ed) and H. Sidney (illustrations)	(Shakespeare) Two works	London	1885	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 200.32
95	Thomas Kirk	(Botany and Natural History) Fifteen works	Wellington, NZ	[1899]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
96		(Freemasonry) Sixteen			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
97	W[illiam] Scott	The Border Exploits : Containing A Concise Account of the Remarkable Events in Scotland, from the Reign of Malcolm II	Hawick	1812	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
98	Elizabeth Courtenay	Views in the South of Devon	London	[c.1845]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 250.40

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.