Lay's Auctioneers: The Contents of a Gentleman's Town house, 12926, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026

Page Size: 88 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
180	George Clement Boase and William Prideaux Courtney	Bibliotheca Cornubiensis	London	1874-1882	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 75.12
181		Richard Carew The Survey of Cornwall	London	1769	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 375.60
182		(Cornwall) Two scarce family histories	London	1901	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
183	(William Penaluna Publisher) Fortescue Hitchins and Samuel Drew	The History of Cornwall	Helston	1824	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 275.44
184		(Bindings) Fairbairn's Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland	Edinburgh	[c.1900].	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
185	(Cornwall) John Whitaker	The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall, Historically Surveyed	London	1804	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 56.34
186	[Francis Charles Hingston]	Specimens of Ancient Cornish Crosses, Fonts, etc	London	1850	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 100.16
187	G. B. Worgan	General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall. Drawn Up and Published by Or	London	1811	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 237.88
188		(Cornwall) Sixteen works	London	1935	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
189		(Cornwall) Charles Henderson Six works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
190		(Cornwall) Twenty works			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 225.36
191		(Cornwall) Two works 'Magna Britannia......Cornwall,'	London	1720	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 200.32
192		(Redruth) Five works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
193		(Cornwall) Five works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
194	William Pryce	(Kernewek) Archaelogica Cornu-Britannica	London Exeter	1790	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 225.36
195	Robert Williams	(Kernewek)Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum	London	1865	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 75.12
196		(Kernewek) Four works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 87.64
197	Davies Gilbert	(Cornwall) The Parochial History of Cornwall, Founded on the Manuscript Histories of	London	1838	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 237.88
198	R. Polwhele	(Cornwall) The History of Cornwall	London	1803, 1816	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 375.60
199	Sir Joihn MacLean	(Cornwall) The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, in the	London	1873-79	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 125.20
200	Joseph Polsue compiler	(Cornwall) A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall	London:	1867-1872	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
201	Edward Lhuyd	(Linguistics) Archaeologia Britannica	Oxford	1707	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 250.40
202	William Borlase	(Cornwall) William Borlase Two works	Oxford	1758	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 813.80
203	[George Harbin]	The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England Asserted			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 25.04
204	Edward Gibbon	(Armorial Binding) The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire		1791 - 1797	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 500.80

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.