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
205	Browne Willis	Notitia Parliamentaria: Containing and Account of the First Returns and Incorporations		1750	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 31.30
206	George Woodley	A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands	London and Truro	1822	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 275.44
207	Whitley Stokes (ed & trans) Beunans Meriasek.	The Life of Saint Meriasek, Bishop and Confessor. A Co	London	1872	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
208	The Rev. H. A. Simcoe	(Cornwall) Light From the West; Or, The Cornish Parochial Visitor	Cornwall	1832-1834.	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
209	Henry T. De La Beche	Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset	London	1839	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 375.60
210		(Cornwall) Great Domesday Book	London	1987	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
211	Edward Almack	A Bibliography of the King's Book or Eikon Basilike	London	1896	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
212	Ithell Colquhoun	The Living Stones. Cornwall	London	1957	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 350.56
213		(Penzance) Plan for the Borough of Penzance 1841		[c.1841]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 525.84
214	William Collings Lukis	(Cornwall) Prehistoric Stone Monuments of The British Isles. Cornwall	London	1885	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 250.40
215	A. Beeby Thompson and John Ball	Report on the Daga Shabell Oilfield (British Somaliland)	Cairo	1918	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
216	Lancelot Andrews	The Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine	London	1650	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 75.12
217		(Cornwall) British Parliamentary Papers			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
218	R. M. Catling and J. P. Rogers.	(Cornwall) Gilbert H. Doble	Exeter	n.d	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 100.16
219		(Cornwall) Thirty eight works			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 137.72
220		James Lees-Milne Fourteen works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 212.84
221		Iris Murdoch Eighteen works			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 563.40
222		(Cornwall) Ten Illustrated Works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 62.60
223		(Cornwall) A large collection of works			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 150.24
224	J. Collins	(Cornwall) A Sermon Preached at the Parish Church of St. Mary;s, Truro, On Sunday, the 23rd of November, 1817,	Truro	1818	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
225		(Ornament, Interior Design, Arts and Crafts) A large collection of works			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 275.44
226	William Boyd	(Signed) William Boyd Eleven works			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 150.24
227		(Architecture and Italy) Eleven works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 212.84
229	Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes	King Arthur's Wood: A Fairy Story			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 901.44
231		(Art and Cornwall) A large collection of works			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 400.64

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.