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
1 W. M. Flinders Petrie

(Egyptology and the Egypt Exploration Fund) Flinders Petrie and Guy Brunton et al Twenty eight reports by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt

 London 1917 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
2

(Antarctic and Natural History) Report on the Collections of Natural History Made in the Antarctic Regions During the Voyage if the "Southern Cross"

 London 1902 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
3

(Geology) David Dale Owen Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; And Incidentally of A Portion of Nebraska Territory

 1852 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
4 John Ralfs and Edward Jenner (illustrations)

(Natural History and the British Museum) Fourteen works

 London 1848 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
5 (Carl Linnaeus)

Caroli Linnaei or Caroli a Linne Amoenitates Academicae seu, Dissertationes Variae Physicae, Medicae, Botanicae.....

 1749--1785 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
6 John Woodward

(Early Medicine) Twelve works

 London 1718 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
7 La Dame de Pique [The Queen of Spades]

A. Pouchkine [Alexander Pushkin] and Vasily Shukhaev (illustrations)

 Paris [1923] GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
8 James Sowerby and Sir James Smith

(Fine Binding) English Botany

 London 1790-1814 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
9 Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

Vulgar Errors & Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk

 1658 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
9A Simon Wilkin (ed)

The Works of Sir Thomas Browne Including His Life and Correspondence

 London, Norwich 1836 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
10 Hiob Ludolf

(Ethiopia) A New History of Ethiopia, being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia...

 London 1682 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
11 Melesina Trench

(Early Irish Female Poetry and Authors presentation copy with marginalia) Campaspe, An Historical Tale; and Other Poems

 Bath 1815 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
12

[Geneva or Breeches Bible in English]

 [but printed (?) in Amsterdam] 1599 [after 1600] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
13 Alfred Munnings

(Signed) Ballads and Poems of Sir Alfred Munnings

 London 1957 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
14 Elhanan Winchester

(William Penaluna Publisher) A Course of Lectures on the Prophecies That Remain to be Fulfilled

 Helston 1813 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
15 John Nichols editor and publisher

(Antiquities) The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester

 London 1795-1815 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
16 John Nichols editor and publisher

(Antiquities) Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica

 London 1780 to 1791 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
17 John Thorpe

(Diocese of Rochester) Registrum Roffense

 London 1769 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
18 Edmund Sawyer

Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly) fromt the Original Papers....Sir Ralph Winwood

 London 1725 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
19 Robert Heath

(Islands of Scilly) A Natural and Historical Account of the Islands of Scilly

 London 1750 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
20 George Woodley

(Islands of Scilly) A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands

 Truro and London 1822 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
21 William Borlase

Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall

 Oxford 1754 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
22 Frederick Arthur

(Heraldry and Genealogy) Crisp List of Parish Registers and Other Genealogical Works

 Grove Park, Denmark Hill 1897 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
23 Daphne Du Maurier

(Signed First Edition) Rebecca

 London 1938 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
24 Richard Baker

(British Monarchy) Four works

 London 1684 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown