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
50 Thomas Dimmock et al

(St Louis Botany) The Missouri Botanical Garden

 no imprint or date [preface dated 1890] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
51

(Apiculture) Thirteen works and scarce ephemera

 [c.1910] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
52 Henry Rowlands

(Wales) Mona Antiqua Restaurata, An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities,... of the Isle of Anglesea

 Dublin 1723 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
53 Thomas Wildman

(Apiculture) A treatise on the management of bees; wherein is contained the natural history of those insects; with the various methods of cultivating them, both Antient and Modern.....

 London 1768 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
54 Moses Harris

(Natural History) An Exposition of English Insects

 London 1782 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
55 Charles Darwin

(First Edition) Three works

 London 1862 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
56 [Thomas Maurice]

(India) The History of Hindostan, Sanscreet and Classical, From the Birth of Brahma

 London [c.1806] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
57 Bronte (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)

Novels of the Sisters Bronte, edited by Temple Scott

 Edinburgh 1924 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
58

(Botany) The Fern Manual: Being a Description of All the Best Stove, Greenhouse, and Hardy Ferns, Cultivated in British Gardens

 London [c.1863] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
59 Arthur Collins (compiler) and Sir Henry Sydney et al

Letters and Memorials of State, in the Reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, Part of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's Usurpation

 dated 1745 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
60 Jean Riolan and Nicholas Culpepper (trans)

A Sure Guide, Or, The Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chyrurgery

 London 1657 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
61 Sir Winston

Churchill Divi Britannici: Being a remark upon the lives of all the kings of this isle, from the year of the world 2855. unto the year of grace 1660

 London 1675 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
62 R. Rennie

Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat Moss

 Edinburgh 1810 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
63 [John Clapham]

The Historie of Great Britannie

 London 1606 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
64 Francis Bacon

Three works

 London 1631 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
65 J. R. R. Tolkien

Seven works

 London 1974 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
66 Samuel Ireland

Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, from Pictures, Drawings, and Scarce Prints in the Possession of Samuel Ireland

 London 1794 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
67

[Richard Verstegan] A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation

 London 1655 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
68 William Salmon

(Herbal) Botanologia. The English herbal: or, History of plants

 1710 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
69 William Camden

Six works

 London 1657 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
70 Richard Kilburne

(Kent) A Topographie, or Survey of the county of Kent. With some Chronological, Historicall, and other matters touching the same: and the several Parishes and Places therein

 London 1659 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
71 [David Lloyd]

State-Worthies. Or, The States-Men and Favourites of England since the Reformation their Prudence and Policies, Successes and Miscarriages, Advancements and Falls...

 London 1670 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
72 [John Speed]

[The Historie of Great Britaine]

 [London] [1632] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
73 Delahay Gordon

(Trials) A General History of the Lives, Trials, and Executions of all the Royal and Noble Personages, That have suffered in Great-Britain and Ireland for High Treason, or other Crimes...

 London 1760 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
74 William Burton

A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or Journals of the Roman Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain

 the Inner Temple-Gate 1658 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown