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Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 110625, Cornwall

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 490 items in 20 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Albert WAINWRIGHT (1898-1943)

The Procession of the Magi

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,252.00
2 Arthur Symons (ed) and Aubrey Beardsley illustrations

The Savoy

London 1896 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,064.20
3 Geoffrey C. Warren and Harry Clarke (illustrations)

Elixir of Life [Usige Beatha] Being a Slight Account of the Romantic Rise to Fame of a Great House

Dublin 1925 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,565.00
4 Harry Clarke illustrations

The History of a Great House....Containing some interesting observations

London [c.1925] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 187.80
5 Johannes Poulsen and Kay Nielsen (designs)

Gennem de Fagre Riger

Copenhage 1916 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 87.64
6 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Kay Nielsen (illustrations)

Eventyret Das Marchen

Copenhagen 1949 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.60
7

Fire at the Tower of London Air.-The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve

Great St. Andrew Street [c.1841] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 375.60
8 Henry Lemarie illustrations

Les Quinze joies de mariage

Paris [1946] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 400.64
9 Carl Otto Czeschka (1878-1960) illustrations

Die Nibelungen. Dem deutschen Volke wiedererzahlt von Franz Keim

Vienna and Leipzig [1909] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 563.40
10 Romer Wilson (ed) and Kay Nielsen (illustrations)

Red Magic. A Collection of the Worlds Best Fairy Tales from All Countries

London 1930 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 350.56
11

(Poetry) Ariel Poems Volumes One to Ten

1927 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 87.64
12 Albert Wainwright illustrations

Three works

[Leeds and London] [1920] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 137.72
13

(Yorkshire Publishing and Poetry) Eight works

Leeds 1925 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 350.56
14 (Signed) Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869--1933)

Thirteen works

London 1901 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 75.12
15

(Dylan Thomas interest) Botteghe Oscure IX

Rome 1952 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 1,252.00
16

(Signed) Roald Dahl Danny The Champion of the World

London 1975 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 575.92
17

(Signed and Inscribed) Roald Dahl The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and six more

London 1977 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
18 THEOPHRASTUS. (ca 371-ca 287 B.C.)

De Historia Plantarum... [edited by] Joannes Bodaeus a Stapel...

Amstelodami 1644 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
19 John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

London 1731 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
20

[Ornament Design] Jugendstil Ornamentik der Gegenwart

Plauen [c.1906] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 876.40
21 A. H. Mackmurdo

Wren's City Churches

London and Aylesbury 1883 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 250.40
22 A. A. Milne

(Signed) The Secret and Other Stories

New York; London 1929 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 600.96
23 J. Griffyth Fairfax and Lionel Lindsay illustrations

(Signed Presentation Edition) The Troubled Pool and Other Poems

London 1911 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 751.20
24

[Carr family of Frognal and Eshott Heugh, Felton, Co. Northumberland] An Early 19th Century Sketchbo

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 651.04
25

Carr family of Frognal and Eshott Heugh, Felton, Co. Northumberland An archive of family papers and indentures

1899 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 400.64
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    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T)]. CLARK. The Military Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: HOMMAIRE DE HELL, Ignace-Xavier. LAURENS, Jules. Voyage en Turquie et en Perse
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: POSTEL, Guillaume. De la République des Turc
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PREZIOSI, Amadeo. Stamboul. Souvenir d’Orient.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES. EMPIRE OTTOMAN.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant T. Emile. L'Art Arabe
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES. Histoire de l'art Egyptie
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: BESANCENOT, Jean. Costumes et types du Maroc.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES OTTOMANS. Suite de figures ottomanes à l’aquarelle
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT, contes arabes
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: SCHLEGEL, Hermann et A. H. VERSTER van WULVERHORST. Traité de Fauconnerie - Planches
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  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000