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

Auction Details

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
224		Thomas Cranmer and John Bill Certaine Sermons Or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches	London	1623	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 350.56
225		(Decorative Cloth) Thirty works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 250.40
226		(Queen Victoria) The Queen is Slowly Dying A.L.S on Windsor Castle headed paper		July 1883	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 651.04
227	Arthur Helps (ed)	(Queen Victoria) Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
228	Edward Elgar	(Signed) The Dream of Gerontius by Cardinal Newman		1930	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
229		Virginia Woolf The Waves	London	1931	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 375.60
230	Edgar Allan Poe	Edgar Allan Poe The Works of.....	New York	1904	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 187.80
231	William Golding	William Golding Lord of the Flies	London	1954	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
232		(Decorative Cloth) Thirty five works	London	1896	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 375.60
233	Charles Edmund	Brock and Henry Matthew Brock (illustrations) Twenty four works	London	[c.1890]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 225.36
234		(Decorative Cloth) Twenty six works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 212.84
235	Edmund Dulac	An Exercise in Persian Calligraphy		[c.1910]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 500.80
236		Edmund Dulac illustrations Twelve works	Toulouse	1902	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 175.28
237	Michael Arlen	(Signed) Young Men in Love	London	[c.1927]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 162.76
238	Isobel W. Hutchison	(Signed) How Joy was Found. A Fantasy in Verse in Five Acts	London	1917	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 150.24
239		(Signed) Three works of Poetry	Bloomsbury	1933	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
240	John Austen	Illustrations Thirteen works	London	1926	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
241		(Illustrated Works) Thirteen works	London	1912	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
242	Willy Pogany	Illustrations Eleven works	London	1911	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 275.44
243	Charles Robinson	Illustrations Seventeen works	London	1913	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 350.56
244		Fayard's Livres de Demain Two works in orignal printed card wraps	Paris	1927	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
245		Eight illustrated works	London	1922	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
246		Christina Rossetti and Laurence Housman (illustrations) Goblin Market	London	1893	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 250.40
247		(The Ashendene Press) A Chronological List, with Prices, of the Forty Books Printed at The Ashendene Press 1895-1935		1935-03-01	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
248	(Talwin Morris)	Red letter Shakespeare	London	[c.1900]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.