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
249		(Illustrated works)	Montrouge	1952	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
250	(Oscar Wilde)	Three works	London	1925	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 250.40
251	Eleanor Graham and Winifred Langlands (illustrations)	The Night Adventures of Alexis	London	1925	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
252	FISH (Anne Harriet)	(Signed) Illustrations by Eight good works	London	1922	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
253	C. J. Kaberry	E. J. Detmold illustrations Seven works		[c.1938]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
254	H. Courtney Bryson	Rock Climbs Around London	Bentford	1936	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
255	Anne and Janet Johnstone	Illustrations Six works	London	1966	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
256		(Gloucester) Ralph Bigland Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections, Relative to the County of Gloucester	London	1791	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 75.12
257		(Signed) Alfred Munnings Ballads and Poems of Sir Alfred Munnings	London	1957	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
258	Gordon Bottomley	(Signed and Inscribed) Gruach and Britain's Daughter. Two Plays	London	1922	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
259	Jessie M. King designs	Three works	Berlin	[c.1900]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 62.60
260	Jessie M. King designs	Twelve works	London & Glasgow	n.d	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 175.28
261	Thomas Wright and H. Warren illustrations	(Ireland) The History of Ireland; From the Earliest Period		[c.1872]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
262	The Rev. E. A. D'Alton	(Ireland) History of Ireland. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day	London	1911	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
263	Henry Cotton Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae	(Ireland) The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland	Dublin	1851-1860	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 626.00
264	Sheffield Grace	(Authors Presentation Copy) A small sammelband	London	1827	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 438.20
265	Sheffield Grace	(Ireland) Memoirs of the Family Grace	London	1823	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 525.84
266	Thomas Leland	(Ireland) The History of Ireland From the Invasion of Henry II. With a Preliminary Discourse	Dublin	1814	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
267		(Cork Archaeological Society) Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society	Cork	[1892-94]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
268	W. Maziere Brady	(Ireland) Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne and Ross...	Dublin	1863-64	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
269	[Rev. Sam Hayman]	(Ireland) The Hand-Book for Youghal	Youghal	1896	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 125.20
270		(Ireland) Two scarce guides	Dublin	1868	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
271		(Kilkenny) Fifteen works	Dublin	1857	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.08
272		(Irish Publishing and Book Bindings) Four works	Dublin	1997	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 175.28
273	[King (Bishop)]	The State of the Protestants of Ireland Under the Late King James's Government...	London	1692	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64

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.