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
299	William Hyde (ill)	(Illustrated Poetry and Prose) Nine works	London	1904	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 137.72
300		Geoffrey Grigson and John Craxton (illustrations) Visionary Poems and Passages Or The Poet's Eye	London	1944	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
301	T. Rex Young West African Agent	(Signed and inscribed) A British Coaster's Anglo-French Log	London	1943	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
302	Eliseo Trenc Ballester	(Art Nouveau) Fifteen works	Barcelona	1977	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
303	Charles Edmund Brock and Henry Matthew Brock (illustrations)	Thirty seven works	London	1922	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 400.64
304		(Decorative Cloth) Twenty five works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 162.76
305		(Pesvner)			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
306	William Heath Robinson illustrations Peter Quip	In Search of a Friend		[c.1922]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
307	William Heath Robinson illustrations	Twenty one works	London	1921	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
308	Marc Chagall (lithographs) Siberia.	A Poem by Abraham Sutzkever	London, New York, Toronto	1960	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
309	John Kettlewell and Hugh Walpole (preface)	The Story of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp	London & New York	1928	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
310		(Illustrated Works) Twenty seven works	London	1934	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
311		(Book of Common Prayer) The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church	London	1758	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
312	Kate Greenaway	Kate Greenaway Eight works	London	1905	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
313	Johannes Thiel illustrations	(Shakespeare) The Merry Wives of Windsor	London	1903	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
314	Charles Robinson illustrations	(Illustrated Gift Books and Children's Literature) Eleven works	London	1930	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
315		S.S. Titanic Six facsimile print Daily Mirror's			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
316		Five Illustrated Works	Copenhagen	2005	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
317	Eisen (illustrations)	19th & 20th Century Literature, including La Fontaine, Burns, Stein &c. Seventeen works	Paris	1884	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 175.28
318	Rabelais and Samivel illustrations	(Children's Illustrated Literature) Nine wonderful works	Paris	1956	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
319		(Bibliography and Book Design) Sixteen works		1985	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
320		(Bibliography and Book Design) The Private Library Sixty six issues		1986 to 2021	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
321	David Bland	(Bibliography and Book Design) Eight Works	London	1955	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
322	Stephen Hebron	(Bibliography and Book Design) Eight works		2014	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
323	J. H. Willis Jr.	(Bibliography and Book Design) Sixteen works		1917-41	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82

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.