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
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
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    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.
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    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):
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