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
324		(Book Design and Illustration) A wonderful collection of catalogues		1965	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
325	Mrs. Gaskell and Evelyn Paul illustrations	(Decorative Cloth) Sixty seven works	London	[c.1900]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 475.76
326	Paul KIRNIG (1891-1955)	Austria [c.1935]			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
327	Hans SCHLEGAR (1898-1976)	These men use Shell, you can be sure of Shell (1938)		-1938	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 225.36
328		Belgium - The Cities of Art	Brussels	[c.1935]	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
329	Tom ECKERSLEY(1914-1997)	Address Your Letters Correctly [1944]		[1944]	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 100.16
330	Gyorgy KONECSNI (1908-1970)	Hungary [c.1960]		[c.1960]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
331	Andreas PEDRETT (1892-1977)	Klosters, Graubunden-Grisons (1943)		-1943	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 626.00
332	Abram GAMES (1914-1996)	"Boac Flies to All 6 Continents" (1953)	London		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 112.68
333	Willy TRAPP (1905-1984)	Davos (1942)			GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 275.44
334	Tom ECKERSLEY (1914-1997) and Eric LOMBERS(1914-1978)	Christmas Boy [c.1936]			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
335		Belgium The Ardennes [c.1950]	Brussels		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
336		Hungria Travel Poster [c.1950]	Budapest		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 87.64
337	Tom ECKERSLEY (1914-1997) and Eric LOMBERS (1914-1978)	You Can be Sure Of Shell - Scientists Prefer Shell		1936	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 200.32
338	WALTER PECK (1898-1973)	Mountaineering in the German Alps	Berlin	c.1938	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
339		German Reich Horticultural Exhibition Poster Stuttgart, 1939	Germany	[c.1939]	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 50.08
340	Hans SCHLEGER (1898-1976)	Grow Your Own Food			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 162.76
341	Jan LE WITT (1907-1991) & Jerzy HIM (1900-1981)	Food Needs Transport - Don't Waste It (1944)			GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 250.40
342	Jan LE WITT (1907-1991) & Jerzy HIM (1900-1981)	The Vegetabull (1943)			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
343	Eric George FRASER (1902-1984)	For Progress in the Future - Save Now	London	c1950-1955	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 125.20
344	Jan LE WITT (1907-1991) & Jerzy HIM (1900-1981)	The Effects Of Over - Cooking And Keeping Hot (1943)			GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 150.24
345	Rowland HILDER (1905-1993)	To Enjoy the Fruits of Victory Save Now		c.1945	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 150.24
346	Hans SCHLEGER (1898-1976)	Eat Greens For Health Daily / Feed Right To Feel Right (1944)	London		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 375.60
347	Hans SCHLEGER (1898-1976)	For Vitality Eat Greens [c.1944]			GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 237.88
348	Desmond MOORE	Made To Measure: Right Spanner - Right Nut (1945)			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 100.16

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.