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
373		Bindings Five Works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
374	E. F. Strange (ed) and Warwick Goble (illustrations)	(Illustrated Works and Cloth Bindings) Twenty works	London	1911	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 313.00
375	Emily A.	Beaumont Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines		1861	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
376		The Jameson Raid Frank Rhodes - A Memoir (Private Circulation)			GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 525.84
377	David Livingstone	Missionary Travels in South Africa		1857	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 37.56
378	Captain Gerald S.	(Antarctica) Doorly In The Wake	Melbourne		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 137.72
379		(Art Nouveau Bindings) Forty nine works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 187.80
380		Charles Booth Labour & Life of The People - East London		1889	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,026.64
381		Karl Baedeker Two Works		1907	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
382	Robert Hichens	Egypt And Its Monuments		1908	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
383		(Travel) Five works	New York	1893	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
384	Bertolt Brecht	Trumpets and Drums - Harvard Summer School Players Script (c.1965)	Harvard	1965	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
385	Ernest H. Shepard and A. A. Milne (intro)	(Illustrated works) Twenty six works	London	1927	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 162.76
386	J.M. Staniforth	Boer War Interest Six Works		1902	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
387		Boer War Interest Six Works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
388		WWI & WWII Interest Eleven Works		c.1922	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 18.78
389		(Decorative Cloth) Thirty one works			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 200.32
390	Cecile Walton (illustrations)	(Decorative Cloth) Thirty three works	London	1911	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 438.20
391		Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility	Broadway, Ludgate Hill, Glasgow, Manchester, and New York	[c.1890]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
392	Jane Austen and C. E. Brock	illustrations Sense & Sensibility	London	[c.1922]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
393		Laura Knight Oil Paint and Grease Paint	London	1936	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
394	John Baynard Trotter	Two biographical works	London	1811	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
395	Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl	Shaftesbury Characteristicks		1749	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
396		(Signed) Mrs Hugh Fraser A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan		1899	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
397	Sir Francis Bacon	The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, ... With a Table of the Ancients	London	1691	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60

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.