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
398	(Freemasonry) William James	Hughan Origin of the English Rite of Freemasonry	London	1884	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
399		Six various works Sleeman stratton, sister , suggies in india plaque paris church by his son	London	1893	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
400	Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer, editor)	The British Gazette 1926		1926	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
401		The Battle of the Frogs and Mice From the Batrachomyomachia	London	c.1795	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
402		Occult Interest		1894	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 237.88
403	Alan Davie	Artist Exhibition Catalogues Nine Works		1999	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
404	Edwin Chappell	Samuel Pepys Interest		c.1930s	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
405		Penzance & Padstow Interest The Penwithian, c,1930 - 1938		1858	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
406		The Cellar-Book: or, The Butler's Assistant, in Keeping A Regular Account of His Liquors	London	1794	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 1,752.80
407	H. C. Maxwell Lyte	A History of Eton College 1440-1875		1877	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
408		(Signed Proof Copies) Margaret Stuart Barry 'Woozy' and Woozy gets Lost'		1973	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
409		Chess Interest Eight Works			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 18.78
410		(Signed) Queen Victoria		1887	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
411	George Henry Maynard	Works of Flavius Josephus on The History of the Jews	Jerusalem	circa 1790	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 25.04
412	(Winston Churchill and WW2)	Ministry of Information Leaflet Beating the Invader		1941	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 50.08
413	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice		1907	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 350.56
414		(Launceston) Early 20th Century Autograph Album		1908-1912	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
415		(India) Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan History of Central Asia. Bronze Age (200 B.C.) to Chengiz Kha (1227 A.D)	Calcutta and New Delhi	1964	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 56.34
416	(Carte Postale)	Two concertina albums of early 20th century postcards	Salon du Petit Palais	1918	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
417		(Japan) Thirty three albumen prints with applied colour		1892	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
418		(Erotica) Ten works	Koln	2011	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
419	Sebastiao Salgado	(Photography) Three works	Cologne	2016	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
420	Freda Carley Peterson (compiler)	(Mining) The Story of Hillside Cemetery. Burials 1873-1988. San Juan County, Colorado		1989	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
421	J. Jacob	Observations on the Structure and Draught of Wheel-Carriages	London	1773	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
422	Hugh Wm. Davies (compiler)	Bernhard von Breydenbach and His Journey to the Holy Land 1483-4. A biblibibliography	London	1911	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	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.