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
423	Robert Jones	(Cornish Art) Twenty five works		2006	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
424		M. Gustave Dore illustrations Three works	London	1903	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
425	Joe Walker	(Dogs) Seventy five works	London	1930	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
426	Joseph Harrison	(Botany illustrations) The Floricultural Cabinet, and florist's Magazine	London	1834-1841	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 112.68
427		(Pottery) Twelve works	Tokyo and New York	1990	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 62.60
428	Frederic Benida and Michel Fraile	(Aviation) Twenty two works	Cassell	2006	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
429	Jim Higgins (Editor, signed)	(Ireland) Twenty One Works	Galway	2019	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
430		(Ireland) Irish Historic Towns Atlas Volume I & Volume II	Dublin	1996	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 25.04
431	W.G.Neely	(Ireland) Thirty Three Works		1983	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 275.44
432		(Ireland) Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings		1955	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 56.34
433	Mervyn Archdall	(Ireland) Monasticon Hibernicum - Two Volumes	Dublin	1873 & 1876	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 100.16
434		(Ireland) Thirty-One Works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
435		(Ireland) The Vocayon of Johan Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossorie in Irelande, his Persecusions in the same, and finall Delyveraunce		[c.1744]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
436	Philip Payton (ed)	(Cornwall) Cornish Studies Vol 1-13		1993	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
437	Alan M Kent	(Cornwall) Twenty-One Works		1991	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
438		(Cornwall Art and Photography) Five Works		1995	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
439		(Cornwall) Fourteen Works		1898	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
440	Ted Hughes	Twenty Four Works		1963	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
441	John Harris	(Poetry) Twenty Eight Works		1871	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 275.44
442	Jack Clemo	Twenty Three Works (Six Signed)		1948	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
443		Britain in Pictures Sixty-Seven Works			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 212.84
444		(Archives) The Journal of the British Records Association			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
445	John Golt and Alfred Ainger (intro)	Charles E. Brock illustrations Nine works and two others	London	1896	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 175.28
446		Illustrated Juvenile Works and Annuals Twenty five			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
447	John Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston	(Signed Limited Edition) Claud Lovet Fraser......With Representative Examples of His Work Reproduced in Collotype and Line	London	1923	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56

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.