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
448	John Shute, Paynter and Archytecte	(Architecture) The First and Chief Grounds of Architecture		1563	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
449	Middleton (G A T)	Modern Buildings, their planning, construction and equipment	London		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
450	Millard Meiss and Edith W. Kirsch	(Illuminated Manuscript Reproductions) Eight works	London	1972	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
451		(Art Exhibition Catalogues)	(London)		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
452		(Art Exhibition Catalogues)	(London)		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 50.08
453		(Art Exhibition Catalogues)	(London)		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 62.60
454	Rodger Moore	(Signed Limited Edition) Last Man Standing. Tales from Tinseltown	London	2014	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
455	J. K. Rowling	'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'	London	2005	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
456	Jules Verne	Forty five works	London	1892	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 175.28
457		1940s Photographs of Cornwall and other places contained in two folders			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
458		Guido Morris A Fine Printer	St Ives	1995	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
459	Norman Mailer	(Space Flight) Six works		2010	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
460	Ryder Windham and Peter Vilmur	(Film) Three works on Star Wars	London	2009	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
461	Piers Bizony and Arthur C. Clarke (foreward)	(Film) Five works	London	1994	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
462	Thomas G. Smith and George Luca (intro)	(Film) Five works on George Lucas and Star Wars	London	1986	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
463		(Erotica) Helmut Newton Three works	San Francisco	2005	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 187.80
464	Dian Hanson	(Erotica) Five works		2016	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 175.28
465		(Signed Erotica) Carlos Clarke Shooting Sex. The Definitive Guide to Undressing Strangers		2002	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 150.24
466		(Signed Erotica) David Bailey Nudes. 1981-1984	London	1984	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 162.76
467		Flight Magazine Seven bound volumes			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
468		(Motor Racing) Three posters			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
469		(Motor Sport) Nigel Mansell Three signed posters		[1992]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
470	W. Mclean and E. H. Shackleton	O. H. M. S. or How 1200 Soldiers went to Table Bay	London	1900	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 313.00
471	Captain Charles Thomas	(Mining) Tables for Ascerting the Value of Tin	Redruth	1859	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 112.68
472		An Illustration to Sergei Spassky's 'Novogodnyaya Noch(New Year's Eve)'			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04

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.
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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