Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 110625, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Report
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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