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
26	E. R. G. R. Evans	(Signed with original sketch) South With Scott	London and Glasgow	[c.1948]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 313.00
26A		A black and white lithograph portrait of Captain Robert Falcon Scott in Naval uniform	London	1913	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
27		(Signed and inscribed) Louis Golding Magnolia Street	London	1932	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 901.44
28	Jean de Bosschere illustrations	Seventeen works		[1938]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 438.20
29	Hugh Thomson decorations	Seventeen works	London	1895	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 313.00
30		(Signed Poetry) Sydney Matthewman Six scarce works	Leeds	Christmas 1928	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 350.56
31	Alberta Vickridge	(Poetry) Five works	London	1926	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
32	Charles Guyot and Arthur Rackham (illustrations)	Le Printemps sur la Neige et d'autres Contes du bon vieux temps	Paris	1922	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 475.76
33	Arthur Rackham	Four limpbacks	London	[1908]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 726.16
34	Arthur Rackham illustrations	Six works	London	1908	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 250.40
35	Arthur Rackham	(Signed Limited Edition) The Chimes by Charles Dickens	London	1931	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
36	Mary Cholmondeley and Arthur Rackham illustrations	Red Pottage	London	[c.1904]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 250.40
37	Arthur Rackham illustrations	(Signed Limited Edition) Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales	London	1917	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 525.84
38	Arthur Rackham	(Signed with an Original Sketch) The Springtide of Life	London	[1918]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 751.20
39	Anthony Hope and Arthur Rackham illustrations	The Dolly Dialogues	London	1896	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 225.36
40	Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)	The Three Norns Winding the Rope of Fate		1911-11-01	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 6,510.40
41	Jessie M. King (designs)	View Album of Edinburgh and District	Edinburgh	[c.1899]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
42	Jessie M. King (designs)	Nature Pictures. A Portfolio of Photographs From Life	London and Glasgow	[1908]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 175.28
43	Jessie M. King designs	Five works	T. N. Foulis	[c.1907]	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 313.00
44	Jessie M. King designs	Four works	London and Glasgow	1907	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 200.32
45	Jessie M. King designs	Five works	Greenock	[1911]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 225.36
46	Jessie M. King	(Important Ephemera) The City of Glasgow	Edinburgh and London	1911	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 500.80
47	Jessie M. King designs	Rund um Berlin	Berlin	[c.1900]	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 313.00
48	Jessie M. King designs	Album von Berlin. Three rare copies	Berlin	1899	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 275.44
48A	A. D. Portino	The German Cover Designs of Jessie M. King		2003	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 125.20

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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