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
49	Jessie M. King designs	Album von Berlin	Berlin	1903	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
50	Jessie M. King designs	Werke Alter Meister, Konigl. Museum Berlin	Berlin	1902	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 200.32
51	Jessie M. King designs	Album von Frankfurt am Main	Berlin	1899	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 250.40
52	Jessie M. King designs	Die Denkmaler der Sieges-Allee	Berlin	[1899]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
53	Jessie M. King designs	Album von Dresden und Sachsische Schweiz	Berlin	[1899]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
54	Arran Inlet (c.1933)	Jessie Marion KING (1875-1949)			GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,756.00
55		(Jessie M. King's own Copy) Algernon blackwood A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)	London	1914	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 275.44
56	John Milton and Jessie M. King (illustrations)	Comus. A Masque	London	1906	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
57	Jessie M. King	Vera L. Holme bookplate	London	[c.1941]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
58	(Jessie M. King)	Nine works	Glasgow	1949	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
59	Jessie M. King	Good King Wenceslas. A Carol	[London]	[circa 1920]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 250.40
60	J. Alexander Kennedy (trans), Walter Crane(frontis) and Jessie M. King (designs)	Paolo Mantegazza, The Legend of Flowers: Or "Tis Love That Makes The World Go Round"	Edinburgh and London	1908 and 1909	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
61	Jessie M. King	The Little White Town of Never Weary	London	[1917]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
62	Jessie M. King designs	Nineteen works published by George Routledge	London	[c.1904]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 212.84
63	Ivan Turgenev and Constance Garnett (trans)	The Novels of Ivan Turgenev	London	1894-1902	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 400.64
64	Arthur Rackham illustrations	Ten works	London & New York	1926	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 112.68
65		(Signed Limited Edition) Joseph Urban Theatres	New York	1929	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
66	Gordon Bottomley King	(Signed with Marginalia) Lear's Wife and Other Plays	London	1922	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
67	Kate Douglas Wiggin	(Signed Authors Presentation Copy) The Old Peabody Pew. A Christmas Romance of a Country Church	Boston and New York	1890	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
68	Charles E. Brock illustrations	(Signed Original Sketches) Penelope's English Experience	Boston and New York	1901	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 500.80
69	Kate Douglas Wiggin	(Author's Own Copy with inscriptions and signatures) Penelope's Experiences...	Boston and New York	1901, 1901 and 1902	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 375.60
70	Kate Douglas Wiggin	(Signed and Inscribed) A Cathedral Courtship	Boston and New York	1901	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 125.20
71	Jane Austen and Hugh Thomson illustrations	(Peacock Binding) Pride and Prejudice	London	1984	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,565.00
72	Eric Gill and David Jones	(Signed) Christianity and Art	Abergavenny	1927	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 313.00
73	Stephane Mallarme and Henri-Matisse	Poesies de Stephane Mallarme	Geneva	1970	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	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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