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

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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
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
  • Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
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    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: BESANCENOT, Jean. Costumes et types du Maroc.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES OTTOMANS. Suite de figures ottomanes à l’aquarelle
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  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.