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
99		William Camden Camden's Britannia Abridg'd with improvements and continuations to this present time to which are added exact lists of the present nobility of England, Scotland and Ireland		1701	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 563.40
100	William Camden and Edmund Gibson (additions)	Britannia: Or a Chorological Description of Great Brita	London	1722	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 776.24
101		(The Thames) William Tombleson [Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway]	London	[c.1834]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 162.76
102		(MS dedication from the author) Henry Mayhew London Labour and the London Poor	London	1851	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 62.60
103	Edward Twycross (editor)	The Mansions of England and Wales. County of Cornwall	London	1846	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,878.00
104	David Roberts	The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubi	London	1855-56	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,026.64
105	Turner (Joseph Mallord William)	Picturesque Views in England and Wales from Drawings	London	1838	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 375.60
106	Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel)	Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; being a Correct Coppy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England & Wales...		1720	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 813.80
107		(Atlases) Five works	London	1728	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 438.20
108	John Cary	(Atlases) Four works	London	1793	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 313.00
109	F. O. Morris	(Ornithology) A History of British Birds 1895 1864	London	1864	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 150.24
110	Charles Stonham	(Ornithology) The Birds of the British Islands, illustrated by Lilian M. Medland	London	1906	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 162.76
111	William Robinson editor	(Botnay) Flora and Sylva	London	1903-1904	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 125.20
112		(Botany and Horticulture) Seven works	London	1859	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 275.44
113	John Wright	(Pomology and Horticulture) The Fruit Grower's Guide	London	[c.1891--1894]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 187.80
114		(Topography) Two sets	London, Edinburgh and Glasgow	1843	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.08
115	Seventeen	(Bindings) Seventeen illustrated works	London	1811	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 400.64
116		(Children's Literature) Eighteen Works		1911	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
117	Charles Devillers	(Georges Levitzky, binder) Les Ghazels de Hafiz	Paris	[1922]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 175.28
118	My Strength	(Miniature) A Word for Every Day	Milwaukee	[n.d. early 20th century]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 12.52
119		(Illustrated Juvenile Works) Twenty	London	n.d	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 187.80
120		Fifteen Illustrated Works	Dundee	n.d	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 187.80
121		(Victorian Popular Publishing) Cope's Tobacco Plant & A. H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library (6 vols.)	Liverpool	1889	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 100.16
122		A Good Part-Run of The Journal of The Marine Biology Association Fifty-Five Volumes			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
123	[William Tombleson]	Five Illustrated Topographical Works	London	[c.1832]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34

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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