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
149 Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler

London 1823 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.52
150

19th Century Italian School Angel with Hourglass

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 18.78
151

Charles Dana GIBSON (1867-1944) Extract From the Will

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
152 John James STEUART (1779-1849)

Eleven Etchings

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
153 (Charles Dickens)

Attributed to Charles GREEN (1840-1898)

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 75.12
154 Frank CRAIG (1874-1918)

The Gordon Memorial Ball At The Hotel Cecil: Between The Dances

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
155

Royal Interest Prince of Wales Birthday, 1904

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 25.04
156 WHISTLER, James McNiell

St. James's Street - June 1878

London 2 July 1878 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
157 Anthonie WATERLOO (c.1610-1690)

The Mill

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
158 John Hamilton MORTIMER (1741-1779)

Banditti On The Lookout

published December 8th, 1778 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 62.60
159

Nuremberg Chronicles Popes

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
160 John I CROME (1768-1821)

Mousehold Heath Norwich (c.1810)

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
161 Michael John HEATH (1935)

Blairs

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
162 Michael John HEATH (1935)

I Can Smell Autumn In the Air

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
163 Paul WOOD (Spectator Cartoonist)

Are You Sure You Want To Travel Economy Class?

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.52
164 Marion Winifred SCUTT (1906-1996)

Two book illustrations

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.56
165 Anne M.A. ANDERSON (1874-1952)

Joli Tambour - Illustration from Old French Nursery Songs, 1917

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 350.56
166 Anne M.A. ANDERSON (1874-1952)

Il Etait Une Bergere - An illustration from Old French Nursery Songs, 1917

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 187.80
167 Anne M.A. ANDERSON (1874-1952)

Au Clair De La Lune - Illustration from Old French Nursery Songs, 1917

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 187.80
168 Hugh THOMSON (1860-1920)

Young Boy and Ailing Woman

dated '05 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 125.20
169 Tasha McCready TUDOR (1915-2008)

'A Book of Christmas' illustration (c.1980)

Tasha and Linda November 29th, 1980 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
170 John Archibald AUSTEN (1886--1948)

Thoughtful Female Illustration

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
171 Esme EVE, ARCA (1920-2001)

Three Illustrations

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
172 Gordon Frederick BROWNE (1858-1932)

Illustration of Knights

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
173 Arthur HUGHES (1832-1915)

Choirboys Before a Church (1974)

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 250.40
  • 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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