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
174 Rene BULL (1872-1942)

Fish Illustration

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 31.30
175 Edward ARDIZZONE (1900-1979)

King and Jester

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 313.00
176 Herbert RAILTON (1857-1910)

Twelve Pen and Ink Ecclesiastical or Stately Home Studies

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 375.60
177 J. E. DARBY (XIX)

Two Coastal Maritime Scenes

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
178 Commelin (Jan & Caspar)

Botanical engraving from Horti Medici Amstelodamensis

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 43.82
179 Faith JAQUES (1923-1997)

Four Illustrations

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 87.64
180 Mr Ceaser Daly

'Motifs Historiques'

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
181

A Naive Mid-Century Cornwall Map

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 25.04
182

Concert and Recital Posters Five

Friday 7 June 1974 at 7.30 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
183

Art Exhibition Posters Eleven

16 July-10 August 1974 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
184

London Bus Routes Two posters

[mid 1970s] GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
185

Visitor's London Two road maps with index to places of interest

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
186

London Transport Six posters

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
187

Advertising Posters Six

[c.1974] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
188

(Film)

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
189

Anne Heywood in The Nun and the Devil British Quad Poster

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
190

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Veduta Dell'anfiteatro Flavio Detto il Colosseo" - Aerial view of the Colosseum

1776 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 375.60
191 Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)

[A Peony]

[c.1663] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 400.64
192

(Signed) Sir Pertab Singh Albumen print

[c.1920] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 237.88
193 Luigi Rossini (1790-1857)

Two etchings

Roma 1823 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 62.60
194 C. & J. Greenwood

Map of the County of Cornwall, from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1826 & 1827

London 1829 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 31.30
195 (Charles I)

Manuscript Receipt for the Royal Chamber, 1640-41

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 688.60
196

Australasia Interest Fourteen Maps

c.1860 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
197 Thomas Kitchin (1718-84)

An Accurate Map of the County Palatine of Durham

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 18.78
198 Emmanuel Bowen (1694-1767)

An accurate map of the Counties of Gloucester and Monmouth

1760 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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