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
199 Emanuel Bowen (1694-1767)

An Accurate Map of the County of York Divided into its Ridings and Subdivided into Wapontakes

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
200 Johannes Blaeu (1596-1673)

Radnoria Comitatus Radnor Shire

17th century GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 62.60
201

Robert de Vaugondy family and Nicholas Sanson Britannicae Insulae

c.1750 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
202

Suffolk Interest Ten Maps

Ten 19th Century GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
203 Robert Morden (1650-1703)

Westmorland & Cumberland

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
204 Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703--1772)

Jaffenapatam, Sri Lanka

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
205 Robert Morden (1650-1703)

'Suffolk' & 'Norfolk'

Norfolk an 18th century GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 100.16
206

(Ireland) Stafford's Pacata Hibernia 1810 restrike of the 1633 copper plates

19th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.24
207 John Lodge

Twenty-Three English County Maps

1795 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
208

Westmorland & Cumberland Four Maps

Cumberland, Glasgow c.1840 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
209 John Cary (1754-1835)

Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmoreland & Cumberland

c.1800 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
210

Sudlow after Heywood Cheshire, Cumberland (and Westmoreland), and Lancashire

1789 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 62.60
211

Persia Interest Ten Map Engravings

1911 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 100.16
212

Matthaus Merian Vienna

[c.1640] GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
213

John Speed Northumberland

Northumberland [c.1610] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 200.32
214

(Chester) Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg Cestria (vulgo) Chester Angliae Civitas

[c.1581] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
215 Thomas Taylor

(Plymouth) A Prospect of Plymouth & ye Sound.....

circa 1707 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 75.12
216 after Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941)

Five gig rowers

[c.1880] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
217

An early 19th century calligraphy exercise book John Dette (or Deke), Dec 3rd 1833

1833 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
218

(Cornwall) Mr Nicholls's Decree against Daniel Hawkey, '...and others, to compel them to grind their Grist at his Mills called Tolcarn Mills'

[c.1880] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 50.08
219

Essex Interior Church Drawings

c.1823 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
220 Gabriel Walser (1695--1776)

(Switzerland)

Nuremberg (Norimbergae) c.1768 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 375.60
221 G. Mercator and J. Hondius

(Ireland) Udrone, Irlandiae in Catherlagh Baronia

[Amsterdam] [c.1610] GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 162.76
222

In the Paddock, Newmarket, 1885

[c.1885] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 31.30
223

(Photography) Early 20th-Century Travel and Military Albums, c.1910s

c.1910s GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 500.80
  • 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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