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
1	Albert WAINWRIGHT (1898-1943)	The Procession of the Magi			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,252.00
2	Arthur Symons (ed) and Aubrey Beardsley illustrations	The Savoy	London	1896	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,064.20
3	Geoffrey C. Warren and Harry Clarke (illustrations)	Elixir of Life [Usige Beatha] Being a Slight Account of the Romantic Rise to Fame of a Great House	Dublin	1925	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,565.00
4	Harry Clarke illustrations	The History of a Great House....Containing some interesting observations	London	[c.1925]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 187.80
5	Johannes Poulsen and Kay Nielsen (designs)	Gennem de Fagre Riger	Copenhage	1916	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 87.64
6	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Kay Nielsen (illustrations)	Eventyret Das Marchen	Copenhagen	1949	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
7		Fire at the Tower of London Air.-The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve	Great St. Andrew Street	[c.1841]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 375.60
8	Henry Lemarie illustrations	Les Quinze joies de mariage	Paris	[1946]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 400.64
9	Carl Otto Czeschka (1878-1960) illustrations	Die Nibelungen. Dem deutschen Volke wiedererzahlt von Franz Keim	Vienna and Leipzig	[1909]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 563.40
10	Romer Wilson (ed) and Kay Nielsen (illustrations)	Red Magic. A Collection of the Worlds Best Fairy Tales from All Countries	London	1930	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 350.56
11		(Poetry) Ariel Poems Volumes One to Ten		1927	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 87.64
12	Albert Wainwright illustrations	Three works	[Leeds and London]	[1920]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 137.72
13		(Yorkshire Publishing and Poetry) Eight works	Leeds	1925	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 350.56
14	(Signed) Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869--1933)	Thirteen works	London	1901	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 75.12
15		(Dylan Thomas interest) Botteghe Oscure IX	Rome	1952	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 1,252.00
16		(Signed) Roald Dahl Danny The Champion of the World	London	1975	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 575.92
17		(Signed and Inscribed) Roald Dahl The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and six more	London	1977	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
18	THEOPHRASTUS. (ca 371-ca 287 B.C.)	De Historia Plantarum... [edited by] Joannes Bodaeus a Stapel...	Amstelodami	1644	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
19	John Locke	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	London	1731	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
20		[Ornament Design] Jugendstil Ornamentik der Gegenwart	Plauen	[c.1906]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 876.40
21	A. H. Mackmurdo	Wren's City Churches	London and Aylesbury	1883	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 250.40
22	A. A. Milne	(Signed) The Secret and Other Stories	New York; London	1929	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 600.96
23	J. Griffyth Fairfax and Lionel Lindsay illustrations	(Signed Presentation Edition) The Troubled Pool and Other Poems	London	1911	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 751.20
24		[Carr family of Frognal and Eshott Heugh, Felton, Co. Northumberland] An Early 19th Century Sketchbo			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 651.04
25		Carr family of Frognal and Eshott Heugh, Felton, Co. Northumberland An archive of family papers and indentures		1899	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 400.64

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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