Lay's Auctioneers: The Timed Art Sale - Including the Exceptional Ornithological Paintings of Valentine Paton, 9454, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 16, 2025 - November 16, 2025
Page Size: 46 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
9 Ben CARRIVICK (1980)

Cat

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
13 Graham CLARKE (1941)

Mullion Cove

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 81.38
20a Mel Gooding Terry Frost

Mel Gooding Terry Frost: Act & Image - Works on paper through six decades

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 75.12
40a

Three Publications

1997; 1996; 2010. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 50.08
44 Donald WILKINSON (1937)

Spring Window & Summer Window

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 81.38
46 Adrienne PEVERALL (XX-XXI, St Ives Society of Artists)

Looking For Shade

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
53 Quentin BLAKE (1932)

U is for Umbrella to keep off the rain

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 212.84
60a

W. Barns-Graham - a Studio Life

2001 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 18.78
65 Michael FRITH (1951)

Two Works

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
71 Elizabeth HUNTER (1935)

Six Etchings

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 25.04
74 After Quentin BLAKE (1932)

Matilda - Am I A Phenomenon?

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 150.24
79 Douglas HOFMANN (1945)

Interlude

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 81.38
80a Terry Frost

Terry Frost Four Publications

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 50.08
86 Ian DUNLOP (1945)

Sailing Boat With Dolphins

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.52
95 Elizabeth HUNTER (1935)

Two Monoprints

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
100A

Porthmeor Printmakers Six Etchings

1994 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.56
100 Vladimir Griegorov TRETCHIKOFF (1913-2006)

Lady of Ndebele

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 488.28
110 Karen Jane KESSI-WILLIAMS (1970)

Painter Holding Palette

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
113 Eric MORSE (1944)

Self and The Immensity

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
118 After Charles Napier HEMY

The Black Flag

Bristol, England 1919 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.52
126 Karen Jane KESSI-WILLIAMS (1970)

Painter Standing

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
133 Sir Grayson Perry CBE, RA (1960)

Lockdown

1950 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 87.64
134 Alfred Edward WARNER (1879-1968)

Stock Route

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 50.08
140 Eric MORSE (1944)

Window To The Other Place

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
141 Conor FALLON (1939-2007)

Figure Study (c.1973)

c.1973 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.64
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    December 15, 2025
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