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Lay's Auctioneers: Life & Art at The Flower Loft, Trereife: The Exquisite Home of Jeremy & Lyn Le Grice

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Auction Name	Life & Art at The Flower Loft, Trereife: The Exquisite Home of Jeremy & Lyn Le Grice	Total Sales (GBP)	21,425.00
Auction Date	July 17, 2025 - July 18, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	5,850.00
Sale Number	#71725	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	10,670.00
Total Lots	55
Sold Lots	55	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	5,850.00
% of Lots Sold	100.00%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	10,670.00
Unsold Lots	0	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	200.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
387		A fold-out chapbook Harlequin's Habeas printed by Lindsay, 47 Portpool Lane, 1803 and an 1830s volume from the Nursery Library		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 4,250.00
451		A Georges Braque Poster - Oeuvre Graphique Bibliotheque Nationale, 1960		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 2,250.00
393	T. S. Surr.	'Christ's Hospital, A Poem,'	1797	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 1,125.00
263	Pablo Picasso	Le Vieux Roi,6/1/59 lithograph, signed in the print.		GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,062.50
396		Three 18th Century Printing Proposals		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 875.00
384		Vogue Two bound volumes covering July 1936-June 1937	1936-1937	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 650.00
381	Georges and Suzanne Ramie	CERAMIQUES DE PICASSO		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 625.00
325	Henri MATISSE (1869-1954)	The Dancer (1949)		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 625.00
385	Samuel Bourne and others	A half-calf album of photographs including 20 signed Bourne and numbered, these include Kashmir, Srinagar, Delhi and Lucknow. 9 signed by J. E. Sache. Approximately 47 images, typically 23x29cm and some a little smaller. The back of the album filled most		GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 600.00
398		A small collection of ephemera Including an 18th century newspaper, receipt, auction sale catalogue, Rev. C. V. Le Grice. 'Letters Published Under the Signature of "Civis"....On Church Subjects,' printed card wraps, printed paper wraps, string bound, pp.		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 600.00
113	Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)	Self Portrait "Frowning" on laid paper		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 600.00
391		By Authority of the King's Royal Letters Patent, The Following Medicines, Sold Wholesale and Retail at Dr.Bateman's Original Warehouse		GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 562.50
112	Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)	Self portrait "with open mouth" on laid paper		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 562.50
382		Art, Gardening, Interiors and Architecture A large collection of books on ten shelves		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 525.00
394	(John Hill)	Proposals For Printin, in Weekly Numbers, British Herbal: Containing a Compleat History of the Plants and Trees Which Are Natives to Great Britain....	1755	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 525.00
395	(Sacheverell Stevens)	Printing Proposal for Subscribers Miscellaneous Remarks made on the Spot, in a late Seven Years Tour through France, Italy, Germany and Holland...,		GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 525.00
110	Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)	Self Portrait "in a fur cap" on laid paper with watermark		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 475.00
111	Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669)	Self portrait with "Bushy Hair" on laid paper		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 400.00
379	Andrew Lanyon	Books by Andrew Lanyon, early Peter Lanyon Catalogues and related material		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 350.00
364		Books A large collection		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 312.50
373	Toby Treves	Peter Lanyon Catalogue Raisonne	2018	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 312.50
327	Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)	Francoise		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 312.50
326	Henri MATISSE (1869-1954)	Tete de Femme (1935)		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 275.00
362		Penguin paperbacks Over a hundred titles		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 237.50
388		Articles of Inquiry - Archdeaconry of Cornwall		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 212.50

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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