Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books & Works on Paper- Polperro: The works of Arthur Wragg & Frederick Roberts Johnson, 21324, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025

Page Size: 756 items in 31 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
222		(Cornwall) Nineteen good works J. Erskine Clarke (ed). 'Parish Magazine'...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 50.08
223	William Bentinck Forfar	The Wizard of West Penwith	Penzance	1871	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
224		(Cornwall) Seed catalogues...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 150.24
225		(Cornwall and WW2) A Remarkable Archive of WWII Letters...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 187.80
226		The Corporation of Trinity House The photographs of Commander C. E. K. Kendall-Carpenter			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 150.24
226A		The Corporation of Trinity House The Letters of Commander C. E. K. Kendall-Carpenter...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
226B		The Corporation of Trinity House Commander C. E. K. Kendall-Carpenter			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 500.80
227	Ithell Colquhoun	The Living Stones	London	[1957]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 87.64
228		Richard Polwhele Ten volumes...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
229	Fortescue Hitchins (compiler) and Samuel Drew of St Austell (ed).	(Cornwall) The History of Cornwall			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
230		(Cornwall, Barclay and Fox family interest) A Lady's travel journal France , Belgium and Germany, between September 17th-November 26th 1835			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 726.16
231		(Cornwall) A good collection of booklets and limp backs Gilbert H. Doble. 'Saint Feock'...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 125.20
232		(Cornwall) Fourteen good works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
233		(Cornwall and early photography)...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
234		Cornwall in its entirety...			GBP 400.00 - 800.00	GBP 375.60
235	A. L. Rowse Polmear	(Signed Typescript) Mine: Invocation to the House			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 50.08
236	Edwin Hadlow Wise Dunkin	The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
236A		St. Ives Etching Indistinctly signed ...?.... Munnings			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
237	Edward W. SHARLAND (1884-1967)	St Ives			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
238	Ivan Raby	(Signed and Inscribed) The Book of St Columb & St Mawgan	Buckingham	1979	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
239		(Cornwall) A scarce First edition Murray's guide and others...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 100.16
240		(St Mary's Church and Truro Cathedral) Rare engraving, medallion, and printed materials...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
241	Saxton (Christopher & Kip William)	(Cornwall) Cornwall olim pars Danmoniorum			GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 225.36
242	W. Hawk	(Cornwall) Agricultural Experiments in Cornwall...		[c.1920's]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 12.52
243	Thomas Kitchin (1718-84)	A New Improved Map of Cornwall from the Best Surveys and Intelligencies Divided into its Hundreds	London	1750	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold

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