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
244	R. A. Courtney	(Cornwall) A Passel of Ould Traade	Penzance	1909	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
245	William Borlase	The Natural History of Cornwall	Oxford	1758	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 688.60
246	John Angarrack	(Cornish Nationalism) Three works (six books)...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 62.60
247		(Cornwall) T. L. Stoate. 'Cornwall Manorial Rentals and Surveys'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
248		(Cornwall) Four works [REDDING, Cyrus]. 'An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Cornwall'...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 62.60
249	John Osborne	The Entertainer...		1957	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
250		Ferdinand Dupre Orthodox Or Allopathic Medicine: What Is It?	London	1867	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
251	Henry VIII	State Papers Published Under Authority of His Majesty's Commission	London	1830	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
252	Matthew Henry	(The Bible) An Exposition of the Old and New Testament	London	1856	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
253	William Pearson	Select Views of the Antiquities of Shropshire, with a Descriptive Account of Each Building	London	[c.1807]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
254		(Indian Ocean and Africa) Jacues-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772)...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
255		(Shipbuilding) Mungo Murray...		[1754]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
256	Johannes Blaeu (1596-1673)	'Insula Sacra vulgo Holy Island et Farne'		1650	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
257		Eighteenth Century Maps Eleven Thomas Kitchen. 'A Map of the Western Part of the Roman Empire'...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 112.68
258		Two works Lt-Gen McLeod Innes VC. 'The Sepoy Revolt'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
259		(Mining) Four works William Whitburn. 'Tables for the Use of Persons Employed in Tin Mines from the Managing Agent and Clerk, to the Working Tributor and Tut-Workman'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.20
260		(Sepulchral Monuments) Three good works John Sell Cotman. 'Engravings of the most remarkable of the sepulchral brasses in Norfolk...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 75.12
261		Jeffery Farnol Works of...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
262		Ernest H. Shepard Illustrations Six works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 150.24
263		(Poetry and Verse) Ten good works...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
264		(India and Philately) Four works Jal Cooper. 'India Used in Burma'...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 112.68
265		(Comics and Graphic Art) A fine collection of twenty works...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 62.60
266	George Don	(Botany) A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants	London	1831, 1832, 1834 and 1838	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
267		(Signed) Gregorio Prieto Illustrations Six works...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 50.08
268	Peter Kalm	Travels Into North America			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04

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