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
269		Four works Smedley Norton. 'Bramcote Ballads'...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
270		(Signed and inscribed) Juan Mascaro Bhagavad-Gita. The Divine Song...	Cambridge	1943	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 12.52
271		Pevsner Thirty eight works			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 162.76
272	Reginald R. Sharpe (ed).	'Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688...'	Bristol	[c.1880]	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
273	[John Wesley]	'A Concise Ecclesiastical History, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century'	London	1806	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
274		(Maritime Illustrations) Eleven engravings...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 438.20
275	Richard Polwhele	Traditions and Recollections...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
276		(Erotica) Six works 'Avant Garde #8. Picasso's Erotic Gravures'...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
277		(Literature) A large collection of limp backs...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
278	HAMERTON, Philip George (editor)	The Portfolio	London	1881	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 137.72
279	HAMERTON, Philip George (editor)	The Portfolio			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.68
280	George & Weedon Grossmith	The Diary of a Nobody...	Leipzig	1892	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
281		Exploitation Campaign for "A Queen is Crowned" at the Oden Theatre, Southampton (ALS letter from Lord Mountbatten of Burma)...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
282		C. & J. Greenwood (Publishers) Six maps...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 125.20
283		(Maritime) Seventy five fine works...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 50.08
284	Thomas Kitchin (1719-1784)	(Early American Maps) Four maps form Dr. Robertson's 'History of America'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
285		Victorian and Edwardian decorative...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 100.16
286		(Americana) Government Printing Press, Washington Two fine works...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 56.34
287	Graham Swift	(Signed) A fine collection of ten works, seven of which are signed...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.16
288	Thomas Reide	A Treatise on the Duty of Infantry Officers and the Present System of British Military Discipline	London	1795	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
289		Twenty one various works J. Walker. 'A Rhyming Dictionary: Answering at the Same Time, the Purposes of Spelling and Pronouncing the English Language'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
290		(Bindings) Thomas Campbell (ed) Frederick the Great, His Court and Times...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 31.30
291	John Ruskin	(Bindings) Modern Painters			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
292		A good collection of maps Herman Moll. 'Devonshire'...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 112.68
293	Florence Harrison	Illustrations Christina Rosetti Poems	[London]	[1910]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR

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