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
294		(Husbandry, Cattle, Dairy Farming) A fine collection of works...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 212.84
295	Samuel Curtis and Clara Maria	(Botany Illustrations) Pope Monograph on the Genus Camellia	Ipswich	n.d.	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 87.64
296		The Gloucester Corporation, Guild Hall, Gloucester Large ledger of invoices, tenders, quotes etc.		1927 to 1930	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 18.78
297	Charles and KEMPE	STOTHARD, Alfred John Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain		1817-32	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
298		(Battleships) Four works Fred T. Jane. Fighting Ships'...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
299	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 187.80
300	John Dryden (trans)	The Works of Virgil	London	1790	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
301	Graham Green	The Confidential Agent...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
302		The Works of William Shakspere Knights Cabinet Edition	London	1851	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
303	F. W. Bain (trans)	(Hindoo Folklore) Four good works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 50.08
304		Seven works Herbert Cescinsky. 'English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
305	M. Morison (compiler)	Time Table of Modern History A.D. 400-1870	London	1908	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 12.52
306		Laura Knight Oil Paint and Grease Paint	London	1941	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
307		A Society of Literary Gentlemen A Complete and Impartial History of the Rise, Progress, & Termination of the Late War, which commenced in the year 1791	Newcastle upon Tyne	1802	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.36
308		(Christianity and Morality) Three works Christopher C. Sturm and Adam Clarke (trans)...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
309		(Ornithology) British Birds Journal A complete run from 1997 to 2017...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
310		The New Naturalist Monographs Twenty works...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 212.84
311	Stanley Camps (ed)	(Ornithology) Handbook of the Birds of Europe and the Middle East and North Africa		1977-1994	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
312		(Ornithology) T & a D Poyser publishers Forty one works...			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 187.80
313		(Ornithology) H. F. & G. Witherby publishers British Birds			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
314		(Ornithology) David A. Bannerman and George E. Lodge illustrations The Birds of the British Isles		1953-63	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
315		(Ornithology) Sixteen works Derek Goodwin...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
316		(Ornithology) Christopher Helm publishers Fourteen works...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
317		(Ornithology) Eighteen fine works Roger Penhallurick. 'Birds of the Cornish Coast'...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 62.60
318		(Ornithology) Twenty four good works Peter Scott. 'Wild Geese and Eskimos'...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04

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