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
370		Quentin Bell and V. Sackville-West...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
371		(Lancashire Dialect) W. E. Clegg publishers...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
372	Jonathan Swift	A Tale of Tub...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
373	L'Iliade D'Homere	Madame Dacier (Trans) Traduite en Francaise	Paris	1817	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
374		(Medicine) Three works...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
375		(Folio Society) Eighteen works...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 275.44
376	Timothy Cole after Gainsborough, Hogarth	Cotman, Wilke, Opie &c. &c. A complete run of signed etchings	New York	1902	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
377		(Bibliography and book dealing) Two works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
378		(Limited edition) The Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson	London	1913	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
379		Charles Simpson Fifteen works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
380		(Exeter) Four works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
381	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
382		(Ornithology) Naturalists Library Vols I and II, Ornithology	Edinburgh	1833	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 150.24
383		Hardman & Co A Stained glass window plan, for St Andrews Muswell Hill Lady Chapel			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
384	W.F.P. Napier	History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814	London	1828 and 1929	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
385		The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part the Confession of the New Married Couple	London	-1903	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 37.56
386		(Ecclestrial Architecture) Five works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
387	Thomas Sharp	(Coventry Folklore) A Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry	Coventry	1815	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
388	Charles Bullock (ed)	(Victoriana) Hand and Heart	London	1878-1879	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
389		(Folio Society) Twenty four works			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 100.16
390	Jack Kerouac	Lonesome Traveller	London	1962	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 50.08
391		(Paper Manufacturing, Typography and the Book trade) Eight works			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 43.82
392		The Austen Motor Company Three scarce advertisements...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 187.80
393		(Folklore) Katharine M. Briggs A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.72
394		(Watermills and Millwrights) Eighteen works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 125.20

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

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