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
395		(Maritime) Forty five good works...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 25.04
396	Adolphus H.	(Botany) Kent Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
397	Henry Shaw	A Handbook of the Art of Illuminations as Practiced During the Middle Ages With a Description of the Metals			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
398	C. Drury E. Fortnum	A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE BRONZES OF EUROPEAN ORIGIN IN THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM	London	-1876	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
399	Thomas Tooke	(Economics) A History of Prices and of the State of the Circulation, from 1793 to 1837	London	1838	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
400		The Golden Cockerel Press	London	-1926	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
401	Frederick R.	Hiorns Town-building in History		1956	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
402		Russian literature			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
403		Scarce booklets and reports Twenty one good works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
404		(Private Press) Three good works...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
405	Elting E. Morison, John M. Blum and John J. Buckley (editors)	(American History) The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt		1951	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
406		(Japanese arts and crafts) Preface by Sei Saito Yokogawa Collection: Chinese Ceramics in the Tokyo National Museum		-1982	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
407		(Private Press) THE OLD STILE PRESS: KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE By George Mackay Brown (1986) Old Stile Press...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 125.20
408		A diverse collection of books...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
409	Alwin Haagner and Robert H. Ivy	(South Africa) 'Sketches of South African Bird-Life...	Cape Town	1914	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 18.78
410		A 17th century Indenture An Exemplification of a common recovery suffered by Henry Carew of land in Dartford, Darenth, Stone and Swanscomb Kent, 12th February 1661		1661 A 17th century	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 375.60
411		The Great Seal of James I Licence to Sir Edward Heron to alienate land in Kent to Sir Oliver Boteles, 1st December 1609		1609	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 500.80
412		(Agricultural Experimentation and Botany) A good collection (Agricultural Experimentation and Botany) A good collection...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
413		(Railway and Steam) Six good works...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 150.24
414		(Private Press) Seven works...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
415		(Rural History and Economics) Forty good works...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
416		(Shipping Line Histories) A wonderful collection. Scarce works...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
417	Thomas Tredgold	The Steam Engine, It's Invention, and An Investigation of Its Principles for Navigation, Manufactures and Railways			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
418		Edward Lear illustrations Six works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 56.34
419		(Hunting) Six works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04

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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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