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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Suetonius Tranquillus (Caius) | The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, The First Emperors Of Rome |
London | 1693 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 375.60 |
| 26 | G. L. Faber | The Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish thereof |
London | 1883 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 112.68 |
| 27 | After Sydney Parkinson (Late 19th Century) | Two Early Botanical Copper Engravings |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 75.12 | ||
| 28 | Edward Shortland | (Maori Language) How to Learn Maori |
Aukland | 1883 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 100.16 |
| 29 | Thomas Andrew Knight | A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry |
Ludlow | 1802 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 200.32 |
| 30 | The Bronte Sisters Seven uniformly bound works |
London | 1900, 1904, 1905 and 1906 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 162.76 | |
| 31 | John le Carre | (Signed ) Seventeen fine works... |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 400.64 | ||
| 32 | John Le Carre | The Constant Gardener |
London | 2008 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,001.60 |
| 33 | John le Carre | Single & Single |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 87.64 | ||
| 34 | (Signed le Carre and Alec Guinness) Smiley's People |
London | 1980 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,064.20 | |
| 35 | John le Carre | (Signed ALS) 'The Constant Gardener' |
London | 2001 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 275.44 |
| 36 | John le Carre | (Signed) A fine collection of twenty works |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 563.40 | ||
| 37 | Francis Barrett | (Occult) The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer; being a complete system of occult philosophy |
Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, London | 1801 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 2,441.40 |
| 38 | (Occult) Seven scarce works W. Shaw Caldecott |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 175.28 | |||
| 39 | (Occult) John Dee a True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Years Between Dr. John Dee....and Some Spirits |
London | 1974 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 137.72 | |
| 40 | Henry Cornelius Agrippa | (Occult) Henry Cornelius Agrippa His Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy |
Chiswick | 1978 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 112.68 |
| 41 | Religious Tract Society (Publishers) |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 25.04 | |||
| 42 | Andrew Marvell | (Nonesuch Press) Andrew Marvell Miscellaneous Poems |
London | 1923 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 43.82 |
| 43 | Alexander Pope (trans) | (Homer and Nonesuch Press) The Illiad and Odyssey with Pope's translations from 1715 |
London | 1931 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 651.04 |
| 44 | (Nonesuch Press) The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes |
London | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 45 | (Mining) Fifteen very good works 'South African School of Mines and Technology |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 50.08 | |||
| 45A | John Richardson | (Mining) A Treatise on Sinking and Mining Engines |
Lincoln | [1884] | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 50.08 |
| 46 | (Presentation Copy) Robert Were Fox Observations on Mineral Veins... |
Falmouth | 1837 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 438.20 | |
| 47 | John Angove | (South African Diamond Mining) In the Early Days: The Reminiscences of Pioneer Life on the South African Diamond Fields |
Kimberley and Johannesburg | 1910 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 100.16 |
| 48 | (Mining) Forty eight works |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 100.16 |
