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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Benito Pardo di Figueroa; S.C. Croze-Magna | An Analysis of the Picture of the Transfiguration of Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino |
London | 1817 | GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 250.40 |
| 50 | Hamzeh Carr Illustrations The Rubaiyat of Umar Khaiyam translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederic Baron Corvo |
London | 1924 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 50.08 | |
| 51 | Robert Lemon (compiler) and John Caley (ed) | (Parliament) Calendarium Rotulorum Chartarum et Inquisitionum ad Quod Damnum |
London | 1803 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 75.12 |
| 52 | Sebastian Munster | (Switzerland) Valesiae Altera et VII Nova Tabula |
[c.1550] | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.12 | |
| 53 | Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke and Una Ellis-Fermor (ed). | Greynog Press 'Caelica' |
1936 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 187.80 | |
| 54 | Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex |
London | 1901 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 100.16 |
| 54A | Charles Darwin | Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection |
London | 1882 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 200.32 |
| 55 | Savage Sword of Conan comics weekly |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 187.80 | |||
| 56 | Margaret Thatcher | (Signed) Statecraft. Strategies for a Changing World |
2002 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 212.84 | |
| 57 | Dr Edmond Halley (1656--1742) | A New and Correct Chart of the Channel between England & France |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 313.00 | ||
| 58 | A. A. Milne | Now We Are Six |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 112.68 | ||
| 59 | (Bindings) Three impresive bindings |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 137.72 | |||
| 60 | Militaria, Illuminated manuscript |
circa 1940 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 626.00 | ||
| 61 | Fridtjof Nansen | (Artic Exploration) The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-96, or "Farthest North" |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 87.64 | ||
| 62 | (Antarctic Exploration) Twenty good works... |
GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.12 | |||
| 63 | Leonard Huxley (ed) | (Antarctic Exploration) Scott's Last Expedition in Two Volumes |
London | 1914 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 175.28 |
| 64 | Ernest Shackleton | (Antarctic Exploration) The Heart of the Antarctic |
London | 1909 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 250.40 |
| 65 | Douglas Mawson | (Antarctic Exploration) The Home of the Blizzard |
London | 1915 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 275.44 |
| 66 | Julius L. Brenchley | (South Sea Islands) Jottings During The Cruise of HMS Curacoa Among the South Sea Islands in 1865 |
London | 1873 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 851.36 |
| 67 | Kiribati and Tuvalu Islands |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 600.96 | |||
| 68 | Charles Wilkes | (South Pacific Islands) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 |
1852 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 125.20 | |
| 69 | (Funafuti and the Gilbert Islands) Two scarce natural history reports Frederick Chapman |
Honolulu, Hawaii | 1953 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.60 | |
| 70 | George Turner | (Samoa) Samoa. A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before |
London | 1884 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 313.00 |
| 71 | Herman Melville | Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas... |
London | 1861 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 87.64 |
| 72 | (Colonialism, Missionary and the South Pacific Islands).. |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 275.44 |
