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
73		(Pacific Islands) Twelve works Walter E. Traprock. 'The Cruise of the Kawa...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.12
74	William Gill	Gems from the Coral Islands			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 187.80
75	John Williams	(South Sea Islands) Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands	London	1838	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 200.32
76		(The Fijian Islands) Ten good works Agnes Gardner King. 'Islands Far Away...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 137.72
77		(Kiribati and Tuvalu) Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 100.16
78		(Kiribati and Tuvalu Islands; Or, Gilbert and Ellis Islands)...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
79		(South Pacific Islands) Twelve good works Austin Coates. 'Western Pacific Islands'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
80		(The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony) Various authors Atoll Economy: Social Change in Kiribati and Tuvalu	Canberra, Australia and in Miami, Florida, USA	1982-1984	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
81	Captain E. V. Ward	(The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony) 'Sailing Directions. Navigation in and between the Atolls of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony'	Tarawa	1967	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 75.12
82		(Pacific Islands) Eleven good works Alfred St. Johnston. 'Camping Among Cannibals'...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 187.80
83		(South Pacific Islands) Twelve good works Frederick O'Brien. 'Mystic Isles of the South Seas'...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 187.80
84		(South Pacific Islands) Twenty six works H. E. Maude. 'Of Islands and Men. Studies in Pacific History'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
85		A Tuvaluan (Ellice Islands) fish hook...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 56.34
86		A South Pacific Island shark vertebrae and cowrie shell necklace...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
87		Gilbertese/Kiribati shark tooth and woven fibre hand guard			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.08
88		(Gilbert and Ellice Islands) Kiribati and Tuvalu			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.56
89		Kiribatian and Tuvaluan Nineteen scarce works Donald Gilbert Kennedy. 'Te Ngangana A Te Tuvalu...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 250.40
90		(South Pacific Islands) Ten illustrated works...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 18.78
91	Gerd Koch (1922--2005)	Fourteen publications...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 18.78
92		(Pacific Islands) Eight good works George Cousins. 'The Story of the South Seas...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 75.12
93		(Tuvalu and Kiribati) Thirty scarce publications mostly on and about the Ellice Islands and Gilbert Islands			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 137.72
94		(Polynesia and the South Islands) Fourteen works William Ellis. 'Polynesian Researches...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
95		Robert Louis and Mrs M. I. Stevenson Twelve works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
96		(South Pacific Islands) Fourty one works Arthur Grimble. 'Migrations, Myth and Magic from The Gilbert Islands...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 75.12
97		(Gilbert and Ellice Islands) Tuvalu and Kiribati A large collection of reports...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 187.80

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