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
148		'Lives & Exploits of the most Celebrated Pirates and Their Crews By A Sea Captain	London and Derby	[c.1850]	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 125.20
149		The New Picture of Dublin or Stranger's Guide to the Irish Metropolis	Dublin	1835	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
150		(India) Emma Roberts Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan and Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society		1835	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.36
151	S.B. Krishnasawmy Iyengar	(India) Canarese Dialogues	Bangalore	1860	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.60
152	John Stow (1524/25--1605)	(London) Twenty copper engraved maps		[c.1755]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.36
153		Eighteenth Century Maps Seven Jan Jansson. 'Wiltonia sive comitatus Wiltoniensis Anglis Wilshire'...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 313.00
154		Richard Lawrence 'Inquiry Into the Structure & Animal Oeconomy of the Horse'			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 500.80
155		Andrew Lanyon Nine works...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 275.44
156		(Copper engraved map of Philadelphia) Urban Sylvanus The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle Volume for the Year MDCCLXXVII...	London	[1777]	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 175.28
157		(Modern Art) Six good works Elisabeth Sussman (ed). 'Eva Hesse'...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 150.24
158		(Modern Art) Six good works Karen Smith, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Bernard Fibicher...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.08
159		Matisse and Picasso Six works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.04
160		(Modern Art) Nine good exhibition catalogues...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
161		Henry Moore Seven works...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
162		(Modern Art) Six good large format worksDavid Anfam. 'Abstract Expressionism'...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.64
163		(Art interest) Forty four works 'L'Abecedaire de Jacques Gorde'...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
164		Robert Rosenblum Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art...	London	1963	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
165	ERIC GILL (1882-1940)	Wood engraved self portrait in profile			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
166	Benjamin Martin	Biographia Philosophica Being An Account of the Lives, Writings and Inventions of the Most Eminent Philosophers and Mathematicians	London	1764	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
167		Botanical Illustrations			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 200.32
168	Sir G. Mackenzie	Defence of the Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland & The Antiquity Of The Royal Line Of Scotland...			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 162.76
169	Louis Raemaekers	(Signed) The Great War in 1916	London	1917	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.12
170		Nine early maps George Bickham (Snr & Jnr). 'A Map of Glocester Shire'...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
171	E. Stone	A New Mathematical Dictionary	London	1726	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
172	Samuel Taylor	Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner		1945	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 112.68

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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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