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
173	Elisha Coles	A Dictionary, English-Latin and Latin-English	London	1679	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 87.64
174	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 62.60
175	Dr (William)	Sherlock Four works bound in one volume...			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
176		A Sammelband of late 19th century religious tracts Including Leo XIII's...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
177	John Speed (1551/2--1629)	Five copper engraved maps...			GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 313.00
178	Eric Newby	The Last Grain Race		1956	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 31.30
179		A Large collection of maps Francois Arluc. 'Nouveau plan indicateur de Cannes et de ses environs'...			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 651.04
180		Victorian scrapbook and watercolours...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
181	C. & J. Greenwood	Two county maps...			GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 56.34
182		(Maritime Art) Eleven good works Alex A. Hurst. 'Thomas Somerscales'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
183	Kathleen A.	(Irish History) Browne Was Wexford Betrayed to Cromwell? The Truth...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
185	John Cary (1754--1835)	Fourteen maps...			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 275.44
186	Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan	(Doubly Signed) A Biography			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.68
187		(Folio Society) Sixteen works James Morris. 'Pax Britannica'...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34
188		Four early maps 'Typus Orbis Terrarum'...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 275.44
189		Etching by William James Smith after Rembrandt An Old Woman Seated in a Cottage...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.82
190		(Farming) Five good works John Curtis. ' Farm Insects: Being the Natural History and Economy of the Insects Injurious to the Field Crops of Great Britain and Ireland'...			GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 162.76
191	William Curtis	Practical Observations on the British Grasses Best Adapted to the Laying Down, or Improving of Meadows and Pastures...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
192	Robert Ritchie	The Farm Engineer: A Treatise on Barn Machinery, Particularly on the Application of Steam and Other Motive Powers to the Thrashing Machine...	Glasgow	1849	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.08
193		(Signed and inscribed) J. Allen Ransome The Implements of Agriculture...	London	1843	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 112.68
194	George Sinclair Hortus	Gramineus Woburnensis: Or, An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritibe Qualities of Different Grasses ad Other Plants...	London	1826	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
195	Andrew Gray	The Plough-Wright's Assistant	Edinburgh	1808	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 25.04
196		(Agriculture, Soils, Weeds and Pests etc) Forty eight good works...			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 100.16
197	John Speed & John Norden	(Essex) Essex devided into Hundreds with the most antient and fayre towne Colchester described and other memorable monuments observed		circa 1627	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 313.00
198	John Bunyan	The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come ...			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.34

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