Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books & Works on Paper- Polperro: The works of Arthur Wragg & Frederick Roberts Johnson, 21324, Cornwall

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
199 Mark Twain

(Clemens Samuel Langhorne) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...

London 1884 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 200.32
200 William Borlase

(Cornwall) 'Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall'

London 1769 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 400.64
201 Robert Heath

(Islands of Scilly) A Natural and Historical Account of the Islands of Scilly

London 1750 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 375.60
201A

(Isles of Scilly) A good collection of seventy three glass lantern slides

GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
202

(Falmouth) Shelley's Green Bank Hotel...

London [n.d, between 1813-1888]] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 250.40
203 Deny Val Baker (ed)

The Cornish Review

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
204 Richard Blome (1621-1705)

A Mapp of the County of Cornwall, with its Hundreds

[London] [1673] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.20
205

(Cornwall) A fine collection of (mostly) scarce maps...

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 726.16
206

(Cornwall) Thirteen maps John Wilkes and Samuel Neele. 'Cornwall'...

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 137.72
207

(Cornwall) Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Vivian...

Exeter 1887 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 112.68
208 Thomas Dix & William Darton

(Cornwall) A New Map of the County of Cornwall divided into Hundred

London 1821 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 200.32
209

(Cornwall) Thirteen loose leaves 'Penryn (from the Old Helston Road)'...

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 187.80
210 John Michell

(Signed) The Old Stones of Lan's End...

[Port Eliot] 1973 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 275.44
211

(Penzance) Photochrom Co. Ltd Five photo chromolithograph souvenir albums...

Zurich [c.1890] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
212 Thomas Kitchin (1718-84)

(Cornwall) A New Improved Map of Cornwall from the Best Surveys and Intelligencies Divided into its Hundreds'...

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 438.20
213

(Cornwall) Eleven limpbacks...

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 62.60
214

(Cornwall) C. &. J. Greenwood Map of the County of Cornwall, from an Actual Survey made in the Years 1826 & 1827...

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 56.34
215

(Cornwall) F. Rodda & Son Publishers Rodda's "One & All" Almanck's...

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
216 John Harrison and Edward Sudlow

(Cornwall) A Map of Cornwall Engraved From An Actual Survey

London [c.1847] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.20
217

(Penzance) Eight ephemeral publications...

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 100.16
218 Jan Jansson (1588-1664)

(Cornwall) Cornubia sive Cornwallia...

Amsterdam c.1646 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 438.20
219

(Penzance) Ephemeral works...

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.16
220 Cornwall and Mebyon Kernow

Fifty one various issues...

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 150.24
220A Joseph FARINGTON (1747-1821)

View of St Ives

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
221 H. Spencer Toy

(Cornwall) The Cornish Pocket Borough

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.64
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