Rare Books & Works on Paper- Polperro: The works of Arthur Wragg & Frederick Roberts Johnson

Lot 1 - J. M. Barrie Peter and Wendy

Sold for £190

Lot 2 - (Australian Horse Racing) Victoria Racing Club 1900. Spring Meeting Official Programme. Steeplechase Day

Sold for £140

Lot 3 - Owen Simmons Book of Bread

Sold for £300

Lot 4 - H. C. Elphinstone & Harry D. Jones, W. Edmund M. Reilly Siege of Sebastopol, 1854-5, Journal of the Operations Conducted by the Corps of Royal Engineers

Sold for £190

Lot 5 - (Le Morte d'Arthur) [Sir Thomas Malory] The History of the Renowned Prince Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Sold for £130

Lot 6 - (London Wonderground Map) MacDonald Gill London The Heart of Britain's Empire Here Is Spread Out For Your View

Sold for £650

Lot 7 - (The Great Exhibition) Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue

Sold for £600

Lot 8 - (Botany) Josephus Gaertner De fructibus et seminibus plantarum

Sold for £350

Lot 9 - John Rocque (1704–1762) Plan de la ville et faubourgs d' Exeter ...,

Sold for £400

Lot 10 - (Economics) David Davies The Case of Labourers in Husbandry Stated and Considered.....

Sold for £300

Lot 11 - (Signed and Inscribed) Bernard Leach

Sold for £300

Lot 11A - (Signed) Bernard Leach Drawings, Verse & Belief

Sold for £60

Lot 12 - John Speed (1551/2–1629) Nine maps, seven of which are rare copies published by Roger Rea

Sold for £200

Lot 13 - (Early Printed Leaf) Antiphonal

Sold for £70

Lot 14 - (Devon) Benjamin Donn A Map of the County of Devon, with the City of Exeter

Sold for £200

Lot 15 - Emile Boilvin after Edward Coley BURNE-JONES (1833-1898) Vespertina Quies

Sold for £720

Lot 16 - (Early Prague Printing) Jiří Melantrich of Aventino Thirteen woodcut illustrations by the German Florian Abel and the Italian Francesco Terzio

Sold for £40

Lot 17 - (Bindings) Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Sold for £200

Lot 18 - Samuel Clarke Generall Martyrologie, Containing a Collection Of All the greatest Persecutions which have befallen the Church of Christ from the Creation to our present times.

Sold for £850

Lot 19 - (Signed) Ian Rankin Knots and Crosses

Sold for £190

Lot 20 - (Signed) Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Robert Graves, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender &c. &c Christopher Hampton (ed). 'Poems For Shakespeare,' volumes one and two.

Sold for £680

Lot 21 - Josiah Wedgwood A Letter to a Respectable Proprietor of the Navigation from The Trent to The Mersey

Sold for £2,200

Lot 22 - (Canals, Pottery and the Industrial Revolution) An important archive concerning the expansion of Canals, circa 1790

Sold for £1,200

Lot 23 - Sun Fire Office Three ephemeral items

Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 24 - (United States of America) MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, etc....

Sold for £380

Lot 25 - Suetonius Tranquillus (Caius) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, The First Emperors Of Rome

Sold for £300

Lot 26 - G. L. Faber The Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish thereof. A Report of the Austro-Hungarian Sea-Fisheries.....

Sold for £90

Lot 27 - After Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) Two proofs or spare prints made for the 1967 publication, (the misnamed) “Captain Cook’s Florilegium” by The Lion and Unicorn Press.

Sold for £60

Lot 28 - (Māori Language) Edward Shortland How to Learn Maori. A Short Treatise on the Structure and Idiom of the Language

Sold for £80

Lot 29 - Thomas Andrew Knight A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry

Sold for £160

Lot 30 - The Bronte Sisters Seven uniformly bound works.

Sold for £130

Lot 31 - (Signed ) John le Carre Seventeen fine works, mostly first editions and many signed

Sold for £320

Lot 32 - John Le Carre The Constant Gardener Trust Edition

Sold for £800

Lot 33 - John le Carre Single & Single

Sold for £70

Lot 34 - (Signed le Carre and Alec Guinness) Smiley's People

Sold for £850

Lot 35 - (Signed ALS) John le Carre 'The Constant Gardener,'

Sold for £220

Lot 36 - (Signed) John le Carre A fine collection of twenty works.

Sold for £450

Lot 37 - (Occult) Francis Barrett The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer; being a complete system of occult philosophy.

Sold for £1,900

Lot 38 - (Occult) Seven scarce works

Sold for £140

Lot 39 - (Occult) John Dee a True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Years Between Dr. John Dee....and Some Spirits:

Sold for £110

Lot 40 - (Occult) Henry Cornelius Agrippa His Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy. Of Geomancy. Magical Elements of Peter de Abano. Astronomical Geomancy. the Nature of Spirits. Arbatel of Magick.

Sold for £90

Lot 41 - Religious Tract Society (Publishers) Four works from the 'By-paths of Bible Knowledge' series

Sold for £20

Lot 42 - (Nonesuch Press) Andrew Marvell Miscellaneous Poems

Sold for £35

Lot 43 - (Homer and Nonesuch Press) Alexander Pope (trans) The Illiad and Odyssey with Pope's translations from 1715

Sold for £520

Lot 44 - (Nonesuch Press) The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea

Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 45 - (Mining) Fifteen very good works

Sold for £40

Lot 45A - (Mining) John Richardson A Treatise on Sinking and Mining Engines

Sold for £40

Lot 46 - (Presentation Copy) Robert Were Fox Observations on Mineral Veins

Sold for £350