Auction Reports
Lyon and Turnbull
Auction Info
- Sale Name
- Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs
- Auction Date
- 10/11/2017 - 10/11/2017
- Year of Sale
- 2017
- Sale Number
- #501
- Total Lots
- 651
- Sold Lots
- 470
- Lots Sold
- 72.2%
- Unsold Lots
- 181
- Price Unknown
- 0
- Total Sales (GBP)
- 342,897.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 173,370.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 254,000.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 239,560.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 351,940.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 97.43%
- Currency
- GBP
- Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
- 489,794.00
Top twenty five by sale price
View All Auction Lots.| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 143 | R. Scott - Brook & Co., and others | Pattern & Decoration, 5 books | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 20,000.00 | |
| 641 | St. Helena, Persia, Islands in the E. Indies, Mauritius, Euphrates, Penang & Trincomalee (Sri Lanka) | c. 1815-17 |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | 16,250.00 | |
| 515 | Photographs - China, Japan, Egypt, Yemen, Germany, Austria & Italy | LATE 19TH CENTURY |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 11,875.00 | |
| 252 | Gentleman's Magazine - Sylvanus Urban | 1731-1844. |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 8,750.00 | |
| 149 | Strutt, Joseph - Fine Extra-Illustrated Work | A Biographical Dictionary containing an Historical Account of all the Engravers from the Earliest Period … to the Present Time | 1785 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 8,125.00 |
| 296 | Album Amicorum, 1581-1585 | 1581-1585 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 7,750.00 | |
| 519 | China, Photographs - Shanghai, Huangpu River, Moganshan, Hangzhou | AROUND 1900 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 6,875.00 | |
| 520 | China, 230 Photographs, 1910-1917 | 1910-1917 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 6,250.00 | |
| 518 | China, Photographs - Shanghai and the Xinhai Revolution | EARLY 20TH CENTURY |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 6,250.00 | |
| 488 | De Moivre, Abraham | The Doctrine of Chances, or a Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play. | 1718 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 5,250.00 |
| 43 | Bewick, Thomas | The Wild Bull... | 1789 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 4,750.00 |
| 10 | Plinius Secundus, Gaius | Historia naturalis. | 1483 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 4,750.00 |
| 206 | [Drummond de Melfort, Guy, Comte de] | [Traité sur La Cavalerie. | 1776 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 3,750.00 |
| 513 | Photographs - Beijing, Shanghai, Chongquing & Hangzhou | LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,750.00 | |
| 458 | Saudi Arabia: Photographs and Documents of Saudi Royalty and the King Khalid Military City | n.d. |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,500.00 | |
| 521 | China, 535 photographs, | c. 1919-41 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,500.00 | |
| 161 | Jaillot, Charles Hubert Alexis - Sanson d'Abbeville, Nicolas, and others | A collection of 16 maps from Jaillot's Atlas Nouveau | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 3,500.00 | |
| 457 | Saudi Arabia: King Saud's visit to the United States, 1957, a collection of photographs | 1957 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 3,000.00 | |
| 11 | Plutarch | Ta sôzomena syngrammata. | 1572 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,750.00 |
| 493 | Lagrange, Joseph Louis | Méchanique Analytique. | 1788 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 2,750.00 |
| 160 | India - Arrowsmith, Aaron | To Mark Wood Esq. | 1804 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,500.00 |
| 450 | Collection of 352 photographs of Aswan Dam Construction, Egypt & Sudan | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,250.00 | ||
| 14 | Stephanus Byzantinus | Peri poleon. | 1502 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 2,000.00 |
| 177 | Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. | 1998 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 2,000.00 |
| 138 | Bey, Max Herz | La Mosquée du Sultan Hassan au Caire. | 1899 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,875.00 |
