Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 868, Edinburgh

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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 02, 2025 - October 02, 2025
Page Size: 197 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76

Civil engineering - Sir William Arrol & Co. Ltd Company photographic archive of the construction of the Forth Road Bridge

c.1960 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 630.00
77 Tanqueray, Paul

Standing woman untitled fashion photograph depicting a standing woman wearing a black coat and hat with veil

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
78 Speed, John

The Province of Ulster

London [1676] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
79 Speed, John

The Countie of Leinster

London [1676] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 504.00
80 Speed, John

The Province of Mounster

London [1676] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 378.00
81 Speed, John

The Province of Connaugh

London [1676] GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 277.20
82

Maps of Ireland 5 framed and double glazed maps

[Amsterdam] [c.1610] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
83 De Wit, Frederik

Edinburgh - The plan of Edenburgh exactly done from the original of ye famous D. Wit

[London] [1797] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
84 Dighton, Robert

Geography bewitched! or, a droll Caricature Map of England and Wales

London [c.1795] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 403.20
85 Speed, John

Cambridgshire described with the Devision of the Hundreds, the Townes Situation, with the Armes of the Colleges of that Famous Universiti

London 1610 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 352.80
86 [Slezer, John] - Edinburgh Panorama

The North Prospect of the City of Edenburgh

[London] [c.1718] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,134.00
87 Macgill, W. (publisher) - Edinburgh Panorama

Edinburgh and the Surrounding Country as seen from the Calton Hill (365 feet above Sea Level)

Edinburgh [c.1840] GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 882.00
88 Gozer, Edward (engraver)

Protestant Missionary Map of the World

London 1846 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 756.00
89 De Wit, Frederik

A Plan of Edenburgh Exactly Done

Exeter [n.d. but early 18th century] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 478.80
90 Braun, Georg and Franz Hogenberg

Edenburgum, Scotiae Metropolis

Cologne c.1600 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
91 De Wit, Frederik

A Plan of Edenburgh Exactly Done

Exeter [n.d. but early 18th century] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 604.80
92 Moll, Herman

The North Part of Great Britain called Scotland

London [c.1714] GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 554.40
93 Leith Walk

Edinburgh - Late 18th century etching with aquatint Scottish school

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 756.00
94 Speed, John - Ireland

The Kingdome of Irland

London c.1676 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 882.00
95 [Court van der Voort, Pieter de la]

Les Agremens de la campagne ou remarques particulieres sur la construction des maisons de campagne plus ou moins magnifique

Leiden / Amsterdam 1750 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 302.40
96 Eyre-Todd, George (editor)

Glasgow style A large collection of bindings designed by Talwin Morris, and others

Glasgow 1898 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 302.40
97 Petit, Victor

Maisons de la Campagne des Environs de Paris

Paris [n.d.] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
98

[French theatrical costume] Galerie theatrale

Paris 1873 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 756.00
99 Giustiniani, Vincenzo

Galleria Giustiniana

Rome [1631-7] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
100 Sorine, Saveli Abramovic

Portraits Avant-propos par Andre Salmon

Berlin 1929 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,008.00
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.