Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 868, Edinburgh

Auction Details

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
126 Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939) - signed

The Poems

London 1949 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,260.00
127 Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954-) - signed

The Remains of the Day

London 1989 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 504.00
128 Johns, Captain W. E.

Biggles Books The Cruise of the Condor

London [n.d.] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
129 Greene, Graham

12 works The Name of Action

London 1930 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 252.00
130 Waugh, Evelyn

9 books Vile Bodies

London 1930 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 277.20
131 Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) - signed

Unconditional Surrender The Conclusion of Men and Arms and Officers and Gentlemen

London 1961 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,638.00
132

A. & C. Black 93 polychrome bindings

GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 630.00
133

Folio Society 14 'deluxe' books in quarter leather

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 378.00
134

Private press and miscellaneous books Collection of works

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 529.20
135 Bronte, Charlotte, Emily and Anne

The Shakespeare Head Bronte: Novels

Oxford, Boston & New York 1931 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 604.80
136 Menpes, Mortimer and others

Signed deluxe illustrated volumes by A. & C. Black

London 1904 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
137 Edited by Robert Steele

Eragny Press Some Old French and English Ballads

London 1905 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 453.60
138 Chaucer, Geoffrey

Folio Society Chaucer & Shakespeare

[London] 2010 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 478.80
139 Finlay, Ian Hamilton

Hate for Hate - We've Dunnett Now

1962-06-01 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 378.00
140 Leighton, Clare

The Farmer's Year, a calendar of English husbandry

London 1933 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 315.00
141 Finlay, Ian Hamilton, and Julie Farthing

Colour silkscreens

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 504.00
142

Bindings Collection of works, poetry, literature, 19th-20th century

London 1905 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,008.00
143 Harte, Bret

The Writings of Bret Harte

Boston & New York [1896]-1914 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 529.20
144

Bindings Fine bindings and library sets

London 1819 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 302.40
145 Austen, Jane

The Novels

Boston 1900 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,016.00
146

Bindings Collection of biographies and histories, 19th-early 20th century

London 1911-12 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 579.60
147 Milton, John

Fine bindings A collection of 62 volumes

London 1847 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,890.00
148 Skelton, John

Bindings Collection of fine bindings, 19th-20th century

London 1893 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 945.00
149 [Restaurants and Food interest] [Grimod de La Reyniere, Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent]

Almanach des Gourmands

Paris 1810 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
150 Mackay, Angus

[Bagpipe music] A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd, or Highland Pipe Music

Edinburgh 1838 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 453.60
  • 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.