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
151 Burns, Robert

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

Edinburgh 1787 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,764.00
152 Burns, Robert

Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

Edinburgh 1787 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 579.60
153 Thackeray, William Makepeace - with inscribed illustration

Vanity Fair

London 1849 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,386.00
154 Surtees, R. S.

The Novels

London 1929 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 252.00
155 [Swift, Jonathan]

Travels into several Remote Nations of the World

London 1726 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
156 Scrope, William

Bindings Collection of books including field sports and literature, 19th-20th century

London 1838-43 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 403.20
157 Boswell, James

General literature Collection of works including fine bindings

London 1900 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,134.00
158 [Boece, Hector]

[Heir Beginnis the Hystory and Croniklis of Scotland]

[Edinburgh] [1540] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 4,032.00
159 Ammianus Marcellinus

The Roman Historie

London 1609 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 504.00
160

Law, crime and punishment Collection of pamphlets, including acts of parliament, 17th-18th century

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 352.80
161 Howard, John

Law, crime and punishment Collection of works, mainly 18th century

Warrington 1789 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,134.00
162

Law, crime and punishment Collection of pamphlets, including accounts of murder trials, 18th-19th century

Bristol 1835 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,638.00
163

Law, crime and punishment Large collection of works, mainly 19th and early-20th century

London c.1780 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
164 Cujas, Jacques

Opera Omnia

Naples 1722-1727 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
165

Law, A Collection [Justinian] Corpus Juris Civilis

Amsterdam 1663 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 504.00
166 Sir Winston Spencer

Churchill, The River War An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

London 1899 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 756.00
167 Ruxner, Georg

Thurnier Buch

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,260.00
168

English Civil War A Fight at Sea between the Parliament Ships and those that Revolted and the Boarding of some of the Parliament Ships

London 1648 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 529.20
169 Vegetius Renatus, Flavius

De Re Militari, Libri Quatuor

Lyon 1592 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 277.20
170 Gaya, Louis de

The Art of War

London 1678 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
171

Plan of the New Constitution for America in The Scots Magazine volume XLIX and The Gentleman's Magazine volume LVII

Edinburgh 1787 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 403.20
172 Gordon, Sir James Willoughby

Military Transactions of the British Empire

[London] 1808 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
173 Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland

Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie

1648 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
174 Locke, John

An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding

London 1696 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 554.40
175

Antiphonary Antiphonarium juxta breviarum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
  • 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.