Lyon and Turnbull: The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician, 878, Edinburgh
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | Weights and Measures, Coinage, Currency. Collection of works, 18th century |
London | 1727 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,890.00 | |
| 77 | Clarke, William | The Connexion of the Roman, Saxon, and English Coins |
London | 1767 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 239.40 |
| 78 | Agricola, Georgius | De mensuris et ponderibus Romanorum atque Graecorum lib v |
Basel | 1550 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 630.00 |
| 79 | Plato | Apanta ta sozomena |
[Geneva] | 1578 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
| 80 | Aristotle | Opera omnia quae extant |
Paris | 1619 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 882.00 |
| 81 | Strabo | Geographikon bibloi 17 |
Amsterdam | 1707 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 82 | Xenophon | Ta euriskomena |
Frankfurt | 1596 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 83 | Archimedes | Panta Sozomena |
Paris | 1615 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,386.00 |
| 84 | Cato, Marcus Porcius, & others | Libri de re rustica |
Paris | 1533 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 378.00 |
| 85 | Dioscorides | Tou anazarbeos ta sozomena hapanta |
[Frankfurt] | 1598 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 327.60 |
| 86 | Suidas | [Opera] nunc primum integer Latinitate donatus |
Geneva | 1619 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 327.60 |
| 87 | Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus | De architectura libri decem |
Lyon | 1552 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 88 | Stirling, James (1692-1770), his copies | Classical literature, a group of works from his library, 17th-18th century |
London | 1707 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 89 | [Justinian] 'In Quatuor Libro Institutionum Justiniani Annotationes Inchoates' |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 504.00 | |||
| 90 | Continental books. Collection of works, 17th-18th century |
Frankfurt | 1584 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 882.00 | |
| 91 | Greek historians. Collection of folio editions, 17th-18th century |
Amsterdam | 1763 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 693.00 | |
| 92 | Greek authors | Collection of folio editions, 17th-18th century |
Augsburg | 1607 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,071.00 |
| 93 | Greek and Latin authors | Collection of works, 17th-18th century |
Antwerp | 1591 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 630.00 |
| 94 | Classical literature. Collection of British editions of Greek and Latin authors, 17th-18th century |
London | 1704 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,772.00 | |
| 95 | Classical literature. Collection of works, continental imprints, 16th-18th century |
Paris | 1585 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 2,772.00 | |
| 96 | Plutarch | The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes |
London | 1579 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,780.00 |
| 97 | Stukeley, William | Stonehenge |
London | 1740 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 98 | Antiquarian literature. Collection of works, mainly 18th century |
London | 1733 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 756.00 | |
| 99 | British history. Collection of works, mainly 18th century |
Edinburgh | 1756 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 100 | Prideaux, Humphrey | Marmora Oxoniensia, ex Arundellianis, Seldenianis, aliisque conflata |
Oxford | 1676 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
