Lyon and Turnbull: The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician, 878, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 160 items in 7 pages
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
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    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.
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    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.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
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    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.
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