Lyon and Turnbull: Islamic and Indian Art, 873, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025

Page Size: 73 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
48	AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: POSSIBLY KAMOD RAGINI	INDIA - PROVINCIAL MUGHAL	CIRCA 1760	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 2,794.00
49	AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: BILAVAL RAGINI	INDIA - PROVINCIAL MUGHAL	CIRCA 1780	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,651.00
50	THE WOMEN OF THE ZENANA CELEBRATING HOLI	INDIA - AWADH - LUCKNOW	CIRCA 1780-1800	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 6,985.00
51	AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: LIFE STORIES OF KRISHNA	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - BIKANER	CIRCA 1790	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,206.50
52	MATSYA AVATAR: THE FISH INCARNATION OF VISHNU SLAYING THE DEMON HAYAGRIVA	INDIA - PROVINCIAL MUGHAL	LATE 18TH CENTURY	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 508.00
53	SOHNI SWIMMING AROSS THE RIVER TO MEET MAHIVAL	INDIA - PROVINCIAL MUGHAL	SECOND HALF OF 18TH CENTURY	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,143.00
54	A PORTRAIT OF THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD, ASAF JAH II	INDIA - HYDERABAD	LATE 18TH CENTURY	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 6,350.00
55	AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: DEEPAK RAGINI	INDIA - DECCAN - HYDERABAD	CIRCA 1760	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 4,064.00
56	AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: MALSRI RAGINI	INDIA - HYDERABAD	CIRCA 1770	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 8,890.00
57	KRISHNA TENDING TO A CALF WITH THE GOPIS NEARBY	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - POSSIBLY BIKANER	18TH CENTURY	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 5,334.00
58	KRISHNA PLAYING THE FLUTE	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - BIKANER	CIRCA 1760	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,397.00
59	KRISHNA PLAYING THE FLUTE TO THE GOPIES UNDER A TREE	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - JAIPUR	CIRCA 1790	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,810.00
60	THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: MALKOS RAGINI, KHAMBHAVATI RAGINI AND MALKOS RAGA	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - JAIPUR	CIRCA 1820	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 3,302.00
61	A PORTRAIT OF MAHARAJA SAWAI MADHO SINGH	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - JAIPUR	CIRCA 1830	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
62	THE HOLY FAMILY ON MOUNT KAILASA	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - JAIPUR	CIRCA 1860	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,032.00
63	SIVA WORSHIPPED BY DEITIES	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - JAIPUR	CIRCA 1840	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 952.50
64	HANUMAN BOWING BEFORE RAMA AND LAXMA	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - LATE 19TH CENTURY	LATE 19TH CENTURY	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	GBP 889.00
65	A PORTRAIT OF PRINCE GOPAL SINGH OF NAGORE	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - KISHANGARH	CIRCA 1750	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,540.00
66	A PORTRAIT OF THE MEWAR COURTIER RAWAT CHUNDA OF SALUMBAR	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - MEWAR	CIRCA 1700	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 3,302.00
67	AN RAJPUT EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - MEWAR	CIRCA 1850	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,778.00
68	A RAJPUT EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT	INDIA - RAJASTHAN	CIRCA 1850	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 825.50
69	A RULER ON A TERRACE RECEIVING A COURTIER	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - KOTAH	CIRCA 1800	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 889.00
70	A RAJPUT PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN OR PRINCE	INDIA - RAJASTHAN	CIRCA 1800	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 825.50
71	THE DURGA SLAYS MASHISHA	INDIA - RAJASTHAN - MEWAR	CIRCA 1780	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 10,160.00
72	AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: SORATH RAGINI, WIFE OF MEGH RAGA	INDIA - PUNJAB HILLS - BILASPUR	CIRCA 1690-1700	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

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29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

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29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.