Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 884, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 25, 2026 - February 25, 2026

Page Size: 253 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
227	Rackham, Arthur	Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes.	London	1913	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 558.80
228	Rackham, Arthur	Rennie's Waterloo Bridge. pencil, 16.5 x 9.8cm, mounted, framed and glazed		1974	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
229	Boehm, Elizaveta	Siluzty [Siluzty - Silhouettes], & two other works. published		1875	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 406.40
230	Jessie Marion King	Collection of books from the family of Jessie M. King. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children,		circa 1920	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
231	Inga Moore	Two original illustrations for The Wind in the Willows. 1) Ratty asleep in an armchair.		n.d.	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 457.20
232	Jacques, Brian	Redwall	London	1986	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
233		Private press and wood-engraving. Large collection of works including limited editions		1981-2	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,651.00
234		Two special editions. The Wood-Engravings of John O'Connor, with a Commentary by Jeannie O'Connor.	Andoversford	1989	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 762.00
235		Collection of limited editions. Buckland Wright, John. Baigneuses,		1995	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,794.00
236	William Shakespeare	Twelfth Night. or, What You Will. With Engravings by Eric Ravilious.	Waltham Saint Lawrence	1932	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,778.00
237	Woolf, Virginia	Kew Gardens	Richmond	1919	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,651.00
238	Paula Rego	Two signed limited Folio Society editions. Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Would not Grow Up.	London	1992	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 508.00
239	Gill, Eric	Group of signed limited edition wood-engravings from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark		1932	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 698.50
240	John Donne	Love Poems of John Donne. with some account of his life taken from the writings in 1639 of Izaak Walton.	London	1923	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 952.50
241	Keynes, Geoffrey .	Collection of works. 1) The Notebook of William Blake called The Rossetti Manuscript,		1935	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 431.80
242		Collection of works. 1) Shakespeare, William. The Works.	London	1929-33	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,206.50
243	John Ruskin	Letters to M. G. & H. G. by John Ruskin. With Preface by the Right Hon. G. Wyndham.	Edinburgh	1903	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 508.00
244		The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament & the New	London	1636	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 355.60
245		Poem of the Month Club. Complete set of signed broadside poems	London	1970-77	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 584.20
246	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Works	London	2002	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 762.00
247	Herman Melville	Moby-Dick. or The Whale. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent.	London	2009	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 952.50
248		Group of limited & deluxe editions, incl. 1) William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury,		2012	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 762.00
249	Holbein, Hans	Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII	London	1812	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 406.40
250	Deuchar, David	A Collection of Etchings after the most Eminent Masters of the Dutch & Flemish Schools	Edinburgh	1803	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 698.50
252		Collection of illustrated sheet-music pamphlets		19th & 20th century	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 279.40

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.