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
1		Abyssinia (Ethiopia) Collection of travel narratives, 19th & early 20th century. De Cosson, E.A. The Cradle of the Blue Nile.	London	1877	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,079.50
2		Abyssinia (Ethiopia) Four 17th & 18th century works. Poncet, Charles J. A Voyage to Aethiopia, made In the Years 1698, 1699, and 1700.	London	1709	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 825.50
3	Bruce, James	Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.	Edinburgh	1790	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,032.00
4	Dufton, Henry	Narrative of a Journey through Abyssinia in 1862-3. With an Appendix on 'The Abyssinian Captives Question'.	London	1867	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 381.00
5	Winstanley, William	A Visit to Abyssinia. An Account of Travel in Modern Ethiopia.	London	1881	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
6	Burton, Richard F.	The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy's Western Lake Reservoir ... Part II. Captain Speke's Discovery of the Source of the Nile.	London	1864	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,556.00
7	Burton, Richard F.	Zanzibar. City, Island, and Coast.	London	1872	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,270.00
8	Ensor, F. Sidney	Incidents of a Journey through Darfoor	London	1881	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,397.00
9	Speedy, Mrs Cornelia Mary	My Wanderings in the Soudan	London	1884	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,079.50
10	Colomb, Philip Howard	Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean. A Record of Naval Experiences.	London	1873	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 482.60
11	Sulivan, George Lydiard	Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters & on the Eastern Coast of Africa. Narrative of Five Years' Experiences in the Suppression of the Slave Trade.	London	1873	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 381.00
12	Herbert Edward Pretyman	Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards. Written during his Expedition to the Kittar Mountains, between Kenneh (on the Nile) and the Red Sea, 1891	London	1892	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 762.00
13	Churi, Joseph H.	Sea Nile, the Desert, & Nigritia. Travels in Company with Captain Peel, R. N., 1851-2.	London	1853	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,397.00
14	Bourchier, William	Narrative of a Passage from Bombay to England. describing the Author's Shipwreck in the Nautilus, in the Red Sea	London	1834	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
15	Owen, William Fitzwilliam W.	Narrative of Voyages to explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, & Madagascar. performed in H. M. Ships Leven and Barracouta.	London	1833	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,079.50
16		Uganda. Collection of 19th & 20th century works, including a manuscript. 1) Eastwood, Benjamin. Sudd and Lilies: a Journey round Lakes Kioga [Kyoga] and Kivania [Kwania] and Neighbouring Waters.	London	1889	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,016.00
17		Collection of works, 19th-20th century. Baker, Samuel W. Ismailia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.	London	1874	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,270.00
18		Collection of 19th & 20th century works. Chanler, William Astor. Through Jungle and Desert: Travels in Eastern Africa.	London and New York	1896	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 889.00
19		Collection of travel accounts, 19th & 20th century. Owen, W[illiam] F[itzwilliam] W. Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar.	London	1833	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,286.00
20		Collection of military handbooks & accounts of the Great War & the King's African Rifles.	London	1920	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,079.50
21		Collection of accounts of travel & soldiering in the Sudan, 19th & 20th century. Williams, Josiah. Life in the Soudan	London	1884	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 482.60
22		Collection of 19th century works. Petherick, John. Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa: with Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator.	Edinburgh	1861	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 698.50
23		Official histories, handbooks, local imprints, late 19th century. Colville, H. E. History of the Sudan Campaign.	London	1889	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 381.00
24		Collection of accounts of African big game hunting & natural history, 19th-20th century. Neumann, Arthur H. Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa.	London	1898	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,286.00
25	Weinthal, Leo	Weinthal, Leo (editor). The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway & River Route from 1887 to 1922	London / Luton	1923-6	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 762.00

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.