Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 905, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 16, 2026 - June 16, 2026
Page Size: 173 items in 7 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
133

Works of Credit

London [1796?] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 381.00
134

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

London 1794-[96] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,286.00
135 Walker

Lectures on natural history

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 952.50
136 Jekyll Gertrude

Roses for English Gardens

London 1902 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 889.00
137

a Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining

London 1778 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 762.00
138

Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Liberaux, et les Arts Mechaniques, avec leur Explication

Paris 1762-72 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
139

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Edinburgh 1797 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 406.40
140

A New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

London 1786-9 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,079.50
141

Universal Dictionary of Arts, Science, and Literature

London 1819-20 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 558.80
142 Wecker; Everard Giles

VII. Libris explicata

Basel; Antwerp 1585; 1587 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 952.50
143 James Robert; Warner Joseph; Werner Abraham Gottlob

A Treatise on Canine Madness; A Description of the Human Eye, and its Adjacent Parts; A Treatise on the External Character of Fossils

London; London; Dublin 1760; 1773; 1805 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 254.00
144 Einstein Albert

Being the First Lecture on the George A. Gibson Foundation in the University of Glasgow

Glasgow 1933 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 698.50
145

Part I

Manchester 1808 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,032.00
146

Representation Book

N/A GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
147

The Whole Art of Measuring

London 1717 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 482.60
148

Definitions in Political Economy

London 1827 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 508.00
149

Of Moral Philosophy

N/A GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 203.20
150

Textbook on theology and law

1614 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 482.60
151

Book of Hours

Mons 15th century GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 21,590.00
152

The Bible

Geneva; London 1560; 1615; 1619; 1601 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 21,590.00
153

The Bible

London 1589 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,778.00
154

The Holy Bible

London 1619-20; 1619 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,397.00
155

The Book of Common Order

Edinburgh 1635 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
156

The Psalmes of David in Metre

Edinburgh 1596 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
157 Leycester Peter; Sibbald Robert; Freart Roland

Historical Antiquities; Scotia illustrata sive Prodromus historiae naturalis; A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern

Dordrecht; London; Edinburgh 1730; 1673; 1684; 1733 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 635.00
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000