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
158

The Holy Bible; The Book of Common Prayer; The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Metre

Oxford; London 1726-25; 1725 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,651.00
159

Opera

Glasgow 1756-58 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,905.00
160

Opera

Naples 1475 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 68,580.00
161

De origine, moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum

Edinburgh 1582 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 508.00
162 Mair John; Aristotle

Historia Maioris Britanniae, tam Angliae quam Scotiae; Ethica Aristotelis peripateticorum principis

Paris 1521; 1530 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 825.50
163

A Collection of Choice, Scarce and Old English Comedies

Edinburgh 1641 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 3,302.00
164

A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke

London 1608 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,318.00
165 Vaughan Henry

Olor Iscanus

London 1651 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,079.50
166

Paradise Lost

London 1668 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 27,940.00
167

Paradise Regain'd

London 1671 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,572.00
168

An Essay on Man

London 1734 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,651.00
169 Wagstaff Simon; Sterne Laurence; Addison Joseph; Peacock Thomas Love

5 Books, including: A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation

London 1738; 1768; 1705; 1831 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 457.20
170

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

London 1765-69 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
171

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

Kilmarnock 1786 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,064.00
172

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

Edinburgh 1787 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
173

9 Books, including: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

London; Edinburgh 1787; 1793; 1802 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 508.00
174 Burns Robert; Kay James; Stirling William Macgregor

7 Books, including: The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edinburgh; London 1896; 1837-8; 1815 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 584.20
175

Sense and Sensibility

London 1833 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,651.00
176

Pride and Prejudice

London 1833 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,286.00
177

Mansfield Park

London 1833 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,079.50
178

Emma

London 1833 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,032.00
179

Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

London 1833 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,778.00
180 Dickens Charles

16 Books, including: Bleak House

London 1853; 1839; 1850; 1848; 1865; 1857; 1844; 1859; 1854; 1870; 1837; 1846; 1840; 1863 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 2,286.00
  • 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