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Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Books and Manuscripts | Total Sales (GBP) | 456,628.50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 16, 2026 - June 16, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 132,900.00 |
| Sale Number | #905 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 202,800.00 |
| Total Lots | 173 | ||
| Sold Lots | 162.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 137,300.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 93.64% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 209,700.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 11 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 217.75% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 160 | Opera |
1475 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 68,580.00 | |
| 89 | Annan; Carrick John | N Books, including: [cover-title] |
c. 1871; 1865 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 45,720.00 |
| 166 | Paradise Lost |
1668 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 27,940.00 | |
| 49 | Shaw Thomas Edward | Autograph letters and note |
1926-30 | GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 24,130.00 |
| 151 | Book of Hours |
15th century | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 21,590.00 | |
| 152 | The Bible |
1560; 1615; 1619; 1601 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 21,590.00 | |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
1998 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 12,065.00 | |
| 40 | A Book of Autographs |
1901-15 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 8,255.00 | |
| 22 | Sassoon Siegfried | War Poems; Counter-Attack and Other Poems; The Old Huntsman and Other Poems |
1917; 1918; 1919 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 6,985.00 |
| 71 | Karsh | Winston Churchill portrait |
1941 or later | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 6,985.00 |
| 103 | 500 letters and documents |
c.1760-1850 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 6,350.00 | |
| 111 | On the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America |
1801 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 6,096.00 | |
| 118 | Langlands George; Langlands Son | Map of the County of Argyll; A Map of Scotland |
1801; c.1840 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 5,080.00 |
| 108 | Ruled notebook containing 51 photographs |
1904 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,826.00 | |
| 167 | Paradise Regain'd |
1671 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 4,572.00 | |
| 24 | Bloomfield A4 |
1951 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,445.00 | |
| 8 | Rowling J. K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
1999 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,318.00 |
| 164 | A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke |
1608 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,318.00 | |
| 12 | Tolkien J. R. R. | The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers; The Return of the King |
1963; 1964; c.1950 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 |
| 47 | Shaw Thomas Edward | Autograph Letter Signed T. E. S. |
1928 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 |
| 171 | Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect |
1786 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 4,064.00 | |
| 96 | Blake William | Illustrations of the Book of Job |
1825; 1874 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 3,556.00 |
| 35 | Dracula |
1901 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 | |
| 60 | Bruce David; Airlie David Ogilvy | The Genealogical Histories of K. Robert Bruce |
1686; 1807 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,302.00 |
| 163 | A Collection of Choice, Scarce and Old English Comedies |
1641 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 3,302.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’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, 2026Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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