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Simon Vickers
Head of Department

Cathy Marsden
Junior Specialist

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Departmental News

Surreal botanical illustrations in Abraham Munting's Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen

The Bruce Ritchie Collection of 18th 20th Century English Literature

First Hand Account of the Battle of Trafalgar

FOCUS: Dresser's History of the Birds of Europe

FOCUS: Risque Rare Books

Stobhall, the Library: Property of Viscount Strathallan

Books, Manuscripts & Photographs

Lyon & Turnbull’s Department of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs has gone from strength to strength in recent years. The department has two dedicated members of staff and hosts three sales a year.

Highlights of the past few years have included the sumptuous collection of travel volumes from the library of the Northern Lighthouse Board, a very large collection of antiquarian medical and travel books from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, a beautiful first edition copy of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, published in Kilmarnock 1786 and an impressive selection of Jacobite and natural history literature from the library at Stobhall, Perthshire.

It is our aim to continue this success, making Lyon & Turnbull the largest regional auctioneers of books, maps and manuscripts in the U.K.