Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs



Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

8th Feb, 2023 10:00
Sale number: 725
Location: Live in Edinburgh & Online
Catalogue: Download PDF catalogue


Our Wednesday 08 February 2023 auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs include a superb copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the masterpiece of the private press movement, a unique association copy of the Cranwell edition of T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a first-edition set of The Lord of the Rings complete with the dust jackets, a remarkable naval document signed by Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, a dedicated section of books and manuscripts relating to India and South Asia including autograph letters by Mahatma Gandhi, and more.

Name: Mr Simon Vickers
Email: simon.vickers@lyonandturnbull.com
Telephone: +44 (0)131 557 8844

Name: Dominic Somerville-Brown
Email: Dominic.Somerville-Brown@lyonandturnbull.com

Name: Cathy Marsden
Email: cathy.marsden@lyonandturnbull.com

Lot 110 - Scottish history and law 16th-18th century works

Sold for £1,071

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 113 - Wishart, George 5 works

Sold for £2,016

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 116 - English Civil War Collection of pamphlets

Sold for £3,528

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 117 - English Civil War Collection of works

Sold for £1,638

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 118 - English Civil War Collection of pamphlets

Sold for £1,512

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 119 - English Civil War Collection of pamphlet sermons

Sold for £1,512

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 123 - 17th-century English history Collection of works

Sold for £1,386

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 124 - Ireland 7 Pamphlets

Sold for £1,197

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 134 - Lewis, C. S. (1898-1963) Autograph letter signed

Sold for £2,016

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 135 - Gandhi, Mohandas K. Autograph letter signed, in Gujarati

Sold for £2,016

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 136 - Gandhi, Mohandas K. Letter, signed, in Gujarati

Sold for £1,638

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 137 - Gandhi, Mohandas K. Autograph letter signed, in Gujarati

Sold for £3,024

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 139 - Qur'an Manuscript Qur'an, West Africa, c.1900

Sold for £1,386

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 140 - Qur'an Manuscript Qur'an, Ottoman Empire, 19th century

Sold for £882

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 141 - Recipe Book, 1737 Recipe and Medicinal Cure Manuscript

Sold for £2,772

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 143 - Defoe, Daniel and others 10 works in one volume

Sold for £1,197

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 144 - Aesop Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists

Sold for £504

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 147 - [Austen, Jane] Sense and Sensibility

Sold for £6,930

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 151 - Trollope, Anthony Collection of first editions

Sold for £756

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 153 - Fine bindings 16 volumes

Sold for £693

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 154 - Fine bindings a quantity

Sold for £403

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 155 - Fine bindings 8 volumes

Sold for £756

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 156 - Fine bindings 16 volumes

Sold for £1,638

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 157 - Fine bindings 17 volumes

Sold for £1,008

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 160 - Bible; English; Authorised The Holy Bible

Sold for £1,260

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 162 - Bible; English; Authorised The Holy Bible

Sold for £580

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 164 - Hume, David Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Sold for £1,071

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 165 - Hume, David Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Sold for £693

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 166 - Malthus, Thomas An Essay on the Principle of Population

Sold for £1,512

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 167 - Machiavelli, Niccolo [Opere]

Sold for £529

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 168 - Confession of Faith 11 pamphlets in one volume

Sold for £630

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 169 - Forlong, Major-General John George Roche Rivers of Life

Sold for £1,197

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 172 - Lemnius, Levinus The Secret Miracles of Nature

Sold for £693

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 173 - Lilly, William Catastrophe Mundi: or, Merlin Reviv'd

Sold for £2,520

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 174 - Science, The Occult, Medicine and Arabia 20 volumes

Sold for £945

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 175 - Witchcraft 2 volumes

Sold for £1,071

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 178 - Grew, Nehemiah Musaeum Regalis Societatis

Sold for £1,008

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 179 - Stephenson, John Medical Zoology and Mineralogy

Sold for £504

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 180 - Wernerian Natural History Society, The Memoirs of

Sold for £1,512

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 184 - Ireland Four works on Irish flora

Sold for £428

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 187 - Lonicer [Lonitzer], Adam Kreuterbuch

Sold for £1,197

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 189 - Goldman, Nicolas La nouvelle fortification

Sold for £403

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 190 - Langley, Batty & Thomas Gothic Architecture

Sold for £819

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 193 - Richardson, C. J. Studies from Old English Mansions

Sold for £605

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 195 - Stella, Claudine Bouzonnet (1636-1697) Pastorales

Sold for £3,528

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 196 - Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus De architectura libri decem

Sold for £1,260

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 197 - Ware, Isaac Designs of Inigo Jones and Others

Sold for £504

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 198 - Ware, Isaac A Complete Body of Architecture

Sold for £882

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

Lot 201 - Asian Art - The Baur Collection, Geneva 9 volumes

Sold for £3,024

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)

 

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