Lyon & Turnbull

Lyon &amp; Turnbull are pleased to announce their October 2025 Books &amp; Manuscripts auction, taking place live and online from Edinburgh. The sale will present a carefully curated selection of printed books, manuscripts, maps, autographs and archives that span centuries of intellectual, literary and cultural achievement. &nbsp;Highlights from the autumn sale include fine bindings and library sets from the libraries of the late Earl of Airlie and from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie, signed documents and letters from literary and historical figures ranging from John Ruskin to Duleep Singh, an important collection of Middle Eastern photography documenting the transformation of the region with the discovery of oil, and a large collection of travel narratives from the 18th to the 20th centuries.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

Browse a selection of lots from our forthcoming auction.

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Published Kingston, 1785 or 1786

Session 1

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World

A General Collection of the Best & Most Interesting Voyages & Travels in all Parts of the World

The World in Miniature - 3 volumes

28 books covering Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas

Large collection of mainly American travel & history, 19th-early 20th century

Narrative of the Discoveries on The north Coast of America

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

4 books

Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea

Collection of works

Group of 22 books

47 books

A small collection

[Four plates from Indian Scenes and Characters, sketched from Life]

The Journal of Indian Art

Collection of works, 19th-20th century, including rare gazetteers and Indian imprints

History of the Panjab Hill States

Collection of printed documents including viceregal tour programmes and government memoranda

Collection of printed or typescript documents and memoranda, 1910s-1930s

The Punishments of China

12 lithographs from the set of 26 by George Atkinson

The Book of the Dead. Facsimiles of the Payri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet

The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922

Early Western Travels

Life with the Esquimaux

Matabele Land and The Victoria Falls

Bruce & Speke

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

A Collection 

7 books

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan

A collection

Scotland and Wales

The Costume of the Clans

Satin fragment reputedly from the shoes worn by Charles I at his execution

'Manuscript in Natural History'

Document signed, 1807

Document signed, 1794

Document signed, 1902

Autograph letter signed

Large collection of documents signed by Indian rulers, 1930s

Collection of typed letters signed from Indian rulers, 1930s-40s

Collection of signed letters and documents, 19th-20th century

Margaret Ogilvy, with autograph letter signed

Literary ephemera

Group of signed pieces relating to his receipt of an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow, 1959

Two autograph letters signed to Ada Hartnell

Regarding family history, genealogy, land, town affairs, etc.

Manuscript Sammelband, possibly 17th century

Collection of her correspondence 

Autograph note signed

Late 18th century

A.L.S. from Sir Graham Balfour to Sidney Colvin, and a collection of other letters

Photograph album, c.1880-1900

Burmah and its People

Photograph album, c.1890

Collection of albums and photographs, 19th and early 20th century

including: 'Coloured Cabinets of Noted Indians'

A photograph album, c.1930-1935

Pamphlets, photographs and printed ephemera relating to Saudi Arabia, Iran and elsewhere

Collection of press photographs, c.1955-60

Large collection of photographs, 1950s-60s

Large collection of photographs, 1940s-60s

Group of press & official photographs, 1960s

A collection of photographs

Glimpses of China

China North & South

Signed portrait photograph of the 'Big Four' of the Narendra Mandal (Chamber of Princes)

photographs by Jack Bowes

Two photograph albums, 1925-6

72 postcards and postcard-sized images, early 20th century

The Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers at Erskine House

Company photographic archive of the construction of the Forth Road Bridge, c.1960

Standing woman

The Province of Ulster

The Countie of Leinster

The Province of Mounster

The Province of Connaugh

5 framed and double glazed maps

The plan of Edenburgh exactly done from the original of ye famous D. Wit.

Geography bewitched! or, a droll Caricature Map of England and Wales

Cambridgshire

The North Prospect of the City of Edenburgh

Edinburgh and the Surrounding Country as seen from the Calton Hill (365 feet above Sea Level)

Books & Manuscripts

Sale Number: 868