Lyon & Turnbull

Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 1 to 78

India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208

Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 209 to 220

From the Library of Professor Roland Paxton | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 221 to 252

Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 253 to 285

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India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna

Discover the first instalment of India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna, a collection that chronicles the making of modern India from the viewpoints of a dazzling cast of eyewitnesses both Indian and British.

The Scots Magazine and North America

First published in 1739, the Scots Magazine is claimed to be the world's oldest magazine still in publication. 

Our 01 October Books &amp; Manuscripts auction is led by the first instalment from India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna, a major collection of rare books dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries, chronicling the making of modern India from the viewpoints of a dazzling cast of Indian and British eyewitnesses.&nbsp;The collection is accompanied by a selection of Indian rarities from other collections, including a pair of Georgian-era embroideries celebrating the British victory over Tipu Sultan, one of the earliest chess books printed in India, and a collection of letters to a high-ranking officer in the 36th Sikhs.The sale is also rich in landmarks of 20th-century literature, including first editions of Ulysses, The Waste Land, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and The Lord of the Rings. Highlights from other collecting fields range from the final lifetime edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica to a copy of the first Bible printed in Elizabethan England. Lyon &amp; Turnbull are also delighted to be offering a further selection from the library of the late Professor Roland Paxton MBE FICE FRSE (1932-2025), Britain’s leading historian of civil engineering, including books on architecture, science and technology, and British topography and history. &nbsp;&nbsp;

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Ulysses

Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Waste Land

[The Lord of the Rings:]

The Hobbit

Lanark

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

The Jackey Smith collection of Wild Hawthorn Press concrete poems, mail art and associated ephemera

Collection of autograph letters to author Catherine Czerkawska, with related ephemera

Trainspotting

In the Cairngorms

Rebecca

Group of inscribed copies

The Works

A Defence of Uranian Love

Waiting for Godot

Deluxe set of the Harry Potter books, inscribed in every volume

Two signed Harry Potter books

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Tempest

The Fairy Books

Set of original printing blocks for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Sets of original printing blocks for editions of Black Beauty and Hiawatha

Set of original printing blocks for Legends from the Norse

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

The Blue Bird

Memoirs of Missionary Priests and Other Catholics of Both Sexes

Book of Common Prayer

Collection of works relating mainly to Aberdeen, Deeside and Orkney, 19th-20th century

Glasgow Illustrated in Twenty One Views

Collection of works, 18th and 19th century

Scotland Delineated

Volumes 1-93

The Statutes at Large

The Worst Journey in the World

A Description of Greenland

Set of prints after watercolours by Edward Wilson

Collection of travel narratives

British Antarctic ('Terra Nova') Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report

[Panorama of the City of Rio de Janeiro. The Capital of Brazil]

Inscribed football

Manual del Sport

Two Spanish-language works relating to the beginnings of golf in Argentina

The Costumes of the French Pyrenees

The English Lake District 

Assyrian Antiquities. Nimrud

Large collection of official photographs depicting Saudi development

Sudan Notes and Records

Collection of photographic lantern slides by George Washington Wilson, c.1890

Voyage into the Levant

Relation des deux rebellions arrivées à Constantinople en M. DCC. XXX. et XXXI

African Game Trails

The Rugged Flanks of Caucasus

Collection of photograph albums and prints

Archive relating to firms' business activities 1880s to 1920s

The Journal; The Geographical Journal; Proceedings; Proceedings ... New Monthly Series

Large collection of travel guides, mainly 19th century

Sketches in Scinde

Collection of election material including posters, campaign literature and ballot papers

Three volumes of Emergency Directives, all marked secret/top secret, 1951-57

Buddhist Sutra manuscript

Collection of works from the series 'Papers on Malay Subjects'

[Two original lithographs from Portraits of the Princes and Peoples of India]

Goa, and the Blue Mountains

Autograph letter signed

Bombay and Western India

Collection of letters to Major-General H. L. Haughton, 36th Sikhs, Commander of Kohat

A Compendious System of Bengal Revenue Accounts

The Siege of Seringapatam

Pair of embroideries depicting Tipu Sultan's sons taken hostage, c.1792

Analysis of the Muzio Gambit

Oriental Chess, or Specimens of Hindoostanee Excellence in that Celebrated Game

Memoirs of Zehir-ed-Din Muhammed Baber, Emperor of Hindustan

Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir

Ayeen Akbery:

The History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogol

Ancient Accounts of India and China

A Voyage to the East-Indies

Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies

A Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal, during the Soobahdaries of Azeem us Shan

The Early Annals of the English in Bengal

Collection of works relating to the British in Bengal

Collection of pamphlets, 19th century

Letters on India, Political, Commercial and Military

Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England

The British Mariner's Directory and Guide

Itinerary and Directory for Western India

A Narrative of the Campaign in India

A Review of the Origin, Progress, and Result, of the Late Decisive War in Mysore

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