Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 851, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 18, 2025 - June 18, 2025
Page Size: 308 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
252 Blanckley, Thomas Riley

A Naval Expositor

London 1750 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 630.00
253 'Blind Harry' (c.1440-1492)

The Acts and Deeds of the Most Famous and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie

Edinburgh 1758 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 504.00
254 Stuart, John Sobieski [and Charles Edward Stuart]

Vestiarium Scoticum

Edinburgh 1842 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 630.00
255 Drummond RSA, James

Ancient Scottish Weapons. A Series of Drawings

Edinburgh 1881 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 529.20
256 Vauban, Sebastien Le Prestre

The New Method of Fortification

London 1691 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 604.80
257 Gunnery and field sports

Large collection of works, 19th and early 20th century

London 1841 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 945.00
258 Monmouth Rebellion

The Impostor Expos'd in a Dissection of a Villanous Libell

London 1681 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 378.00
259 Scottish history, topography and law

Collection of works, 17th-19th century

Drumfries [Dumfries] 1718 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,016.00
260 Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

London 1922 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,788.00
261 [John Newton interest]

The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and New

Cambridge 1773 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,008.00
262 Sombre binding

De CL Psalmen des Propheten Davids

Gorinchem 1671 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
263 Bible; English; Geneva Version

[The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke]

London 1605 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 630.00
264 Bible; English; Geneva Version

The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke

London 1606 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,890.00
265 Bible; Dutch

Biblia dat is de ganstsche H. Schrifture

Dordrecht /Amsterdam: 1690 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 478.80
266 [Playing cards - occult]

Origine des cartes a jouer

Paris 1869 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 378.00
267 Bible; English; Authorised Version

The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New [New Testament earlier]

Edinburgh: 1637. 8vo, lacking T1, occasional holes to text with some loss to letters and words, trimming to lower margins with occasional slight loss; The New Testament of our Saviour Jesus Christ. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 378.00
268 Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments

Oxford 1684 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 126.00
269 [Case, Thomas, editor]

The Morning Exercise Methodi'zed

London 1660 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
270 Sempere y Guarinos, Juan

Historia del luxo, y de las leyes suntuarias de Espana

Madrid 1788 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
271 Smith, Adam

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

London 1791 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 882.00
272 [Portuguese political economist] Borges, Jose Ferreira (1786-1838)

Collection of works

London 1825 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 403.20
273 Eusebius of Caesarea

Evangelicae praeparationis lib. XV [bound with:] Evangelicae demonstrationis lib. X

Paris 1544-5 [1546]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
274 Continental books

Collection of works, mainly Portuguese, 18th century

Lisbon 1729-28. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
275 [Chess] Carrera, Pietro

Il gioco de gli scacchi

Militello 1617 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
276 [Chess] Greco, Gioachino

Le jeu des eschets

Paris 1689 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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