Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 851, Edinburgh

Auction Details

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
76	Webster, Mary (1794-1883)	Three albums of watercolour views of British scenery, 1830s-50s		1830s-50s	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 6,300.00
77		Topographical watercolour album, including New Zealand, the West Indies and Brazil		c.1870s-1890s	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 5,040.00
78	Burra, Henry and Elizabeth Dent	Scrapbook with watercolours covering India, Scotland, Egypt and Rye, East Sussex			GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 819.00
79		India - heraldry. Collection of original designs for princely coats of arms, with associated correspondence			GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 504.00
80	D'Oyly, Sir Charles, 7th Baronet (1781-1845)	Album containing two original watercolours by D'Oyly			GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 882.00
81	India - Chamber of Princes (Narendra Mandal)	Large collection of documents signed by Indian princes, 1932		1932	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
82	India - Chamber of Princes (Narendra Mandal)	Group of official letters from maharajas to the chancellor of the Council of Princes, with related documents, 1920s-40s		1920s-40s	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
83		India - Thailand - Malaysia - Zanzibar - Kenya- Manuscript hunting journals of Henry C. V. Hunter, 1885-1887		1885-1887	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
84		India - Collection of letters and documents, 20th century			GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 504.00
85		Italy- Travel diary of Howel Scratton, 1880s		1880s	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	GBP 352.80
86		Egypt, North Africa and the Middle East - Collection of photographs			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
87		Indian rulers, a collection of photographs c.1875-80			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 302.40
88		Near East and Egypt - Collection of 42 large albumen-print photographs, c.1875-1900		c.1875-1900	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 277.20
89		Scottish Views: George Washington Wilson, James Valentine and James Patrick, in embossed album		c.1887	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
90	Mennie, Donald	China North and South	Shanghai	c.1920.	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
91	Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973)	North-West Frontier Province - India - Pakistan - Afghanistan - Album of photographs by Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973), c.1920		c.1920	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 403.20
92	China	Photograph album, 1919		1919	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 189.00
93	Postcards	Large collection, mainly of Scotland and England, early 20th century			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
94	Annan, Thomas - The Glasgow City Improvement Trust	Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow	Glasgow	1900	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 756.00
95	Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and Charles Job (1853-1930)	2 photogravures, early 20th century			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 403.20
96	SS Edward Bawden (1903-1989)	P.B.F.A. Cat, [1983]			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,134.00
97	William McCance (1894-1970) and Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980)	Woodblock, lithograph and linocut Christmas cards, designed/sent by artist friends, 1930s-1950s		1930s-1950s	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,520.00
98	Ralph Steadman (1936-), illustrator; Dahl, Roald	The Mildenhall Treasure		1999	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 529.20
99	Patrick Benson (1956-), illustrator; Dahl, Roald	Publisher's paste-up for The Minpins, with original drawings by Benson			GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 5,040.00
100	Roald Dahl (1916-1990)	1. Roald Dahl's original sketches for illustrations in Boy, some 33 in total, all in black ballpoint pen on paper sheets of various dimensions, housed in manila envelope annotated by Craig 'Dahl's Drawings & odds + sods', comprising: i) Group of 14 sketc			GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 23,940.00

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