Lyon and Turnbull: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs, 773, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 07, 2024 - February 07, 2024

Page Size: 336 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Darwin, Charles	The Power of Movement in Plants	London	1880	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 550.20
2	Darwin, Charles	The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex	London	1871	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 235.80
3	Darwin, Charles	The Power of Movement in Plants	London	1880	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 497.80
4	Darwin, Charles	The Different Forms of Flowers. Four works	London	1877	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 851.50
5	Darwin, Charles	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection	London	1861	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,310.00
6	Darwin, Charles [Owen, Richard]	Original review by Richard Owen of Darwin's seminal work, On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection [contained within] The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal for January, 1860 ... April 1860, volume CXI.	London	1860	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 366.80
7	Green, Thomas	The Universal Herbal, or Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary	Liverpool	c.1820	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,179.00
8	Philpots, John R.	Oysters and all about them	London & Leicester	1891	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 314.40
9		Natural History. Collection of works. Darwin, Charles. The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs.	London	1874	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 851.50
10		Illustrerad Tradgardstidning Manadsskrift for tradgardskonstens idkare och Vanner i Norden	Gothenburg	1858-1861	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 288.20
11		Mosses. 6 volumes. Braithwaite, R. The British Moss-Flora.	London	1887-1905	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	GBP 340.60
12	Alder, Charles	Birds and Flowers of the Castle of Mey	Ponteland	1993	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
13	Ellis, John	An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines, and other Marine Productions of the like Kind, commonly found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland.	London	1755	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 550.20
14	Traill, George William	A Monograph of the Algae of the Firth of Forth, Illustrated with Herbarium Specimens of some of the Rare Species.	Edinburgh	1885	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,048.00
15	Hayes, William	A Natural History of British Birds, etc. with their Portraits, accurately drawn, and beautifully coloured from Nature.	London	1775	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,113.50
16	Allom, Thomas (illustrator)	China, in a Series of Views, displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire.	London	c.1840	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,048.00
17		Geographies. Four 18th century works: Salmon. A New Geographical and Historical Grammar...	London	1758	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
18	Simpson, William	The Seat of the War in the East	London	1855-56	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
19	Cunningham, P.	Two Years in New South Wales. comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony; or its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants, of its Topography, Natural History. &c.	London	1827	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
20		Indian lithographic printing. Collection of rare works in Urdu on various subjects			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,310.00
21	Bankes, Thomas	A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography Antient and Modern	London	c.1780	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
22		New Zealand. 4 works: Power, W. Tyrone. Sketches in New Zealand Sketches with Pen and Pencil.	London	1849	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 419.20
23		Indian lithographic printing. Collection of rare works in Urdu on various subjects			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 982.50
24	Allan & Ferguson, Lithographers	[Views on the Clyde]	[Glasgow	c.1840?	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 340.60
25	Staunton, Sir George Leonard	An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, taken chiefly from the papers of his Excellency the Earl of Macartney.	[London	1797	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,358.00

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Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.

Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.

Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.

Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.

Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.

Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.

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