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Lyon and Turnbull: Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts Total Sales (GBP) 294,260.00
Auction Date January 15, 2014 - January 15, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 139,770.00
Sale Number #399 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 202,930.00
Total Lots 408
Sold Lots 352 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 184,120.00
% of Lots Sold 86.27% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 265,430.00
Unsold Lots 56 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 110.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
297 Lawrence, T.E.

Seven pillars of wisdom, a triumph.

1926 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 42,050.00
170 Tolkien, J.R.R.

The lord of the rings.

1954-1955. GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 8,875.00
364 Dalton, John

A new system of chemical philosophy.

1827 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 7,500.00
161 Johnson, Samuel

A dictionary of English Language.

1755 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,750.00
345 Armstrong, Alexander

Observations on naval hygiene and scurvy.

1858 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 5,250.00
79 Blaeu, Willem - Blaeu, Jan - Atlas

Geographiae Blaeuaniae..

1662 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
228 Shaw, George and Frederick P. Nodder

The naturalist's miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects.

1790 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,250.00
86 Kohler, Johann David - Weigel, Christoph - German atlas

German composite atlas, predominantly incorporating elements from Kohler's Atlas manualis scholasticus et itinerarius.

after 1720 GBP 400.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,750.00
173 Elgar, Sir Edward

AUTOGRAPH LETTER AND SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH Autograph letter signed from Sir Edward Elgar to Alfred Littleton, [on 23rd May 1902], on Lahnstein's Hotel Royal headed paper, c.270x210mm, praising the German premiere of Gerontius and acknowledging the approbation

1902 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 3,750.00
241

Liturgy , Latin, Rite - Horae beatissimae Virginis Mariae, ad usum Romanum repurgatissima.

1570 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,500.00
51 Campbell, Colen

Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British architect..

1722 or 1725?-1731. GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,250.00
91 Rowlandson, Thomas

ARRIVAL OF THE STAGECOACH The arrival of a coach at the Dolphin Inn, Greenwich.

c.1795 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,250.00
93 Speed, John - Pieter van der Keere.

England Wales Scotland and Ireland described and abridged.

1666 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,250.00
68 Shaw, James, gardener to The Right Hon. Lord Mulgrave

Plans, elevations and sections, with observations and explanations, of forcing-houses, in gardening.

1794 GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,000.00
178

Medical Case Books - Berkshire Asylum / Moulsford Asylum. Two manuscript medical case books from the Berkshire Asylum, detailing the cases of mentally ill patients: Private Patients Males,

c.1891-1916 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,875.00
238 Erasmus, Desiderius

The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testamente.

1548 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,875.00
181

The Persecution of the Clan Gregor. Manuscript commission, dated 21st November 1611, instructing the holding of regional courts to try those suspected of 'resetting', or protecting the interests of, members of the Clan Gregor,

1611 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,750.00
298 Lawrence, T.E.

Revolt in the Desert.

1927 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,750.00
239 Knox, John

An Answer to a Great Nomber of Blasphemous Cavillations..

1560 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,500.00
237 Edwards, Jonathan

A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will..

1754 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 2,375.00
313 Nieuhof, John

An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the grand Tartar Cham emperour of China..

1669 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,375.00
67 Robertson, William, architect

A collection of various forms of stoves, used for forcing pine plants, fruit trees, and preserving tender exotics.

1798 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
125 Milton, John

Eikonoklastes..

1649 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
227 Paxton, Joseph

Magazine of Botany.

1834-48 . GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
248 Annan, Thomas

The old closes & streets of Glasgow.

1900 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,250.00
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    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
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  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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