Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 827, Edinburgh

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February 05, 2025 - February 05, 2025
Page Size: 393 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Newton, Isaac

Optice - sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus, et Coloribus Lucis Libri Tres. Latine reddidit Samuel Clarke.

London 1706 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,394.00
2 [Opponent of Isaac Newton] Hutchinson, John

Group of works - H[utchinson], J[ohn]. Moses's Sine Principio: represented by Names, by Words, by Types, by Emblems.

London 1729 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 428.40
3 A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland'

Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences - compiled upon a New Plan. In which the Different Sciences and Arts are digested into Distinct Treatises or Systems;

Edinburgh 1771 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 25,200.00
4 Hutton, James

Theory of the Earth - or an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe. [In:] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. I.

Edinburgh 1788 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,276.00
5

Science - Collection of works, English and Scottish, mainly 18th century - Buchan, William. Domestic Medicine; or, the Family Physician.

Edinburgh 1769 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 882.00
6 Pufendorf, Samuel von

De jure naturae et gentium libri octo -

Lund 1672 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,276.00
7 Philosophy and political economy

Collection of works including Scottish Enlightenment treatises - Alison, Archibald. Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste.

Edinburgh 1790. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 819.00
8 Forbes, Alexander, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo

Essays Moral and Philosophical, on several Subjects - viz. A View of the Human Faculties. A Short Account of the World. Two Discourses on Decency. An Essay on Self-Love.

London 1734 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 554.40
9 [Locke, John] Wynne, John

An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Humane Understanding -

London 1696 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 428.40
10

Scots law - Collection of works, 17th-18th century - Bayne, Alexander. Notes for the Students of the Municipal Law in the University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh 1731 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 819.00
11

Scots law - Collection of works, 16th-19th century - Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland. [Sammelband of laws and acts of parliament passed at Edinburgh].

Edinburgh 1661-72. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
12 [Briscoe, John]

A Discourse of Money - Being an Essay on that Subject, Historically and Politically handled.

London 1696 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,764.00
13 Menasseh ben Israel (printer)

Humas de Parasioth y Aftharoth - traduzido palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebraica en Espanol.

[Amsterdam:] [1627]. GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 11,970.00
14

Biblia - R. Stephanus Lectoris. En tibi Biblioru[m] vulgata editio, ...

[Geneva] 1555 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 630.00
15

The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New - Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, ...

Cambridge 1638 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 630.00
16

The Holy Bible -

Oxford 1680 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 504.00
17

Collection of Bibles and religious works, 17th-18th century - Bible; Latin; Tremellius-Junius-Beza version. Biblia sacra, sive Testamentum vetus, ab. Im. Tremellio et Fr. Junio ex Hebraeo Latine redditum....

Amsterdam 1632 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 819.00
18

The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments - And other parts of divine Service for the use of the Church of Scotland [part 2: The Psalter, or, Psalmes of David ...

Edinburgh 1637 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,071.00
19

Elzevir Press - Collection of works, 17th century - titles include: Hobbes, Thomas. Elementa philosophica de cive.

Amsterdam 1669 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 529.20
20

Continental books - Collection of works, 17th-18th century - Diodorus Siculus. Bibliothecae historicae ... ex interpretatione Laurentii Rhodomani

. Hanover 1611 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,008.00
21

Continental books - Collections of works including editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th-18th century - Homer. Ilias. Cum M. Aemilii Porti, Francisci Porti Cretensis F. Latina ad verbus interpretatione.

[Geneva] 1629 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 756.00
22

Continental books - Collection of editions of Greek and Latin classics, 17th century - , titles include: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Tragoediae. J. F. Gronovius recenusuit.

Leiden 1661 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 756.00
23

Continental books - Collection of works, 17th-18th century - all in contemporary vellum, including: Albertus Magnus. De Secretis Mulierum.

Amsterdam 1641 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 945.00
24

Continental books - Collection of works, 16th-17th century - titles include: Claudianus, Claudius. [Opera] Theod. Pulmanni Craneburgii diligentia, et fide summa, e vetustis codicibus restitutus. [Bound with:] Aesop. Aviani Aesopicarum fabularum liber.

Antwerp 1596 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 630.00
25

Continental books - Collection of works, 16th century - Boccaccio, Giovanni. L'amorosa fiammetta. Di nuova ristampata e con diligenza ricorretta.

Venice 1586 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,764.00