Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 827, Edinburgh

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Auction Date
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
51

Great Britain - Group of maps, 18th and 19th century - comprising: Bowles, John. The London Directory, or a New and Improved Plan of London, Westminster, and Southwark, 1769.

41.8 x 52.5cm, in marbled slipcase with manuscript label, a little staining, linen backing worn away along a few folds;Harris, J. Harris's Plan of London, Westminster and the Borough of Southwark 1768 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,890.00
52 Murray, Sir Alexander

The True Interest of Great Britain, Ireland and our Plantations - or, a Proposal for making such an Union between Great Britain and Ireland, and all our Plantations, ...

London 1740 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 529.20
53 Teesdale, Henry (publisher)

A New General Atlas of the World -

London 1838 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 693.00
54 Stanihurst, Richard

De rebus in Hibernia gestis ... omnia nunc primum in lucem edita. -

Leiden 1584 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,386.00
55 Dunn, Samuel (editor)

A New Directory for the East Indies - containing I. The First Discoveries made in the East Indies by European Voyages and Travellers. II. The Origin, Construction and Application of Nautical and Hydrographical Charts. III. ...

London 1780 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,528.00
56 Mason, George Henry

The Costume of China - Illustrated by Sixty Engravings: with Explanations in English and French.

London 1800 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 756.00
57 Cluver, Philipp

Introduction in universam geographiam - ... a Johanne Bunone, iam vero locupletata additamentis et annotationibus John. Frid. Hekelii et John. Reiskii.

Amsterdam 1697 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,008.00
58

Travel - Collection of works - Kerr, Robert. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels.

Edinburgh 1811-17. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 554.40
59 Morse, Jedidiah

A New and Correct Edition of the American Geography - or, a View of the Present Situation of the United States of America.

Edinburgh 1795 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,764.00
60

Travel - Collection of works, 18th-19th century - Eton, William. Authentic Materials for a History of the People of Malta. First, Second, Third, and Fourth Parts: Now first published. To be continued.

London 1802-5-7. GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,512.00
61 Sauer, Martin

An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia - ... Performed ... By Commodore Joseph Billings, in the Years 1785, et. to 1794.

London 1802 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
62 [Rennefort, Urbain Souchu de]

Historie van Oost-Indien - vervattende, behalven de zeer nette beschrijving der vergelegene landed, een omstandig verhaal van het wedervaren der Franschen aldaar.

Rotterman 1696 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
63 Niebuhr, Carsten

Travels in Arabia - and Other Countries in the East. Translated into English by Robert Heron. With Notes by the Translator.

Edinburgh 1792 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 529.20
64 Arvieux, Laurent d'

The Travels of the Chevalier D'Arvieux in Arabia the Desart - ... to which is added, a General Description of Arabia, by Sultan Ishmael Abulfeda ... Done into English by an Eminent Hand.

London 1732 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
65 Hoskins, George Alexander

Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert - With an Account, Ancient and Modern, of the Oasis of Amun, and the Other Oases now under the Dominion of the Pasha of Egypt.

London 1837 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 529.20
66 Wyld, James

Map of India - constructed with great care and research from all the Latest Authorities and intended particularly to facilitate a reference to the Civil and Military Stations. ...

London 1854 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,386.00
67 La Rochefoucault-Liancourt, Francois-Alexander-Frederic, duc de

Travels through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada - in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an Authentic Account of Lower Canada.

London 1799 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 882.00
68 Parry, William Edward

Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage -

London 1824 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 630.00
69

India - Collection of works, 18th-19th century - [Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess]. Notes relative to the Late Transactions in the Marhatta Empire. Fort William, December 15, 1803.

London 1804 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 882.00
70

Africa, Middle East and Egypt - Collection of works, 19th century - Selous, Frederick Courteney. A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa being a Narrative of Nine Years spent amongst the Game of the far Interior of South Africa.

London 1881 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
71 Belzoni, Giovanni

Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia -

London 1822 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,772.00
72

Persian Gulf Pilot, 1915 and 2 similar supplements - The Persian Gulf Pilot. Comprising The Persian Gulf, The Gulf of Oman and The Makran Coast.

London 1915 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 8,190.00
73

India - Collection of works, 18th-20th century - [Trial of Warren Hastings]. Debates of the House of Lords, on the Evidence delivered in the Trial of Warren Hastings, Esquire; ...

London 1797 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,764.00
74

India - Collection of works in Urdu -

19th or early 20th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 693.00
75

India - Collection of Indian imprints and manuscripts - [Indian big-game hunting]. Two manuscript hunting diaries kept by one M. W. Selby Lowndes, 1924-6.

1924-6. GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,134.00