Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 827, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
176 Brown, George Mackay

Poems and Novels, a collection - Comprising: Magnus.

London 1974 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 554.40
177 McGonagall, William Topaz (1825-1902)

Inscribed poetry broadside and original cabinet card portrait photograph - Broadside: New Poems. Beautiful Aberfoyle. Lines in Praise of Mr J. Graham Henderson, Hawick.

Dundee 1893 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 819.00
178 Mary I (1516-1558), Queen of England and Ireland

Letter signed 'Mary the quene' to William, Lord Paget, on the outbreak of Wyatt's Rebellion, 28th January 1554 -

GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 36,000.00
179 Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of (1532/3-1588)

Autograph letter signed to Elizabeth I -

Harden [Hawarden] Castle [1584]. GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 31,200.00
180 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, (1921-2021)

Letters sent from Gordonstoun regarding cricket fixtures, 1938 -

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 428.40
181

House of Windsor - Collection of books including inscribed presentation copies from the royal family -

London 1947 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 378.00
182 Frederick II (1712-1786), King of Prussia - Frederick the Great / Friedrich der grosse

Letter signed, 17th August 1748 -

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 630.00
183

East India Company "Swift" - account of a voyage to India and Malaysia 1794-5 (written 1796 or a little later)v - Attributed to Clement Sneyd, Second Lieutenant on board the voyage -

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
184

Qur'an - Miniature manuscript Qur'an, probably Ottoman territories, 19th century -

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,512.00
185 [Fyffe, Dr William, attributed, and others] -

English Civil War manuscript remedy and recipe book Mid-17th century -

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
186

War of the Spanish Succession - 3 autograph letters signed to John Webb, victor of Wijnendale, 1708-9 -

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
187 Cuthbert Collingwood

ALS written to Admiral Sidney Smith -

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,764.00
188 Hamish Mann [Alexander James Mann] (1896-1917) 2nd Lt. 8th Battalion

The Black Watch: The First World War - An archive of war poetry and prose -

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
189 Ecole speciale militaire de St-Cyr

Portfolio of sketches and manuscript exercises by officer cadet Camille de Caix, Baron de Chaulieu, 1876-1877 -

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 75.60
190 Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (1877-1947)

Collection of autograph letters signed and other signed pieces -

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,008.00
191 Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)

Clipped autograph signature -

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
192 Edgeworth, Maria, and others

Including a letter regarding the Irish Potato Famine and other matters -

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 945.00
193 Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham and the surrounding areas

A quantity of legal documents, mostly on vellum -

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,260.00
194 Scottish Railways Copy Letter Book, 1847-1848

Eborall, William Henry -

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
195 Guiot de Bes

Historical French Manuscripts -

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 882.00
196

Scottish Legal Documents, etc. - A large quantity -

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
197

18th century France - Four documents on vellum -

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 126.00
198

17th century Scottish documents - A collection -

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 352.80
199

Scottish covers and letters c.1719-1877 -

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
200

18th and 19th century correspondence - English and Scottish -

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold