Lyon and Turnbull Auction 884

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Auction Date: February 25, 2026 - February 25, 2026

Page Size: 253 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76		Travel & exploration. A collection. Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North.	New York	1897	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,651.00
77	A. & C. Black	Collection of deluxe editions. all 4to, original cloth, comprising: Menpes, Dorothy and Mortimer. Japan. A record in colour.	London	n.d.	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 508.00
78		Large collection of mainly American travel & history, 19th-early 20th century. including: Thomas Simpson, Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America.	London	1843	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 508.00
79	Stedman, J. G.	Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam	London	1806	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
80	Pinckney, Charles, Jr	Document signed as governor of South Carolina,		1807	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 254.00
81		An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 25th March 1807. [in:] A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the Forty-Seventh Year of ... King George the Third.	London	1807	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 762.00
82		Volume of two pamphlets on the slave trade. Observations on the Bill introduced Last Session by Mr. Wilberforce	London	1816	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
83	Melville, Herman	[Typee]. Narrative of A Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of the Marquesas Islands.	London	1846	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
84	Pinkerton, John	A General Collection of the Best & Most Interesting Voyages & Travels in all Parts of the World	London	1808-1814	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 635.00
85	Atkinson, George Francklin	Collection of plates from The Campaign in India, 1857-8	London	1859	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 635.00
86	Hunter, James	Collection of plates from Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore	London	1804-5	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 406.40
87	Taylor, Meadows	Tippoo Sultaun: a Tale of the Mysore War	London	1840	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,397.00
88	India	India. Photograph album compiled by a British Royal Artillery officer,		1875-8	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,651.00
89	Gordon, Sir John J. H.	The Sikhs	Edinburgh	1904	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 952.50
90		Photograph album of Sikh soldiers in the British Indian Army,		circa 1905-10	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 4,318.00
91	Kennedy, Richard Hartley	Narrative of the Campaign of the Army of the Indus, in Sind & Kaubool, in 1838-9	London	1840	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,079.50
92		Manuscript journal of a sea voyage from Calcutta to Lorient... in the ship Notre Dame du [Mont?] Carmel, under the command of Capitaine Termillier(?)		January to June 1786	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 355.60
93		India & Burma [Myanmar] Collection of works, 19th & 20th century. Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. Visvakarma: Examples of Indian Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Handicraft	London	1914	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 406.40
94		Large collection of documents signed by Indian rulers,		1930s	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
95	Firuzabadi, Muhammad bin Yaqub al-	Kitab al-qamus al-muhit ['The Expansive Ocean']	Calcutta	beginning of Muharram 1230 AH - 25 Rabi' al-Thani 1232 AH i.e. 1814-17 CE	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,556.00
96		Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, 1904. Photographs attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Irvine Davys		1904	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
97		Laoshan Mountain Expedition Photographs. 42 mounted albumen prints			GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
98		Japan, China, Philippines, Indonesia & Canada. Two photograph albums, 1925-6. The first entitled 'T.S.S. California World Cruise Jan-May 1925' and signed J. Esmond-Bell,		1925	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
99	Thompson, Stephen	Photographs of British Museum Antiquities	London	1872	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 4,064.00
100	Annan, Thomas	The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry	Glasgow	1878	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 381.00

Lyon and Turnbull: Books and Manuscripts, 884, Edinburgh

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