PAST AUCTION

19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST

Books & Manuscripts

Sale Number: 819

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EDINBURGH

Cathy Marsden

Head of Sale

cathy.marsden@lyonandturnbull.com

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Books & Manuscripts

Gerard, John

The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes

SOLD FOR £10,710

Audubon, John James & The Reverend John Bachman

The Quadrupeds of North America

SOLD FOR £4,536

Parkinson, John

Paradisi in Sole, Paradisius Terrestris

SOLD FOR £5,292

Booth, E.T.

Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during twenty-five years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands

£2,000 - £3,000

Greville, Robert Kaye

Scottish Cryptogamic Flora

SOLD FOR £504

Hooker, J.D. & W.J.

The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya

SOLD FOR £2,772

Hooker, J.D.

Illustrations of Himalayan Plants

SOLD FOR £2,394

New Naturalists

Numbers 123-136, deluxe editions

SOLD FOR £882

New Naturalists

Part-set of the 'Golden Fourteen'

SOLD FOR £504

New Naturalists

Numbers 124-134, signed editions

SOLD FOR £252

New Naturalists

Numbers 101-142

SOLD FOR £945

New Naturalists

Part-set of the New Naturalist Monographs

SOLD FOR £328

Gardening

Including Miller, Philip

SOLD FOR £1,764

Lightfoot, John

Flora Scotica

SOLD FOR £303

Anderson, John

Zoology of Egypt: Volume First. Reptilia and Batrachia

SOLD FOR £2,142

Conrad Loddiges & Sons & George Cooke, illustrator

The Botanical Cabinet

SOLD FOR £3,780

Forestry

A small collection, including

Edwards, Sydenham

The Botanical Register

SOLD FOR £1,134

Sowerby, James

English Botany

SOLD FOR £2,016

Rosser, Celia E. and Alexander S. George

The Banksias

SOLD FOR £1,890

Sinclair, John

An Account of the Systems of Husbandry

SOLD FOR £303

Yarrell, William, with Autograph Letters Signed by Yarrell and Gould

A History of British Birds

SOLD FOR £630

Millais, J.G.

Rhododendrons

Saint-Hillaire, M. Jaume

Plantes de la France

SOLD FOR £819

Maund, B.

The Botanic Garden

Willmott, Ellen

The Genus Rosa

SOLD FOR £1,008

Hewitson, William C.

British Oology

SOLD FOR £278

Bradley, R.

A Complete Body of Husbandry

Botany

Including Sowerby, Charles - John Johnson & C. Pierpoint Johnson

Gould, John

[Three hand-coloured lithographs of hummingbirds]

Naismith, John

Thoughts on Various Objects of Industry pursued in Scotland

SOLD FOR £252

[First Australian novelist] Grimstone, Mary Leman

The Beauty of the British Alps

SOLD FOR £1,008

Australia

Manuscript produced by convicts on the transport Clyde, 1863

SOLD FOR £16,380

Australia

Album of photographic views of Tasmania, c.1890

SOLD FOR £882

Australia and New Zealand

Photograph album, c.1880

SOLD FOR £1,134

Webber, John (1751/2-1793)

[Views in the South Seas]

SOLD FOR £40,200

Jamaica - slavery - sugar trade

Manuscript letter-book of plantation attorney William Shand of Fettercairn, 1826-7

SOLD FOR £2,772

Baikie, Robert

Observations on the Neilgherries

SOLD FOR £1,764

Dixon, Charles George

Sketch of Mairwara

SOLD FOR £2,772

Parsons, Abraham

Travels in Asia and Africa

SOLD FOR £555

Mughal India

Collection of manuscript documents, 18th century

SOLD FOR £4,032

East India Company

Collection of official letters countersigned by Alexander Speirs, political resident at Gwalior then Nagpur, 1840s

SOLD FOR £1,764

India - Jainism

The Temples of [Satrunjaya] Palitana in Kathiawad

SOLD FOR £3,528

Company School

Portrait of a young beauty

SOLD FOR £605

Company School

Illustration of two birds

SOLD FOR £530

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir

SOLD FOR £3,528

Middle East, Sudan, Africa, India

Collection of works, 19th-20th century

SOLD FOR £1,197

Ottoman Turkey - Smyrna and Cassaba Railway

[Timetable for the Smyrna to Alaşehir extension]

SOLD FOR £139

Lautz, Thomas

Steinreich in der Südsee. Traditioneele Zahlungsmittel in Mikronesien

[Korea and China]

Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria

SOLD FOR £605

Portlock, Nathaniel, Captain

A Voyage Round the World; but more regularly to the North-West Coast of America...

SOLD FOR £580

Roosevelt, Theodore

The Winning of the West

SOLD FOR £378

Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark

Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean

SOLD FOR £4,410

Edinburgh Advertiser

Vol. XXVIII Nos. 1418-1458

[Russia - House of Romanov]

Collection de vingt-quatre portraits de la famille impériale

SOLD FOR £605

Du Pasquier, Claudius Francis, FRCS (1811-1897)

Collection of sketchbooks and an illustrated journal of tours in the Alps

SOLD FOR £378

Iceland

Five works

SOLD FOR £580

Edmondston, Arthur

A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands

SOLD FOR £353

Scotland

Four ink sketches in the style of Daniell

Clerk, John, of Eldin

A Series of Etchings Chiefly of Views in Scotland

SOLD FOR £378

Sibbald, Robert

Scotia Illustrata, sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis...

SOLD FOR £278

Pontoppidan, Erich [bound with Horrebow's Iceland]

The Natural History of Norway

SOLD FOR £504

Williams, Henry Llewellyn

"Buffalo Bill" (The Hon. William F. Cody)

SOLD FOR £429

Travel

12 works

SOLD FOR £819

Indian Rebellion of 1857

3 works

SOLD FOR £504

Scotland

A collection

SOLD FOR £630

Ellis, William

Polynesian Researches, during a residence of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands

Farquharson, Joseph

[Lithograph] Flock of Sheep with Shepherd

SOLD FOR £504

Richardt, Fr. - Gustaf Ljunggren

Skånsker Herregådar

Brand, John

The History and Antiquities of the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne

[Corbould, Edward]

The Eglinton Tournament [uncoloured copy]

Scottish View Books

10 works

Australia and New Zealand, 7 works

including gold mining in Australia

Anderson, James

An Account of the Present State of the Hebrides and Western Coasts of Scotland

SOLD FOR £328

Hill, David Octavius

[Plates from] Views of the Opening of the Glasgow & Garnkirk Railway

SOLD FOR £819

Landseer, Edwin & Thomas

[Lithograph] Deer Stalking in the Highlands

Farquharson, Joseph

[Lithograph] Sheep down to the Ferry

Graham, Peter

[Lithograph] Highland Cattle

Travel

Collection of works

Canada

8 Books

[Scottish Prints]

Four works

Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de'

Pontificum Romanorum Effigies

SOLD FOR £945

Crusius, Martin (1526-1607)

De Imp. Rom. Friderico Ahenobarbo, vel Barbarossa ... oratio

SOLD FOR £479

[Blackwood, Adam]

Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse Douairiere de France

SOLD FOR £1,512

Beaugué, Jean de

L'histoire de la guerre d'Escosse

SOLD FOR £605

Buchanan, George

Psalmorum Davidis paraphrais poetica

SOLD FOR £328

French armorial bindings

Three works

SOLD FOR £1,764

Bible; English; Authorised Version

The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New

SOLD FOR £2,142

Scottish Book of Common Order

The CL. Psalmes of David, in Prose and Meeter

SOLD FOR £1,512

Scottish herringbone bindings

The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments

SOLD FOR £1,512

Bible; Psalms; English

The Psalmes of King David translated by King James

SOLD FOR £1,071

Scottish Prayer Book - 'Laud's Liturgy'

The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments

SOLD FOR £1,134

[Johnston, Sir Archibald, Lord Wariston]

The Protestation of the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland

SOLD FOR £1,134

[Johnston, Sir Archibald, Lord Wariston]

A Short Relation of the State of the Kirk of Scotland since the Reformation of Religion

SOLD FOR £504

Scotland

A Solemne League and Covenant

SOLD FOR £693

Radical War of 1820

'An original autograph letter from Andrew Hardie to his Relations Sept. 5th 1820. Written in Stirling Castle three days before his execution for high treason'

SOLD FOR £2,520

Boyd, Zachary

The Last Battel of the Soule in Death

SOLD FOR £1,008

Franck, Richard

Northern Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland

SOLD FOR £2,772

Adamson, John

The Muses Welcome to the High and Mighty Prince James

SOLD FOR £2,772

Sinclair, George

Natural Philosophy improved by New Experiments

SOLD FOR £1,071