PAST AUCTION

07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 773

Live in Edinburgh & Online

Cathy Marsden

Head of Sale

cathy.marsden@lyonandturnbull.com

The Stevenson Collection

Our forthcoming collection features 200 years of provenance from one of Scotland’s best-known families.

Books & Manuscripts

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Darwin, Charles

The Power of Movement in Plants

Darwin, Charles

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

Darwin, Charles

The Power of Movement in Plants

Darwin, Charles

Four works

Darwin, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

SOLD FOR £1,260

Darwin, Charles [Owen, Richard]

Original review by Richard Owen of Darwin's seminal work, On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection

Green, Thomas

The Universal Herbal, or Botanical, Medical and Agricultural Dictionary

SOLD FOR £1,134

Philpots, John R.

Oysters and all about them

Natural History

Collection of works

[Swedish flora]

Illustrerad Trädgårdstidning Månadsskrift för trädgårdskonstens idkare och Vänner i Norden

Mosses

6 volumes

Ellis, John

An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines

Traill, George William

A Monograph of the Algae of the Firth of Forth

SOLD FOR £1,008

Hayes, William

A Natural History of British Birds, etc. with their Portraits

SOLD FOR £1,071

Allom, Thomas (illustrator)

China, in a Series of Views

Indian lithographic printing

Collection of rare works in Urdu on various subjects

SOLD FOR £1,260

New Zealand

4 works

Indian lithographic printing

Collection of rare works in Urdu on various subjects

Allan & Ferguson, Lithographers

[Views on the Clyde]

Staunton, Sir George Leonard

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China

SOLD FOR £2,268

Wolff, Joseph

Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845

Knolles, Richard

The Generall Historie of the Turkes

California and the USA

6 books

[Locher]

[Recueil de Portraits et Costumes Suisses]

India

Illustrated Urdu manuscript on farming, 1903

Davies, Hannah

Among Hills and Valleys in Western China

Grant, James

The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland

Smyth, William Henry

Memoir Descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography, of Sicily and its Islands

Wheeler, Stephen

History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar

SOLD FOR £3,780

Schomburgk, Robert

The History of Barbados

Polar Exploration

Including Kane, Nansen and Scott

New Zealand

Maori Studies

Ancient Egypt

Museum of Cairo and The Egypt Exploration Fund

SOLD FOR £1,386

Robson, George Fennell

Scenery of the Grampian Mountains

Schetky, John Christian and Lord John Manners

Sketches and Notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters

SOLD FOR £2,520

Sutherland, Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of (1765-1839)

Views on the Northern and Western Coasts of Sutherland

SOLD FOR £1,764

Sutherland, Thomas (c.1785-1827), after John Gendall (1790-1865)

Three hand-coloured aquatints of Edinburgh

A New Display of the Beauties of England

or a Description of the most Elegant or Magnificent

Daniell, William

Collection of views from A Voyage Round Great Britain, 1814-25

SOLD FOR £1,638

Daniell, William

Collection of views from A Voyage Round Great Britain, 1814-25

SOLD FOR £1,197

Orkney

A collection of 10 works

Scottish History and Topography

Collection of works, 18th-19th century

Torfaeus, Thormodus

Orcades seu Rerum Orcadensium Historiae libri tres...

SOLD FOR £1,197

Scotland, mainly Glasgow

25 books

Glasgow

The Graphic

Orkney, including Barry, George

Barry's History of Orkney

Louth, Ireland

Wright, Thomas

Leighton, John

The Lakes of Scotland

Robson, George Fennell

Scenery of the Grampian Mountains, 3 copies, all in different states

SOLD FOR £1,638

Arbroath

Collection of works about or printed in Arbroath or environs

Orkney and Shetland

Acts and Statutes of the Lawting Sheriff and Justice Courts within Orkney and Zetland MDCII - MDCXLIV

Office of Robert Adam

Drawings for Ninewells House, for Joseph Home Esq.

SOLD FOR £7,560

Architectural Drawings

11 sketches in ink and wash of Scottish locations

SOLD FOR £1,764

Archive of the Stevenson family

Comprising books, diaries, manuscripts and photographs

SOLD FOR £9,072

Signals from the Bell Rock Lighthouse to the Arbroath Signal Tower

An illustrated manuscript

SOLD FOR £6,930

Lighthouses: sketches, watercolour sketches and prints

A collection

Bell Rock Lighthouse

Charges for surveys, plans, medals, and superintendence of Engineers at the Bell Rock Lighthouse

Bell Rock Work Yard Medal

Admiralty protection medal - granted to John Spinks

SOLD FOR £4,536

Bell, Lieutenant A.C.

Copy of ships' logs, 19th century, including Australia and Samoa

SOLD FOR £2,772

Pixley, Captain W.

Manuscript account of cruises

SOLD FOR £2,772

Stevenson, Alan

Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse

SOLD FOR £1,512

Stevenson, Robert

An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House

SOLD FOR £1,386

Stevenson, Alan

Report to the Committee of the Commissioners of Northern Lights

Books from the Stevenson Library

Including lighthouses, philately, geography and maritime subjects

SOLD FOR £3,528

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Works and biographies

Stevenson, Robert Louis

ALS and a small archive

SOLD FOR £4,284

Stevenson, Robert

An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House

Adam Callender (Scottish fl. 1780-1811)

An Indiaman in the Downs

ALPetit (19th century French)

The Lighthouse, Guernsey

John Hervey Oswald (Scottish fl. 1851-1899)

Fishing boat off a lighthouse in rough seas

Janssonius, Jan

Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: volume 1 [In quo Germaniae superioris...]

SOLD FOR £8,820

Morris, Lewis

Plans of Harbours, Bars, Bays and Roads in St. George’s-Channel

Visscher, Nicolaes

[Composite atlas of Europe]

SOLD FOR £4,032

Bertius, Petrus

Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum, libri quinque

SOLD FOR £4,032

Münster, Sebastian

Cosmographiae Universalis Lib. VI

SOLD FOR £11,340

Ptolemaeus, Claudius

La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandro

SOLD FOR £5,292

[unknown author, possibly Louis Vlasblom]

The North-Sea Contaigning the Demonstration of the Coast of Holland...

SOLD FOR £5,292

Adam, Robert

Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia

SOLD FOR £5,544

Downie, Murdo

The New Pilot for the East Coast of Scotland

Gordon, Patrick

Geography Anatomiz'd

Speed, John

England, Wales & Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged

Quad, Matthias

Europae Totius Orbis Terrarum

SOLD FOR £4,788

Kitchin, Thomas

A General Atlas describing the whole Universe

SOLD FOR £6,048

Blome, Richard

[A bound collection of county maps]

SOLD FOR £1,386

Highland Roads and Bridges

Report of the Commissioners for making Roads and building Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland

Leslie, John

De Origine Moribus, et Rebus gestis Scotorum, Libri decem

SOLD FOR £2,142

Dury, Andrew - Thomas Kitchen, & Others

A New General and Universal Atlas...

Campbell, Donald

A Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures and Sufferings by Shipwreck & Imprisonment...

McKenzie, Murdoch

Justification of Mr Murdoch McKenzie's Nautical Survey of the Orkney Islands and Hebrides

[Cotton, Captain Joseph]

Memoir on the Origin and Incorporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond

[Bisset, James]

The Geographical Guide

Kerr, John

The Golf-Book of East Lothian

Dighton, Robert

Geography Bewitched!

Heron, Robert

A New and Complete System of Universal Geography

Weston, Robert Harcourt

Letters and Important Documents relative to the Edystone Lighthouse

Keulen, Johannes van

Pascaart vande Engeland, Schotland en Yrland

SOLD FOR £1,071

Scottish Maps

A very large collection

SOLD FOR £2,772

Scottish Maps

A collection of regional and coastal maps, mostly 17th-18th century

Maps of England and the British Isles

A collection

SOLD FOR £1,197

Moll, Herman [and others]

A collection of maps, including The North Part of Great Britain called Scotland