PAST AUCTION

30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Featuring the Trevor Dawson Magic Collection | 613

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EDINBURGH

Cathy Tait

Sale Contact

cathy.tait@lyonandturnbull.com

DEPARTMENT

Books & Manuscripts

FEATURED AUTHOR

Beatrix Potter

Art & Architecture

42 Books, including 3 large folios

SOLD FOR £375

Russia: Art & History

12 Books, comprising

SOLD FOR £813

Stevenson, Alan

Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse

SOLD FOR £1,000

Stevenson, Robert

An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House

SOLD FOR £1,500

Arrowmith, Aaron

Map of Scotland, constructed from Original Material obtained under

SOLD FOR £450

Delisle, Guillaume

Atlas Nouveau

SOLD FOR £7,500

Fehr & Du Bois, publishers

Troye's Map of the Transvaal

SOLD FOR £475

Children's Books

26 books and a box of Photographs

SOLD FOR £350

Potter, Beatrix

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

SOLD FOR £375

Potter, Beatrix

Four first editions, comprising

SOLD FOR £425

Potter, Beatrix

The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit

SOLD FOR £400

Rackham, Arthur, illustrator

Four Children's Books

SOLD FOR £350

Thomas, Edward

Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds

SOLD FOR £650

[Etruria - Etruscan] Inghirami, Curzio

Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta...

SOLD FOR £475

[Incunable] Boccaccio, Giovanni

Genealogie [Deorum gentilium]

SOLD FOR £1,063

Alphabetum Arabicum

Rome, 1592

SOLD FOR £11,250

Continental Books, mainly vellum bound

6 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £275

Diderot, Denis

[Encyclopédie]

SOLD FOR £275

Matet, M.M.

Tapis Modernes

SOLD FOR £500

Petrarca, Francesco

Il Petrarca con le Ossrvationi di Messer Francesco Alunno

SOLD FOR £475

A collection of books

13 bindings

SOLD FOR £500

Acts of Parliament, Parliamentary Papers & Reports

Including Whaling, Fisheries, Lighthouses, Agriculture & other subjects

SOLD FOR £375

Holland, James

The Battle of Britain

SOLD FOR £325

Jacobite Interest: Acts of Parliament

Relating to the 1715 Uprising

SOLD FOR £350

Plinius Secundus, Gaius

The Historie of the World

SOLD FOR £1,500

Rae, W.F.

Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox: the Opposition under George the Third

SOLD FOR £325

Robert Strange - Jacobite Banknotes

Proof Printed and Signed by Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A.

SOLD FOR £1,625

Scotland

73 works, including

SOLD FOR £1,625

Scotland, 8 volumes, comprising

Lindsay, Patrick

SOLD FOR £688

Sibbald, Robert

A Collection of Several Treatises in Folio

SOLD FOR £375

Williamson, Peter

French and Indian Cruelty

SOLD FOR £1,125

1870's Literature

22 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £300

1890's Literature

a collection, including

SOLD FOR £275

1920's Literature

24 volumes, some signed, comprising

SOLD FOR £575

1930's literature

24 volumes, including

SOLD FOR £688

1940's Literature

38 volumes, including

SOLD FOR £813

19th Century American History and Literature

18 volumes, including

SOLD FOR £750

5 First editions, comprising

Thomas, Edward

SOLD FOR £575

A collection of literature, mainly 20th century

35 books, including

SOLD FOR £575

American Literature and History, 20th century

a collection, comprising

SOLD FOR £813

Banks, Iain

17 books, including 10 signed by the author

SOLD FOR £450

Banks, Iain M.

14 books, 6 signed by the author

SOLD FOR £1,063

Bibliography

38 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £425

Boyd, William, and others

28 works, comprising

SOLD FOR £375

Braine, John - Lawrence Durrell - Olivia Manning - Anthony Powell - Simon Raven - L.P. Hartley

32 Books, comprising

SOLD FOR £400

Brontë, Charlotte - Brontë, Emily - Brontë, Anne

The Shakespeare Head Brontë

SOLD FOR £525

Christie, Agatha

8 First editions, comprising

SOLD FOR £375

Conrad, Joseph

6 books

SOLD FOR £425

De L'Isle-Adam, P.A., Count

Axel

SOLD FOR £400

Dickens, Charles

12 books, first and early editions

SOLD FOR £688

Dickens, Charles

David Copperfield

SOLD FOR £575

Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist

SOLD FOR £425

Du Maurier, Daphne

Rebecca

SOLD FOR £1,875

Fleming, Ian

For Your Eyes Only

SOLD FOR £425

Fleming, Ian

6 James Bond Novels

SOLD FOR £450

Fleming, Ian

Diamonds are Forever

SOLD FOR £1,625

Fleming, Ian

Dr No

SOLD FOR £875

Fleming, Ian

Moonraker

SOLD FOR £3,750

Fleming, Ian

Thunderball

SOLD FOR £625

Fraser, George MacDonald

16 books, including 2 signed by the author

SOLD FOR £525

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

A Scots Quair

SOLD FOR £550

Haggard, H. Rider - Neil Munro

15 books in original cloth

SOLD FOR £575

History & Literature

86 Books, including

SOLD FOR £813

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]

26 items, 15 signed, comprising

SOLD FOR £1,625

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]

Selected Lyrics

SOLD FOR £300

Masters, John - McIlvanney, William - Monsarrat, Nicholas

20 books

SOLD FOR £300

McDonald, Alexander [Alistair MacDomhnuill]

A Galick and English Vocabulary / Leabhar a Theagasc Ainminnin: no a Nuadhschocloir Gaoidhelig & Beurla

SOLD FOR £1,188

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]

Animal Farm

SOLD FOR £1,063

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

SOLD FOR £1,875

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

SOLD FOR £750

Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair] - Aldous Huxley

37 volumes

SOLD FOR £500

Rowling, J.K.

The Harry Potter Gift Set, Signed

SOLD FOR £5,500

Sackville-West, Vita

Sissinghurst

SOLD FOR £400

Scott, Sir Walter

A collection of first editions

SOLD FOR £375

Snow, C.P.

30 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £375

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A collection of 7 works

SOLD FOR £375

Trollope, Anthony

Collection of 37 volumes, comprising

SOLD FOR £600

Virgil - Gavin Douglas, translator

Aeneis, translated into Scottish Verse

SOLD FOR £400

Waugh, Evelyn

Vile Bodies

SOLD FOR £525

[18th century religious manuscript account] Wilson, William

Memorial of Free Mercy

SOLD FOR £813

Archive of the Gill / Hutchison Family

Including the naval adventures of Commander Thomas Gill, b.1774

SOLD FOR £1,063

Bishop of Durham, Halmote Court Documents

21 historic documents, comprising

SOLD FOR £550

Collection of Scottish documents & Theatrical Programmes,

comprising

SOLD FOR £600

Edinburgh. Scarce medieval deed, dated at Edinburgh 20th September 1481

In which George Elder, burgess of the borough of Edinburgh, grants and sells to William Craik

SOLD FOR £688

Edward (Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland, later Duke of York, son of Edmund of Langley, 1373?-1415)

Charter, granting the reversion of the Manor of Oxhey, [Watford, Hertfordshire]

SOLD FOR £688

Gaitens, Edward (1897-1966), short story writer & novelist

Circa 60 typescript or manuscript letters, including from

SOLD FOR £325

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Grieve, C.M.]

A Guide to Contemporary Scottish Literature I

SOLD FOR £525

Marlborough, John Churchill, First Duke of

Warrant signed ("Marlborough"), as Master General of the Ordnance,

SOLD FOR £338

Nelson, Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté

Autograph Letter, signed

SOLD FOR £3,250

Signatures, letters and cards of well-known British figures

Including Charles, Prince of Wales (b. 1948)

SOLD FOR £875

The British Mount Everest Expedition to China

Postcard cover signed by expedition members

SOLD FOR £500

Warwickshire - King James VI & I. A Royal Confirmation of title and interest

in a messuage and tenement with land, as it appears in the Court Rolls of "Over Brayles" [Brailes]

SOLD FOR £550

19th century and early 20th century Magic, a Collection

comprising:

SOLD FOR £1,625

19th Century and early 20th Century Magic

including a large collection of Professor Hoffmann [John Angelo Lewis]

SOLD FOR £1,500

19th Century Magic and related, 10 volumes, comprising

Accum, Frederck

SOLD FOR £688

19th Century Magic and related, 12 volumes, comprising

Accum, Frederick

SOLD FOR £575

19th Century Magic, 8 volumes, comprising

Anderson, John Henry

SOLD FOR £813

3 works including Feinagle, Gregor von

The New Art of Memory

SOLD FOR £400

4 volumes, comprising

Scott, Sir Walter

SOLD FOR £625

5 Magic books in attractive pictorial bindings

comprising:

SOLD FOR £650