Lyon and Turnbull: The Library of James Stirling, Mathematician, 878, Edinburgh

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Auction Date: October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025

Page Size: 160 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Newton, Sir Isaac	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	London	1726	GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 42,840.00
2	Newton, Sir Isaac	Optice	London	1706	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,772.00
3	Newton, Sir Isaac	Opticks	London	1721	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,536.00
4	Newton, Sir Isaac	Lectiones opticae	London	1729	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,536.00
5	Newton, Sir Isaac	Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones, ac differentias	London	1711	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 100,800.00
6	Newton, Sir Isaac	A Treatise of the Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series	London	1737	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 6,930.00
7	Newton, Sir Isaac	Genesis curvarum per umbras	London	1746	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 3,528.00
8	Newton, Sir Isaac	Two Treatises of the Quadrature of Curves and Analysis	London	1745	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 5,292.00
9	Newton, Sir Isaac	De mundi systemate	London	1728	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 13,860.00
10	Newton, Sir Isaac	Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John	London	1733	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,016.00
11	Newton, Sir Isaac	The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended	London	1728	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,134.00
12	Pemberton, Henry	A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy	London	1728	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 529.20
13	Bedford, Arthur	Animadversions upon Sir Isaac Newton's Book intitled The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended	London	1728	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 252.00
14	Voltaire	The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy	London	1738	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 945.00
15	Maclaurin, Colin	An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries	London	1748	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,197.00
16	Maclaurin, Colin	A Treatise of Fluxions	Edinburgh	1742	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 7,560.00
17	Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)	Ten autograph letters signed to James Stirling	Edinburgh	7th December 1728	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 35,280.00
18	Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)	Autograph letter signed on the priority dispute with George Campbell over the impossible roots of equations	Edinburgh	11th February 1728	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 8,190.00
19	Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's	An Essay on Perspective	London	1724	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 882.00
20	Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783)	Two autograph letters signed to James Stirling	[i.e. St Petersburg]	8th June 1736	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 23,940.00
21	Cramer, Gabriel (1704-1752)	Ten autograph letters signed to James Stirling	Paris	11th/22nd October, 1728	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 6,930.00
22	Klingenstierna, Samuel (1698-1765)	Autograph letter signed to James Stirling, with additional mathematical demonstrations	[Stockholm]	19th September 1738	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,008.00
23	Castel, Louis-Bertrand (1688-1757)	Autograph letter signed to James Stirling	Paris	25th March 1733	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 579.60
24	Poleni, Giovanni (editor) - Sextus Julius Frontinus	De Aquaeductibus Urbis Romae Commentarius	Padua	1722	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 327.60
25	Galilei, Galileo	Opere	Florence	1718	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 8,190.00

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