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Lyon and Turnbull: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photography

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Auction Name Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photography Total Sales (GBP) 295,620.00
Auction Date January 31, 2019 - January 31, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 158,790.00
Sale Number #549 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 231,810.00
Total Lots 470
Sold Lots 370 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 205,430.00
% of Lots Sold 78.72% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 300,620.00
Unsold Lots 100 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 98.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
193 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.

D-DAY PRAYER by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House, June 6, 1944... X

 1842 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 7,500.00
425 COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES - HAWKESWORTH, JOHN

AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES... FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

1773 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 7,500.00
115 BLAEU, WILLEM

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, volume 5 comprising Scotland and Ireland?Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, volume 5 comprising Scotland and Ireland [Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas.]

1654 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,750.00
372

[COUNTY DURHAM] PHOTOGENIC DRAWINGS, BY WILLIAM THOMAS SALVIN (1767-1842) OR WILLIAM THOMAS SALVIN (B. 1808) OF CROXDALE HALL

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,000.00
208 STEUART, SIR JAMES

AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL OECONOMY

1767 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,750.00
286

BOOK OF HOURS, NORTHERN FRANCE, LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

 LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,250.00
113

BANNERMANS OF ELSICK AND ABERNETHIE OF CRIMONMOGATE, ABERDEENSHIRE MANUSCRIPT ESTATE PLANS AND MAPS.

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
290 CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON

CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON PHOTOGRAPH, SIGNED TO MOUNT

 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 4,750.00
33 VREDEMAN DE VRIES, HANS

PICTORES, STATUARII, ARCHITECTI, LATOMI et quicunque principum magnificorumque virorum memoriae aeternae inservitis, adeste: & hunc libellum varias coenotaphiorum, tumulorum & mortuorum monumentorum formas.

 1563 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,500.00
197 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.

SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES, INCLUDING Inaugural Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt…

 1943 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 4,500.00
224 [KING, WILLIAM, 1ST EARL OF LOVELACE] -

EAST HORSLEY TOWERS - [JOHN LOCKE'S LIBRARY]LIBRARY CATALOGUE

 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,500.00
85 BLUMNAU, GEORG

DISSERTATIO DE VACUO qua, experientiis, & rationibus physicis, vacuum in natura non dari, probatur.

1648 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,750.00
160 STUART, JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD

MERCURE GALANT DÉDIÉ A MONSEIGNEUR LE DAUPHIN

1708 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,750.00
458 ROBERTS, DAVID

THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT & NUBIA

1855-56 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,750.00
23 PARASACCHI, DOMENICO

RACCOLTA DELLE PRINCIPALI FONTANE DELL'INCLITTA CITTA DI ROMA

1647 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,500.00
137 ROWLING, J.K.

HARRY POTTER - A SET OF 7 SIGNED BOOKS Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

2004 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,250.00
213 BABBAGE, CHARLES

OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEMPLE OF SERAPIS AT POZZUOLI NEAR NAPLES

 1847 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 3,250.00
378

TENERIFFE, SPAIN, SCOTLAND, GERMANY, EGYPT, MONTE CARLO, FRANCE, ITALY, INDONESIA & CHINA: HONG KONG & SHANGHAI2 PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS 134 photographs

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 3,250.00
424 [COOK, CAPT. JAMES]

AN ABRIDGEMENT OF A JOURNAL OF THE ADVENTURES VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,250.00
233

[THE] GLADIATOR - [A TORRIDON GAZETTE] - [DARROCH OF TORRIDON] A LONG RUN OF A RARE PRIVATELY PRODUCED ROSS & CROMARTY "GAZETTE"

1884-1892 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,000.00
288 CARDONNEL-LAWSON, ADAM DE

SKETCHBOOK OF WELSH VIEWS, ROMAN ARTEFACTS, &C.

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,000.00
296

MANUSCRIPT ALBUM OF AUTOGRAPHED AND SIGNED LITERARY EXCERPTS, 1923-1927

 1923-1927 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,000.00
105 LAZARNICK, GEORGE

Netsuke & Inro Artists and How to Read their Signatures. Honolulu: Reed Publishers, [1982]. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth; [Idem] The Signature Book of Netsuke, Inro and Ojime Artists in Photographs.

1976 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,750.00
276 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

TREASURE ISLAND

1883 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,750.00
38 ARIOSTO, LODOVICO

ORLANDO FURIOSO IN ENGLISH BY SIR JOHN HARINGTON Now thirdly revised and amended with the addition of the author's epigrams.

1634 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,500.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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