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

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Auction Name Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs Total Sales (GBP) 184,208.00
Auction Date September 22, 2021 - September 22, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 122,880.00
Sale Number #659 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 174,020.00
Total Lots 242
Sold Lots 199 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 147,180.00
% of Lots Sold 82.23% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 209,420.00
Unsold Lots 43 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 87.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
42 Schedel, Hartmann

[The Nuremberg Chronicle] Liber Chronicarum

1493 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 30,000.00
113 Sorabji, Kaikhosru

Autograph music scores, comprising

GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
112 Sorabji, Kaikhosru

Inscribed musical scores, letters & photographs, comprising

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,250.00
231

Orkney, a very large collection including Wallace, James An Account of the Islands of Orkney.

1700 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,000.00
36 Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

1998 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,250.00
188 Walton, Izaak

The Complete Angler, 16 finely bound volumes

1808 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 2,875.00
114 Sorabji, Kaikhosru and Norman Peterkin

A collection of signed music and photographs Kaikhosru Sorabji Organ Symphony.

n.d. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,750.00
193 Y - Walton, Izaak

The Complete Angler

1842 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 2,500.00
27

Plan de Rediuit Scituée entre le Quartier de Moka et célui des Plaines de Wilheme

1740s GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,375.00
213 Camden, William

Camden's Britannia

1695 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,250.00
200 Cotton, Charles

A large collection, including Scarronides, or Virgile Travestie.

1664 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,125.00
230 Jacob, Violet

Indian Flowering Plants, 1896-1901

1896-1901 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,000.00
191 Walton, Izaak - presentation copy

The Life of Dr. Sanderson, Late Bishop of Lincoln

1678 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,875.00
228 Jacob, Violet

India, 1895-1900

1895-1900 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,875.00
50 Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer

The Story of the Malakand Field Force

1898 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,750.00
57

Pamphlets and short publications

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,750.00
109 Forbes of Culloden, Duncan

A collection of manuscripts by and relating to Forbes of Culloden

1737 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,625.00
148 Rios, Tony

Photographic archive from the 1960s and 1970s

1960s GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,625.00
76 Dickinson, Emily

Poems

1893-1891-1896. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,500.00
182 Walton, Izaak

A collection of 19 volumes The Compleat Angler.

1676 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 1,500.00
124 including Mahler, Gustave

Music - 16 volumes including Mahler, Gustave - Zehnte Symphonie

1924 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,375.00
183 Walton, Izaak

The Compleat Angler

1655 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,375.00
186 Walton, Izaak

The Compleat Angler, a collection of 15 books, including

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,375.00
192 Walton, Izzak

22 volumes of The Complete Angler, including The Complete Angler.

1701 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,375.00
202 Donne, John

Poems, &c. with elegies on the authors death. To which is added Divers Copies under his own hand, never before printed.

1669 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,375.00
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
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