Lyon & Turnbull Auctions

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024

Auctions

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Sale #819

10am

Lyon & Turnbull Auctions
33 Broughton Place

Edinburgh, UK

55.959083923507, -3.18730875

Lyon & Turnbull Auctions

https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/auctions/rare-books-manuscripts-maps-and-photog…

Rare Books

A NOTE TO CRITICS WHO WANT STRAIGHT LINES WHILE THE SEA BEATS OUR NOSTRILS WITH THE LIME AND FROST OF GO

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Beats

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Notebook: Rare Book of the Week

Rare Books Advent Calendar

Sponsored

reading a book

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Maps

Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia macrocosmica after conservation

Rare 17th Century ‘Star Atlas’ from Golden Age of Dutch Mapmaking On Display For First Time

Bay of Pigs Map Signed and Annotated by Fidel Castro to Auction

Andreas Bureus' Rare Map of Nordic Countries Goes Under the Hammer

Auctions

Kings Library tower and public areas in the British Library

The Panizzi Lectures 2024 Focus on Black Bibliography

Kafka’s Earliest Writing Fragment to Auction With $15,000 Estimate

Collection of Rare Pens at Bonhams

Exhibitions

Kings Library tower in the British Library

16th Century Gardening Manual, Secret War Maps, and Football Fanzines in British Library's 2025 Exhibitions

David King’s Small Press Publications and Zines Celebrated in New Exhibition

Bodleian Libraries’ Kafka Archive Debuts in the US

Book People

James Fleming

James Fleming, editor of 'The Book Collector', dies at 80

Nature Writer Ronald Blythe's 15th Century Former Home to Become Writers' Retreat

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Announces  Inaugural Writers Residency

Book Arts

Blue-Green Abelard

Dr Seuss's Blue Green Abelard to Auction

Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet Becomes Interactive AI Avatar

Ptolemy’s 'Geographia': Rare Book of the Week

Americana

Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 typewriter

Raymond Chandler's Typewriter, Scarf, and Unpublished Fantasy Stories to Auction

Gold Rush Letters and Diaries Lead Swann's Americana Auction

'Over the Rainbow' Song Contract and Mervyn LeRoy's Script for 'The Wizard of Oz' to Auction

Visual Art

Duck Soup poster

Rare ‘Son of Frankenstein’, Disney, and Orson Welles’ 'Macbeth' Posters to Auction

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

Earliest Engravings by William Blake Uncovered Using New Scanning Technology

Photographs

Cartier-Bresson's New Orleans, Louisiana, 1947

Cartier-Bresson and Chris Killip Lead Auction of Eric Franck’s Photography Collection

Asala Collection of Middle East Photographs: Rare Book of the Week

Photos of Truman Capote and Joan Didion in Major Irving Penn Retrospective