Latest News Articles by Ian McKay
British and Irish book auctions: November 22-30, 2022
21 November 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
British and Irish book auctions: November 15-24, 2022
14 November 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
Best of British courtesy of Leahy
14 November 2022Anglophile American lawyer’s excellent and extensive collection is sold in New York.
Photos of Himalayan heights draw plenty of attention in Canterbury
14 November 2022Henry Lee Shuttleworth (1882- 1960) worked for many years in the Indian Civil Service.
British and Irish book auctions: November 8-20, 2022
07 November 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
Many surprises lurk in multiples
07 November 2022Cambridge auction attracts high bids to secure several delights discovered in job lots
Modern versions show classic qualities
07 November 2022Modern, limited edition issues of well known books figured prominently among the best-selling lots in an October 4 sale held by Lacy Scott & Knight (22.5% buyer’s premium) of Bury St Edmunds.
‘The most beautiful herbal’
07 November 2022A copy of the 1543, first German language edition of a work that centuries later, in 'Printing and the Mind of Man', was declared to be “perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published” was offered by Gloucestershire saleroom Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on October 12.
Naval records shipshape up well
31 October 2022Documents were consigned among contents of a house owned by the Arkwright family
Cartoonist put politics to one side
31 October 2022Much, much earlier than most other entries in a comics and comic art sale that ran at Heritage (25% buyer’s premium) from September 30 to October 2 were examples of the work of Winsor McCay (c.1866-67-1934), who was well known as an accomplished editorial and political cartoonist and for his work in the world of animation and cartoon strips.
Essex map reaches new height
31 October 2022Estimated at £600-800, a 1777 first in marbled board covers of John Chapman and Peter Andre’s 'Map of the County of Essex from an Actual Survey' was sold for what would appear to be an auction record.
Britannia rules in Surrey saleroom
31 October 2022The big attraction in a job lot estimated at £60-100 that went on to sell for £14,000 in a September 23 sale held by Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) was a copy of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description…, Dr Edmund Gibson’s 1695, updated and English language version of a well-known earlier work.
British and Irish book auctions: November 1-12, 2022
31 October 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
Virgil, the Scottish version
24 October 2022Translation was first time a major poem of antiquity appeared in an English language form.
Victoria’s journal of Highlands life affordable for the little people
24 October 2022An edition of Queen Victoria’s Leaves from the Journal of our Life on the Highlands… took £550 at a Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) sale of September 23.
The way to locate buffaloes and locals with second sight
24 October 2022Bid to £3400, a 1703 first edition of Martin Martin’s Description of the Western Islands of Scotland in a later full calf binding proved the most expensive item in the 250-lot book and ephemera section that opened an October 5-7 auction at Stride & Son (18% buyer’s premium).
Rare glimpse of Inca culture
17 October 2022First and only published volume of South American work appears in London saleroom
Torn jacket but a tidy sum
17 October 2022Though the dust jacket featuring one of Pauline Baynes’ illustrations for the book is torn with loss and exhibits a number of patched repairs, a 1950 first edition of 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' did sell for £1100 against a guide of £500-700 on October 6 at Buckinghamshire saleroom Bourne End Auctions (17.5% buyer’s premium).
British and Irish book auctions: October 18-30, 2022
17 October 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions
Fine crop of agricultural works from the Glaisdale library
10 October 2022Collection gathered in by a local farmer comes to auction in North Yorkshire