Latest News Articles by Ian McKay
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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.
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Virgil, the Scottish version
24 October 2022Translation was first time a major poem of antiquity appeared in an English language form.
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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.
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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).
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Rare glimpse of Inca culture
17 October 2022First and only published volume of South American work appears in London saleroom
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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
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Fine crop of agricultural works from the Glaisdale library
10 October 2022Collection gathered in by a local farmer comes to auction in North Yorkshire
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Moxon Junior shaped up to be a talented son of Joseph
10 October 2022Illustrated here is a complete deck of James Moxon’s ‘Geometrical’ cards, each bearing figures of scientific instruments and dating from the mid-1690s.
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Happy news for salerooms: not the end of Spider-Man
10 October 2022Four auction records were set in the first 90 minutes of a recent four-day comics and comic art auction conducted by Heritage (20% buyer’s premium).
British and Irish book auctions: October 11-27, 2022
10 October 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
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Calcutta seen in colonial days
03 October 2022Early views of the city now known as Kolkata reveal 19th development under empire
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‘Anatomical first’ makes appearance
03 October 2022Boasting what have been described as the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the foetus in utero among its 39 engraved plates, a 1761, second edition of William Smellie’s 'Sett of Anatomical Tables… of the Practice of Midwifery' was one of the highlights of an online-only Forum (25/20/12.5% buyers premium) sale of September 15.
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Puritan work starts to bear fruit in New England
03 October 2022Very much the star turn in a Philadelphia sale of September 21 was an extremely rare copy of 'New Englands First Fruits…', a small quarto work, running to just 26pp, that was printed and published in London in 1643.
British and Irish book auctions: October 4-14, 2022
03 October 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
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WG Grace bowls over bidders
26 September 2022Two albums of photographs taken by fellow cricketer and friend pitch in at four-figure sum.
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Reese: mad about Melville
26 September 2022The latest in a series of auctions to draw on the private library of one of the more prominent antiquarian book dealers of his generation, William S Reese (1955-2018), ran from September 1-14 at Christie’s New York (26/20/14.5% buyer’s premium).
British and Irish book auctions, September 27-October 11, 2022
26 September 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
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Make a wicked £9500 bonus
19 September 2022Bid to £9500 rather than the suggested £150-200 was a copy of the first, and possibly only edition ever seen at auction of William Knight’s A Concordance Axiomaticall…