Latest News Articles by Richard Fattorini
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Second editions: Worth having second thoughts
13 May 2024First editions are not always the be-all and end-all for collecting
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Colour plate books: Around the world with Norman Bobins
13 May 2024ATG takes a whistlestop tour of the globe via the greatest recent collection of colour plate travel and costume books
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Picture postcards from Polar explorers delight at Lays
13 May 2024Letters and postcard written by Antarctic expedition members were sent to New Zealand host family
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Record-breaking medical book returns home
25 March 2024Second edition of Vesalius landmark anatomical work sets a new high as part of science and medicine library
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Dazzling results for de Beaumont library at Bonhams
26 February 2024Impressive library of renowned collector and expert includes sought-after designs by women binders
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Slave trader who repented his sins tells his own story
12 February 2024John Newton (1725-1807) is today perhaps best remembered as the writer of the hymn Amazing Grace. However, before his religious conversion he spent his early life as a slave trader.
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Bible bidders spot a King James sleeper
12 February 2024An ‘18th century’ bible turned out to be far more valuable as a first issue King James “He” version
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Original watercolour for Little Prince makes top price among an array of manuscripts and letters
29 January 2024An original watercolour of the 'Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry fetched nearly 10 times its low estimate, selling for a record £240,000 hammer.
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Health tips from the Middle Ages: Ibn Butlan’s Tacuini sanitatis
15 January 2024First printing of a guide first written in the 11th century achieves second-highest auction price
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Turing and Bayley in tandem as scientific archive comes to the saleroom
18 December 2023Newly discovered papers show how renowned mathematician and his collaborator worked hand in hand
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T Kimball Brooker delights span eight sales
27 November 2023Dispersal of renowned collection launches with the first auctions including Aldine ‘crown jewels’
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Bidders make beeline for Beeleigh
20 November 2023Wide-ranging items from Christopher Foyle of bookshop fame generate a white-glove sale in Gloucestershire
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More travels courtesy of Bobins
06 November 2023German artists take many of the top spots as another colourful selection comes to the saleroom
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Charlie Watts sale drums up top bids for super first editions
23 October 2023Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh records beaten as collection of a Rolling Stone comes to auction
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Take a tour to the Lakes and Devon
02 October 2023Travel journals that appeared at auction date from a time when British leisure travel was in its infancy
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A 17th century rarity: unrecorded book emerges at Sussex auction
02 October 2023An unrecorded 17th century printed book took £8800 hammer at a West Sussex sale.
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Harry Potter work wins joint prize price
02 October 2023Boy wizard Harry Potter was up against prize fighter Daniel Mendoza for the top spot at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).
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How society folk lined up to sign a visitors’ book
18 September 2023Almost 120 years ago at 13 Bruton Street an estimated 10,000 visitors were drawn to an exhibition that caught the public attention and attracted record queues.
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Mystery manuscript identified at Cornish auction
18 September 2023One of two texts in a single volume revealed after eager bidding to be by Hungarian Jesuit
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The colourful world of Norman Bobins
28 August 2023Latest slice of a ‘magnificent library’ that covered the development of book illustrations