Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Near complete Visscher atlas on offer
11 October 2021The sale at Peter Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionshaus in Pforzheim on October 14-16 includes a near complete copy of 'Atlas minor, sive geographia compendiosa qua orbis terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditura' by the Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher Nicolaes Visscher (1649-1702).
Alexander Hamilton fascination
11 October 2021On October 25 Philadelphia firm Freeman’s will offer the Alexander Hamilton collection of John E Herzog.
Napoleon tries his English skills
11 October 2021According to the memoir Le Mémorial de Sainte- Hélène by Count Emmanuel de Las Cases published in 1823, Napoleon first expressed an interest to learn the English language during the two-month voyage from Europe to the island in 1815 aboard the Northumberland.
Pompeii focus in west London
11 October 2021The Books and Works on Paper sale at Chiswick Auctions on November 9 includes a rather special copy of Sir William Gell and John P Gandy’s The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii.
Printed map pioneer appears in massive German auction
11 October 2021Like Antiques Trade Gazette, German biblio auction house Reiss & Sohn is marking its 50th anniversary this year.
First things first for horror and fantasy
11 October 2021The Gary Munson collection of horror and fantasy books will be offered by Heritage Auctions in Dallas on October 14.
Great Exhibition in view
11 October 2021This chromolithographed plate is one of 52 (of 55) included in a copy of Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Body of work – large-scale anatomical atlas
11 October 2021Printed in Amsterdam in 1685, Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis by Godard Bidloo (1649-1713) was the first large-scale anatomical atlas since Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica in 1543.
And there’s Moore...
11 October 2021Bellmans is selling the script and production archive of film director, producer and screenwriter Lewis Gilbert (1920-2018) on November 17-18.
Nuremberg curiosity in Glos sale
11 October 2021Dominic Winter’s November 10 sale of Printed Books, Maps & Documents includes this first-edition, two-volume copy of Georg Wolffgang Knorr’s Deliciae naturae selectae, oder auserlesenes Naturalien-Cabinet welches aus den drey Reichen der Natur…
Book of Hours from c.1390
11 October 2021This illuminated initial comes from a late 14th century Book of Hours that carries an estimate of £20,000-30,000 at Forum Auctions on November 25.
One of the last people to see Capt Scott alive
04 October 2021A fine lot of Polar memorabilia surfaced at Lockdales in Ipswich on September 24.
A novelty automaton clock and an Everest expedition ice pick are among six lots to watch this week
04 October 2021With estimates from £500-10,000 here are six previews of upcoming items this week.
Table and chest impress on Tyneside
04 October 2021Although not catalogued as such, this occasional table offered at auction is made to a well-known Aesthetic movement design by EW Godwin.
Previews: issue 2512
04 October 2021A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.
Classic country house offering brings spectacular selection of lots
04 October 2021Irish castle home of earls about to be turned into hotel and spa furnishes a remarkable sale
Rare piece of Polar memorabilia flies above estimate at Ipswich auction
01 October 2021A fine lot of Polar memorabilia surfaced at Lockdales in Ipswich. It came by descent from William Lashly (1867-1940), chief stoker during the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to Antartica in 1911-12.
Broken Qing vase still takes $2m hammer at US auction
27 September 2021Topping this season’s Asian art series in New York was a piece of Qing imperial porcelain sold not at Sotheby’s, Christie’s or Bonhams but at Doyle.
Pick of the week: How to get the whole world in your hands
27 September 2021Fascinated both by their elegance of design and sophisticated cartography, Stephen Edell began collecting globes 50 years ago.
A rare cello by the ‘English Amati’ is among five lots to watch
27 September 2021With estimates from £600-80,000, here are five previews of upcoming items this week.