Books & Periodicals

Annotation of 1803-04 work included in a single collection features remark about his mistress

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A print commemorating an 18th century example of British and American military cooperation was given as a present 200 years later to mark another joint success.

Hermann Historica’s (25% buyer’s premium inc VAT) huge series of sales in Munich included what it billed as ‘a key document from German history’.

As timing goes, the sale date for an album of handwritten letters, photographs and ephemera related to Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948) could not have been much better.

Periodicals were produced in a Scottish camp by inmates to make life a bit more meaningful

Around 750 lots of comics featured in a May 10-11 auction held by Anderson & Garland (25% Buyer’s Premium) of Newcastle.

A huge plan used during the British Titanic inquiry was the top lot of Henry Aldridge & Son’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest auction dedicated to Titanic, White Star and Transport memorabilia.

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Charlotte Corday was the woman who assassinated the French Revolutionary journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat.

London’s two big book events running simultaneously reveal major sales with visitors to Firsts up by a third.

The Stuttgart Rare Book Fair, Germany’s leading fair for the rare book and prints trade, is returning after the pandemic for an anniversary event from June 16-18.

Leading the sale at Dominic Winter on May 17 was a highly unusual Elizabethan manuscript treatise on cheese and cheese making.

Peter Harrington Rare Books has sold a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio with an asking price of £6.25m.

‘Sherlockian scholar’ is the term Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) uses to describe Robert Hess.

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The standout signature to an autograph album compiled by a boy scout in 1919 was that of Lawrence of Arabia.

Works by the three sisters including copies published under pseudonyms come to a Cambridge auction

Two of Jane Austen’s works, both from the same Wyoming collector’s estate, were stand-out lots in a May 11 sale held in Chicago.

One of the more remarkable results of recent weeks came in a May 3 sale at Freeman’s (26/21/15% buyer’s premium) of Philadelphia.