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Massive Churchill collection including his desk, unpublished letters and inscribed books star in offering of London dealer
19 January 2024A collection devoted to the life and work of Winston Churchill is among the standout items at The Winter Show in New York, which opens today.
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On the hunt for book linking Collins and Dickens
15 January 2024The Charles Dickens Museum in London and the Wilkie Collins Society are hoping to track down a missing book last recorded as sold at auction to book dealer Bernard Quaritch more than 130 years ago.
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Extensive furniture book library on display in Leeds
12 January 2024A major collection of books on furniture from the late dealer John Bedford are on display as part of a new exhibition at the University of Leeds.
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Virginia as the garden of Eden
08 January 2024In 1585 English colonists Thomas Hariot and John White recorded their first impressions of life on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina.
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Forster’s letters and books to the policeman he loved
02 January 2024Letters and books marking the deep relationship between author EM Forster and policeman Bob Buckingham and his family sold for £9000.
ATG letter: Note of caution on Watts sale
02 January 2024The report in ATG No 2615 that some copies of the Agatha Christie titles in the Charlie Watts sale at Christie’s were sold with dust jackets supplied from other copies raises some concerns.
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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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Boy wizard Harry Potter casts his spell on book collectors
12 December 2023Harry Potter continues to bring big bids at auction especially for the earliest hardback editions
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Pelerin’s source of enlightenment
11 December 2023Astronomical manuscript for sale includes illustrations by scientist who was in fact an insurance broker
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Eye-witness account of Captain Cook’s death
11 December 2023Held by the same private New England family since 1792, a copy of 'A Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' complete with its map came for sale at Bonhams Skinner (28/26/20% buyer’s premium).
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Discover the story of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition
11 December 2023Few people can profess to know more about the 1910-12 Japanese Antarctic Expedition than the Arizona book dealer Chet Ross.
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Jade catalogue owned by the last tsar
04 December 2023Among the many highlights of the Alan and Simone Hartman collection at Bonhams New York is a copy of the monumental catalogue of the famed Bishop collection of Chinese jades. The deluxe volume, once owned by the last tsar of Russia, carries expectations of $100,000-150,000 as part of the 114-lot dispersal on December 14.
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Art and antiques dealers gear up for a busy festive period
13 November 2023ATG takes a look at some of the many dealer exhibitions being staged in the run-up to Christmas
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Dodgson photograph of Xie snapped up in the saleroom
13 November 2023A photograph by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98) - aka Lewis Carroll - was among the highlights of Hindman’s (26/20/15% buyer’s premium) October 19 sale of Photographs from the Joe Baio Collection.
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Pioneering English astronomy book takes five-figure sum at Hansons auction
06 November 2023A 1556 first edition copy of Welshman Robert Recorde’s The Castle of Knowledge was estimated at £5000-10,000 and made £12,600 including buyer’s premium at Hansons’ November 1 Library auction.
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John Gould second edition served as fresh helping
30 October 2023Follow-up edition of a classic avian work was more or less a new publication thanks to extra research
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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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‘Long live York’ is the books cry
09 October 2023Increased private buying plus overseas trade purchases boost the huge annual extravaganza of the York National Book Fair.
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Samuel Johnson letter located and bought by UK institution at auction
09 October 2023While its existence was known, the whereabouts was a mystery until a routine house valuation
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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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