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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chrysanthemums in full bloom at Bonhams Skinner
02 October 2023The late 19th century Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa remains something of an enigma.
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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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Fist editions: boxing books at auction
25 September 2023Large group of pugilist-related works was collected over more than 50 years by London couple
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First principles: the Smiley library
18 September 2023As co-publishers and editors of Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine established in 1991, Robin and Kathryn Smiley’s bookshelves were brimming with choice first editions from across the broad span of British and American literature.
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Baseball makes its debut in an early US publication
18 September 2023The Book of Sports by Robin Carver is considered the first American publication to describe the sport of baseball.
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Big bidding for a small prayer book: Hebrew manuscript takes five times estimate
11 September 2023An 18th century copy of Tikkunei Shabbat (an amalgam of Hebrew prayers and devotions for the Sabbath) sold for £57,000 to an international phone bidder at Hansons on September 5.
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PBFA marks 50th with launch of Bath showpiece
11 September 2023The PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in style next year with two new fairs: in Bath and Tunbridge Wells.
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