Books & Periodicals

Available from the school’s own bookshop from 1937 was a printed collection of Harrow School Songs, but it was a rather special copy that sold for £7500.

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Extraordinary letter by Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist both commends and condemns a colleague

There is some discolouring and it appears to have spent some considerable time folded up, but this early 19th century vellum document signed “Bonaparte” as Premier Consul was sold for £3000.

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Inscription signalled one of American literature’s most significant editorial relationships

Rare books specialist Shapero Rare Books run by Bernard Shapero is a regular exhibitor at TEFAF.

Dating from November 1917, a copy of 'Hydra, the Magazine of Craiglockhart War Hospital of Edinburgh' was sold for a notably higher than expected £7500.

A group of five autograph letters sent by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones to a Miss Megan Jones in the years 1965-66 brought a bid of £4500.

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Trebling its high estimate in a sale in Surrey was a large, in fact elephant folio-sized Atlas Royal… from c.1733

English history and law were the mainstays of an excellent collection sold in North Yorkshire

A cache of material from descendants of the Starbuck family, a Quaker whaling family influential in both the abolitionist movement and the founding of Nantucket as a whaling centre, was the highlight of Catherine Southon’s sale on February 8.

This single-page letter offered on January 19 by Mellors & Kirk (24% buyer’s premium) tells the remarkable story of Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori (1762-1829).

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Sixteenth century work edited by Hakluyt aimed to encourage English expansion and influence

A 15th century first edition of a pioneering work by Johannes Gallensis surfaced at auction late last month.

Extraordinary collection generates £64,000 bid for collaborative works by the playwright and poet

Lot sold for multiple-estimate sum in Cumbrian sale relates to a notorious election in Northumberland

Included in Potter & Potter’s latest sale of Books and Manuscripts is a rare first edition limited issue of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest.