Books & Periodicals

A selection of upcoming books, maps and prints at auctions around the UK and overseas.

These pressed Darjeeling ferns feature in an album compiled and mounted by Phoebe Jaffrey in 1882.

ATG interviews the new Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association president Pom Harrington

Retired antiques dealer, broadcaster and author Jeremy Cooper has published his latest novel, 'Bolt from the Blue' (Fitzcarraldo Editions. RRP £12.99).

Convoys to protect merchant vessels have a long history in naval conflict. A letter sold at Kent saleroom C&T (22% buyer’s premium) in a timed Military Books, Ephemera & Photographs Auction reveals Royal Navy ships in action back in 1808.

Organiser tells ATG why the south-coast city is a great place for a new PBFA event

This calendar lists a selection of forthcoming specialist fairs and markets around the world.

Andrew Cumming was among the first successful antiquarian book dealers to step into the shoes of the post-war greats such as Charles Traylen and Frank Hammond.

Sold for $150,000 (£109,490), some 10 times the low estimate, was a lot comprising 11 Xeroxed pages that constitute a pre-publication draft of Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ of 1963.

Our weekly listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

London auction offered wide array including famous Federalist American collection of essays

These weighty tomes contain the complete transcripts from a high-profile court case involving a Mayfair dealership in the early 1900s.

The moment has arrived for bibliophiles missing the physical sight and touch of books at actual fairs.

The book section of a twice postponed Gloucestershire sale – one that included the rare white Chelsea owl featured on the front page of ATG No 2486 – comprised books from the library at Spetchley Park in the neighbouring county of Worcestershire.

The familiar red-lettered, yellow-cloth covers of an 1897 first of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, though now somewhat soiled, prompted a far higher than predicted bid of $21,000 (£15,150) to lead a Chicago auction of March 19 – a sum bettered only by a handful of inscribed copies.

Ground level views of Ceylon offered in same sale as uplifting account of balloon voyages.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

I am sad to report the passing of my dear friend Reginald ‘Reg’ Charles Remington (1931-2021) who died peacefully in hospital after a very short illness on Friday, April 2.

Bid to a far higher than predicted £1000 in a recent West Country sale was a broadside whose lengthy title read: 'Life, Trial, and Execution of T.Cooper. Who was executed at Newgate this Morning for the Murder of Timothy Daly, a Policeman, at Highbury.'

Account of a temple study in Scotland is one of the stand-out auction lots in South Cerney