Books & Periodicals
Material in this specialist market ranges from the early printed works of the Gutenberg Press and William Caxton right through to Modern First Editions and now up to signed copies of Harry Potter. Condition and rarity are the keys to this sector.
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Golf, Goldfinger and an early 007 classic sell at Swann New York
06 May 2019Ian Fleming firsts in a Swann of New York sale of May 14 will include a copy of Goldfinger of 1959 inscribed to a famous golfer, Henry Cotton, estimated at $12,000-18,000 (£9250- 13,850).
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Auckland auction focus on Antarctic
06 May 2019A library focused on Antarctic exploration gave a New Zealand saleroom one of its more successful book and manuscript auctions since the company’s foundation in 2011.
British and Irish book auctions: May 8-15, 2019
06 May 2019ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from May 8-15, 2019.
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Collector interview: The man who also explores old worlds
06 May 2019In the latest of our occasional series of collector interviews, we talk to entrepreneur Algy Cluff, a former army officer and oil and mining business supremo, about his collecting tastes
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The recipe for disaster in cookery book sold at auction
06 May 2019Plague water is one of the more striking entries in a now worn but finely bound volume of cookery and medical recipes sold recently in London.
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Monk into the swim of things at German saleroom
06 May 2019Bought by a German collector for €115,000 (£99,140) at an auction in Cologne, a 15th century illustrated account of 'Leben der Heiligen Altväter', or ‘Lives of the Holy Fathers’, was a great rarity.
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Memories of Queen Victoria’s favourite dog among collection of Royal memorabilia heading to auction in north London
02 May 2019A collection of items relating to Queen Victoria including a memento mori for her beloved dog are to be offered at a north London auction house.
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Ferns book makes first auction appearance
29 April 2019Offered as a part of the natural history section of a May 14 book sale at Sotheby’s (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) is an extremely rare photobook on New Zealand ferns by Herbert Boucher Dobbie issued c.1880 – no copy of which, it seems, has previously been seen at auction.
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A good hair day in the saleroom
29 April 2019A 1782 first of James Stewart’s 'Plocacosmos: or, the Whole Art of Hair Dressing' illustrated with 10 plates showing hairstyles was offered as part of a Forum Auctions sale.
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Gould birds volume rises high
29 April 2019Some 150 lots of books formed part of a recent Irish auction held at Fortgranite, Baltinglass, in Co Wicklow, the home for over 200 years of the Dennis family.
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Taking a view beyond the £90,000 London panorama
29 April 2019A very rare panorama of London that made £90,000 in a recent West Sussex sale was the Pick of the week in ATG No 2387, but many other things among the 200 lots offered in that April 5 auction caught the eye.
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Blunt portrayals bring sharp bidding in Munich
29 April 2019The German artist Heinrich Zille (1858-1929) was known for his caricatures and humorous and sometimes very blunt portrayals of the lower classes and demi-monde in Berlin around the beginning of the 20th century: his so-called milieu-studies.
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Lot offers something of the night
29 April 2019Guide to the prostitutes and brothels of London tempts bidders at Staffordshire sale.
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Works show how to stay sharp at cards
29 April 2019Tightly bound, clean and crisp, and “about the nicest copy we have seen” was the assessment by a specialist US saleroom of the biggest winner in its auction of a single-owner gambling memorabilia collection.
Signed Oscar Wilde first edition of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' makes £19,700... but inscribed copies can make more
19 April 2019Bid to £19,700 in a recent sale was one of 100 signed, large paper firsts of Oscar Wilde’s 'The Importance of Being Earnest' published by Leonard Smithers in 1899.
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First part of Hayhurst library sale is a huge 1139 lots
19 April 2019Given that the sale ran to a huge 1139 lots, the April 2-4 dispersal in Harrogate of the first part of the library of Robert James Hayhurst may be considered to have done well in achieving a selling rate of 85% at that gathering of Elzevir and other early printed works.
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Tracts and pamphlets make a whole £23,500
19 April 2019A bound volume of early works on a famous automaton chess player, featured in ATG No 2387, was not the only lot in a recent Cumbrian sale to produce a handsome return.
British and Irish book auctions: April 23-May 4, 2019
19 April 2019British and Irish book auctions: April 16-27, 2019
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Guide to travel in the shocking age of segregation
19 April 2019First published in 1936, The Negro Travellers’ Green Book was a once indispensable guide for African-Americans in the age of segregation.
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Notebooks of Charles Darwin’s mentor blocked from export by government in hope of finding UK buyer
18 April 2019The notebooks of Charles Darwin’s mentor, the Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), have been temporarily blocked from export in the hope of finding a UK buyer.
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