Auctioneers

Original printings of two of the most familiar automotive posters sold for £15,000 each at Lyon & Turnbull (26% buyer’s premium).

Cryptoryptomentyces et Cryptographiae has been described as ‘arguably the most complete tome on esoteric cryptography ever published’, an esoteric claim to fame in itself.

Congratulations to Golding Young director Kirsty Young who has passed her professional assessment at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). After four years of study, she is now a chartered auctioneer and valuer.

Antique arms and armour dealers and auctioneers have come together to lobby against couriers restricting delivery of antique examples.

Remarkably, although a very successful and popular artist, no accounts of the work of the Georgian caricaturist James Gillray (1756-1815) were published in England during his lifetime.

A letter from Ernest Shackleton to a supporter, written from South Georgia on the eve of his final departure on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, was offered at Charles Miller’s (24% buyer’s premium) latest Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art sale.

Rupert Powell of Forum Auctions reflects on a busy year in the ‘stage-play’ of rare books

ATG takes a whistlestop tour of the globe via the greatest recent collection of colour plate travel and costume books

London dealership AntikBar brings a major collection of pieces relating to Intourist, the 20th century USSR travel company, to 'Firsts London' book fair.

A collection of Nelson commemoratives amassed over 30 years includes pieces once owned by the man himself

Letters and postcard written by Antarctic expedition members were sent to New Zealand host family

When James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) arrived in Paris in 1855 determined to pursue a career as an artist, printmaking was experiencing a revival.