Books and Works on Paper

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Copy of well-known enlightened work featuring portraits and biographies comes to London saleroom

The most eagerly contested lot of the Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) on August 23 was one comprising two volumes containing influential works on geology and palaeontology by John Phillips (1800-74) and William Buckland (1784-1856).

Pictured here is a detail from an 18th century parchment roll map documenting the primary roads on a journey from London to Durham through the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Durham.

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A remarkable late Victorian lecture programme on early polar exploration by the Norwegian scientist Dr Fridtjof Nansen has been sold at Chaucer Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) in Folkestone.

Dozen books including literary trailblazers come to auction from collection of actor and historian Terry Jones

Blessed with a classical education, a gift for drawing and his father’s fortune, the English militiaman and antiquary Francis Grose (1731-91) is best known for his Views of Antiquities in England and Wales, published in several volumes between 1772-76.

The trial of Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was a cause célèbre of the last decade of the 18th century.

'Great Expectations' first appeared in England in 36 weekly parts in the pages of Charles Dickens’ popular magazine, All the Year Round, beginning on December 1, 1860.

From modest origins, the York event is now the largest antiquarian book fair in the UK

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Our pick of works appearing at eight upcoming auctions

'Five Run Away Together' was the third of the Famous Five titles but today the most elusive.

More than a dozen letters and cards from Diana, Princess of Wales, to her family’s former housekeeper were sold at a recent auction at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).

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Seventeenth and 18th century maps sold in Melbourne auction show how much discoveries had revealed

Two religious works were among an intriguing archive of items relating to a famed Falmouth packet ship commander and family that impressed at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) auction in Lanner, Cornwall, on August 8.

Treatise about painting was a unique version among pre-publication copies thanks to the drawings

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