Books and Works on Paper

The list of Polar exploration ships once lost but now rediscovered grew in number recently when it was announced the Quest had been located.

Our regular update of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Two early documents featuring female authors are among the highlights in a wide-ranging sale selection

Not only is this 1960 first edition of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' inscribed by Harper Lee to her friend Harold Caufield, but it was sold with a Christmas card from the author penned with a lengthy message.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Well-known works covering the conflict come from the library of the famed and feared commander

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions

Recognised as the ‘Father of Geology’, in 1815 William Smith was the first to map the geology of England and Wales, with part of southern Scotland.

Stephen Switzer (1682-1745), gardener, author, landscape designer and seedsman, was apprenticed in 1699 to George London, the senior partner of Brompton Park Nurseries.

Seventeenth century guide to growing vines in England was published just before the Great Fire of London

A world atlas produced by a Dublin-born man who is considered the first US commercial publisher made its way to the Irish capital to be sold at auction house Adam’s (25% buyer’s premium).

Television host's collection yields rare studies at London auction

Victorian mountaineering book annotated by the author climbs to 20 times the top estimate

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions

Published between 1750-73, Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortis curiosorum (‘A selection of plants from natural specimens nurtured in London’s curious gardens’) is considered the most important botanical work ever printed in Germany.

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

Manuscript ‘sold in 1776’ at forerunner of Sotheby’s emerges in New York sale

Owen Simmons was a bit of a bread fan, it is fair to say. A lecturer at the National Bakery School in London, he produced the lavish book shown here.

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