Books and Works on Paper

New York sale maintains run of high JK Rowling prices while Dr Seuss surfaces also in UK

George Eliot’s much-admired novel 'Middlemarch…' made its first appearance in a parts issue in 1871.

Morris works and Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindings stand out in single-owner collection

In terms of improvement on expectations, the most successful lot at a Ketterer Kunst (25% buyer’s premium) sales earlier this year comprised early 19th century paper-cuts.

Two unpublished diaries sold in Sweden related to Salomon August Andrée’s ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.

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Armenian manuscript demolishes estimate to take six figures in London saleroom

A richly illuminated leaf from a late 15th century manuscript account of the life of St Catherine sold at a high-estimate £30,000 at Bloomsbury Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).

Published in 1862, one exceptional lot in a Californian sale that focused on food and drink was billed as “The Canonical Text in Bartending”.

Bid to £1500 in a Norfolk sale was a 1930 first of The Savoy Cocktail Book.

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Edition marked the first time a person of African descent had work published

Illustrated with 76 hand-coloured flags, a 1794 Signal Book for the Ships of the Line sold to an online bidder for £11,000 in a Shrewsbury sale.

An intriguing condition report that mentions ‘water and smoke damage’ gives a clue as to what happened to this battered copy of the Encyclopedia Britannia sold in a Charles Miller (24% buyer’s premium) auction.

A Texas sale generated six-figure sums for two very different lots.

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Set of urban views takes £220,000 in a sale where ornithological works also impressed

Toucans were the avian best-sellers in a recent sale held by Freeman’s (26/20/12% buyer’s premium) of Philadelphia.

A group of bird books were a feature of a sale held by Thomson Roddick (18% buyer’s premium) in Carlisle.

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