Books and Works on Paper

Offered at Bonhams New York (27.5/25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) was a first selection from the medical library of James Tate Goodrich (1946-2020).

Sold at a rather higher than expected $1900 (£1440) by Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) of Chicago was a lot offering not one, but two early copies of Rafaele Frianoro’s Il Vagabondo overo Sferza de Bianti, e Vagabondi.

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In Praise of America was a very mixed sale of furniture, silver, folk art, prints, broadsides and more held in New York.

Sporting subjects were very much in evidence and definitely among the best-sellers in an illustration art sale held in New York.

One 1870s Thomas Hardy work that was hated by the Spectator magazine critic, the other hailed

This first edition, first printing of Raymond Chandler’s 'The Big Sleep' is the book that introduced detective Philip Marlowe.

Contained in an old buckram folder, a collection of scouting ephemera proved a highlight of a sale of books and ephemera held in Chichester.

Given a modest estimate of £100-150 in a January 3 sale at Oxfordshire auction house Jones & Jacob (18% buyer’s premium), an edition of Hero & Leander published in 1949 by Christopher Sandford sold instead at £1500.

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Bumper selection of lots offered in Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter provides wide-ranging array

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A 50th anniversary edition of the much-loved AA Milne and EH Shepard books, a boxed set published in the appropriate years of 1974-78, is shown below.

Bible sold for £160,000 at auction is reputed to be that taken by Charles I to his execution in 1649

A naval logbook kept by Matthew Perry offered in New York covered a very eventful period in this distinguished mariner’s career.

A copy of the very first issue of Captain America soared to £320,000 (£235,640) at Heritage Auctions.

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Work produced in Brussels in the 1530s by a master of illumination soars way over estimate in Sotheby's London auction

Though incomplete and in a decorative 19th century binding, a very desirable early Bible impressed at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).

Sold for a record €260,000 (£234,235) in Hamburg was a copy of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer’s Speculum nauticum super navigatione maris occidentalis…