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Tennyson portrayed by Julia Margaret Cameron
12 September 2022Estimated at £3000-4000, this 9½ x 12in (24 x 30.5cm) albumen print by Julia Margaret Cameron of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is offered in the Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photography auction on September 15 at Lawrences of Crewkerne.
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Gilbert exerts a strong magnetic pull
12 September 2022Catalogued as a ‘very good, complete copy in original condition of the first really modern scientific book published in England’, a 1600 first edition (Peter Short) of De Magnete by William Gilbert is estimated at £10,000-15,000 in Forum Auction’s Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper sale in London on September 29.
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Merian marvel in Switzerland
12 September 2022The Books & Autographs auction at Koller in Zurich on September 21 features the greatest work by artist and naturalist Maria Sybilla Merian on the insects and fauna of Surinam, estimated at SwFr120,000-160,000.
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Fair Preview: Banned books is the theme of this year’s Firsts
12 September 2022A copy of 'Howl' signed by leading lights of the Beat literature scene in New York is on offer at 'Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair', where this year the theme is banned books.
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Harvard College makes print debut mention
12 September 2022Freeman’s September 21 Books and Manuscripts auction, in Pennsylvania is led by an ‘extremely rare’ first edition of 'New Englands First Fruits' (estimate $20,000-30,000), a 1643 account of Puritan evangelisation in New England.
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Natural history and Bible pioneers in Germany
12 September 2022'Hortus sanitatis' (Gart der Gesundheit, Augsburg 1485), considered among the most important early works of natural history and one of the first scientific incunabula in a vernacular language, is on offer at Munich saleroom Ketterer Kunst on November 28.
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PBFA fair date falls in autumn this year
12 September 2022The PBFA swapped its London fair dates from the usual early summer slot to autumn, meaning it coincides as usual with the ABA’s flagship fair.
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Riley and Lowry prints offered at Chiswick Auctions
12 September 2022Among the works on offer at Chiswick Auctions’ Modern & Contemporary Prints and Multiples sale on October 5 is a Bridget Riley (b.1931) screenprint in colours on wove sheet.
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American early rarities and a Shakepeare First Folio achieve seven-figure sums
12 September 2022The principal portion of a two-part sale conducted by Sotheby’s New York included not one, but three lots that brought seven-figure bids.
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Famous owners Tuke and Klimt enhance early 20th century items
05 September 2022This textbook Edwardian Arts & Crafts planished silver chalice by Omar Ramsden and fellow Sheffield-born designer Alwyn Carr, pictured below, is of extra interest for its inscription.
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Qing trophy won by an Australian bidder
05 September 2022Cheffins’ (24.5% buyer’s premium) latest silver offering in Cambridge was topped by a Qing trophy, c.1850.
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Irish ‘freedom’ boxes bring fierce bidding battles in Oxfordshire auction
05 September 2022The sale at Swan Fine Art (21% buyer’s premium) in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, on August 11-12 included two Irish ‘freedom’ boxes, c.1775.
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British and overseas silver at Fellows
05 September 2022The Silver, Coins & Medals auction at Fellows in Birmingham on September 13 will include this garniture of three George V silver pedestal bowls with lion and serpent embellishments. estimated at £1500-2500.
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Silver: The growing fame of the Highlands ‘hammermen’
05 September 2022Edinburgh auction highlights work of the Highlands silversmiths who operated far from the control of the assay office in the Scottish capital
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Victorian kettle modelled as a curling stone doubles estimate in Edinburgh
05 September 2022Nineteenth and early 20th century novelty silver continues to be one of the strengths of the collecting category.
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Brontë family link boosts silver jug result
05 September 2022Tennants’ (20% buyer’s premium) summer silver sale included a Victorian jug by Robert Hennell with Brontë family connections.
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Roman inspiration supersedes Rococo
29 August 2022When Domenico Venuti became director of the Naples porcelain factory in 1779, he broke radically with any lingering Rococo sentiments and embraced the new neoclassical style sweeping Europe.
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Join the Oceanic collecting club
29 August 2022A selection of Oceanic hardwood clubs and shields has come for sale at Sworders in Essex on November 9-10 as part of the auction of objects from the collection of dealer Jan Ellen Finch (1952-2021) of Finch & Co.
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Vast tribal art collection offered after taking three days to remove from Victorian home
29 August 2022The Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas sale at Woolley & Wallis on September 21 includes 270 lots from the collection of tribal and pre-Columbian art assembled by Romy Rey of Richmond, Surrey.
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Ceramics: 18th century Lowestoft rarities sell well among local collectors
29 August 2022Collecting 18th century English porcelain is still a popular pursuit – but there’s no doubt that the core collecting audience is smaller than it once was.
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