Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Time to buy a Bond film poster
11 October 2021To coincide with the belated launch of 'No Time to Die', Lyon & Turnbull of Edinburgh is offering a fine selection of 007 designs as part of a specialist sale of vintage posters held in partnership with specialist Tomkinson Churcher on October 19.
Houdini held upside down
11 October 2021Sotheby’s New York is selling the Ricky Jay collection on October 27-28.
First responder: physician's almanac
11 October 2021Tennants’ sale of Books, Maps and Manuscripts in Leyburn on November 24 will include this rare 15th century illuminated folding almanac on vellum.
Rare third edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol emerges
11 October 2021The third edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was the last of those published in 1843, coming out (appropriately) on Christmas Eve.
Complete copy of the first folio atlas ever printed in the Islamic world
11 October 2021This complete copy of the first folio atlas ever printed in the Islamic world was discovered in one of the nine attics at Weston Hall in Northamptonshire, home of the Sitwell family for more than 300 years.
Near complete Visscher atlas on offer
11 October 2021The sale at Peter Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionshaus in Pforzheim on October 14-16 includes a near complete copy of 'Atlas minor, sive geographia compendiosa qua orbis terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditura' by the Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher Nicolaes Visscher (1649-1702).
Alexander Hamilton fascination
11 October 2021On October 25 Philadelphia firm Freeman’s will offer the Alexander Hamilton collection of John E Herzog.
Napoleon tries his English skills
11 October 2021According to the memoir Le Mémorial de Sainte- Hélène by Count Emmanuel de Las Cases published in 1823, Napoleon first expressed an interest to learn the English language during the two-month voyage from Europe to the island in 1815 aboard the Northumberland.
Pompeii focus in west London
11 October 2021The Books and Works on Paper sale at Chiswick Auctions on November 9 includes a rather special copy of Sir William Gell and John P Gandy’s The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii.
Printed map pioneer appears in massive German auction
11 October 2021Like Antiques Trade Gazette, German biblio auction house Reiss & Sohn is marking its 50th anniversary this year.
First things first for horror and fantasy
11 October 2021The Gary Munson collection of horror and fantasy books will be offered by Heritage Auctions in Dallas on October 14.
Great Exhibition in view
11 October 2021This chromolithographed plate is one of 52 (of 55) included in a copy of Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Body of work – large-scale anatomical atlas
11 October 2021Printed in Amsterdam in 1685, Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis by Godard Bidloo (1649-1713) was the first large-scale anatomical atlas since Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica in 1543.
And there’s Moore...
11 October 2021Bellmans is selling the script and production archive of film director, producer and screenwriter Lewis Gilbert (1920-2018) on November 17-18.
Nuremberg curiosity in Glos sale
11 October 2021Dominic Winter’s November 10 sale of Printed Books, Maps & Documents includes this first-edition, two-volume copy of Georg Wolffgang Knorr’s Deliciae naturae selectae, oder auserlesenes Naturalien-Cabinet welches aus den drey Reichen der Natur…
Book of Hours from c.1390
11 October 2021This illuminated initial comes from a late 14th century Book of Hours that carries an estimate of £20,000-30,000 at Forum Auctions on November 25.
One of the last people to see Capt Scott alive
04 October 2021A fine lot of Polar memorabilia surfaced at Lockdales in Ipswich on September 24.
A novelty automaton clock and an Everest expedition ice pick are among six lots to watch this week
04 October 2021With estimates from £500-10,000 here are six previews of upcoming items this week.
Table and chest impress on Tyneside
04 October 2021Although not catalogued as such, this occasional table offered at auction is made to a well-known Aesthetic movement design by EW Godwin.
Previews: issue 2512
04 October 2021A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.