Collectables

Two leading book dealers have come together to jointly buy the eponymous William Reese Company and its 40,000 stock of books.

The game between Arsenal v Manchester United in 1979 provided one of the greatest finishes in FA Cup final history.

A single-owner collection of 42 gold boxes and objects of vertu from the estate of a Kansas City collector is to be offered by Hindman on October 18.

Giquello et Associés is selling this fossilised skeleton of Zephyr from the Iduanodon family of dinosaurs which is more than 150 million years old.

A first edition of 'Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith was one of the star sales at Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair, which was back up to full power for its second staging at the Saatchi Gallery.

Christie’s sale titled Art of the Islamic & Indian Worlds on October 27 includes a magnificent flintlock jezail, c.1823-33.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Illustrated here is a complete deck of James Moxon’s ‘Geometrical’ cards, each bearing figures of scientific instruments and dating from the mid-1690s.

Enthusiasts who feel British enamel advertising signs are becoming overpriced may spare a thought for collectors in the US.

Collection gathered in by a local farmer comes to auction in North Yorkshire

Four auction records were set in the first 90 minutes of a recent four-day comics and comic art auction conducted by Heritage (20% buyer’s premium).

Bonhams conducts a sale in New York on October 6 titled Wonders in Wallpaper.

Generating a hammer price of £165,000, the star attraction in Omega’s auction on September 27 was pretty obvious.

Very much the star turn in a Philadelphia sale of September 21 was an extremely rare copy of 'New Englands First Fruits…', a small quarto work, running to just 26pp, that was printed and published in London in 1643.

Boasting what have been described as the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the foetus in utero among its 39 engraved plates, a 1761, second edition of William Smellie’s 'Sett of Anatomical Tables… of the Practice of Midwifery' was one of the highlights of an online-only Forum (25/20/12.5% buyers premium) sale of September 15.

A wider interest in kitchen-related antiques sparked a specialist collection

A selection of eight upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

Early views of the city now known as Kolkata reveal 19th development under empire