Collectables

ATG interviews the new Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association president Pom Harrington

A brief history of maps designed to communicate ideas over geographical accuracy

Retired antiques dealer, broadcaster and author Jeremy Cooper has published his latest novel, 'Bolt from the Blue' (Fitzcarraldo Editions. RRP £12.99).

Convoys to protect merchant vessels have a long history in naval conflict. A letter sold at Kent saleroom C&T (22% buyer’s premium) in a timed Military Books, Ephemera & Photographs Auction reveals Royal Navy ships in action back in 1808.

Organiser tells ATG why the south-coast city is a great place for a new PBFA event

This calendar lists a selection of forthcoming specialist fairs and markets around the world.

Morphets (20% buyer’s premium) of Harrogate sold a Mouseman bureau for a tub-thumping £36,000 on April 15.

Andrew Cumming was among the first successful antiquarian book dealers to step into the shoes of the post-war greats such as Charles Traylen and Frank Hammond.

Sold for $150,000 (£109,490), some 10 times the low estimate, was a lot comprising 11 Xeroxed pages that constitute a pre-publication draft of Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ of 1963.

On May 18 Paris auction firm Tessier Sarrou is selling the first part of a collection of Japanese swords.

Our weekly listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

London auction offered wide array including famous Federalist American collection of essays

A Victoria Cross group awarded to a British soldier who volunteered to carry a vital message to a stranded platoon at Mericourt in October 1918, in the knowledge that five of his comrades had already been in killed in turn making earlier attempts, sold for £200,000.

These weighty tomes contain the complete transcripts from a high-profile court case involving a Mayfair dealership in the early 1900s.

Duo organise south London pop-up market presenting five vintage poster dealers.

The moment has arrived for bibliophiles missing the physical sight and touch of books at actual fairs.

South London auction house Roseberys (25% buyer’s premium) was instructed to sell the collection of Herbert Kennard on March 26.