Collectables

The books section at a recent Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) auction included a volume containing more than a dozen early 19th century political pamphlets concerning the issue of reform.

French château contents sales, like their equivalent country house sales in the UK, still surface occasionally on the auction market.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Renowned consignor and Antiques Roadshow specialist invited up to the rostrum in Newbury

Manuscripts underline the overlapping lives of families in northern England and their extensive travels

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Described as “rare and exquisite” when it came up for auction at C&T (22% buyer’s premium), an early painted carved wooden doll lived up to her billing.

A first edition copy of 'The Left Bank and Other Stories' by the Dominican author Jean Rhys (1890-1979) and 'Portrait of New York' by Cecil Beaton (1904-80) were offered together at Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium).

A group lot of works by or pertaining to CS Lewis performed rather better than its modest guide at Scottish firm Taylors Auction Rooms (26% buyer’s premium).

While TS Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' had appeared in book form in the US in 1922 – and in two magazines the same year – the edition published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in Richmond, Surrey in 1923 was the first in the UK.

The latest Homes & Interiors sale at Sworders included an extraordinary and highly personal relic from the Waterloo battlefield: a silver-mounted inkwell made from the ear of a war horse.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a Leica camera taking a six-figure sum in Austria