Books & Periodicals

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

Such messages from second-class passengers on the liner are some of the rarest to be offered at auction

Arch Rare Books & Antique Prints offers a command notebook chronicling Admiral Nelson’s command of the HMS Bellerophon in 1799.

Film scholars have described Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon as “the greatest movie never made”.

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

Sale of 14th amendment document from 1867 coincides with Supreme Court case, happily for vendor

Two late 17th century recipe books sold for a surprise £15,000 (estimate £400-600) at Dawsons (27.5% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead on August 26.

For the Bed at Kelmscott was written by William Morris in 1891 as an ode to the oak four-poster at his country home in the Thames Valley.

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

Thomas Annan’s Photographs of The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow is the earliest and most famous photographic record of the city’s slums.

Full set of seasonal series from the 1840s stars as Californian collection of literature comes for sale in US

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

Family archive features poem written by Alice author for the well-connected owner of a scrapbook

The highlight of the latest Militaria and Ethnographica sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) was an extraordinarily detailed first-hand account of shipwreck in the Indian Ocean.

Archive and avian template for porcelain designs reflect the life of a remarkable 19th century polymath

Joint ABA and PBFA books fair in Bath praised as ideal for meeting customers and fellow traders