Books & Periodicals

A recent sale at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (26% buyer’s premium) in Exeter included a late 15th century Italian manuscript that is thought to be a codex unicus.

Oliver Wood is the photography books expert at Shapero Rare Books.

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John Wallis was one of the leading publishers of board games in the early 19th century. One of them, Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy, was first issued in 1804 and revised in 1815.

Highlights from the The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper offered at Forum

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Wind in the Willows illustration leads varied selection of lots offered by west London saleroom

Les Enluminures has sold a thousand-year-old Giant Bible of St Maximin to the National Library of Luxembourg for €4.5m (£3.735m)

Belgian city’s council was successful with pre-sale deal to buy queen’s plea on behalf of political prisoners

A special selection of upcoming lots raging from the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Beano to Oppenheimer's passport and Machiavelli’s The Prince

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Maps and documents relating to Quaker family come up at Essex auction house centuries later

Published in 1598, John Florio’s 'A Worlde of Wordes, or most Copious, and Exact Dictionary in Italian and English' is considered the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary.

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Copies of the Lord of the Rings trilogy just don’t get much better than the set shown here.

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Keys Auctioneers and Valuers [of Aylsham, Norfolk] is sad to announce the death of Andrew Lindsay-Bullock, who was head of books at the firm until he stepped down due to ill health in 2023.

Comprehensive group of medical records from East India Company surgeon star in eclectic sale