Books & Periodicals

Americana, travel and natural history were billed as the main attractions of a sale at Bonhams New York (27.5/25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium).

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

A rare complete copy of a famous Arabic medical text sold for £30,000 in a sale of manuscripts and other works on paper from the Islamic and Near Eastern worlds.

Quaintly titled book about Great Yarmouth was one of the varied attractions in Cambridge auction.

A spate of thefts from central London shops has put the antiquarian book trade on high alert.

The latest Specialist Collectors’ Sale at Cuttlestones in Wolverhampton included a little bit of 20th century ceramics history.

Sixteenth century book-maker’s creativity makes maths and astronomy more accessible

Four lots between them raised $1.5m including premiums to rack up more than half the total at an online sale in New York.

In his latest catalogue, 'Edification', Justin Croft offers works such as this French version of Niklaus Bohny’s 'Neues Bilderbuch' (New Picture Book).

Peter Harrington’s Christmas 2020 catalogue features a selection of first and special editions such as this copy of 'Just So Stories' by Rudyard Kipling.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

So well has the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association’s (PBFA) monthly online book fair been received that it is being continued as a permanent fixture.

Letter informs George Washington of his election to the presidency.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

Bid to a double-estimate and record $24,000 (£18,460) at Freeman’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of Philadelphia on October 14 was a complete and well-preserved example of publisher John Bell’s great Poets of Great Britain… collection.

Bid online to a record £3200 in a Norfolk auction was one of 375 copies of a 1924 Nonesuch Press work comprising the first chapter of Genesis…, as illustrated with a dozen woodcuts by Paul Nash.

English edition of the most famous scientific book of all finally ends up in German hands.

With indoor fairs still more or less on ice for now, a new project from Shapero is offering dealers the chance to unite under one roof.