Manuscript

A copy of pioneering female author’s novel Evelina appeared at auction for first time in a decade

A previously unseen Winnie the Pooh archive is on offer at Stourbridge saleroom Fieldings on January 16.

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.

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

More than a dozen letters and cards from Diana, Princess of Wales, to her family’s former housekeeper were sold at a recent auction at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).

Codex stands out as some of the world’s most important manuscripts come to auction in London

Stephen Switzer (1682-1745), gardener, author, landscape designer and seedsman, was apprenticed in 1699 to George London, the senior partner of Brompton Park Nurseries.

Manuscript ‘sold in 1776’ at forerunner of Sotheby’s emerges in New York sale

Warrant for Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, sells well eight years after last auction appearance

Sought-after book of recipes including a puff-pastry print first was intended for the use of his pupils

Dating from March 1-October 13, 1748, a journal for sale at London maritime specialist Charles Miller’s auction on April 23 was written by Admiral John Byng (1704-57) during the final negotiations of the failed Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and some eight years before his infamous actions off the coast of Minorca.

Chicago sale offers more than 300 works related to the British author amassed by US collectors

Rediscovered books and manuscripts that once belonged to former antiquarian book dealer John Percival Love and had been stored away in a bank vault for nearly 50 years captivated collectors and the trade alike at auction.