Books & Periodicals

George Eliot’s much-admired novel 'Middlemarch…' made its first appearance in a parts issue in 1871.

Morris works and Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindings stand out in single-owner collection

Two unpublished diaries sold in Sweden related to Salomon August Andrée’s ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

In terms of improvement on expectations, the most successful lot at a Ketterer Kunst (25% buyer’s premium) sales earlier this year comprised early 19th century paper-cuts.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Published in 1862, one exceptional lot in a Californian sale that focused on food and drink was billed as “The Canonical Text in Bartending”.

Bid to £1500 in a Norfolk sale was a 1930 first of The Savoy Cocktail Book.

A richly illuminated leaf from a late 15th century manuscript account of the life of St Catherine sold at a high-estimate £30,000 at Bloomsbury Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).

Armenian manuscript demolishes estimate to take six figures in London saleroom

An update from Jeremy Carson, organiser of PBFA’s Brighton Book Fair which will run at Brighton Racecourse (assuming it is not being used as a vaccination centre then…) on Saturday, October 30 – the first in Brighton for more than 20 years.

Edition marked the first time a person of African descent had work published

Illustrated with 76 hand-coloured flags, a 1794 Signal Book for the Ships of the Line sold to an online bidder for £11,000 in a Shrewsbury sale.

This 15th century copy of the Life of St Radegund is an illuminated biography of the canonised sixth-century Frankish queen Radegund.

The Galloways were a distinguished Victorian military family, as a number of items sold at Bishop & Miller (22% buyer’s premium) revealed.

An intriguing condition report that mentions ‘water and smoke damage’ gives a clue as to what happened to this battered copy of the Encyclopedia Britannia sold in a Charles Miller (24% buyer’s premium) auction.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

A Texas sale generated six-figure sums for two very different lots.

Set of urban views takes £220,000 in a sale where ornithological works also impressed

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.