Books & Periodicals

The Brontë museum hopes to raise funds to buy rare manuscripts from a rediscovered library collection coming up for sale at Sotheby’s.

Famous Kelmscott edition and copies of unpublished letters both attract strong bidding at Bonhams' books sale

A New and Correct Plan of the Cities of London, Westminster and Borough of Southwark sold at Reeman Dansie (20% buyer’s premium) of Colchester was offered on behalf of an un-named charity.

Sold for £3000 as part of a four-day sale held by Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) of Wisborough Green was what was billed as a gold mounted rectangular book binding, probably European and 19th century but in the 18th century taste.

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New reference work details an illuminating form of gift that took off in the Victorian era

Bentley owners and fanciers had the opportunity to acquire some scarce memorabilia in a spring sale at Bourne End Auctions (17.5% buyer’s premium).

Copy of the 1931 Golden Cockerel edition of The Four Gospels illustrated with woodcuts by Eric Gill stars in Bath auction.

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Albert Einstein letter on Communism is one of the stand-out performers in a Chicago auction

Early Declaration of Independence leads a line-up celebrating key historical events stateside

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Bid to £2000 at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) was a 1712 first of Francis Bragge’s 'Witchcraft Farther Display’d', a rare work that opens with an account of the case of Jane Wenham – the last woman to be condemned for witchcraft in England.

A couple of Winston Churchill letters were among the more successful lots in a second selection from a History in Manuscript collection* formed over the last 20 years and offered at Sotheby’s (26/20/13.9% buyer’s premium).

Warhol rarity sold in New York auction has feline theme

In the bicentenary year of his death, relics connected to Napoleon will inevitably catch the eye.

A list of upcoming international books auctions.

The great British tradition of celebrating last stands and heroic defeats includes the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.

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