Collectables

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

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Boole’s 1847 paper would ‘find widespread use in the design of computers and communication systems’

Nelson memorabilia from a private collection in Devon was keenly fought over at Duke’s Spring auction.

This copy of 'The Study of Sociology' by Herbert Spencer is a first edition from 1875 in original cloth.

Forgotten today, a collection sold in Somerset remembers a multi-talented showman and author

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

While most dealerships look to existing auction houses to sell off excess stock, some dealers have brought the practice in house.

This rare Victorian copper jelly mould shaped as a tortoise or turtle on rockwork sold for a remarkable £2000 at Brighton & Hove Auctions.

A prayer book once owned by a priest who helped Charles II hide after defeat at the Battle of Worcester, and later heard his death-bed confession, has sold at auction to a national heritage organisation.

Before the familiar image of a lady in tall black hat and shawl took hold, the stereotype of Welsh identity was Shon-Ap-Morgan or Poor Taff.

Letter sent from a very young Charles to his grandma with doodles and kisses emerges at auction

Inscribed as a gift and sent with his kind regards to Miss Anne Stephenson, the daughter of his aunt and uncle, Abigail and Samuel Longfellow Stephenson, an 1868 edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 'The Courtship of Miss Standish and other Poems' was offered in a sale held by Sarasota Auctions (26% buyer’s premium).

Offered as part of a March 2 sale held by Heritage (20% buyer’s premium) that was billed as a Pulp Magazine Showcase was this October 1919 issue of 'The Thrill Book'.

Shown here is what would be an arachnophobe’s nightmare: one of the 29 hand-coloured engraved plates that illustrate a copy of John Blackwell’s 'History of Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland'.