Collectables

This handsome English trade sign in the form of a ram had a provenance to the London folk art dealership Robert Young Antiques.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales.

A remarkable late Victorian lecture programme on early polar exploration by the Norwegian scientist Dr Fridtjof Nansen has been sold at Chaucer Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) in Folkestone.

Dozen books including literary trailblazers come to auction from collection of actor and historian Terry Jones

Blessed with a classical education, a gift for drawing and his father’s fortune, the English militiaman and antiquary Francis Grose (1731-91) is best known for his Views of Antiquities in England and Wales, published in several volumes between 1772-76.

The trial of Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was a cause célèbre of the last decade of the 18th century.

An author printed and signed copy of Walt Whitman’s 'Leaves of Grass' sold for $37,500 (£29,400) with buyer’s premium at University Archives.

'Great Expectations' first appeared in England in 36 weekly parts in the pages of Charles Dickens’ popular magazine, All the Year Round, beginning on December 1, 1860.

The children’s author Richard Scarry (1919-94) was at the peak of popularity when he published 'Nicky Goes to the Doctor' in 1972.

From modest origins, the York event is now the largest antiquarian book fair in the UK

Mary Tudor’s personal copy of Vergil’s history of England comes to auction in Gloucestershire this month.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

The 504-lot book sale at Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) in Chicago on July 25 was topped by a four-volume set of one of the great records of the Gilded Age.

Library items shelved away in now closed college include some of the first North American histories

Our pick of works appearing at eight upcoming auctions

'Five Run Away Together' was the third of the Famous Five titles but today the most elusive.