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Our selection of lots from 14 upcoming auctions

The first lot offered in Potter & Potter’s (20% buyer’s premium) auction in Chicago on September 10 was a 1939 first edition, first printing of 'Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism'.

A Georgian gold coin that was found aboard HMS Victory among Nelson’s personal possessions fetched £30,000 – three times the top estimate – at Noonans (24% buyer’s premium) in Mayfair.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

A collection of Second World War National Savings posters came for sale at Sworders’ (27/25/20% buyer’s premium) Open House timed online sale that ended on September 7.

London gallery owner John Kasmin is closely linked to British art of the late 20th century.

Dealer Esme Parish is moving on from her full-time role of offering antique silver from her base in Singapore.

Belief in divine ability to cure the sick persisted among Stuart heirs in exile even as the Jacobite dream died

An 18th century letter of marque pertaining to the privateer vessel Corbet, of Jersey, with wax seal attached, came up for sale at Channel Islands firm Martel Maides (20% buyer’s premium) on September 17.

Josephine Baker (1906-75) was not originally supposed to star in La Revue Négre, the now-legendary Parisian show performed by an all-black US cast recruited from Broadway.

People with an interest in Victorian taxidermy and the life of natural history specialist Errol Fuller are in for a treat.

The meticulously observed and technically precise still-lifes of Eric Rimmington (1926-2024) certainly have a following among collectors although, for the most part up to now, buyers have needed to operate in the retail sector rather than the secondary market.

In December 1777, Mohammed bin Abdallah (c.1710-90), Sultan of Morocco, became the first head of state to recognise the United States as an independent country.

First editions of the British author’s follow-up to his first novella are scarce and in high demand

Sculptures and original works on paper by Salvador Dalí (1904-89) have been collated by Clarendon Fine Art for its show Salvador Dalí & The Modern Masters (until September 28).

Scandinavian art amassed by Norwegian collectors Iwona and Bjarne Rieber coming up at Bonhams New Bond Street on October 27 includes works by Edvard Munch alongside those by leading figures such as Harald Sohlberg, Michael Ancher and Nikolai Astrup.

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

Pictures of birds in flight were the stock-in-trade of Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909-89).