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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

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).

A 16th century Renaissance astronomical table clock was among the stand-out lots at Dreweatts recent clocks sale.

Works from the collection of British fashion magnate Peter Simon, the founder of the Monsoon fashion chain, could set a house record for a single-owner collection sold in London when they appear at Christie’s in October.

New York saleroom Auctions at Showplace is offering a well-documented Turner watercolour on October 8.

Coinex returns to Grosvenor Square this month with 50 exhibitors and a raft of auctions.

Eminent Georgian instrument maker George Adams (c.1709-72) first described his ‘variable’ microscope in 1771 in the fourth edition of his Micrographia Illastrata.

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

Cartier debuted the Coccinelle ladybug brooch in 1935, and the design – a whimsical and colourful symbol of good fortune – was popular into the 1940s.

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

Such messages from second-class passengers on the liner are some of the rarest to be offered at auction

French neoclassicist Marie Guilhelmine Benoist (1768-1826) is another of the long-overlooked female artists whose work is being reappraised by the market in the 21st century.