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It’s not just the Firsts book fair this year that has a focus on a plants theme

If you are green fingered but also like getting your hands on antiques, then Louise Allen and Piers Newth’s stall at the 'RHS Chelsea Flower Show' in London from May 20-24 will be of great appeal.

How can the UK assess and secure if necessary the papers that may shed light on the country’s history? Mark Stevens, county archivist at Royal Berkshire Archives, gives us an expert’s view

As Forum Auctions enters its 10th year of trading, Rupert Powell reflects on a busy year

A painting by Terence Cuneo (1907-96) depicting the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath in the Second World War has sold for £60,000 at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).

Julian Wilson has set up his own independent antiquarian book-selling business in south London.

Who can fail to love a country house car boot?

Our selection of lots at seven upcoming auctions.

A Latin to French dictionary that belonged to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was among the highlights a recent sale of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps at Doyle New York (28/27% buyer’s premium).

On Friday, May 9, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3332.50 / €2956.91 /£2505.64

We take a closer look at the ‘idiosyncratic mixture of independent businesses’ established in this charming book and map-selling hub in central London

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

ATG takes a look at some stand-out lots sold recently at an auction in Berlin

Trade associations play a valuable role in representing their members, organising fairs and events and, among many other things, making sense of changes in legislation – particularly useful when US policy on tariffs seems to change every five minutes.

Graham Slater’s collection that packed a Cambridge house provided 670 lots over two auctions

Can you tell your foxing from your deckle edge? Or quire from collation? Here is a handy guide to some of the terms used in the books and works on paper collecting field.

A previously lost and unpublished work by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789- 1869) sold for €104,000 (£87,000) as part of the latest Tajan (26% buyer’s premium) Old Master Paintings and Drawings sale.

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about,” Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray - a prescient observation that has proven remarkably true.

The public may have been surprised to discover that Barry Humphries (1934-2023), the creator of Dame Edna Everage, was a great bibliophile with a passion for rare books by the ‘decadent’ writers of the fin de siècle.

A recent Freeman’s Hindman (28/27% buyer’s premium) sale in Chicago included a first edition of John Locke’s foundational text on civil society and the nature of government 'Two Treatises of Government….'