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Oliver Wood is the photography books expert at Shapero Rare Books.

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

Following on from the summer event, London dealer showvase has lots of varied exhibitions lined up

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of a temporary export bar on Roman mosaics

The Beatles Memorabilia Auction at Tracks (25% buyer’s premium) in Chorley, Lancashire included one of the most desirable of all commercial Fab Four items: the 1964 Beatles record player by NEMS Enterprises.

Four generations of the Bartlett family have farmed Hinton Farm near Yeovil in Somerset.

Former Masterpiece fair chairman was particularly enthusiastic about antiquities

John Wallis was one of the leading publishers of board games in the early 19th century. One of them, Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy, was first issued in 1804 and revised in 1815.

The French-American sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) started making jewellery in the early 1970s after she was introduced to the Italian goldsmith Giancarlo Montebello in Paris.

A 14th-century mosque lamp from Egypt or Syria achieved the highest price for a glass object at auction when it sold at four-times estimate at Bonhams in London.

When an Irish antiques sleuth paid under £200 on eBay for what appeared to be a cigar case, information about its origin was sketchy at best.

A US-based vendor cashed in when a portrait by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) of his lover Evelyn St George sold at Sotheby’s for more than double the amount it had fetched less than four months earlier at a New Jersey auction.