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A week after Christie’s (27/22% buyer’s premium) sold a first edition of Wuthering Heights for a record £950,000 hammer (see ATG No 2751), the King Street auction house’s sale of Valuable Books and Manuscripts including Cartography set a new record for a UK various-owner book sale at £10m hammer.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the sad death of Theo Burrell who passed away aged 39 with brain cancer

For centuries, the Imperial Glass Factory at St Petersburg catered to Russian royalty, producing top-of-the-line glass wares that were good enough to feature in their daughters’ dowries.

A reader has contacted ATG regarding a pet hate, the “scourge of the antiques fairs” – trolleys.

Royal Navy subjects prominent in a white-glove sale at London saleroom Charles Miller

A group of four original lithograph posters advertising exhibitions of the Viennese Secession was well received at Karl & Faber (27% buyer’s premium) in Munich.

Example dating to 1662 might have touted English master craftswoman’s skills

Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) is renowned for his realistic depictions of the First World War, visiting the front line to see the scenes for himself, and historical and royal subjects.

Thieves broke into the Lalique museum in the early hours of July 5 and stole 27 items of jewellery and accessories valued in the region of €4.5m.

Among the most eagerly contested lots at Bonhams’ latest sale of Fine Decorative Arts held in Bond Street was this set of four English heraldic beasts c.1600.

A “seminal document of Parliamentary history” has been purchased at auction by dealership Philip Mould & Company for a hammer price of £62,000.

The Fitzwilliam Museum has bought an early drawing by Thomas Gainsborough at auction.

Event organiser Mariette & Co is launching the first international iteration of its Trois Crayons Drawings Hub in the United States this autumn.