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Likely to be the rarest and most expensive book available at the PBFA’s 'London Antiquarian Book Fair' is a copy of 'Caractères' by the French philosopher and satirist Jean de La Bruyère.

This Allegory of Spring by the 17th century Italian artist Pietro Liberi (Padua 1605-Venice 1687) is one of the works in the May 21 auction of Old Master paintings and furnishings that opens Babuino’s next auction series in Rome.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from May 15-25, 2018.

Whether you’re in the market for mammoths or missiles, for 10 years Summers Place Auctions has been a likely destination. In 2008 SPA held its first auction, having been formed the year before.

A campaign to raise funds for legal advice on the government’s ivory ban proposals has received “a positive response”, according to dealer body BADA, which is organising the endeavour on behalf of the antiques sector.

Three modestly valued works in regional sales.

Mexican lots, one of them relating to the working of a silver mine in the 16th century, produced some of the higher bids in a recent Americana sale.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

A 1940 painting of Valle Crucis Abbey is one of the key pictures in Bohun Gallery’s exhibition 'John Piper: A Very English Artist'.

MADAM – We have been following the ivory debate in your pages with anxious concern, in spite of being specialists in vernacular, naive and folk art, whose business would rarely be directly impacted by the near-total ivory ban planned by the government.

Briefly catalogued as a 19th century French cabinet embellished with gilt metal mounts and a jasperware plaque, this highly decorative piece shown below was a stand-out offering at Rayleigh auction house Stacey’s (20% buyer’s premium).

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Previously unseen paintings by Caziel (1906-88) go on show at Whitford Fine Art this week.

Pierre-Yves Guillemet recently opened PY Rare Books.

The Cotswolds Art and Antiques’ Dealers Association celebrated its 40th anniversary at its annual Blenheim Palace fair last month.

Unusual in the post-internet age, Freeman’s first-floor gallery in downtown Philadelphia was standing room-only for the April 29 auction of the collection of Dorrance ‘Dodo’ Hill Hamilton (1928-2017).

Dealer Chris Martin-Zakheim is selling his stock after closing Iconastas of Piccadilly due to ill health.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period May 3-9, 2018. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

If pictures provided the backbone of the Dodo Hamilton collection, then there was no denying the sale’s most popular entries: a large selection of polychrome painted rattan and wicker conservatory furniture, perfect for the Florida beach house.

MADAM – Sir William McAlpine (Obituary, ATG No 2340) often engaged the services of my father, John Pryke, a specialist structural and contracting engineer, and was very supportive to him when our family business went the unfortunate way of so many (as opposed to McAlpine’s).