Books and Works on Paper

Full set of seasonal series from the 1840s stars as Californian collection of literature comes for sale in US

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

Family archive features poem written by Alice author for the well-connected owner of a scrapbook

The highlight of the latest Militaria and Ethnographica sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) was an extraordinarily detailed first-hand account of shipwreck in the Indian Ocean.

Archive and avian template for porcelain designs reflect the life of a remarkable 19th century polymath

Register bizarrely contains the stats of notables as part of a social ritual

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

Our regular listing of books and works on paper sales

Our second report covering the auction that made the highest total for a UK various-owner book sale

Bryan Faussett (1720-76) was a clergyman and amateur historian in the grand tradition who spent much of his time opening tumuli in his native county of Kent.

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

John Boydell’s (1720-1804) entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that “no print publisher before or since has ever exerted as much influence on the course of British art”.

Following furnishings in Edinburgh, a Carlisle sale offers books from the library of Clan Maxwell seat

An 1860s musical manuscript by German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-97), entirely in his hand, came for sale at Lion Heart Autographs (22% buyer’s premium).

By coincidence, in the very week that a recently discovered work by Mozart – a previously unknown composition for harp and flute – was premiered in Paris, a piece of Mozart ephemera caused a stir in Vienna.

While Winnie-the-Pooh works by the renowned illustrator generate most demand, others for Grahame books are also very desirable

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

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

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 letter by Carl Linnaeus (1707-78), father of modern botany and taxonomy, has set an auction record in his native Sweden.