Books and Works on Paper

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This handwritten volume bound in maroon calf boards with brass clasp is titled inside The Minute Book of The Auld Lang Syne Sketching Club.

'Theatre d’Agriculture et Mesnages des Champs' issued in 1600 is the first major work on French agronomy.

Refugees in Chelsea was written by Henry James (1843-1916) to help the local Chelsea Committee to raise funds in the US to start an industry for crippled Belgian soldiers.

In ATG No 2601 we reported on a penknife with over 100 folding blades and accessories made for exhibition by George Wolstenholm of Sheffield.

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Famous 17th century version by George Chapman translates into five figures

The Exceptional Sale at Christie’s included a complete copy of a celebrated suite of engravings that were printed in France for the Qing emperor Qianlong.

The name Steve Ditko (1927-2018) scarcely needs an introduction to comic collectors.

A postcard carried on the world’s first official airmail flight came up for auction in Staffordshire.

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Account of the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb comes as rare set with dust jackets intact

From late 1940 to early 1941 André Breton and a group of other Surrealists including Wifredo Lam, Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, André Masson and Frédéric Delanglade re-located to Marseille where they anxiously awaited visas to escape occupied France.

Firmly in the British jingoistic ‘boy’s own’ tradition, a collection of Commando comic books turned heads when offered at Stourbridge saleroom Fieldings last year (see ATG No 2556).

In recent times the work of newspaper cartoonists has been reassessed with a nod to its artistic, technical and historical merit.

Thomas Bradshaw has been described as a poor civil servant but a brilliant artist.

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A setting with lots of water next to valuable books may not seem an obvious fit but it was a successful match

Apocrypha sold at auction was his personal copy and then inscribed by descendants who later owned it