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Italian-English dictionary contains cryptic cricket term

04 November 2024

Published in 1598, John Florio’s 'A Worlde of Wordes, or most Copious, and Exact Dictionary in Italian and English' is considered the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary.

Books and works on paper auction calendar, November 5-20, 2024

04 November 2024

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

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Tolkien Rings trilogy shines bright

04 November 2024

Copies of the Lord of the Rings trilogy just don’t get much better than the set shown here.

Forlani Map

Copy of the earliest map dedicated to North America appears at auction

30 October 2024

Paolo Forlani's map was not only the first to focus primarily on North America but among the first to depict the Strait of Anian, separating America and Asia

Books and works on paper auction calendar, October 30-November 13, 2024

28 October 2024

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

Books and works on paper auction calendar, October 22-November 6

21 October 2024

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Record bidding in the Cotswolds for a feminist first and a ‘horrid novel’

21 October 2024

Results from the Ombersley Court library reflect historical significance of the largely unseen works

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Too much violence sounded the death knell for Action comic

14 October 2024

Action comic was withdrawn by publisher IPC before its 37th edition dropped through letterboxes, with 200,000 copies pulped in the process.

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Look back at Osborne with the help of a dedicated sale

14 October 2024

Olympia Auctions is holding a timed online sale that starts to end on October 20 titled Looking Back at John Osborne: Pictures and Possessions from his Estate, The Hurst, Shropshire.

Books and works on paper auction calendar, October 15-30, 2024

14 October 2024

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

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Work of art in itself: Duchamp Dada poster impresses at auction

14 October 2024

When Marcel Duchamp was recruited in 1953 by New York gallerist Sidney Janis to create a retrospective of the Dada art movement, he rose to the challenge.

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Machiavelli’s wicked work of ‘poyson’ emerges in Essex sale

14 October 2024

First English edition of 'The Prince' was published more than a century after the Italian original appeared

Books and works on paper auction calendar, October 8-24, 2024

07 October 2024

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Small thing, big satisfaction

07 October 2024

The Scottish printer David Bryce (1845-1923) said that when he “descended to the miniature, mite and midget size” he had “many a scoff and jeer as to the absurdity of the production”.

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Wanted: poster reward for tracking down Lincoln assassin Booth

07 October 2024

Broadside offered $100,000 reward in total for apprehension of president’s killer and accomplices

Books and works on paper auction calendar, October 1-18, 2024

30 September 2024

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

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Time and money well spent at 50th York Book Fair

30 September 2024

The PBFA event marked its half century with a busy and successful edition

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Golf narrated as a Greek epic

23 September 2024

First printed book dedicated to the game took the intriguing form of a heroic clash on Leith Links

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Boxing prints power their way beyond estimates

23 September 2024

On a wintry February day in 1789 in a field on the outskirts of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, a fight between Irishman Michael Ryan and English champion Thomas Johnson was heating up.

Books and works on paper auction calendar, September 24-October 10, 2024

23 September 2024

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

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