Books and Works on Paper


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Agatha Christie collection detects high demand

18 November 2024

Highlights from the The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper offered at Forum

Books and works on paper auction calendar, November 18-December 8

18 November 2024

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

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Mr Toad stars in a Shepard original sold at Forum Auctions

18 November 2024

Wind in the Willows illustration leads varied selection of lots offered by west London saleroom

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Ghent gains an Elizabeth I letter thanks to auction purchase

11 November 2024

Belgian city’s council was successful with pre-sale deal to buy queen’s plea on behalf of political prisoners

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Books & Works On Paper: auction previews

11 November 2024

A special selection of upcoming lots raging from the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Beano to Oppenheimer's passport and Machiavelli’s The Prince

Books and works on paper auction calendar, November 12-27, 2024

11 November 2024

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

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Local history in a local saleroom: documents and maps uncover story of a Quaker family

04 November 2024

Maps and documents relating to Quaker family come up at Essex auction house centuries later

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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

Our regular listing of UK and Irish sales

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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

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

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