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ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from June 4-16, 2018.

Jackie Edwards knows all about crowds, as she is in her third year of running a busy biannual antiques and vintage fair in five indoor/outdoor locations throughout the market town of Romsey in Hampshire.

An original typescript for Boris Pasternak’s most famous novel Doctor Zhivago with handwritten corrections by the author was sold for £110,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Forum Auctions.

This canvas of the martyrdom of St Sebastian by the Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti (1613-99) is closely related to one of his most famous works of the same subject, in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.

MADAM – I write regarding your front page story about provincial auctioneers and the rising cost of payment by credit card (ATG No 2343). I feel so sorry for these hard-up companies as they now only average 40-50% commission from each lot sold!

In the early development of motion pictures, this Kinora viewer, below, was the high end of the hugely popular ‘flip-book’ film machines.

Three modestly valued works in regional sales.

A hundred and eighty lots in a recent West Sussex sale that offered great variety and some real rarities came from the library at West Horsley Place in Surrey.

A rare late 16th century astronomical horizontal dial, dated MDXCI (1591) and engraved with the arms and name of Pope Clement VIII, is one of the highlights of the sale series to be held by Uppsala AuktionsKammare from June 13-15.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period May 24-30, 2018. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

The challenge for the organiser of 'Art and Antiques Olympia' is to carry the fair into the future without altering the fabric of the venerable event.

This drawing, below, of the celebrated Danish ballerina Ulla Poulsen is among the pieces on offer from Sim Fine Art’s online exhibition of works by Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937).

The art and antiques trade associations are in a race against time in their bid to challenge aspects of the government’s planned ivory ban. The bill was published last week, earlier than expected.

UK antiques portal Online Galleries has significantly increased subscription costs, causing many dealers to complain of steep price rises.

A major test of the market for the best of British furniture will take place in London this summer when Christie’s stages a sale dedicated to Thomas Chippendale.

The emperor Qianlong collected Western clocks throughout his 60-year reign, building upon the interest of his grandfather Kangxi.

Well-provenanced Chinese monochromes dominated bidding at recent Asian art sales across the UK regions.

London auction house Dix Noonan Webb is launching a stand-alone banknotes department and expanding into the next-door premises.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including reports of Bonhams auction house being up for sale.