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ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, including both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

London gallery devotes catalogue to items from the era to mark bicentenary of his death

How the livre d’artiste can combine words and images beautifully – and be highly desirable

How letters related to wars bring a connection that history books cannot match

After a long and illustrious naval career, it is a pity that Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell is best known for the circumstances of his death.

A selection of upcoming books, maps and prints at auctions around the UK and overseas.

These pressed Darjeeling ferns feature in an album compiled and mounted by Phoebe Jaffrey in 1882.

Art glass dealers look forward to the Festival of Antiques.

ATG interviews the new Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association president Pom Harrington

A brief history of maps designed to communicate ideas over geographical accuracy

Most prints are closely connected with an artist’s wider oeuvre. A few good Welsh examples were on offer at Rogers Jones (22% buyer’s premium) in Cardiff on April 17.

Organiser tells ATG why the south-coast city is a great place for a new PBFA event

The increasingly contentious issue of selling Benin works of art at auction raised its head again last week after an ancestral plaque catalogued as 16th or 17th century was withdrawn from an East Sussex sale.

The latest silver sale at Woolley & Wallis – first scheduled for November – included a collection of more than 300 lots from a deceased estate.