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After a four-year absence the Church Street Antiques Fair is returning to Marylebone in London on Sunday, June 11.

Welcome focus on women painters in recent years shows no sign of slowing down amid great interest and demand

Some exceptional pocket watches were offered for sale at Bonhams in Knightsbridge on May 11.

Australian dealer coming to the UK for Firsts describes the attractions of the Chelsea event

The London Map Fair, which bills itself as the world’s oldest and largest event of its kind, is widening its scope.

A 13th century Mamluk (Egyptian or Syrian) manuscript on astronomy sold for a surprise £140,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) in south London on April 28.

Two moulds for making buttons, given by studio potter Lucie Rie (1902-95) to her cleaning lady, were sold at a London auction on March 29.

The PBFA’s London International Antiquarian Book Fair takes place on May 20-21. Book dealer and PBFA publicity manager Jeremy Carson explains to ATG what to expect this year

Alan Chalmers of The Tennis Bookshop (established in 1988) has been awarded the United States Court Tennis Association’s 2023 George Plimpton Prize for his “fine work as a book dealer”.

The stand-free fair, 'Eye of the Collector', returns to London this May for its third physical edition.

When the Bletchley Park boffins were taking a break from code-breaking in the Second World War, complicated puzzles were one of the diversions.

Now hugely popular, this collecting field actually took many years to get going

A copy of Johann Kraft’s 'Pomona Austriaca' (Fruit Trees of Austria) featuring both the French and German texts as well as 100 hand-coloured plates is on offer at this spring’s Bloomsbury Book Fair Spring Event.

Rising to be Admiral of the Fleet during the War of the Spanish Succession, Sir Chaloner Ogle (1680-1750) had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy.

'Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair' is returning to its usual May schedule this year and is committed to a spring date.

Alberto Santos is among the exhibitors at the Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair (May 19-21).

Once the centre of the Asian art trade, and still the repository for some of the most knowledgeable dealers on the subject, the London market has weakened in recent years.

The sale of Asian art at Lyon & Turnbull in London on May 16 includes this late Edo or Meiji period boxwood netsuke of a recumbent deer signed Masakiyo.

The dress tassels pictured here came to auction from the archives of Henry Newbery & Co.