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Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of George Stubbs' 'Mares and Foals' being offered at auction with a £7m-10m estimate.

Australian pharmaceutical chemist Robert Francis Burke started building his collection of Chelsea and Worcester porcelain in the 1970s, long before the days of the internet.

Congratulations to Golding Young director Kirsty Young who has passed her professional assessment at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). After four years of study, she is now a chartered auctioneer and valuer.

On Friday, May 17, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2382.61 / €2194.18 / £1882.77

Annual specialist extravaganza held in Paris involves galleries, auction houses and museums

Stand-out lots from upcoming sales including Chardin still-life, Napoleonic marshal's baton and fine art collection acquired over decades

Published between 1750-73, Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortis curiosorum (‘A selection of plants from natural specimens nurtured in London’s curious gardens’) is considered the most important botanical work ever printed in Germany.

Cristian Beadman, chairman of Exeter auction house Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood and valuer on 'Antiques Roadshow', abseiled down the north tower of the city’s cathedral on May 4 as part of a fundraiser for a new cloister gallery.

Art consultancy and valuation firm Gurr Johns, parent company of Dreweatts and Forum, has announced that Vicki Wonfor will be managing director and chief operating officer of both salerooms.

Simon Rastall, one of the exhibitors at the recent Annual Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair, runs Rastall Art, which specialises in 20th century paintings.

This wreath of helichrysum (immortelle or everlasting) flowers was apparently sent to Napoleon on St Helena as a token of support from two of his sympathisers in London.

The Science, Medicine & Early Technology auction at Flints (25% buyer’s premium) in Thatcham, Berkshire on May 1 was led by a complete seven-volume set of The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain by James Sowerby (1757-1822).

Gallery with family connections stages a show 150 years on from Paris exhibition where the art movement began

Cryptoryptomentyces et Cryptographiae has been described as ‘arguably the most complete tome on esoteric cryptography ever published’, an esoteric claim to fame in itself.

A football programme for for the Estudiantes de la Plata v Manchester United Intercontinental Cup final on September 25, 1968, hammered down at a top-estimate £10,000 in Shropshire.

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

Brocantes bring a taste of summer to the nation's country houses – here are two to attend this year

Organiser of a series of shows says curation means traders are offering a wide range of items

Owen Simmons was a bit of a bread fan, it is fair to say. A lecturer at the National Bakery School in London, he produced the lavish book shown here.