Books and Works on Paper

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

This letter signed by Charles II was written in September 1660, mere months after the restoration of the monarchy.

Seventeenth century map of Bermondsey area reveals garden suburb character in a pre-industrial age

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

Norfolk dealer Voewood Rare Books will offer two prototype BAFTA awards at a US book fair where the UK is well represented this year.

Second edition of Vesalius landmark anatomical work sets a new high as part of science and medicine library

Memorabilia relating to the Victorian songwriter ‘Claribel’ returned home from Malta to be auctioned in Lincolnshire and were bought by the local museum.

A trio of lots relating to Charles Dickens offered at Chichester saleroom Stride & Son (18% buyer’s premium) included a presentation pocket watch.

Sketches and journal by Emily Eden relate to her life in the UK then journey to the subcontinent

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A private collection comprising the signatures of every one of Britain’s prime ministers sold for £8000 as part of a designated timed online sale of Autographs and Memorabilia.

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Rare prints from a remarkable collection deaccessioned from a library in Massachusetts came for sale at Tremont Auctions (24% buyer’s premium) on February 25.

One of the stand-out results at a three-day auction of a huge American book collection came for a very British lot.

Chicago sale offers more than 300 works related to the British author amassed by US collectors

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

This single-sheet letter was written by Catherine de Medici (1519-89) to the ambassador to Spain.

John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium) Fine Paintings sale in Fernhurst on February 20 included a good example of The Pictorial Missionary Map of the World - a rarity that appears at auction perhaps once in every decade.

The 'International Exhibition of Modern Art' held at the 69th Regiment Armory building in New York from February 15 to March 15, 1913, ushered in a new era for the art market.

The aristocratic German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt (1887-1969) is best known by his pen name. From 1914 he went simply by the pseudonym Alastair.