Latest News Articles by Richard Fattorini
Record-breaking medical book returns home
25 March 2024Second edition of Vesalius landmark anatomical work sets a new high as part of science and medicine library
Dazzling results for de Beaumont library at Bonhams
26 February 2024Impressive library of renowned collector and expert includes sought-after designs by women binders
Bible bidders spot a King James sleeper
12 February 2024An ‘18th century’ bible turned out to be far more valuable as a first issue King James “He” version
Slave trader who repented his sins tells his own story
12 February 2024John Newton (1725-1807) is today perhaps best remembered as the writer of the hymn Amazing Grace. However, before his religious conversion he spent his early life as a slave trader.
Original watercolour for Little Prince makes top price among an array of manuscripts and letters
29 January 2024An original watercolour of the 'Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry fetched nearly 10 times its low estimate, selling for a record £240,000 hammer.
Health tips from the Middle Ages: Ibn Butlan’s Tacuini sanitatis
15 January 2024First printing of a guide first written in the 11th century achieves second-highest auction price
Turing and Bayley in tandem as scientific archive comes to the saleroom
18 December 2023Newly discovered papers show how renowned mathematician and his collaborator worked hand in hand
T Kimball Brooker delights span eight sales
27 November 2023Dispersal of renowned collection launches with the first auctions including Aldine ‘crown jewels’
Bidders make beeline for Beeleigh
20 November 2023Wide-ranging items from Christopher Foyle of bookshop fame generate a white-glove sale in Gloucestershire
More travels courtesy of Bobins
06 November 2023German artists take many of the top spots as another colourful selection comes to the saleroom
Charlie Watts sale drums up top bids for super first editions
23 October 2023Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh records beaten as collection of a Rolling Stone comes to auction
Take a tour to the Lakes and Devon
02 October 2023Travel journals that appeared at auction date from a time when British leisure travel was in its infancy
Harry Potter work wins joint prize price
02 October 2023Boy wizard Harry Potter was up against prize fighter Daniel Mendoza for the top spot at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).
A 17th century rarity: unrecorded book emerges at Sussex auction
02 October 2023An unrecorded 17th century printed book took £8800 hammer at a West Sussex sale.
Mystery manuscript identified at Cornish auction
18 September 2023One of two texts in a single volume revealed after eager bidding to be by Hungarian Jesuit
How society folk lined up to sign a visitors’ book
18 September 2023Almost 120 years ago at 13 Bruton Street an estimated 10,000 visitors were drawn to an exhibition that caught the public attention and attracted record queues.
The colourful world of Norman Bobins
28 August 2023Latest slice of a ‘magnificent library’ that covered the development of book illustrations