Latest News Articles by Ian McKay
Vagabonds tramp to Chicago
15 March 2021Sold at a rather higher than expected $1900 (£1440) by Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) of Chicago was a lot offering not one, but two early copies of Rafaele Frianoro’s Il Vagabondo overo Sferza de Bianti, e Vagabondi.
British and Irish book auctions: March 16-30, 2021
15 March 2021Our regular listing of UK and Irish book sales.
In praise of American independence
15 March 2021In Praise of America was a very mixed sale of furniture, silver, folk art, prints, broadsides and more held in New York.
Sporting art touches down in saleroom
15 March 2021Sporting subjects were very much in evidence and definitely among the best-sellers in an illustration art sale held in New York.
Thomas Hardy under review
08 March 2021One 1870s Thomas Hardy work that was hated by the Spectator magazine critic, the other hailed
From my good friend Baden-Powell
08 March 2021Contained in an old buckram folder, a collection of scouting ephemera proved a highlight of a sale of books and ephemera held in Chichester.
Heroic price at 10 times top estimate
08 March 2021Given a modest estimate of £100-150 in a January 3 sale at Oxfordshire auction house Jones & Jacob (18% buyer’s premium), an edition of Hero & Leander published in 1949 by Christopher Sandford sold instead at £1500.
British and Irish book auctions: March 9-24, 2021
08 March 2021Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
Works that fit the double bill
01 March 2021Bumper selection of lots offered in Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter provides wide-ranging array
British and Irish book auctions: March 2-20, 2021
01 March 2021Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
Winnie The Pooh set signed by ‘Christopher Robin’ emerges in San Francisco
01 March 2021A 50th anniversary edition of the much-loved AA Milne and EH Shepard books, a boxed set published in the appropriate years of 1974-78, is shown below.
‘Bible that Charles I carried to the block’
22 February 2021Bible sold for £160,000 at auction is reputed to be that taken by Charles I to his execution in 1649
Perry claims Florida and takes on slavers before his Japanese fame
22 February 2021A naval logbook kept by Matthew Perry offered in New York covered a very eventful period in this distinguished mariner’s career.
Coats of arms guide makes £4200
22 February 2021A manuscript volume sold for £4200 was the main attraction of a sale held by Crow’s (22% buyer’s premium) of Dorking.
Captain America socks it to Hitler
22 February 2021A copy of the very first issue of Captain America soared to £320,000 (£235,640) at Heritage Auctions.
British and Irish book auctions: February 23-March 11, 2021
22 February 2021Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
Miniature powers up to £1.2m
15 February 2021Work produced in Brussels in the 1530s by a master of illumination soars way over estimate in Sotheby's London auction
Pioneering sea atlas sails to a new high
15 February 2021Sold for a record €260,000 (£234,235) in Hamburg was a copy of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer’s Speculum nauticum super navigatione maris occidentalis…
Peanuts: early days unveiled at Heritage Auctions
15 February 2021Early look of Peanuts cartoon strip evident from lot offered at Heritage Auctions.
Early coloured print of Melbourne under the hammer
15 February 2021A very early coloured litho view of Melbourne formed part of an Australiana sale held by dealer and auctioneer Peter Arnold (18% buyer’s premium).