Book

ATG takes a look at some of the many dealer exhibitions being staged in the run-up to Christmas

A 1556 first edition copy of Welshman Robert Recorde’s The Castle of Knowledge was estimated at £5000-10,000 and made £12,600 including buyer’s premium at Hansons’ November 1 Library auction.

Follow-up edition of a classic avian work was more or less a new publication thanks to extra research

Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh records beaten as collection of a Rolling Stone comes to auction

Increased private buying plus overseas trade purchases boost the huge annual extravaganza of the York National Book Fair.

While its existence was known, the whereabouts was a mystery until a routine house valuation

The late 19th century Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa remains something of an enigma.

Boy wizard Harry Potter was up against prize fighter Daniel Mendoza for the top spot at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

An unrecorded 17th century printed book took £8800 hammer at a West Sussex sale.

Large group of pugilist-related works was collected over more than 50 years by London couple

As co-publishers and editors of Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine established in 1991, Robin and Kathryn Smiley’s bookshelves were brimming with choice first editions from across the broad span of British and American literature.

The Book of Sports by Robin Carver is considered the first American publication to describe the sport of baseball.

An 18th century copy of Tikkunei Shabbat (an amalgam of Hebrew prayers and devotions for the Sabbath) sold for £57,000 to an international phone bidder at Hansons on September 5.

The PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in style next year with two new fairs: in Bath and Tunbridge Wells.

Latest slice of a ‘magnificent library’ that covered the development of book illustrations

Estimated at £300-500, a group of five hand-coloured prints of early 19th century Canada sold for £8500 at Gorringe’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Lewes.

'Theatre d’Agriculture et Mesnages des Champs' issued in 1600 is the first major work on French agronomy.

Famous 17th century version by George Chapman translates into five figures

Refugees in Chelsea was written by Henry James (1843-1916) to help the local Chelsea Committee to raise funds in the US to start an industry for crippled Belgian soldiers.

Account of the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb comes as rare set with dust jackets intact