Auctioneers

Antique arms and armour dealers and auctioneers have come together to lobby against couriers restricting delivery of antique examples.

Remarkably, although a very successful and popular artist, no accounts of the work of the Georgian caricaturist James Gillray (1756-1815) were published in England during his lifetime.

A picture by the artist dubbed ‘the Irish Alfred Wallis’ soared above estimate to bring a record at Dublin saleroom Adam’s (25% buyer’s premium).

Rupert Powell of Forum Auctions reflects on a busy year in the ‘stage-play’ of rare books

A letter from Ernest Shackleton to a supporter, written from South Georgia on the eve of his final departure on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, was offered at Charles Miller’s (24% buyer’s premium) latest Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art sale.

Letters and postcard written by Antarctic expedition members were sent to New Zealand host family

ATG takes a whistlestop tour of the globe via the greatest recent collection of colour plate travel and costume books

London dealership AntikBar brings a major collection of pieces relating to Intourist, the 20th century USSR travel company, to 'Firsts London' book fair.

A collection of Nelson commemoratives amassed over 30 years includes pieces once owned by the man himself

When James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) arrived in Paris in 1855 determined to pursue a career as an artist, printmaking was experiencing a revival.

For over a century, the whereabouts of the painting Tanz im Varieté (Steptanz) (Vaudeville Dance/Tap Dance) by the Expressionist Ernst Ludig Kirchner were unknown.