A small group of lots in a recent Edinburgh sale were once part of the library of the […]

Sold for £900 by Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) on February 19 was an elaborately bound example of Monsieur […]

Swann Auction Galleries is to sell a major selection of German Expressionist works from one of the movement’s […]

A total of 18 phones competed for a rare devotional painting offered by a New York institution at […]

A quintessential pointillist painting of the sun setting over the port of Saint Tropez made an auction record […]

The best Egyptian antiquities now engender much more than mere scholastic fervour but, for the most part, humbler […]

The owner of a handwritten page from Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ has been temporarily prevented […]

Among the prominent sitters for the Austrian artist Wilhelm Viktor Krausz (1878-1959) was Sigmund Freud, the father of […]

Gold rush era jewellery from Down Under is a rare visitor to UK salerooms but, remarkably, several pieces […]

Dated London 1679 in a Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) sale of January 10 was a job lot that […]

A “legendarily rare first edition” of the first book to describe the workings of a stock exchange sold […]

On January 10, Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) sold a single-owner collection of polar and other travel books – […]

Lots relating to explorer Matthew Flinders are particularly topical given that his grave has just been re-discovered in […]

The £140,000 record-breaking Cedric Morris lower painting at Chichester saleroom Henry Adams (plus 20% buyer’s premium) was not […]

Once breech-loading guns became the norm, the gun itself was only one part of the equation. Ammunition was […]

Following the fall of Seringapatam in India on May 4, 1799, portions of the spoils were variously allocated […]

“There’s no money around in January” is the refrain you often hear from businesses in the new year. […]

Illustrated below is the title page of a copy of the very first book by CS Lewis to […]