Books & Manuscripts
How to protect your rare book collection
This week, a leading US book dealer offers advice on how best to safeguard your First Editions
Baudin's voyage to Australia sells for $32k
The 1815 work and a rare accompanying map (£14k) auctioned for charity at Lyon & Turnbull
Soldier's books to make 'Great Escape' at auction
Memorabilia of a captured Private held in the famous Stalag Luft III camp will sell next month
Joyce First Edition to sell for £40k
Works on birds of paradise and Soviet propaganda also go under the hammer
16th century maps to sell at Bonhams
A unique collection of 1586 maps of Scilly and Cornwall will go under the hammer in Oxford, UK
Long-lost Jacobean play to sell for £90k
Found in a trunk, the manuscript reveals Lord Herbert of Cherbury's secret attempt at playwriting
How to protect your rare books from water damage
It's a books collector's worst nightmare: what happens if they get soaked?
'America's First Book' to sell for $40k
The Bay Psalm Book will he up for auction in Manhattan this week, along with the iconic and legendary Aitken's Bible
Famous expedition logbook to auction for £12k
The journey was called, 'the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries'
Your chance to own the original Bond books
A Scottish book fair is to sell rare and first edition copies of Ian Fleming's famous novels
Coffee table book to include space rocks
A publisher is expecting to make thousands with the ultimate expensive coffee table book: it contains space meteorites
