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Upcoming auctions filter by location all dreweatts filter by department all asian art british and european ceramics and glass british and european sculpture and works of art clocks, barometers and scientific instruments coins and medals fine art furniture, rugs and carpets house sales and private collections jewellery live steam and model. View our current auctions for rare and collectible books, including first editions, signed volumes and collections. Book auction price guide live online auctions site. Following the latest uk government announcement, we are now again subject to covid19 lockdown restrictions. If your item meets our quality standards and minimum consignment value, sothebys will provide auction estimates and will recommend the most effective way to sell your property whether in one of our live or onlineonly auctions, as a private sale, on sothebys home us only or, if. The top comic book auctions websites for collectors. Since 2009 he has lived in north norfolk, regularly walking along the beach at cley next the sea. Every antiquarian book auction is available to view at the auction rooms. These sales encompass everything from early manuscript books to modern first editions. If you own one of these rare books, youre sitting on a gold.
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Apr, 2021 these auctions take place in london in june and december. A sothebys specialist will compare your property to similar items recently sold at auction. Christies books and manuscripts department offers for sale the best of the worlds printed books, maps, medieval manuscripts, autograph letters and archives. Rare books, book collection, manuscripts and old maps fine. Browse and find coins, comics, currency, art, luxury handbags, sports memorabilia, wine, historical items, books, real estate, and more at heritage auctions. Sketch book i water soluble ink and seawater on paper 21 x 14. If you want to buy and sell crappy antiquarian books, go to ebay. View our auction highlights and get a free online valuation. Bonhams fine and rare book, map and manuscript auctions department specialises in auctions, valuations valuations of antiquarian books.
These spring and autumn sales boast a diverse selection of books ranging in both subject and date, from early latin texts to traditional bindings, botanical, entemological, sporting subjects and first editions. As the worlds leading auctioneer of australian books and manuscripts we now hold all of the top four prices achieved at auction for printed australiana, a feat achieved by no other auction house. Auction estimates are provided only for the owner of the property and may not be used by any other person or for any other purpose nor disclosed to any third party, reproduced or published in any form. Books, maps and manuscripts are a richly diverse sector awash with historical.
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