Bonhams

A marvellous Corliss & Wheelock steam engine, built by Crepelle et Garand, Lille, which was awarded grand prix at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1889, leads

Quentin Blake at 90: A Birthday Auction in Support of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration at

Quite a big week coming up in the sale rooms. Here's what I'll be watching:

London – The first of the farewell letters written in the Antarctic by Captain Robert Scott as he realised that he and his team would not survive has been sold by

Literary memorabilia is alluring to collectors, as the recent Joan Didion auction made clear.

Here are the auctions I'll be keeping an eye on this week:

The original drawing by E.H.

Los Angeles – From the 1936 novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell to the Hollywood film adaptation from 1939 –

Here are the auctions I'll be watching this week:

London - In the closing decades of the 19th century, David Bryce went from a relatively obscure publisher to a vastly successful entrepreneur almost overnight thanks entirely to the production of m