FOLIO AUCTIONS
BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER
ABOUT
Folio Auctions is a specialist auctioneer, with departments devoted to rare books, photographs, manuscripts, ephemera, illustration and graphic art, across a broad range of genres, periods and subject types.
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Working with collectors, institutions and dealers around the world, we act as agents for both vendors and purchasers, and advise on the best method of selling books and manuscripts, whether by private sale or at auction.
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We provide discreet and trustworthy services to our clients and welcome the opportunity to work with both new and established collectors to help build their collections.
BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & WORKS ON PAPER
SERVICES
Our books and manuscripts sales are held online, focussing on rare books, photographs, manuscripts, ephemera, illustration and graphic art. We handle science and medicine, natural history, maps, travel and voyages, topography, children’s books and illustrated books, art and architecture, original illustrative art, fine bindings, engravings, continental literature, manuscripts, photograph albums, foreign literature, first editions, private press, limited editions, prints and works on paper.
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Rare Books
Antiquarian books, modern first editions, fine bindings, travel books, maps and atlases, children's and illustrated books, historical manuscripts, art and architecture - artists’ illustrated books (livres d’artistes), private press, the applied arts, architecture, Islamic, ethnographic and Asian art, artist monographs and catalogues raisonnés.
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Photographs & Photobooks
Early photographs including daguerreotypes and tintypes. 19th century travel albums and vernacular photographs. Travel and exploration from the 1840’s to the early 1900’s. 20th century photobooks. Photographically illustrated books with original photographs - topography, travel, portraiture, architecture and archaeology.
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Manuscripts & Ephemera
Artist-produced ephemera and documentation, Artists' Photographs, Documentation, Archives and International Exhibitions.
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​Illustration & Graphic Art
Original material created for books, magazines, posters, comics & cartoons, advertising, fashion drawings, theater and film design.
​Art & Exhibitions, Performance & Entertainment, Travel & Transport, Politics, Protest & Propaganda Posters and Graphic Design.
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We are interested in original scarce and obscure material from the sixteenth century through to the twenty-first century.
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PRIVATE SALES
Acting as agents, we negotiate discrete and confidential sales of books and works on paper, between international buyers, private collectors, museums and institutions. We undertake provenance research to investigate ownership history, gaps in provenance and documentation.
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We look forward to working with both new and established collectors to help build their collections.
CONTACT
Looking to sell or source a book, library or archive?
Bruton
Tel: +(0)1749 600 858
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