Explore up close the second group of our Classic Week auctions, including British and European Art, Valuable Books and Manuscripts, The Isabel Goldsmith Collection, and First Editions, Second Thoughts: An Auction in Support of English PEN.
Highlights not to be missed include topographical views of Venice, Paris and St Ives, Sidney Harold Meteyard’s The Return of Orpheus, Napoleon’s manuscript of the ‘Battle of Austerlitz’ written during his exile in St Helena, and over 80 modern first editions by the greatest writers and artists of our time featuring heavily annotated works by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan.