SELWOOD AUCTIONS
FINE ART & RARE BOOK AUCTIONEERS
CATEGORIES
Our categories bring together paintings, rare books and works on paper across literature, art, history, travel, architecture, photography and the natural world, alongside collections that resist easy classification.
British and European Paintings
Our specialist paintings and drawings department offers regular sales of 19th Century British and European Art, British Drawings and Watercolours, Maritime Pictures, Modern British and Irish Art, Old Master Paintings, Portrait Miniatures, Post-War Art, Scottish Art, Topographical Pictures, Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art.
Drawings and Works on Paper
We sell 18th and 19th Century British Drawings and Watercolours and European Old Master drawings by artists working from approximately 1500 to 1900.
Rare Books
We sell printed books, which fall into the following categories; Travel and Topography, The Islamic World, India and Asia, Natural History, Science and Medicine, Sport, Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions, Children's Books, Private Press, Art and Architecture, Continental and English Literature and History.
Prints and Editions
Our prints department offers works by old master, modern, post-war and contemporary printmakers, featuring works from old master to contemporary artists, including etchings, woodcuts, screen prints, and lithographs.
Photographs and Photobooks
We offer works by 19th century pioneers, 20th century masters and contemporary artists;
Early daguerreotypes and calotypes, 19th century travel photography (India, China, Japan, Australia, Africa and the Pacific), modernist and experimental photography, portrait photography.
Vintage Posters
Our specialised vintage posters department covers a wide variety of subjects, to include sports, music, film and cinema, travel, advertising, war and propaganda, from around the world.
Maps and Atlases
Our Maps and Atlases department covers material from the earliest printed maps to the great cartographers Mercator, Blaeu, Ortelius, Visscher, Verbiest, Speed, Mauro, Gastaldi, Huang, de Jode and Munster, through to the modern period mapmakers. We handle maps relating to social history, demographics and propaganda, world maps, country maps, county maps, sea charts, estate maps and celestial maps.
CATEGORIES
FINE ART & RARE BOOK AUCTIONEERS
CATEGORIES
There are many ways into a collection. At Selwood Auctions, our categories are shaped as much by curiosity as convention—bringing together books, art and objects on paper through the ideas, places and people that connect them.
Explore Artists & Writers, from first editions and letters to drawings and artists’ books; The Natural World, spanning botanical illustration, gardens, landscape and natural history; or Voyages & Places, where travel books meet maps, photographs, journals and accounts of exploration.
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