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Britannica Auctions Ltd
Founded in 2021 by Garry Prior we are based in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, UK. Britannica Auctions is an independent auction house specialising in antique prints and we offer a friendly and professional service to buyers and sellers worldwide.
Upcoming Auctions from Britannica Auctions Ltd
Antique prints with no reserve
We are offering a huge selection of antique prints and engravings from 16th-20th centuries. Subjects included are natural history, architecture & designs, caricatures & humour, classical (including Egyptology), religious & historical, famous buildings and views, maps, sporting events, royal and historical portraits. We particularly feature ornithological prints by John Gould, Robert Gillmor, Edward Lear, Peter Mazell, William Swainson, Prideaux J Selby, William Lewin, WT Greene, Jacques Barraband, Francois Martinet, Jean-Baptiste Audebert, Rene Lesson, Edouard Travies, Charles Lemaire, Conrad Susemihl and Cornelius Nozeman. Other notable natural history artists are JJ & JW Audubon, Rev. Houghton, Josiah Whymper, Archibald Thorburn, George Sowerby, John Frederick Miller, George Edwards, Moses Harris, William Hewitson, Frederick Nodder, Edward Donovan and HN Humphreys. There are numerous botanical engravings by Elizabeth Twining, Rory McEwen, Walter Fitch, Ferdinand Vietz, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Christopher Trew & Georg Ehret, Jane E Giraud, Edward Lowe, Elizabeth Yeats and P Stroobant. There are also maps by Heinrich Bunting, Van der Aa, Emanuel Bowen, Robert Morden and title pages by Johann Blaeu, Other important artists and engravers featured are Thomas Chippendale, Christoph Glotch, George Vertue, Jacobus Houbraken, Edouard Garnier, Anthony Desgodetz, Anton Seder, John Sell Cotman, Auguste Racinet, Henri Delange, Rudolf Ackermann, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Kyd, Joseph Strutt, Charles Riviere, William Nicholson, Tom Merry, Hans Holbein, Claude Lorrain and Louis Haghe.Bidder Reviews for Britannica Auctions Ltd (5)
4.2 out of 5.0 Stars
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RickLos Angeles, CA
May 07, 2024
Great Auction House-fantastic communications and easy over-seas accommodations!
Bidding for the first time with a foreign auction house, comes with certain amount of trepidation. However, Britannica was great with quick responses to inquiries and gave detailed information when required. It helped that their photo displays were excellent as was their Lot descriptions. Payment was simple with direct wire-transfer and shipping was surprising quick by Royal Mail. Highly recommend-look forward to their future auctions.
ANDREASiracusa, IT
May 04, 2024
TOP! NUMBER ONE SELLERS
An amazing experience with this auction house, I buy from all over the world from auction houses, and they has been NUMBER ONE! Fast and cheaper than usual posting, perfect comunication, they helped me in MANY ways and in the BEST way!! I had some problems for the parcel and they helped me and solved them all. I could only raccomend to everybody this seller, and thanks them again and again!! THANKS so so much. you are the BEST
gregValbom, PT
Sep 23, 2024
More items paid for but never received from Britannica!
I am a regular bidder at auction houses all over Europe and the United States and I've never had such a terrible experience. I won multiple items from two separate auctions by Britannica Auctions Ltd. and nothing was ever shipped to me. items were won on April 16, 2024 and as of today (Sept 23, '24) Britannica has stopped communicating with me. I have been asking for MONTHS with DOZENS of emails to please send tracking information so that I might be able to locate my missing items and they have never provided me with any tracking information, nor can they give me any indication as to the location of my items. I have been in communication with Liveauctioneers to no avail. Back in August I was told by Britannica that they would "either send me tracking information or they would refund the purchase price for my articles" nothing, nearly a month later and no reply, no tracking info, no items received and no refund. This is the second auction with Britannica that has not arrived. BUYER BEWARE!!!
gregValbom, PT
Sep 23, 2024
absolutely a miserable experience and apparently quite dishonest auction house.
I am a regular bidder at auction houses all over Europe and the United States and I've never had such a terrible experience. I won multiple items from two separate auctions by Britannica Auctions Ltd. and nothing was ever shipped to me. items were won on April 16, 2024 and as of today (Sept 23, '24) Britannica has stopped communicating with me. I have been asking for MONTHS with DOZENS of emails to please send tracking information so that I might be able to locate my missing items and they have never provided me with any tracking information, nor can they give me any indication as to the location of my items. I have been in communication with Liveauctioneers to no avail. Back in August I was told by Britannica that they would "either send me tracking information or they would refund the purchase price for my articles" nothing, nearly a month later and no reply, no tracking info, no items received and no refund. BUYER BEWARE!!!
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