Last year's spectacular inaugural sale took over £18,000,000 in total, making it the largest ever UK vintage car auction. Organisers expect to repeat this success, with around 100 rare cars including a 1964 Ferrari 250 LM Berlinetta. The 27th of just 32 total examples produced, this 250 LM enjoyed a successful racing history with Scuderia Sant'Ambroeus. (Est. €2,700,000-€3,450,000.) Also on offer is the luxury German marque 1938 Horch 853 Special Roadster with coachwork by Erdmann & Rossi, one of just three surviving examples of its kind. (Est. €1,800,000 - €2,500,000.)

The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed from Shirburn Castle. Part Twelve: Continental Books and Manuscripts London , Sotheby's New Bond Street 2 October 2008

Highlights include a magnificently illuminated 1514 edition of French Humanist scholar Robert Gaguin's (d. 1501) great French history, Les Grandes Chroniques (est. €123,000-185,000). Gaguin was a leading member of early humanist circles in Paris, establishing with Fichet France's first printing press in Paris, and a supporter of Erasmus when he first came to Paris. The work was published while Erasmus was in Paris,who wrote a prefatory address recommending the text.

and the best of the rest......

Sport in Art Auction
Hong Kong, Sotheby's, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 5 October 2008

British & Continental Pictures of
London, Bonhams, Knightsbridge
7 October 2008

Old Master Paintings
Vienna , Dorotheum
14 October 2008

Aboriginal Art
Sydney, Sotheby's, Museum of
Contemporary Art
20 October 2008

Orientalist Art and 19th Century European Art
New York , Christie's Rockefeller Centre
22 October 2008

Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art
London , Sotheby's New Bond Street
23 October 2008

Vins Fins et Spiritueux
Paris, Christie's Paris
28 October 2008

Resurrection:
Avant-Garde Fashion
London , Christie's South Kensington
30 October 2008

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