Under the hammer : book auctions since the seventeenth century / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote.
2001
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Title
Under the hammer : book auctions since the seventeenth century / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote.
Created/published
New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2001.
Description
xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Associated name
Myers, Robin.
Harris, Michael, 1938-
Mandelbrote, Giles.
Harris, Michael, 1938-
Mandelbrote, Giles.
Series
Publishing pathways.
Note
Papers originally presented at the conference "Under the Hammer," held in London, Nov. 25-26, 2000.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Newspaper advertising for book auctions before 1700 / Michael Harris
The organization of book auctions in late seventeenth-century London / Giles Mandelbrote
Books and buyers in seventeenth-century English auction sales / T.A. Birrell
Dutch book auctions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Otto S. Lankhorst
English book collectors and the salerooms in the Eighteenth century / Nigel Ramsay
Property of a distinguished poisoner : Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and the Griffiths family library / Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly
The sale of Richard Heber's library / Arnold Hunt
William Morris's 'ancient books at sale / Paul Needham
The jazz age library of Jerome Kern / Arthur Freeman.
The organization of book auctions in late seventeenth-century London / Giles Mandelbrote
Books and buyers in seventeenth-century English auction sales / T.A. Birrell
Dutch book auctions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Otto S. Lankhorst
English book collectors and the salerooms in the Eighteenth century / Nigel Ramsay
Property of a distinguished poisoner : Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and the Griffiths family library / Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly
The sale of Richard Heber's library / Arnold Hunt
William Morris's 'ancient books at sale / Paul Needham
The jazz age library of Jerome Kern / Arthur Freeman.
Item Details
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Z284 .U63 2001