Under the hammer
Subtitle: book auctions since the seventeenth century
By: edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote.
Contributors: Myers, Robin.; Harris, Michael, 1938-; Mandelbrote, Giles.
Series: Publishing pathways
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press; British Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Castle, DE; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Book auctions -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers originally presented at the conference "Under the Hammer," held in London, Nov. 25-26, 2000.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors; title: Introduction; title: List of those attending the Conference; title: Michael Harris Newspaper Advertisingfor Book Auctions; title: before 1700; title: Giles Mandelbrote The Organization of Book Auctions in Late; title: Seventeenth-Century London; title: T. A. Birrell Books and Buyers in Seventeenth-Century; title: English Auction Sales; title: Otto S. Lankhorst Dutch Book Auctions in the Seventeenth and; title: Eighteenth Centuries; title: Nigel Ramsay English Book Collectors and the Salerooms in; title: the Eighteenth Century; title: Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly Property of a Distinguished Poisoner: Thomas; title: Griffiths Wainewright and the Griffiths; title: family library; title: Arnold Hunt The Sale of Richard Heber's Library; title: Paul Needham William Morris's 'Ancient Books' at; title: Sale; title: Arthur Freeman The Jazz Age Library of Jerome Kern; title: Appendix Book Auctions at Christie's and; title: Sotheby's; title: Index.