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Under The Hammer: Book Auctions Since The Seventeenth Century.
Oak Knoll Press, New Castle: 2001. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Contains nine scholarly essays that were presented at the 2000 Birkbeck conference at the University of England. The subject at this conference was book auctions from the 17th century to the present. Nine leading bibliographical scholars presented the following essays: Michael Harris, Newspaper Advertising for Book Auctions before 1700; Arthur Freeman, The Jazz Age Library of Jerome Kern; Giles Mandelbrote, The Organization of Book Auctions in Late Seventeenth-Century London; Nigel Ramsey, English Book Collectors and the Salerooms in the Eighteenth Century; T. A. Birrell, Books and Buyers in Seventeenth-Century English Auction Sales; Otto S. Lankhorst, Dutch Book Auctions in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century; Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Property of a Distinguished Poisoner; Thomas Griffiths, Wainewright and the Griffiths Family Library; Arnold Hunt, The Sale of Richard Heber's Library; and Paul Needham, William Morris's 'Ancient Books' at Sale. ¶ 248 pages.
Offered for US$ 39.95 by: Ad Infinitum Books - Book number: 54490X1
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