Christie's South Kensington Ltd (London)
Printed books, including art, reference, travel & topography, natural history & science (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie's South Kensington Ltd, London, 31 January 1997)
London, Christie's South Kensington Ltd, 1997
(26 cm), 53 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 348 lots. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Lots 113-134 are property of E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd, a mixture of art reference, bibliography, and the Company’s archive. An incomplete set of the firm’s Catalogues, Lists, and Supplements, issued 1924-1992, bound as 173 volumes, interleaved, recording buyers’ names, together with approximately 50 volumes of Supplements and Lists, made £6200 (lot 124). Maggs bought the firm’s trays of “slips”, on which were recorded the many thousands of books handled by the firm, for £1600 (lot 128). ¶ Unmarked copy.