Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of British and American Book Auction Catalogs,
Date (inclusive): 1703-
Collection number: 416
Extent: 319 boxes (159.5 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
British catalogs originally collected by Frank Marcham.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of British and American Book Auction Catalogs (Collection 416). Department of Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of British catalogs from 1703-1930, the reference collection of English bookseller Frank Marcham, and
various American book catalogs. An illustrated index to the British catalogs to 1900 is available, and the British Museum's
List of catalogues of English book sales, 1676-1900, has been annotated with UCLA's holdings and location within the collection.
Of American catalogs, there are files for Libbie, 1885-1919; Henkels, 1898-1935; Parke-Bernet, and others. Auction houses
represented in the collection include American Art Association, American Book Auction, Anderson Galleries, Christie's, Charles
Hamilton, Henkels, Libbie & Company, Park-Bernet, Sotheby Parke-Bernet & Company, and Swann.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by auction house, then chronologically.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Book auctions--England--Catalogs.
Book auctions--United States--Catalogs.
Booksellers' catalogues--Great Britain.
Booksellers' catalogues--United States.
C.F. Libbie & Co.
Stan. V. Henkels (Firm).
Parke-Bernet Galleries.
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.