AUCTION CATALOGUES.

Library of approximately 440 consecutive auction and dealer catalogues pertaining to photographs, photographic literature, and photographic equipment, most illustrated, many with list of prices realized, the earliest catalogues with a list of names of buyers. Large 4to and smaller, printed and pictorial wrappers. Vp, 1952-1990 A unique collection of Photographic auction catalogues beginning with facsimile catalogues of the very first photographic auctions, the Marshall sale at Swann (1952), and the Nicholas Rauch auction in Geneva (1961), and an original catalogue of the Weissberg sale at Parke-Bernet in New York (1967), and continuing with catalogues from every photographic auction at every major auction house from 1972 to 1990, including Christie's East, Christie's South Kensington, Parke-Bernet, Sotheby's Belgravia, Sotheby's London, Sotheby's New York, Swann Galleries, Butterfield and Butterfield, Harris Auction Galleries, Petzold KG Photographica, and much more. Neither the New York Public Library, nor the New York Historical Society has such a complete collection.