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7. Selected List of Sotheby's and Christie's Auction Catalogs at The New York Public Library


Detail of an engraving in
The Pictorial World,

October 2, 1875. "Picture
sale at Christie, Manson & Woods"
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The following is a list of some of the most popular Sotheby and Christie auction catalogs, call numbers and acquisition dates for NYPL. The most current--approximately the last six months--can be found in the Periodicals Section, Room 108. Older issuses may be read in the Main Reading Room of the General Research Division. For titles not on this list, check the catalog.

CHRISTIE'S

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., (Amsterdam) Auction Catalogs.
[JFL 86-92]
Dates: March 21, 1977 to present

Christie's Swire (Hong Kong) Auction Catalogs
[JFM 92-703]
Dates: September 25, 1989 to present

Christie, Manson, & Woods (London) Auction Catalogs
[*GH]
Dates: April 28, 1856 to present

Christie's Robson Lowe (London) Auction Catalogs
[JFL 88-93]
Dates: January 11-12, 1984 to present

Christie's South Kensington (London) Auction Catalogs
[JFL 85-292]
Dates: May 31, 1983 to present

Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. (New York) Auction Catalogs
[JFM 79-197]
Dates: May 16, 1977 to present

Christie's East (New York) Auction Catalogs
[JFM 86-149]
Dates: April 6, 1979 to present

SOTHEBY'S

Sotheby Mak Van Waay B.V. (Amsterdam) Auction Catalogs
[JFM 86-624]
Dates: June 19, 1979 to present

Sotheby, Firm, Auctioneers (London) Auction Catalogs
[*GH]
Dates: June 7, 1813 to present

Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. (New York) Auction Catalogs
[JFM 74-147]
Dates: April 4, 1972 to present

Supersedes [Parke-Bernet Galleries, inc., New York]
[*GH]
Dates: 1938 - March 28, 1972

Sotheby's Arcade Auctions. (New York) Auction Catalogs
[In Periodicals Section]
Dates: Nov. 16, 1985 to present

NEWSLETTERS/PREVIEWS

Christie's International Magazine
[JFM 88-87]
Dates: April/May 1984 to present

Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. Auction News From Christies.
[In Periodical Division]
Dates: Jan/Feb 1983 to present

Sotheby's Newsletter. (New York)
[JFM 86-445]
Dates: April, 1981 to present

Sotheby's (Firm). Sotheby's Preview. (London)
[JFM 89-36]
Nov./Dec. 1986 to present


Written by Lee Robinson, with markup assistance from Caroline Gifford
June, 1996