Restrictions to Access

This collection is not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting this collection.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Rare Book Dealer and Auction Catalogues #12033, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received by the Rare Book Collection from dealers and auction houses since circa 1929 (Acc. 103767).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Encoded by: Laura Hart, December 2019

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Auction houses.
• Book industries and trade.
• Booksellers and bookselling.
• Rare books.

Serial catalogues printed and distributed by rare book dealers and international auction houses that were received and occasionally annotated by curators of Wilson Library's Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most catalogues date from the mid twentieth century to the present, with a few runs from the 1910s and 1920s. The collection includes extensive runs of catalogues from Anderson Galleries, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, Christie's, Gilhofer & Ranschburg Rare Books, Ulrico Hoepli, Joseph the Provider, Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc., H.P. Kraus, Inc., Maggs Bros., Ltd., Sotheby's, and Swann Galleries. In varying levels of detail, the catalogues provide information on the provenance, ownership, content, condition, unique features, and monetary valuation of rare books, incunabula, manuscripts, and private libraries and collections.