Catalogues from the 1880s to the present day from all the major auction houses.
Search our selection of thousands of old auction catalogues from the major auction houses of the world - Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams and many more as well as dealer's catalogues and art books. All available at competitive, reasonable prices and ready for immediate despatch to any country from our base in France.
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Still can't find what you want? Email us at catalog@columbuscat.com as we have thousands more that are not yet listed! Our use our free research service to locate catalogues containing works by a particular artist, factory or type. We will scour our warehouse for it!
A discount of 5% is automatically deducted from your invoice for orders of 5 catalogues or more. This increases to 7.5% for 10 catalogues, 10% for 15 catalogues and 15% for 20 catalogues or more.
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First established in 1998, Cataloging by Columbus offers an internet appraisal service, and has also been successfully supplying old auction catalogues to dealers, curators, collectors alike from almost every sale room worldwide. Our clients are located in almost every country of the world. We are well established dealers on ebay with a positive feedback rating in the thousands. Click here to view our current auctions on ebay.
Our catalogues range from recent publications to those that date back as far as the 1930s. Some are obscure rarities, others just hard to find. It will take until into 2009 to upload the thousands of catalogues we have for sale onto the site. We will be adding hundreds every week to give you an ever increasing selection from which to choose.
In most instances we have only the one copy of each auction catalogue available. If you see it and want it, please buy it because it may be months or even years before another copy becomes available.
We hope you can find what you are looking for - please enjoy our site!
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