Bloomsbury market sale by dropping the premium
LONDON antiquarian books saleroom Bloomsbury Book Auctions are to sell a major library with no buyer’s premium – partially as a marketing exercise. Managing director Rupert Powell believes this is the first time since the premium was introduced in the 1970s that a British auction house has waived the levy.
Around 500 lots from the Donaueschingen Library, the biggest private library to come on the market i…