Author: WATSON, PETER. Title: Sotheby's. Inside Story.
Description: . London, 1997. 326pp. Plates in b/w. Index. Cloth. Dustjacket.*Watson's story of his five-year investigation into Sotheby's, and of his discovery of practices that include: the facilitation of smuggling; the sale of antiquities known to have been stolen from tombs; the rigging of auctions by chandelier bidding; secred and dubious arrangements with a Japanese department store and with members of Iran's rulijng elite; and the rigging of the Art Market Index..
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Price: EUR 50.00 = appr. US$ 54.34 Seller: Frits Knuf Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 44612
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