A 40 page account of the history, legends and operations connected with the auction firm of Sotheby's. The tale begins in London of the seventeen forties when Samuel Baker issued his first book auction catalog and continued to the New York of the present where Sotheby Parke Bernet holds its major U. S. art and furniture auctions at 1554 Park Avenue. (not at Newberry, in Winnetka)[paper is missing].