Sources in the Rare Book Transaction History

The following is a list of auction records, bibliographies, and certain historically important bookseller catalogues in the Rare Book Transaction History database, followed by the number of records in each source.
Click the source name for a description of that particular resource.

# Source Name Total Records
1 25 Blythe Road 282
2 A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals 1818
3 Adams Amsterdam Auctions 6138
4 Adams Amsterdam Book and Print Auctions 1178
5 Addison and Sarova 16689
6 Ader 91961
7 Ageless Literature 0
8 Aguttes 27368
9 Ahlers & Ogletree 2078
10 Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 18221
11 Alaska Auction 5473
12 ALDE 88794
13 Alderfer Auction Company 1218
14 Alex Cooper 6
15 Alexander Autographs 10515
16 Alexander Historical Auctions 52109
17 AltaCal OL 250
18 Amadeus-Auktionshaus GmbH 212
19 amelia jeffers 574
20 American Art Association 100564
21 American Bibles 1480
22 American Book Auction 46892
23 American Book Auction Catalogues 10619
24 Americana Beginnings 679
25 Anderson Galleries 731702
26 Anderson Galleries 1604 0
27 Anderson Galleries 1642 0
28 Anderson Galleries 1685 0
29 Anderson Galleries 1686 0
30 Anderson Galleries 70 Nuggets 0
31 Angling Auctions 319
32 Antikvariat Bryggen AS 6607
33 Antiquarian Auctions 11643
34 AntiquarianAuctions.com 43741
35 Antiquariat Peter Kiefer 4571
36 Antiques Estate Auctioneers Appraisers 980
37 Arader Galleries 13413
38 Archives International Auctions 15643
39 Arenberg Auctions 35183
40 Art + Object 1308
41 Artcurial 60807
42 Artoria S.A. 368
43 Ashcroft and Moore 717
44 Asher 367
45 Aspire Art Auctions 1548
46 Aspire Auctions 4504
47 Aste Bolaffi 25009
48 Auction Explorer Books 17337
49 Auctionata 11343
50 Audap and Mirabaud 5875
51 Auktionshaus Schramm 1206
52 Australian Book Auctions 30002
53 Autographes Encheres 1198
54 Auxerre Encheres Estimations 4639
55 Bakker Boccelli Fine Art 1
56 Baltimore Book Auction 8796
57 Bangs 709230
58 Bauer 0
59 Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood 16024
60 Beaussant Lefevre 6638
61 Bent White Mountains 823
62 Bernard Quaritch 25960
63 Bertolami Fine Art 7782
64 Bibliopathos 568
65 Bibliotheca Munselliana 2331
66 Blacksparrow 990
67 Blackwell Auctions 2069
68 Blanchard's Auction Service 2
69 Bloomsbury Auctions 173930
70 Bloomsbury Book Auctions 100235
71 Bogota Auction 5870
72 Boisgirard Provence Cote DAzur 346
73 Bolaffi SPA 758
74 Bonhams 212386
75 Books by the Falls 667
76 Boon 3137
77 Booth & Williams 352
78 Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates, LLC 29
79 Bradford 6213
80 Braislin 0
81 Brinley 1
82 Britannic Auctions 927
83 Britwell Court 1916 493
84 Bruneau & Co. 9475
85 Brunk Auctions 5964
86 Bruun Rasmussen 63177
87 Bubb Kuyper 237865
88 Bukowskis 2362
89 Burgersdijk and Niermans 56174
90 Butterfield 1319
91 California Book Auction Galleries 73039
92 Canada Book Auctions Limited 3831
93 Carlsen Gallery 863
94 Casco Bay Auctions 64
95 Case Antiques, Inc. 3103
96 Castner Auction 29
97 Catawiki B. V. 110549
98 CatchAll 222
99 CD David 128
100 CDowning Auctions 293
101 CF Libbie 233699
102 Charles Hamilton 29959
103 Charles Heartman 3033
104 Charles Wood 33965
105 Charlton Hall 1783
106 Check List American Railroads 2707
107 Chinese Question 498
108 Chiswick Auctions 36906
109 Chorley's 4158
110 Christian Hesse Auktionen 16824
111 Christies 329534
112 Church 1433
113 Clars Auction Gallery 24349
114 Claude Aguttes 233
115 CNY Book Auctions 219
116 Cohasco 6387
117 Collection MC 0
118 Comic Connect 100
119 Common Crow Books 306
120 Connecticut Book Auctions 175
121 Copley Fine Art Auctions 1944
122 Cornette de Saint Cyr 2351
123 Cotswold Auction Company 3301
124 Cottone 115
125 Coutau Begarie 4984
126 Couton Veyrac Jamault 28
127 Cowans Auctions 36503
128 Cowans Historic Americana Auctions 1902
129 Dallas Auction Gallery 123
130 Damien Voglaire 11099
131 Dargate Auction Galleries 420
132 Dawson Book Shop 1189
133 De Baecque and Associes 30144
134 Decker 11230
135 Delvaux 348
136 Desa Unicum 2661
137 Dirk Soulis Auctions 12291
138 Dominic Winter Book Auctions 182990
139 Donald Heald Auctions 410
140 Dora Hood 85126
141 Dorotheum 55186
142 Dorothy Sloan Rare Books 6344
143 Doyle New York 38857
144 Dreweatts 1284
145 Drouot Estimations 96
146 DSloan 4295
147 Du Mouchelles 4170
148 Duke's 3186
149 Dunbar Sloane 6270
150 Dupont 0
151 Dush 863
152 Early American 11241
153 Eaton Hudson 302
154 Eberstadt 20644
155 Edward Lefkowicz 1402
156 EinsZwei 3297
157 Eldreds 18583
158 ERA Encheres 1798
159 EV Stamps 10705
160 EV Thompson 614
161 Evans 32214
162 Everard Auctions 1206
163 Fairhill Auction 9636
164 Ferraton 43591
165 Field 1703
166 Field Auction 4879
167 Finarte 33284
168 Fleischer's Auctions 2740
169 Florence Number Nine 49
170 Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers 26335
171 Forum Auctions 95244
172 Forum Auctions in Italy 4173
173 Francis Edwards 166736
174 Francis Harper 73
175 FRAYSSE & Associés 1
176 Freeman's | Hindman 6205
177 Freemans 29808
178 Freemans Historic USS Constitution Colors 13
179 Galerias Louis Morton 6161
180 Galerie Bassenge 165316
181 Galerie Koller Auctions 9901
182 Gallery EinsZwei 250
183 Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers 2828
184 Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, Inc. 3
185 Gateway Gallery Auction 1268
186 Genazym 2365
187 George Littlefield 16134
188 Gibson Auction Inc. 404
189 Giquello 4481
190 Goelet 895
191 Goldberg Coins and Collectibles 9538
192 Goldschmidt 49633
193 Gonnelli Casa DAste 34067
194 Goodspeed 233888
195 Gorringes 4302
196 Gowans 309
197 Grant Zahajko Auctions 13151
198 Grays Auctioneers 7305
199 Grogan and Company 1009
200 Gros & Delettrez 2250
201 Guernseys 8160
202 Guillaumot Richard 402
203 Gulf Coast Book Auctions 394
204 H. A. Cobb 182
205 Hake's Auctions 28073
206 Hansons 5250
207 Harmsworth 5068
208 Hartung and Hartung 31862
209 Hauff and Auvermann 39415
210 Hauswedell and Nolte 24873
211 HBradley Martin 0
212 Henkels 369754
213 Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions 17747
214 Heritage Auction Galleries 24901
215 Heritage Auctions 2154487
216 Heritage Map Museum 2418
217 Hessney Auction Company 2
218 Hindman Auctions 42
219 HNestler 3022
220 Hodgson & Co. 35745
221 Holabird Associates 1527
222 Holabird Western Americana Collections 119634
223 Holliday 0
224 Hôtel des Ventes Mosan 33
225 Howell 8059
226 Howes US IANA 11600
227 HRS Alabama 1807 to 1840 345
228 HRS Arizona 1860 to 1890 161
229 HRS California 489
230 HRS Chicago Ante Fire 1877
231 HRS Idaho 1839 to 1890 180
232 HRS Iowa 1837 to 1860 195
233 HRS Kansas 1854 to 1876 2034
234 HRS Kentucky 1787 to 1810 812
235 HRS Kentucky Imprints 591
236 HRS Minnesota 1849 to 1865 656
237 HRS Missouri 1808 to 1850 705
238 HRS Nebraska 1847 to 1876 503
239 HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890 522
240 HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890 Add 9
241 HRS New Mexico 1784 to 1876 300
242 HRS Ohio 1796 to 1820 591
243 HRS Tennessee 1793 to 1840 469
244 HRS TN Nashville 481
245 HRS TN Nashville AppA 4
246 HRS TN Nashville AppB 20
247 HRS TN Nashville AppC 10
248 HRS TN Pamphlets and Broadsides 797
249 HRS Utica NY 1799 to 1830 572
250 HRS West Virginia 1791 to 1830 106
251 HRS Wisconsin 569
252 HRS Wisconsin 1850 to 1854 549
253 HRS Wisconsin 1855 to 1858 724
254 HRS Wisconsin 1859 to 1863 712
255 HRS Wisconsin 1864 to 1869 931
256 HRS Wyoming 1866 to 1890 168
257 Huntington1269 0
258 Huntington1309 0
259 Huntington1406 0
260 Huntington1698 0
261 HV Jones Sale 0
262 HVJones 304
263 HVJones Check List 1746
264 Il Ponte 20869
265 International Autograph Auctions Europe SL 30537
266 JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung 10054
267 Jacksons Auction 1449
268 James D Cyr Auctioneer 1311
269 James D Julia Auctioneers 3240
270 JandS 13489
271 Jasper52 2609
272 Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates 4586
273 JellyFishTree 2992
274 Jenkins 628
275 Jeschke Greve and Hauff 823
276 Jeschke Hauff und Auvermann 13821
277 Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin GmbH 13372
278 Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH 18659
279 Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH 28725
280 JMW Auction Gallery 2617
281 John Bellman Auctioneers 1489
282 John Howell Books Americana 718
283 John McInnis Auctioneers 11291
284 Johns Western Gallery 2826
285 Johnson 1415
286 Kapandji Morhange 13221
287 KC Auction Company 716
288 Kedem Auctions Ltd. 35403
289 Kenneth Karmiole 12221
290 Kenneth Nebenzahl 6000
291 Keno Auctions 15
292 Kestenbaum and Company 12182
293 Ketterer Kunst 222
294 Ketterer Kunst Doerling 45822
295 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers 103302
296 Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 408152
297 KLeach 5502
298 Knotty Pine Auction Service 8648
299 Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers 19008
300 Koller Auctions 21454
301 Kraus 569
302 L'Autographe Auctions 3830
303 Laird Park 0
304 Lang's Auction, Inc. 763
305 Lathrop Harper 14598
306 Laurence Witten Rare Books 1645
307 Lawrences Auctioneers 1917
308 Lay's Auctioneers 6868
309 Le Libraire Alain Ferraton 29331
310 Leavitt & Co. 49644
311 Leavitt, Strebeigh 24353
312 Leekley 373
313 Leland Little Auctions 8640
314 Leonard and Company 9669
315 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 43840
316 LF Robinson 1304 0
317 Librairie des Elephants 163
318 Librairie Loeb Larocque 1459
319 Light Horse Auctions 169
320 Lion Heart Autographs 1959
321 Litchfield County Auctions 2306
322 Littell 0
323 Longs 11280
324 Loon Estates 431
325 Los Angeles Estate Auction 16135
326 Ludewig 1220
327 Lyman & Rawdon 3174
328 Lyon and Turnbull 29274
329 MacManus 65020
330 Macon Brothers Auctioneers 199
331 Madigan 213
332 Maggs 259836
333 Maggs VI 542
334 Mallams 277
335 Map World 422
336 Marathon Auction Services 104
337 Marc van de Wiele Auctions 36219
338 Marion Antique Auctions 196
339 Marshall 0
340 Mayfair Book Auctions 70
341 McLemore Auction Company 63
342 Mealys Auctioneers 13093
343 Mennonite Life 3589
344 Merwin Clayton Sales Company 279031
345 Merwin Sales Company NY 5492
346 Michaans Auctions 7952
347 Michael Brown 781
348 Michael Treloar 3625
349 Mid Hudson Auction Galleries 4473
350 Midland 64251
351 Minerva Auctions Roma 15228
352 Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers 21384
353 Montreal Book Auctions 32959
354 Moreshet Auctions 10999
355 Morphy Auctions 24443
356 Morton Casa de Subastas 14491
357 Morton Subastas 51506
358 Mossgreen 948
359 MS Rare Books 34295
360 Murphy 0
361 Nadeau's Auction Gallery 2610
362 NAMagazines 255
363 Nate D. Sanders Auctions 7847
364 National Art Galleries 1932 157
365 National Book Auctions 66576
366 Neal Auction Company 7328
367 New England Auctions 12411
368 New England Book Auctions 29423
369 New World Cartographic 143
370 Norris 4311
371 North American Auction Company 8869
372 Northeast Auctions 1898
373 Northrow Gallery Auctions Ltd. 57
374 Nosbüsch & Stucke 43085
375 Nye & Company Auctioneers 7209
376 OGER et CAMPER 720
377 OGER et DUMONT 100
378 OGER et SEMONT 531
379 Old World Auctions 137381
380 Olympia Auctions 611
381 One Of A Kind Collectibles 3575
382 One Of Kind Collectibles 2278
383 One Source Auctions 12492
384 OSENAT 12265
385 OShaughnessy 26643
386 Otto Lange 23114
387 Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC 934
388 Paige Auction 1122
389 Pandolfini 3937
390 Parke Bernet 250141
391 Paulo Adams Auction Service 118
392 PBA Galleries 248715
393 PC Petersburg 1786 to 1876 637
394 Pennypacker943 6707
395 Penrose 0
396 Peter Arnold 4844
397 Philobiblon Auctions 2551
398 PIASA 43567
399 Picard Audap Solanet Velliet Teissedre 424
400 Pierre Berge and Associes 16045
401 Pilling 5532
402 Plaza Art Auction Galleries 129
403 Poster Auctions International, Inc. 4680
404 PosterConnection Inc. 12603
405 Pot of Gold Estate Liquidations DBA AZFirearms.com 729
406 Potomack Company 4880
407 Potter and Potter Auctions 65541
408 Poulin Antiques Auctions 1077
409 Profiles in History 29592
410 Propstore 10453
411 Purcell Auctioneers 46962
412 Quagga Rare Books and Art 437
413 Quinn's Auction Galleries 5085
414 Rachel Davis Fine Arts 20993
415 Rago Arts and Auctions 30206
416 Ralph Kristiansen 966
417 Randall and Windle 4447
418 Reiss and Sohn 59367
419 Remy Le Fur and Associes 197
420 RENAUD GIQUELLO ASSOCIES 374
421 Revere Auctions 5426
422 Rice 0
423 Richard Opfer Auctioneering, Inc. 254
424 Ripley Auctions 8352
425 RJM Autographs and Antiques 630
426 RM Smythe 923
427 Robert Brown 163
428 Robert Hayman 9117
429 Robert Siegel Galleries 31575
430 Robinson 9390
431 Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions 48643
432 Rosenbach 8252
433 Rossini 46812
434 Royka Auctioneers Appraisers 176
435 RR Auction 190191
436 Rulon-Miller Books 409
437 RW Olivers 550
438 Sabin 106729
439 Sabin Handy Bib 995
440 Saffronart 293
441 Sandwich Auction House 345
442 Santa Fe Art Auction 3452
443 Sarasota Estate Auction 4434
444 Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting 1716
445 Sawyer 34396
446 Schilb Antiquarian 8558
447 Scott & O'Shaughnessy 4087
448 Scribner 14048
449 SD Auctions 586
450 Second Story Books 1104
451 Setdart 2142
452 Shapiro Auctioneers 35
453 Shapiro Auctions 184
454 Sheppards Irish Auction House 1153
455 Siebert 1084
456 SJ Winslow Associates 5949
457 Skinner 26418
458 Sloane Street Auctions 981
459 Soler Y Llach 23109
460 Soliday 5224
461 Sotheby Parke Bernet 107473
462 Sothebys 1250867
463 Southern 9651
464 Spink Shreves Galleries 2643
465 Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers 8506
466 Stephan Welz & Co. 4631
467 Stephenson's Auctioneers & Appraisers 1846
468 Stockholms Auktionsverk 7127
469 Streeter 0
470 Sunstone Auction House 403
471 Swaen Map Auction 10376
472 Swann Galleries 636351
473 Sworders 4430
474 Sydney Rare Book Auctions 44935
475 Tabula Auctions Ltd 466
476 Tajan 21393
477 Tennants Auctioneers 4487
478 Terry Part I 0
479 Terry Part II 0
480 Terry Part III 0
481 Tessier & Sarrou and Associates 61803
482 The Antiquarian Book 57
483 The Book Merchant Jenkins 3282
484 The Ohio Company 149
485 The Peace Committed 222
486 The Ross Art Group Inc 5102
487 The Written Word Autographs 7015
488 Thomas Scheler 116
489 Thomaston Place Auction Galleries 5465
490 Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers 18169
491 Three Rivers Auction Company 437
492 TN Luther Books 35327
493 Tooveys 30745
494 Toronto Book Auctions 525
495 Trafford Books 13188
496 Treadway Toomey Auctions 699
497 Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books 75855
498 Trotting Hill Park Books 267
499 Turner Auctions & Appraisals 13
500 University Archives 25362
501 UP James 6491
502 Valley Auctions 453
503 Venator and Hanstein 40535
504 Vermot de Pas 86909
505 Vinson 112
506 Vogt Auction 2555
507 Waddingtons 877
508 Walpole Galleries 53757
509 Watkins Americana 184
510 Waverly Auctions 130580
511 Webbs 546
512 Weiss Auctions 2905
513 William Allen 13871
514 William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals 9053
515 William Parkinson 4284
516 William Salloch 11786
517 William Schab 4827
518 Winner's Auctions Ltd 16539
519 Winners Auctions and Exhibitions 0
520 Winter Associates 4373
521 Withington Auctions, Inc. 173
522 Witten 109
523 Woolley and Wallis 1128
524 Wright Howes 12365
525 Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich 355
526 Zamorano Eighty 80
527 Zisska and Kistner 22702
528 Zisska and Lacher 44253
529 Zisska and Schauer 28797
530 Zwiggelaar Auctions 29908
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.