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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.

No.	Source Name	Total Records
1	25 Blythe Road	162
2	AbeBooks Most Expensive	70
3	Adams Amsterdam Auctions	4794
4	Adams Amsterdam Book and Print Auctions	1178
5	Addison and Sarova	5060
6	Ader	49958
7	Aguttes	12704
8	Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver	17779
9	Alaska Auction	2645
10	ALDE	58230
11	Alderfer Auction Company	1218
12	Alexander Autographs	10515
13	Alexander Historical Auctions	15579
14	AltaCal OL	250
15	Amadeus-Auktionshaus GmbH	212
16	American Art Association	99060
17	American Bibles	1480
18	American Book Auction Catalogues	10619
19	Americana Beginnings	679
20	Anderson Galleries	722516
21	Anderson Galleries 1604	622
22	Anderson Galleries 1642	672
23	Anderson Galleries 1685	300
24	Anderson Galleries 1686	1171
25	Anderson Galleries 70 Nuggets	71
26	Anteo Subastas	0
27	Antiquarian Auctions	11643
28	AntiquarianAuctions.com	19183
29	Antiquariat Peter Kiefer	4571
30	Antiques Estate Auctioneers Appraisers	980
31	Arader Galleries	5866
32	Archives International Auctions	12579
33	Arenberg Auctions	6258
34	Art + Object	0
35	Artcurial	43829
36	Asher	367
37	Aspire Auctions	2402
38	Aste Bolaffi	4019
39	Auction Explorer Books	17337
40	Auctionata	11343
41	Audap and Mirabaud	5875
42	Australian Book Auctions	25326
43	Autographes Encheres	1198
44	Auxerre Encheres Estimations	4639
45	Bakker Boccelli Fine Art	1
46	Baltimore Book Auction	8796
47	Bangs	91508
48	Bauer	528
49	Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood	7510
50	Beaussant Lefevre	3645
51	Bent White Mountains	823
52	Bernard Quaritch	25960
53	Bibliopathos	568
54	Bibliotheca Munselliana	2331
55	Binoche et Giquello	15389
56	Blacksparrow	864
57	Blanchard's Auction Service	2
58	Bloomsbury Auctions	171978
59	Bloomsbury Book Auctions	56009
60	Boisgirard Provence Cote DAzur	346
61	Bolaffi SPA	758
62	Bonhams	149977
63	Books by the Falls	667
64	Booth & Williams	352
65	Bradford	6239
66	Braislin	1997
67	Brinley	9138
68	Britwell Court 1916	493
69	Brunk Auctions	2313
70	Bruun Rasmussen	40508
71	Bubb Kuyper	162009
72	Burgersdijk and Niermans	40973
73	Butterfield	1319
74	Carlsen Gallery	446
75	Case Antiques, Inc.	1227
76	Castner Auction	29
77	Catawiki B.V.	0
78	CD David	128
79	CDowning Auctions	293
80	CF Libbie	34633
81	Charles Hamilton	29959
82	Charles Heartman	3033
83	Charles Wood	33965
84	Charlton Hall	949
85	Check List American Railroads	2707
86	Chinese Question	498
87	Chiswick Auctions	6694
88	Christian Hesse Auktionen	7948
89	Christies	241690
90	Church	1433
91	Clars Auction Gallery	16686
92	Claude Aguttes	233
93	CNY Book Auctions	219
94	Cohasco	263
95	Collection MC	72
96	Comic Connect	100
97	Connecticut Book Auctions	175
98	Copley Fine Art Auctions	1045
99	Cornette de Saint Cyr	2351
100	Cottone	98
101	Coutau Begarie	4692
102	Couton Veyrac Jamault	28
103	Cowans Auctions	16949
104	Cowans Historic Americana Auctions	1902
105	Dallas Auction Gallery	123
106	Dargate Auction Galleries	420
107	Dawson Book Shop	1189
108	De Baecque and Associes	10924
109	Decker	11230
110	Delvaux	348
111	Dirk Soulis Auctions	6819
112	Dominic Winter Book Auctions	136447
113	Dora Hood	85126
114	Dorotheum	41523
115	Dorothy Sloan Rare Books	6344
116	Doyle New York	23344
117	Drouot Estimations	96
118	DSloan	4295
119	Du Mouchelles	180
120	Dupont	255
121	Dush	863
122	Early American	5196
123	Eberstadt	21456
124	Edward Lefkowicz	1402
125	Eldreds	11208
126	ERA Encheres	1798
127	EV Thompson	614
128	Evans	32214
129	Ferraton	39296
130	Field	1703
131	Field Auction	4879
132	Florence Number Nine	37
133	Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers	8322
134	Forum Auctions	20507
135	Forum Auctions in Italy	4173
136	Francis Edwards	166736
137	Francis Harper	73
138	FRAYSSE & Associés	1
139	Freemans	24638
140	Freemans Historic USS Constitution Colors	13
141	Galerias Louis Morton	6161
142	Galerie Bassenge	122574
143	Galerie Koller Auctions	9901
144	Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, Inc.	3
145	Gateway Gallery Auction	384
146	George Littlefield	16134
147	Gibson Auction Inc.	404
148	Goelet	895
149	Goldberg Coins and Collectibles	4493
150	Goldschmidt	49633
151	Gonnelli Casa DAste	16417
152	Goodspeed	233888
153	Gowans	309
154	Grays Auctioneers	5214
155	Grogan and Company	452
156	Guernseys	7050
157	Guillaumot Richard	402
158	Gulf Coast Book Auctions	394
159	Harmsworth	5068
160	Hartung and Hartung	31862
161	Hauff and Auvermann	39415
162	Hauswedell and Nolte	24873
163	HBradley Martin	48
164	Henkels	6698
165	Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions	17747
166	Heritage Auction Galleries	24901
167	Heritage Auctions	738101
168	Heritage Map Museum	109
169	Hessney Auction Company	2
170	HNestler	3022
171	Holabird Associates	1527
172	Holabird Kagin Americana	36987
173	Holliday	1233
174	Hôtel des Ventes Mosan	33
175	Howell	8059
176	Howes US IANA	11600
177	HRS Alabama 1807 to 1840	345
178	HRS Arizona 1860 to 1890	161
179	HRS California	489
180	HRS Chicago Ante Fire	1877
181	HRS Idaho 1839 to 1890	180
182	HRS Iowa 1837 to 1860	195
183	HRS Kansas 1854 to 1876	2034
184	HRS Kentucky 1787 to 1810	812
185	HRS Kentucky Imprints	591
186	HRS Minnesota 1849 to 1865	656
187	HRS Missouri 1808 to 1850	705
188	HRS Nebraska 1847 to 1876	503
189	HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890	522
190	HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890 Add	9
191	HRS New Mexico 1784 to 1876	300
192	HRS Ohio 1796 to 1820	591
193	HRS Tennessee 1793 to 1840	469
194	HRS TN Nashville	481
195	HRS TN Nashville AppA	4
196	HRS TN Nashville AppB	20
197	HRS TN Nashville AppC	10
198	HRS TN Pamphlets and Broadsides	797
199	HRS Utica NY 1799 to 1830	572
200	HRS West Virginia 1791 to 1830	106
201	HRS Wisconsin	569
202	HRS Wisconsin 1850 to 1854	549
203	HRS Wisconsin 1855 to 1858	724
204	HRS Wisconsin 1859 to 1863	712
205	HRS Wisconsin 1864 to 1869	931
206	HRS Wyoming 1866 to 1890	168
207	Huntington1269	308
208	Huntington1309	330
209	Huntington1406	245
210	Huntington1698	1015
211	HV Jones Sale	580
212	HVJones	304
213	HVJones Check List	1746
214	Il Ponte	6060
215	JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung	6665
216	Jacksons Auction	546
217	James D Cyr Auctioneer	1311
218	James D Julia Auctioneers	3240
219	JandS	13489
220	Jasper52	112
221	JellyFishTree	1821
222	Jenkins	628
223	Jeschke Greve and Hauff	823
224	Jeschke Hauff und Auvermann	13821
225	Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH	1983
226	JMW Auction Gallery	1780
227	John Bellman Auctioneers	1489
228	John Howell Books Americana	718
229	John McInnis Auctioneers	4034
230	Johns Western Gallery	2826
231	Johnson	1415
232	Kapandji Morhange	13221
233	Kedem Auction	17703
234	Kenneth Karmiole	12221
235	Kenneth Nebenzahl	5907
236	Keno Auctions	15
237	Kestenbaum and Company	5631
238	Ketterer Kunst Doerling	40573
239	Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers	82121
240	Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen	298271
241	KLeach	5502
242	Knotty Pine Auction Service	8039
243	Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers	4789
244	Kraus	569
245	Laird Park	394
246	Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society	16255
247	Lathrop Harper	14598
248	Laurence Witten Rare Books	1645
249	Lawrences Auctioneers	1917
250	Le Libraire Alain Ferraton	29331
251	Leekley	373
252	Leland Little Auctions	2032
253	Leonard and Company	1
254	Leslie Hindman Auctioneers	22107
255	LF Robinson 1304	701
256	Librairie Loeb Larocque	1212
257	Light Horse Auctions	169
258	Lion Heart Autographs	176
259	Littell	1141
260	Longs	11280
261	Ludewig	1220
262	Lyon and Turnbull	19102
263	MacManus	65020
264	Madigan	213
265	Maggs	85025
266	Maggs VI	542
267	Maître Bernard GALATEAU	0
268	Map World	422
269	Marc van de Wiele Auctions	19834
270	Marshall	1044
271	Mayfair Book Auctions	70
272	McLemore Auction Company	63
273	Mealys Auctioneers	13093
274	Merwin Clayton Sales Company	275505
275	Merwin Sales Company NY	0
276	Michaans Auctions	2872
277	Michael Brown	781
278	Michael Treloar	2005
279	Mid Hudson Auction Galleries	4473
280	Midland	64251
281	Minerva Auctions Roma	14722
282	Moreshet Auctions	2844
283	Morton Casa de Subastas	14491
284	Mossgreen	948
285	MS Rare Books	34295
286	Murphy	3307
287	NAMagazines	255
288	National Art Galleries 1932	157
289	National Book Auctions	65972
290	Neal Auction Company	4102
291	Neret Minet and Tessier	31266
292	New England Auctions	2142
293	New England Book Auctions	15928
294	Norris	4311
295	North American Auction Company	956
296	Northeast Auctions	1898
297	Nosbüsch & Stucke	18650
298	Nye & Company Auctioneers	647
299	OGER et CAMPER	720
300	OGER et DUMONT	100
301	OGER et SEMONT	531
302	Old World Auctions	55119
303	One Of A Kind Collectibles	0
304	OSENAT	6048
305	OShaughnessy	26643
306	Otto Lange	23114
307	Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC	463
308	Paige Auction	1092
309	Pandolfini	2055
310	Parke Bernet	242074
311	Paulo Adams Auction Service	118
312	PBA Galleries	161191
313	PC Petersburg 1786 to 1876	637
314	Pennypacker943	6707
315	Penrose	365
316	Philobiblon Auctions	2552
317	PIASA	39544
318	Picard Audap Solanet Velliet Teissedre	424
319	Pierre Berge and Associes	10213
320	Pilling	5532
321	Plaza Art Auction Galleries	129
322	PosterConnection Inc.	3339
323	Potomack Company	1538
324	Potter and Potter Auctions	18785
325	Poulin Antiques Auctions	1077
326	Profiles in History	28859
327	Purcell Auctioneers	6424
328	Quagga Rare Books and Art	437
329	Rachel Davis Fine Arts	9903
330	Rago Arts and Auctions	2738
331	Ralph Kristiansen	966
332	Randall and Windle	4447
333	Reiss and Sohn	59367
334	Remy Le Fur and Associes	197
335	RENAUD GIQUELLO ASSOCIES	374
336	Rice	2645
337	RJM Autographs and Antiques	630
338	RM Smythe	923
339	Robert Brown	163
340	Robert Hayman	9117
341	Robert Siegel Galleries	9559
342	Robinson	9390
343	Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions	48643
344	Rosenbach	8252
345	Rossini	11782
346	Royka Auctioneers Appraisers	176
347	RR Auction	104876
348	RW Olivers	550
349	Sabin	106729
350	Sabin Handy Bib	995
351	Santa Fe Art Auction	96
352	Sawyer	34396
353	Scott & O'Shaughnessy	4087
354	Scribner	14048
355	Shapiro Auctioneers	5
356	Shapiro Auctions	184
357	Sheppards Irish Auction House	264
358	Siebert	1084
359	SJ Winslow Associates	5949
360	Skinner	21216
361	Soler Y Llach	7186
362	Soliday	5224
363	Sotheby Parke Bernet	15509
364	Sothebys	1053428
365	Southern	9651
366	Spink Shreves Galleries	1294
367	Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers	4949
368	Stephan Welz & Co.	435
369	Stockholms Auktionsverk	2941
370	Streeter	4423
371	Swaen Map Auction	10376
372	Swann Galleries	396135
373	Tajan	14957
374	Terry Part I	361
375	Terry Part II	370
376	Terry Part III	444
377	The Antiquarian Book	57
378	The Written Word Autographs	4292
379	Thomas Scheler	116
380	Thomaston Place Auction Galleries	1981
381	Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers	0
382	Three Rivers Auction Company	437
383	TN Luther Books	35327
384	Tooveys	17978
385	Trafford Books	3278
386	Treadway Gallery	0
387	Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books	11990
388	Trotting Hill Park Books	267
389	University Archives	3259
390	UP James	6491
391	Valley Auctions	453
392	Venator and Hanstein	27089
393	Vermot de Pas	25434
394	Vinson	112
395	Waddingtons	877
396	Walpole Galleries	53757
397	Watkins Americana	184
398	Waverly Auctions	23549
399	Webbs	546
400	William Allen	13871
401	William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals	1904
402	William Parkinson	505
403	William Salloch	11786
404	William Schab	4827
405	Winner's Auctions Ltd	3755
406	Winter Associates	1434
407	Witten	109
408	Woolley and Wallis	1128
409	Wright Howes	12365
410	Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich	355
411	Zamorano Eighty	80
412	Zisska and Kistner	22702
413	Zisska and Lacher	18039
414	Zisska and Schauer	28797

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Book of Hours. Illuminated manuscript, Flanders or northern France, c. 1450. With 12 full-page illuminated miniatures. £10,000 to £15,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Zahrawi, Abu’-Qasim, al- (c. 936-1013). Albucasis chirurgicorum omnium, Strasbourg, 1532. The first comprehensive illustrated treatise on surgery. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Milles, Thomas. The Custumers Alphabet and Primer, 1608. Gilt supralibros of 17th-century English bibliophile Edward Gwynn. £2,000 to £3,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Guillemeau, Jacques. Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women, 1st edition in English, 1612. The second midwifery manual printed in English. £1,500 to £2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Rabisha, William. The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, 1st edition, 1661. Rare. Five copies in libraries. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Royal binding. An Abridgment of the English Military Discipline, 1678. Contemporary red goatskin gilt by Samuel Mearne for Charles II (1630-1865). £1,500 to £2,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Pallavicino, Ferrante. The Whores Rhetorick, 1st edition in English, 1683. Rare anti-Jesuit satire. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Swift, Jonathan. The Benefit of Farting, 1st London edition, 1722. Teerink 19. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Edwards, George. Natural History of Uncommon Birds [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1743-64. Contemporary tree calf, 362 hand-coloured engraved plates. £8,000 to £12,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Campbell, Patrick. Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America, 1st edition, 1793. Howes C101; Sabin 10264. Uncut in original boards. £5,000 to £8,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Hearne, Samuel. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean, 1st edition, 1795. Sabin 31181. Large-paper copy. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Edgeworth, Maria. The Match Girl, A Novel, 1808. £1,000 to £1,500
Swann Auction Galleries: Ian Fleming, Goldfinger, first edition, inscribed to Sir Henry Cotton, MBE, London, 1959. Sold for $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Joseph Brant, Mohawk Chief, ALS, writing after pledging support to King George III against American rebels, 1776. Sold for a record $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Sonia Delaunay, Ses Peintures . . ., 20 pochoir plates, Paris, 1925. Sold for a record $13,750.

Swann Auction Galleries: Diana, Princess of Wales, 6 autograph letters signed to British Vogue editor, 1989-92. Sold for $10,400.

Swann Auction Galleries: Alexander Hamilton, ALS, as Secretary of the Treasury covering costs of the new U.S. Mint, 1793. Sold for $12,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Benjamin Graham & David L. Dodd, Security Analysis, first edition, inscribed by Graham to a Wall Street trader, NY, 1934. Sold for $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: George Barbier & François-Louis Schmied, Personnages de Comédie, Paris, 1922. Sold for $9,375.

Swann Auction Galleries: Alphonse Mucha, Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli, Paris, 1897. Sold for a record $13,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Dial, first edition of the reconstituted issue, Emerson’s copy with inscriptions, Cincinnati, 1860. Sold for a record $3,250.
Christie’s Paris: Blaise Cendrars and Fernand Léger, La Fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.-D., Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1919

Christie’s Paris: André Breton, Second manifeste du Surréalisme, Paris, Editions Kra, 1930

Christie’s Paris: Paul Eluard and Pablo Picasso, La Barre d’appui, Paris, Editions « Cahiers d’Art », 1936

Christie’s Paris: Blaise Cendrars and Fernand Léger, La Fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.-D., Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1919

Christie’s Paris: Hans Bellmer, Die Puppe, Paris, G.L.M., 1936

Christie’s Paris: Salvador Dali, La femme visible, Paris, Editions Surréalistes, 1930
Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini. June 27

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini: KENNEDY ONASSIS, JACQUELINE Typed letter signed to Oleg Cassini. $400 to $600

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini: [CASSINI-KENNEDY FASHIONS] Important archives related to the development of fashions for Mrs. Kennedy… $4,000 to $6,000

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini: [CASSINI-KENNEDY FASHIONS] Detailed ledger of the Kennedy White House years… $500 to $800

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini: KELLY, GRACE. Four autograph letters to Oleg Cassini. $5,000 to $8,000

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini. June 27

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini: CASSINI, OLEG. Group of Kennedy-era original fashion sketches. $1,000 to $1,500

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini: KENNEDY ONASSIS, JACQUELINE. Autograph letter signed to Oleg Cassini. $800 to $1,200

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini: CASSINI, OLEG. Fashion sketch titled “Mrs. Kennedy-Palais de Versailles-State Dinner.” $800 to $1,200

Doyle, The Estate of Oleg Cassini: [CASSINI, OLEG - KENNEDY, JACQUELINE.] Group of approximately 130 original fashion designs… $800 to $1,200.
Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. Presentation Copy. Sold for $500,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp, negotiating the 2nd American edition with Appleton. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Hemingway, Ernest. Autograph Letter Signed, 8 pp, Paris, 1924, to his father discussing Bullfighting, Stories, and his new baby. Sold for $25,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Corialanus. London, 1623. 1st printing [Extracted from the First Folio]. Sold for $50,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London, 1726. 1st edition, Teerink's A edition, fine, large copy. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Fitzroy, Robert. Autograph Letter Signed to agent Thomas Stilwell, informing him of the progress of H.M.S. Beagle. Sold for $17,575.

<center>Bonhams Property from the Collection of Nicole and William R. Keck II

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Sold for $13,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. Sold for $5,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. Sold for $7,575.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Rackham, Arthur. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. 1/500 copies signed by Rackham. Sold for $4,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Proust, Marcel. Du coté de chez Swann. 1st edition, 1st issue. Inscribed by Proust. Sold for $8,825.

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