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 282
2 A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals 1459
3 Adams Amsterdam Auctions 5600
4 Adams Amsterdam Book and Print Auctions 1178
5 Addison and Sarova 13968
6 Ader 80582
7 Aguttes 23198
8 Ahlers & Ogletree 1460
9 Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver 18221
10 Alaska Auction 5473
11 ALDE 81490
12 Alderfer Auction Company 1218
13 Alex Cooper 6
14 Alexander Autographs 10515
15 Alexander Historical Auctions 43726
16 AltaCal OL 250
17 Amadeus-Auktionshaus GmbH 212
18 American Art Association 99520
19 American Bibles 1480
20 American Book Auction Catalogues 57511
21 Americana Beginnings 679
22 Anderson Galleries 722515
23 Anderson Galleries 1604 622
24 Anderson Galleries 1642 672
25 Anderson Galleries 1685 300
26 Anderson Galleries 1686 1171
27 Anderson Galleries 70 Nuggets 71
28 Angling Auctions 201
29 Antikvariat Bryggen AS 4669
30 Antiquarian Auctions 11643
31 AntiquarianAuctions.com 40186
32 Antiquariat Peter Kiefer 4571
33 Antiques Estate Auctioneers Appraisers 980
34 Arader Galleries 11016
35 Archives International Auctions 15643
36 Arenberg Auctions 29243
37 Art + Object 338
38 Artcurial 56947
39 Artoria S.A. 368
40 Ashcroft and Moore 397
41 Asher 367
42 Aspire Art Auctions 1123
43 Aspire Auctions 3896
44 Aste Bolaffi 18994
45 Auction Explorer Books 17337
46 Auctionata 11343
47 Audap and Mirabaud 5875
48 Australian Book Auctions 29482
49 Autographes Encheres 1198
50 Auxerre Encheres Estimations 4639
51 Bakker Boccelli Fine Art 1
52 Baltimore Book Auction 8796
53 Bangs 706585
54 Bauer 528
55 Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood 14135
56 Beaussant Lefevre 5219
57 Bent White Mountains 823
58 Bernard Quaritch 25960
59 Bertolami Fine Art 3114
60 Bibliopathos 568
61 Bibliotheca Munselliana 2331
62 Blacksparrow 990
63 Blackwell Auctions 998
64 Blanchard's Auction Service 2
65 Bloomsbury Auctions 172638
66 Bloomsbury Book Auctions 100235
67 Bogota Auction 3900
68 Boisgirard Provence Cote DAzur 346
69 Bolaffi SPA 758
70 Bonhams 194781
71 Books by the Falls 667
72 Boon 3137
73 Booth & Williams 352
74 Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates, LLC 29
75 Bradford 6213
76 Braislin 1997
77 Brinley 9138
78 Britannic Auctions 225
79 Britwell Court 1916 493
80 Bruneau & Co. 9475
81 Brunk Auctions 5200
82 Bruun Rasmussen 62807
83 Bubb Kuyper 220399
84 Bukowskis 103
85 Burgersdijk and Niermans 52628
86 Butterfield 1319
87 Canada Book Auctions Limited 2479
88 Carlsen Gallery 802
89 Casco Bay Auctions 64
90 Case Antiques, Inc. 2729
91 Castner Auction 29
92 Catawiki B. V. 83066
93 CD David 128
94 CDowning Auctions 293
95 CF Libbie 232267
96 Charles Hamilton 29959
97 Charles Heartman 3033
98 Charles Wood 33965
99 Charlton Hall 1734
100 Check List American Railroads 2707
101 Chinese Question 498
102 Chiswick Auctions 28067
103 Chorley's 2203
104 Christian Hesse Auktionen 15164
105 Christies 297639
106 Church 1433
107 Clars Auction Gallery 21759
108 Claude Aguttes 233
109 CNY Book Auctions 219
110 Cohasco 263
111 Collection MC 72
112 Comic Connect 100
113 Connecticut Book Auctions 175
114 Copley Fine Art Auctions 1722
115 Cornette de Saint Cyr 2351
116 Cotswold Auction Company 2038
117 Cottone 115
118 Coutau Begarie 4984
119 Couton Veyrac Jamault 28
120 Cowans Auctions 23956
121 Cowans Historic Americana Auctions 1902
122 Dallas Auction Gallery 123
123 Damien Voglaire 6864
124 Dargate Auction Galleries 420
125 Dawson Book Shop 1189
126 De Baecque and Associes 26173
127 Decker 11230
128 Delvaux 348
129 Dirk Soulis Auctions 11523
130 Dominic Winter Book Auctions 171976
131 Donald Heald Auctions 410
132 Dora Hood 85126
133 Dorotheum 53939
134 Dorothy Sloan Rare Books 6344
135 Doyle New York 35092
136 Dreweatts 766
137 Drouot Estimations 96
138 DSloan 4295
139 Du Mouchelles 2583
140 Duke's 479
141 Dunbar Sloane 1205
142 Dupont 255
143 Dush 863
144 Early American 10272
145 Eaton Hudson 302
146 Eberstadt 21456
147 Edward Lefkowicz 1402
148 Eldreds 16860
149 ERA Encheres 1798
150 EV Stamps 5407
151 EV Thompson 614
152 Evans 32214
153 Everard Auctions 720
154 Fairhill Auction 4697
155 Ferraton 43591
156 Field 1703
157 Field Auction 4879
158 Finarte 22602
159 Fleischer's Auctions 995
160 Florence Number Nine 49
161 Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers 22491
162 Forum Auctions 79778
163 Forum Auctions in Italy 4173
164 Francis Edwards 166736
165 Francis Harper 73
166 FRAYSSE & Associés 1
167 Freemans 29582
168 Freemans Historic USS Constitution Colors 13
169 Galerias Louis Morton 6161
170 Galerie Bassenge 153228
171 Galerie Koller Auctions 9901
172 Gallery EinsZwei 250
173 Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers 2828
174 Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, Inc. 3
175 Gateway Gallery Auction 1268
176 Genazym 2182
177 George Littlefield 16134
178 Gibson Auction Inc. 404
179 Giquello 1035
180 Goelet 895
181 Goldberg Coins and Collectibles 8558
182 Goldschmidt 49633
183 Gonnelli Casa DAste 29814
184 Goodspeed 233888
185 Gorringes 2780
186 Gowans 309
187 Grant Zahajko Auctions 0
188 Grays Auctioneers 6652
189 Grogan and Company 873
190 Guernseys 8092
191 Guillaumot Richard 402
192 Gulf Coast Book Auctions 394
193 H. A. Cobb 182
194 Hake's Auctions 19959
195 Hansons 1219
196 Harmsworth 5068
197 Hartung and Hartung 31862
198 Hauff and Auvermann 39415
199 Hauswedell and Nolte 24873
200 HBradley Martin 48
201 Henkels 369754
202 Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions 17747
203 Heritage Auction Galleries 24901
204 Heritage Auctions 1809314
205 Heritage Map Museum 109
206 Hessney Auction Company 2
207 Hindman Auctions 42
208 HNestler 3022
209 Hodgson & Co. 35745
210 Holabird Associates 1527
211 Holabird Western Americana Collections 101581
212 Holliday 1233
213 Hôtel des Ventes Mosan 33
214 Howell 8059
215 Howes US IANA 11600
216 HRS Alabama 1807 to 1840 345
217 HRS Arizona 1860 to 1890 161
218 HRS California 489
219 HRS Chicago Ante Fire 1877
220 HRS Idaho 1839 to 1890 180
221 HRS Iowa 1837 to 1860 195
222 HRS Kansas 1854 to 1876 2034
223 HRS Kentucky 1787 to 1810 812
224 HRS Kentucky Imprints 591
225 HRS Minnesota 1849 to 1865 656
226 HRS Missouri 1808 to 1850 705
227 HRS Nebraska 1847 to 1876 503
228 HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890 522
229 HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890 Add 9
230 HRS New Mexico 1784 to 1876 300
231 HRS Ohio 1796 to 1820 591
232 HRS Tennessee 1793 to 1840 469
233 HRS TN Nashville 481
234 HRS TN Nashville AppA 4
235 HRS TN Nashville AppB 20
236 HRS TN Nashville AppC 10
237 HRS TN Pamphlets and Broadsides 797
238 HRS Utica NY 1799 to 1830 572
239 HRS West Virginia 1791 to 1830 106
240 HRS Wisconsin 569
241 HRS Wisconsin 1850 to 1854 549
242 HRS Wisconsin 1855 to 1858 724
243 HRS Wisconsin 1859 to 1863 712
244 HRS Wisconsin 1864 to 1869 931
245 HRS Wyoming 1866 to 1890 168
246 Huntington1269 308
247 Huntington1309 330
248 Huntington1406 245
249 Huntington1698 1015
250 HV Jones Sale 580
251 HVJones 304
252 HVJones Check List 1746
253 Il Ponte 17632
254 International Autograph Auctions Europe SL 18414
255 JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung 9310
256 Jacksons Auction 1262
257 James D Cyr Auctioneer 1311
258 James D Julia Auctioneers 3240
259 JandS 13489
260 Jasper52 2609
261 Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates 2781
262 JellyFishTree 2992
263 Jenkins 628
264 Jeschke Greve and Hauff 823
265 Jeschke Hauff und Auvermann 13821
266 Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH 25307
267 Jeschke van vliet Buch und Kunstauktionen GmbH 28725
268 JMW Auction Gallery 2617
269 John Bellman Auctioneers 1489
270 John Howell Books Americana 718
271 John McInnis Auctioneers 8595
272 Johns Western Gallery 2826
273 Johnson 1415
274 Kapandji Morhange 13221
275 Kedem Auctions Ltd. 31338
276 Kenneth Karmiole 12221
277 Kenneth Nebenzahl 5907
278 Keno Auctions 15
279 Kestenbaum and Company 10712
280 Ketterer Kunst Doerling 44549
281 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers 94430
282 Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen 384389
283 KLeach 5502
284 Knotty Pine Auction Service 8648
285 Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers 13272
286 Koller Auctions 19126
287 Kraus 569
288 L'Autographe Auctions 1183
289 Laird Park 394
290 Lang's Auction, Inc. 615
291 Lathrop Harper 14598
292 Laurence Witten Rare Books 1645
293 Lawrences Auctioneers 1917
294 Lay's Auctioneers 3133
295 Le Libraire Alain Ferraton 29331
296 Leavitt & Co. 38632
297 Leavitt, Strebeigh 24353
298 Leekley 373
299 Leland Little Auctions 6640
300 Leonard and Company 9669
301 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 42133
302 LF Robinson 1304 701
303 Librairie des Elephants 163
304 Librairie Loeb Larocque 1459
305 Light Horse Auctions 169
306 Lion Heart Autographs 1718
307 Litchfield County Auctions 1631
308 Littell 1141
309 Longs 11280
310 Loon Estates 144
311 Los Angeles Estate Auction 7449
312 Ludewig 1220
313 Lyon and Turnbull 26821
314 MacManus 65020
315 Macon Brothers Auctioneers 199
316 Madigan 213
317 Maggs 259836
318 Maggs VI 542
319 Mallams 277
320 Map World 422
321 Marathon Auction Services 104
322 Marc van de Wiele Auctions 32612
323 Marshall 1044
324 Mayfair Book Auctions 70
325 McLemore Auction Company 63
326 Mealys Auctioneers 13093
327 Mennonite Life 1992
328 Merwin Clayton Sales Company 279031
329 Merwin Sales Company NY 5492
330 Michaans Auctions 5691
331 Michael Brown 781
332 Michael Treloar 3368
333 Mid Hudson Auction Galleries 4473
334 Midland 64251
335 Minerva Auctions Roma 15228
336 Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers 21384
337 Montreal Book Auctions 32959
338 Moreshet Auctions 9485
339 Morphy Auctions 17116
340 Morton Casa de Subastas 14491
341 Morton Subastas 43300
342 Mossgreen 948
343 MS Rare Books 34295
344 Murphy 3307
345 Nadeau's Auction Gallery 1320
346 NAMagazines 255
347 Nate D. Sanders Auctions 6173
348 National Art Galleries 1932 157
349 National Book Auctions 66576
350 Neal Auction Company 6643
351 New England Auctions 11587
352 New England Book Auctions 21985
353 Norris 4311
354 North American Auction Company 6670
355 Northeast Auctions 1898
356 Nosbüsch & Stucke 37836
357 Nye & Company Auctioneers 5862
358 OGER et CAMPER 720
359 OGER et DUMONT 100
360 OGER et SEMONT 531
361 Old World Auctions 76352
362 One Of A Kind Collectibles 2743
363 One Of Kind Collectibles 2278
364 One Source Auctions 7941
365 OSENAT 10131
366 OShaughnessy 26643
367 Otto Lange 23114
368 Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC 934
369 Paige Auction 1122
370 Pandolfini 3353
371 Parke Bernet 242823
372 Paulo Adams Auction Service 118
373 PBA Galleries 223094
374 PC Petersburg 1786 to 1876 637
375 Pennypacker943 6707
376 Penrose 365
377 Peter Arnold 4245
378 Philobiblon Auctions 2551
379 PIASA 42983
380 Picard Audap Solanet Velliet Teissedre 424
381 Pierre Berge and Associes 14772
382 Pilling 5532
383 Plaza Art Auction Galleries 129
384 Poster Auctions International, Inc. 4415
385 PosterConnection Inc. 10161
386 Pot of Gold Estate Liquidations DBA AZFirearms.com 729
387 Potomack Company 3624
388 Potter and Potter Auctions 52923
389 Poulin Antiques Auctions 1077
390 Profiles in History 29592
391 Propstore 4425
392 Purcell Auctioneers 35703
393 Quagga Rare Books and Art 437
394 Quinn's Auction Galleries 638
395 Rachel Davis Fine Arts 18676
396 Rago Arts and Auctions 14543
397 Ralph Kristiansen 966
398 Randall and Windle 4447
399 Reiss and Sohn 59367
400 Remy Le Fur and Associes 197
401 RENAUD GIQUELLO ASSOCIES 374
402 Revere Auctions 3580
403 Rice 2645
404 Richard Opfer Auctioneering, Inc. 254
405 Ripley Auctions 3690
406 RJM Autographs and Antiques 630
407 RM Smythe 923
408 Robert Brown 163
409 Robert Hayman 9117
410 Robert Siegel Galleries 24615
411 Robinson 9390
412 Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions 48643
413 Rosenbach 8252
414 Rossini 32621
415 Royka Auctioneers Appraisers 176
416 RR Auction 174347
417 Rulon-Miller Books 409
418 RW Olivers 550
419 Sabin 106729
420 Sabin Handy Bib 995
421 Saffronart 200
422 Santa Fe Art Auction 2407
423 Sarasota Estate Auction 2022
424 Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting 221
425 Sawyer 34396
426 Schilb Antiquarian 5871
427 Scott & O'Shaughnessy 4087
428 Scribner 14048
429 Second Story Books 1104
430 Setdart 459
431 Shapiro Auctioneers 5
432 Shapiro Auctions 184
433 Sheppards Irish Auction House 1153
434 Siebert 1084
435 SJ Winslow Associates 5949
436 Skinner 26418
437 Sloane Street Auctions 683
438 Soler Y Llach 19741
439 Soliday 5224
440 Sotheby Parke Bernet 107473
441 Sothebys 1211232
442 Southern 9651
443 Spink Shreves Galleries 2643
444 Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers 7523
445 Stephan Welz & Co. 2970
446 Stephenson's Auctioneers & Appraisers 1797
447 Stockholms Auktionsverk 6361
448 Streeter 4423
449 Sunstone Auction House 303
450 Swaen Map Auction 10376
451 Swann Galleries 437114
452 Sworders 901
453 Sydney Rare Book Auctions 29069
454 Tajan 20093
455 Tennants Auctioneers 2896
456 Terry Part I 361
457 Terry Part II 370
458 Terry Part III 444
459 Tessier & Sarrou and Associates 43443
460 The Antiquarian Book 57
461 The Book Merchant Jenkins 2065
462 The Ohio Company 149
463 The Ross Art Group Inc 3727
464 The Written Word Autographs 7015
465 Thomas Scheler 116
466 Thomaston Place Auction Galleries 4523
467 Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers 13298
468 Three Rivers Auction Company 437
469 TN Luther Books 35327
470 Tooveys 27679
471 Toronto Book Auctions 364
472 Trafford Books 10763
473 Treadway Toomey Auctions 699
474 Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books 63784
475 Trotting Hill Park Books 267
476 Turner Auctions & Appraisals 13
477 University Archives 19182
478 UP James 6491
479 Valley Auctions 453
480 Venator and Hanstein 34104
481 Vermot de Pas 66413
482 Vinson 112
483 Vogt Auction 1060
484 Waddingtons 877
485 Walpole Galleries 53757
486 Watkins Americana 184
487 Waverly Auctions 130580
488 Webbs 546
489 William Allen 13871
490 William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals 8136
491 William Parkinson 505
492 William Salloch 11786
493 William Schab 4827
494 Winner's Auctions Ltd 11580
495 Winter Associates 3604
496 Withington Auctions, Inc. 173
497 Witten 109
498 Woolley and Wallis 1128
499 Wright Howes 12365
500 Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich 355
501 Zamorano Eighty 80
502 Zisska and Kistner 22702
503 Zisska and Lacher 35340
504 Zisska and Schauer 28797
505 Zwiggelaar Auctions 22547
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: U.S. / European Shipping Archive 1800-1814. The Widow Bermingham & Sons Collection. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Constitution of Ireland. An important copy of the First Printing of De Valera’s new Constitution, approved in 1938. Signed by the Constitution Cabinet. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Cantillon (Richard). Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, Traduit de l'Anglois, Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Gregory, (Lady Augusta). Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Lavery (Lady Hazel). A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927, expressing her grief at the death of Kevin O'Higgins. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Dampier (Wm.) Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde, ou l'on descrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique…, 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1698. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Howell (James). Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time…, London, 1642. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1999, First Edn., First Printing of Deluxe Collectors Edn. Signed. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: James (Wm.) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of The Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America. 2 vols. Lond. 1818. €650 to €900.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: The Laws of the United States, Published by Authority, 3 vols. Philadelphia (Richard Folwell) 1796. €600 to €800.
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