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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	50454
7	Aguttes	13286
8	Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver	17779
9	Alaska Auction	2818
10	ALDE	58454
11	Alderfer Auction Company	1218
12	Alexander Autographs	10515
13	Alexander Historical Auctions	17052
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	19692
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	338
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	25489
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	150760
63	Books by the Falls	667
64	Booth & Williams	352
65	Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates, LLC	0
66	Bradford	6239
67	Braislin	1997
68	Brinley	9138
69	Britwell Court 1916	493
70	Brunk Auctions	2346
71	Bruun Rasmussen	40916
72	Bubb Kuyper	164912
73	Burgersdijk and Niermans	40973
74	Butterfield	1319
75	Carlsen Gallery	460
76	Case Antiques, Inc.	1317
77	Castner Auction	29
78	Catawiki B.V.	0
79	CD David	128
80	CDowning Auctions	293
81	CF Libbie	34633
82	Charles Hamilton	29959
83	Charles Heartman	3033
84	Charles Wood	33965
85	Charlton Hall	949
86	Check List American Railroads	2707
87	Chinese Question	498
88	Chiswick Auctions	6894
89	Christian Hesse Auktionen	7948
90	Christies	243316
91	Church	1433
92	Clars Auction Gallery	17010
93	Claude Aguttes	233
94	CNY Book Auctions	219
95	Cohasco	263
96	Collection MC	72
97	Comic Connect	100
98	Connecticut Book Auctions	175
99	Copley Fine Art Auctions	1045
100	Cornette de Saint Cyr	2351
101	Cottone	98
102	Coutau Begarie	4692
103	Couton Veyrac Jamault	28
104	Cowans Auctions	17905
105	Cowans Historic Americana Auctions	1902
106	Dallas Auction Gallery	123
107	Dargate Auction Galleries	420
108	Dawson Book Shop	1189
109	De Baecque and Associes	11345
110	Decker	11230
111	Delvaux	348
112	Dirk Soulis Auctions	7077
113	Dominic Winter Book Auctions	137578
114	Dora Hood	85126
115	Dorotheum	41888
116	Dorothy Sloan Rare Books	6344
117	Doyle New York	23708
118	Drouot Estimations	96
119	DSloan	4295
120	Du Mouchelles	180
121	Dupont	255
122	Dush	863
123	Early American	5196
124	Eberstadt	21456
125	Edward Lefkowicz	1402
126	Eldreds	11303
127	ERA Encheres	1798
128	EV Thompson	614
129	Evans	32214
130	Ferraton	39523
131	Field	1703
132	Field Auction	4879
133	Finarte	0
134	Florence Number Nine	37
135	Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers	9013
136	Forum Auctions	22655
137	Forum Auctions in Italy	4173
138	Francis Edwards	166736
139	Francis Harper	73
140	FRAYSSE & Associés	1
141	Freemans	24707
142	Freemans Historic USS Constitution Colors	13
143	Galerias Louis Morton	6161
144	Galerie Bassenge	122574
145	Galerie Koller Auctions	9901
146	Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, Inc.	3
147	Gateway Gallery Auction	384
148	George Littlefield	16134
149	Gibson Auction Inc.	404
150	Goelet	895
151	Goldberg Coins and Collectibles	4932
152	Goldschmidt	49633
153	Gonnelli Casa DAste	16417
154	Goodspeed	233888
155	Gowans	309
156	Grays Auctioneers	5253
157	Grogan and Company	452
158	Guernseys	7273
159	Guillaumot Richard	402
160	Gulf Coast Book Auctions	394
161	Harmsworth	5068
162	Hartung and Hartung	31862
163	Hauff and Auvermann	39415
164	Hauswedell and Nolte	24873
165	HBradley Martin	48
166	Henkels	6698
167	Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions	17747
168	Heritage Auction Galleries	24901
169	Heritage Auctions	760902
170	Heritage Map Museum	109
171	Hessney Auction Company	2
172	HNestler	3022
173	Holabird Associates	1527
174	Holabird Kagin Americana	40832
175	Holliday	1233
176	Hôtel des Ventes Mosan	33
177	Howell	8059
178	Howes US IANA	11600
179	HRS Alabama 1807 to 1840	345
180	HRS Arizona 1860 to 1890	161
181	HRS California	489
182	HRS Chicago Ante Fire	1877
183	HRS Idaho 1839 to 1890	180
184	HRS Iowa 1837 to 1860	195
185	HRS Kansas 1854 to 1876	2034
186	HRS Kentucky 1787 to 1810	812
187	HRS Kentucky Imprints	591
188	HRS Minnesota 1849 to 1865	656
189	HRS Missouri 1808 to 1850	705
190	HRS Nebraska 1847 to 1876	503
191	HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890	522
192	HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890 Add	9
193	HRS New Mexico 1784 to 1876	300
194	HRS Ohio 1796 to 1820	591
195	HRS Tennessee 1793 to 1840	469
196	HRS TN Nashville	481
197	HRS TN Nashville AppA	4
198	HRS TN Nashville AppB	20
199	HRS TN Nashville AppC	10
200	HRS TN Pamphlets and Broadsides	797
201	HRS Utica NY 1799 to 1830	572
202	HRS West Virginia 1791 to 1830	106
203	HRS Wisconsin	569
204	HRS Wisconsin 1850 to 1854	549
205	HRS Wisconsin 1855 to 1858	724
206	HRS Wisconsin 1859 to 1863	712
207	HRS Wisconsin 1864 to 1869	931
208	HRS Wyoming 1866 to 1890	168
209	Huntington1269	308
210	Huntington1309	330
211	Huntington1406	245
212	Huntington1698	1015
213	HV Jones Sale	580
214	HVJones	304
215	HVJones Check List	1746
216	Il Ponte	6060
217	JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung	6665
218	Jacksons Auction	546
219	James D Cyr Auctioneer	1311
220	James D Julia Auctioneers	3240
221	JandS	13489
222	Jasper52	112
223	JellyFishTree	2042
224	Jenkins	628
225	Jeschke Greve and Hauff	823
226	Jeschke Hauff und Auvermann	13821
227	Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH	3642
228	JMW Auction Gallery	1780
229	John Bellman Auctioneers	1489
230	John Howell Books Americana	718
231	John McInnis Auctioneers	4034
232	Johns Western Gallery	2826
233	Johnson	1415
234	Kapandji Morhange	13221
235	Kedem Auctions Ltd.	19068
236	Kenneth Karmiole	12221
237	Kenneth Nebenzahl	5907
238	Keno Auctions	15
239	Kestenbaum and Company	5809
240	Ketterer Kunst Doerling	40573
241	Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers	82121
242	Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen	302747
243	KLeach	5502
244	Knotty Pine Auction Service	8039
245	Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers	5288
246	Kraus	569
247	Laird Park	394
248	Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society	16255
249	Lathrop Harper	14598
250	Laurence Witten Rare Books	1645
251	Lawrences Auctioneers	1917
252	Le Libraire Alain Ferraton	29331
253	Leekley	373
254	Leland Little Auctions	2190
255	Leonard and Company	1
256	Leslie Hindman Auctioneers	22298
257	LF Robinson 1304	701
258	Librairie Loeb Larocque	1212
259	Light Horse Auctions	169
260	Lion Heart Autographs	176
261	Littell	1141
262	Longs	11280
263	Ludewig	1220
264	Lyon and Turnbull	19102
265	MacManus	65020
266	Madigan	213
267	Maggs	124394
268	Maggs VI	542
269	Maître Bernard GALATEAU	0
270	Map World	422
271	Marc van de Wiele Auctions	19834
272	Marshall	1044
273	Mayfair Book Auctions	70
274	McLemore Auction Company	63
275	Mealys Auctioneers	13093
276	Merwin Clayton Sales Company	275505
277	Merwin Sales Company NY	0
278	Michaans Auctions	2932
279	Michael Brown	781
280	Michael Treloar	2005
281	Mid Hudson Auction Galleries	4473
282	Midland	64251
283	Minerva Auctions Roma	15229
284	Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers	885
285	Moreshet Auctions	2844
286	Morphy Auctions	0
287	Morton Casa de Subastas	14491
288	Mossgreen	948
289	MS Rare Books	34295
290	Murphy	3307
291	NAMagazines	255
292	National Art Galleries 1932	157
293	National Book Auctions	66392
294	Neal Auction Company	4152
295	New England Auctions	2142
296	New England Book Auctions	15928
297	Norris	4311
298	North American Auction Company	1123
299	Northeast Auctions	1898
300	Nosbüsch & Stucke	18650
301	Nye & Company Auctioneers	822
302	OGER et CAMPER	720
303	OGER et DUMONT	100
304	OGER et SEMONT	531
305	Old World Auctions	55603
306	One Of A Kind Collectibles	0
307	OSENAT	6203
308	OShaughnessy	26643
309	Otto Lange	23114
310	Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC	463
311	Paige Auction	1092
312	Pandolfini	2055
313	Parke Bernet	242074
314	Paulo Adams Auction Service	118
315	PBA Galleries	162893
316	PC Petersburg 1786 to 1876	637
317	Pennypacker943	6707
318	Penrose	365
319	Philobiblon Auctions	2552
320	PIASA	39682
321	Picard Audap Solanet Velliet Teissedre	424
322	Pierre Berge and Associes	10241
323	Pilling	5532
324	Plaza Art Auction Galleries	129
325	PosterConnection Inc.	3339
326	Potomack Company	1560
327	Potter and Potter Auctions	19584
328	Poulin Antiques Auctions	1077
329	Profiles in History	28859
330	Purcell Auctioneers	7034
331	Quagga Rare Books and Art	437
332	Rachel Davis Fine Arts	10261
333	Rago Arts and Auctions	2804
334	Ralph Kristiansen	966
335	Randall and Windle	4447
336	Reiss and Sohn	59367
337	Remy Le Fur and Associes	197
338	RENAUD GIQUELLO ASSOCIES	374
339	Rice	2645
340	RJM Autographs and Antiques	630
341	RM Smythe	923
342	Robert Brown	163
343	Robert Hayman	9117
344	Robert Siegel Galleries	9559
345	Robinson	9390
346	Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions	48643
347	Rosenbach	8252
348	Rossini	11794
349	Royka Auctioneers Appraisers	176
350	RR Auction	106849
351	RW Olivers	550
352	Sabin	106729
353	Sabin Handy Bib	995
354	Saffronart	0
355	Santa Fe Art Auction	96
356	Sawyer	34396
357	Scott & O'Shaughnessy	4087
358	Scribner	14048
359	Shapiro Auctioneers	5
360	Shapiro Auctions	184
361	Sheppards Irish Auction House	264
362	Siebert	1084
363	SJ Winslow Associates	5949
364	Skinner	21490
365	Soler Y Llach	8352
366	Soliday	5224
367	Sotheby Parke Bernet	15509
368	Sothebys	1054180
369	Southern	9651
370	Spink Shreves Galleries	1294
371	Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers	5051
372	Stephan Welz & Co.	435
373	Stockholms Auktionsverk	3174
374	Streeter	4423
375	Swaen Map Auction	10376
376	Swann Galleries	396709
377	Tajan	14957
378	Terry Part I	361
379	Terry Part II	370
380	Terry Part III	444
381	Tessier & Sarrou and Associates	0
382	The Antiquarian Book	57
383	The Written Word Autographs	4292
384	Thomas Scheler	116
385	Thomaston Place Auction Galleries	1981
386	Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers	585
387	Three Rivers Auction Company	437
388	TN Luther Books	35327
389	Tooveys	18488
390	Trafford Books	3598
391	Treadway Gallery	0
392	Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books	13293
393	Trotting Hill Park Books	267
394	University Archives	3518
395	UP James	6491
396	Valley Auctions	453
397	Venator and Hanstein	27089
398	Vermot de Pas	26055
399	Vinson	112
400	Waddingtons	877
401	Walpole Galleries	53757
402	Watkins Americana	184
403	Waverly Auctions	23835
404	Webbs	546
405	William Allen	13871
406	William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals	2163
407	William Parkinson	505
408	William Salloch	11786
409	William Schab	4827
410	Winner's Auctions Ltd	3995
411	Winter Associates	1529
412	Witten	109
413	Woolley and Wallis	1128
414	Wright Howes	12365
415	Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich	355
416	Zamorano Eighty	80
417	Zisska and Kistner	22702
418	Zisska and Lacher	18039
419	Zisska and Schauer	28797

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.

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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.
Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Sergio Trujillo Magnenat, Bogotá 1938 / IV Centenario / Juegos Deportivos Bolivarianos, 1938. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: McQueen Drives Porsche, designer unknown, 1970. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Joe Bridge, Bignan / A Des Ailes, 1921. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Graham Simmons, The Army Isn’t All Work, 1919. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Leonetto Cappiello, Je ne fume que le nil, 1912. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Attack of the 50 ft. Woman, designer unknown, 1958. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Raymond Tooby, Festival Guiness / Have You Tried One Yet?, 1952. $600 to $900.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Francisco Tamagno, Terrot & Co. / Dijon / Cycles Motorettes, 1909. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: A. Hori, Oakland / General Motors, circa 1925. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: James Montgomery Flagg, Travel? Adventure? Answer – Join the Marines!, circa 1918. $4,000 to $6,000.
Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Roberts, David. Twenty Lithographs of the Holy Land, 19th Century. $2,000 to $4,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Declaration by the Reps. of the United Colonies of N.A. 1775. $8,000 to $12,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Composer Jerome Kern personal Letters, Albums and Other. $15,000 to $25,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Paine, Thomas. Common Sense, London 1776. $8,000 to $12,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Cleveland 1852. $4,000 to $6,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, 3rd edition, London 1651. $2,000 to $3,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Anno Regni Georgii III. Intolerable Acts and other Bills, 1774. $15,000 to $20,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Wilberforce, William. An Abstract of the Evidence, 5 Letters, and two books. $6,000 to $9,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing and Signed Letters, ca. 1860 $4,000 to $6,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Tolstov, Leo. War and Peace, 5 volumes, 1886. $3,000 to $5,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Dickinson, John. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, 1768. $1,500 to $2,500.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer, 1877 [and] Huckleberry Finn, 1885. $4,000 to $6,000.

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