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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		2
2	25 Blythe Road	162
3	AbeBooks Most Expensive	70
4	Adams Amsterdam Auctions	4907
5	Adams Amsterdam Book and Print Auctions	1178
6	Addison and Sarova	5940
7	Ader	52691
8	Aguttes	14117
9	Alain and Evelyne Morel de Westgaver	18221
10	Alaska Auction	3780
11	ALDE	60514
12	Alderfer Auction Company	1218
13	Alexander Autographs	10515
14	Alexander Historical Auctions	18912
15	AltaCal OL	250
16	Amadeus-Auktionshaus GmbH	212
17	American Art Association	99060
18	American Bibles	1480
19	American Book Auction Catalogues	10619
20	Americana Beginnings	679
21	Anderson Galleries	722516
22	Anderson Galleries 1604	622
23	Anderson Galleries 1642	672
24	Anderson Galleries 1685	300
25	Anderson Galleries 1686	1171
26	Anderson Galleries 70 Nuggets	71
27	Anteo Subastas	0
28	Antiquarian Auctions	11643
29	AntiquarianAuctions.com	21477
30	Antiquariat Peter Kiefer	4571
31	Antiques Estate Auctioneers Appraisers	980
32	Arader Galleries	6413
33	Archives International Auctions	15653
34	Arenberg Auctions	8081
35	Art + Object	338
36	Artcurial	44841
37	Artoria S.A.	368
38	Asher	367
39	Aspire Auctions	2573
40	Aste Bolaffi	5710
41	Auction Explorer Books	17337
42	Auctionata	11343
43	Audap and Mirabaud	5875
44	Australian Book Auctions	25761
45	Autographes Encheres	1198
46	Auxerre Encheres Estimations	4639
47	Bakker Boccelli Fine Art	1
48	Baltimore Book Auction	8796
49	Bangs	91508
50	Bauer	528
51	Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood	8253
52	Beaussant Lefevre	3772
53	Bent White Mountains	823
54	Bernard Quaritch	25960
55	Bibliopathos	568
56	Bibliotheca Munselliana	2331
57	Binoche et Giquello	16805
58	Blacksparrow	864
59	Blanchard's Auction Service	2
60	Bloomsbury Auctions	171978
61	Bloomsbury Book Auctions	56009
62	Bogota Auctions	0
63	Boisgirard Provence Cote DAzur	346
64	Bolaffi SPA	758
65	Bonhams	153806
66	Books by the Falls	667
67	Booth & Williams	352
68	Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates, LLC	29
69	Bradford	6239
70	Braislin	1997
71	Brinley	9138
72	Britwell Court 1916	493
73	Brunk Auctions	2845
74	Bruun Rasmussen	42997
75	Bubb Kuyper	172607
76	Burgersdijk and Niermans	42093
77	Butterfield	1319
78	Carlsen Gallery	478
79	Case Antiques, Inc.	1471
80	Castner Auction	29
81	Catawiki B.V.	0
82	CD David	128
83	CDowning Auctions	293
84	CF Libbie	34633
85	Charles Hamilton	29959
86	Charles Heartman	3033
87	Charles Wood	33965
88	Charlton Hall	1024
89	Check List American Railroads	2707
90	Chinese Question	498
91	Chiswick Auctions	8889
92	Chorley's	163
93	Christian Hesse Auktionen	8842
94	Christies	267796
95	Church	1433
96	Clars Auction Gallery	17763
97	Claude Aguttes	233
98	CNY Book Auctions	219
99	Cohasco	263
100	Collection MC	72
101	Comic Connect	100
102	Connecticut Book Auctions	175
103	Copley Fine Art Auctions	1077
104	Cornette de Saint Cyr	2351
105	Cottone	98
106	Coutau Begarie	4692
107	Couton Veyrac Jamault	28
108	Cowans Auctions	19492
109	Cowans Historic Americana Auctions	1902
110	Dallas Auction Gallery	123
111	Dargate Auction Galleries	420
112	Dawson Book Shop	1189
113	De Baecque and Associes	12277
114	Decker	11230
115	Delvaux	348
116	Dirk Soulis Auctions	7409
117	Dominic Winter Book Auctions	141097
118	Dora Hood	85126
119	Dorotheum	43092
120	Dorothy Sloan Rare Books	6344
121	Doyle New York	25252
122	Drouot Estimations	96
123	DSloan	4295
124	Du Mouchelles	180
125	Dupont	255
126	Dush	863
127	Early American	5196
128	Eberstadt	21456
129	Edward Lefkowicz	1402
130	Eldreds	12017
131	ERA Encheres	1798
132	EV Thompson	614
133	Evans	32214
134	Ferraton	39523
135	Field	1703
136	Field Auction	4879
137	Finarte	856
138	Florence Number Nine	37
139	Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers	9875
140	Forum Auctions	27533
141	Forum Auctions in Italy	4173
142	Francis Edwards	166736
143	Francis Harper	73
144	FRAYSSE & Associés	1
145	Freemans	26203
146	Freemans Historic USS Constitution Colors	13
147	Galerias Louis Morton	6161
148	Galerie Bassenge	126569
149	Galerie Koller Auctions	9901
150	Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers	660
151	Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, Inc.	3
152	Gateway Gallery Auction	384
153	George Littlefield	16134
154	Gibson Auction Inc.	404
155	Goelet	895
156	Goldberg Coins and Collectibles	4932
157	Goldschmidt	49633
158	Gonnelli Casa DAste	17181
159	Goodspeed	233888
160	Gowans	309
161	Grays Auctioneers	5418
162	Grogan and Company	475
163	Guernseys	7273
164	Guillaumot Richard	402
165	Gulf Coast Book Auctions	394
166	Harmsworth	5068
167	Hartung and Hartung	31862
168	Hauff and Auvermann	39415
169	Hauswedell and Nolte	24873
170	HBradley Martin	48
171	Henkels	6698
172	Henri Godts Books and Prints Auctions	17747
173	Heritage Auction Galleries	24901
174	Heritage Auctions	853733
175	Heritage Map Museum	109
176	Hessney Auction Company	2
177	Hindman Auctions	44
178	HNestler	3022
179	Holabird Associates	1527
180	Holabird Kagin Americana	48826
181	Holliday	1233
182	Hôtel des Ventes Mosan	33
183	Howell	8059
184	Howes US IANA	11600
185	HRS Alabama 1807 to 1840	345
186	HRS Arizona 1860 to 1890	161
187	HRS California	489
188	HRS Chicago Ante Fire	1877
189	HRS Idaho 1839 to 1890	180
190	HRS Iowa 1837 to 1860	195
191	HRS Kansas 1854 to 1876	2034
192	HRS Kentucky 1787 to 1810	812
193	HRS Kentucky Imprints	591
194	HRS Minnesota 1849 to 1865	656
195	HRS Missouri 1808 to 1850	705
196	HRS Nebraska 1847 to 1876	503
197	HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890	522
198	HRS Nevada 1859 to 1890 Add	9
199	HRS New Mexico 1784 to 1876	300
200	HRS Ohio 1796 to 1820	591
201	HRS Tennessee 1793 to 1840	469
202	HRS TN Nashville	481
203	HRS TN Nashville AppA	4
204	HRS TN Nashville AppB	20
205	HRS TN Nashville AppC	10
206	HRS TN Pamphlets and Broadsides	797
207	HRS Utica NY 1799 to 1830	572
208	HRS West Virginia 1791 to 1830	106
209	HRS Wisconsin	569
210	HRS Wisconsin 1850 to 1854	549
211	HRS Wisconsin 1855 to 1858	724
212	HRS Wisconsin 1859 to 1863	712
213	HRS Wisconsin 1864 to 1869	931
214	HRS Wyoming 1866 to 1890	168
215	Huntington1269	308
216	Huntington1309	330
217	Huntington1406	245
218	Huntington1698	1015
219	HV Jones Sale	580
220	HVJones	304
221	HVJones Check List	1746
222	Il Ponte	6903
223	JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung	6665
224	Jacksons Auction	577
225	James D Cyr Auctioneer	1311
226	James D Julia Auctioneers	3240
227	JandS	13489
228	Jasper52	312
229	JellyFishTree	2992
230	Jenkins	628
231	Jeschke Greve and Hauff	823
232	Jeschke Hauff und Auvermann	13821
233	Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH	5341
234	JMW Auction Gallery	1780
235	John Bellman Auctioneers	1489
236	John Howell Books Americana	718
237	John McInnis Auctioneers	4798
238	Johns Western Gallery	2826
239	Johnson	1415
240	Kapandji Morhange	13221
241	Kedem Auctions Ltd.	21995
242	Kenneth Karmiole	12221
243	Kenneth Nebenzahl	5907
244	Keno Auctions	15
245	Kestenbaum and Company	6446
246	Ketterer Kunst Doerling	40913
247	Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers	83995
248	Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen	306387
249	KLeach	5502
250	Knotty Pine Auction Service	8039
251	Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers	6239
252	Kraus	569
253	Laird Park	394
254	Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society	17051
255	Lathrop Harper	14598
256	Laurence Witten Rare Books	1645
257	Lawrences Auctioneers	1917
258	Le Libraire Alain Ferraton	29331
259	Leekley	373
260	Leland Little Auctions	2855
261	Leonard and Company	1
262	LF Robinson 1304	701
263	Librairie Loeb Larocque	1212
264	Light Horse Auctions	169
265	Lion Heart Autographs	325
266	Littell	1141
267	Longs	11280
268	Ludewig	1220
269	Lyon and Turnbull	19575
270	MacManus	65020
271	Madigan	213
272	Maggs	259836
273	Maggs VI	542
274	Maître Bernard GALATEAU	0
275	Map World	422
276	Marc van de Wiele Auctions	21696
277	Marshall	1044
278	Mayfair Book Auctions	70
279	McLemore Auction Company	63
280	Mealys Auctioneers	13093
281	Merwin Clayton Sales Company	275505
282	Merwin Sales Company NY	0
283	Michaans Auctions	3210
284	Michael Brown	781
285	Michael Treloar	2426
286	Mid Hudson Auction Galleries	4473
287	Midland	64251
288	Minerva Auctions Roma	15229
289	Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers	1672
290	Montreal Book Auctions	32959
291	Moreshet Auctions	3289
292	Morphy Auctions	2299
293	Morton Casa de Subastas	14491
294	Mossgreen	948
295	MS Rare Books	34295
296	Murphy	3307
297	Nadeau's Auction Gallery	112
298	NAMagazines	255
299	National Art Galleries 1932	157
300	National Book Auctions	66576
301	Neal Auction Company	4430
302	New England Auctions	2142
303	New England Book Auctions	15928
304	Norris	4311
305	North American Auction Company	1815
306	Northeast Auctions	1898
307	Nosbüsch & Stucke	20069
308	Nye & Company Auctioneers	1204
309	OGER et CAMPER	720
310	OGER et DUMONT	100
311	OGER et SEMONT	531
312	Old World Auctions	57925
313	One Of A Kind Collectibles	0
314	OSENAT	6470
315	OShaughnessy	26643
316	Otto Lange	23114
317	Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC	463
318	Paige Auction	1092
319	Pandolfini	2192
320	Parke Bernet	242657
321	Paulo Adams Auction Service	118
322	PBA Galleries	167737
323	PC Petersburg 1786 to 1876	637
324	Pennypacker943	6707
325	Penrose	365
326	Philobiblon Auctions	2552
327	PIASA	40249
328	Picard Audap Solanet Velliet Teissedre	424
329	Pierre Berge and Associes	11080
330	Pilling	5532
331	Plaza Art Auction Galleries	129
332	PosterConnection Inc.	4039
333	Potomack Company	1935
334	Potter and Potter Auctions	22385
335	Poulin Antiques Auctions	1077
336	Profiles in History	29070
337	Purcell Auctioneers	9370
338	Quagga Rare Books and Art	437
339	Rachel Davis Fine Arts	11546
340	Rago Arts and Auctions	3079
341	Ralph Kristiansen	966
342	Randall and Windle	4447
343	Reiss and Sohn	59367
344	Remy Le Fur and Associes	197
345	RENAUD GIQUELLO ASSOCIES	374
346	Revere Auctions	463
347	Rice	2645
348	RJM Autographs and Antiques	630
349	RM Smythe	923
350	Robert Brown	163
351	Robert Hayman	9117
352	Robert Siegel Galleries	12233
353	Robinson	9390
354	Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions	48643
355	Rosenbach	8252
356	Rossini	12434
357	Royka Auctioneers Appraisers	176
358	RR Auction	114272
359	RW Olivers	550
360	Sabin	106729
361	Sabin Handy Bib	995
362	Saffronart	100
363	Santa Fe Art Auction	96
364	Sawyer	34396
365	Scott & O'Shaughnessy	4087
366	Scribner	14048
367	Shapiro Auctioneers	5
368	Shapiro Auctions	184
369	Sheppards Irish Auction House	264
370	Siebert	1084
371	SJ Winslow Associates	5949
372	Skinner	22569
373	Soler Y Llach	9017
374	Soliday	5224
375	Sotheby Parke Bernet	39525
376	Sothebys	1061826
377	Southern	9651
378	Spink Shreves Galleries	1294
379	Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers	5223
380	Stephan Welz & Co.	589
381	Stockholms Auktionsverk	4080
382	Streeter	4423
383	Swaen Map Auction	10376
384	Swann Galleries	400590
385	Tajan	15752
386	Terry Part I	361
387	Terry Part II	370
388	Terry Part III	444
389	Tessier & Sarrou and Associates	1781
390	The Antiquarian Book	57
391	The Written Word Autographs	6042
392	Thomas Scheler	116
393	Thomaston Place Auction Galleries	1981
394	Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers	1705
395	Three Rivers Auction Company	437
396	TN Luther Books	35327
397	Tooveys	19189
398	Trafford Books	4322
399	Treadway Gallery	0
400	Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books	18478
401	Trotting Hill Park Books	267
402	University Archives	4826
403	UP James	6491
404	Valley Auctions	453
405	Venator and Hanstein	28092
406	Vermot de Pas	28417
407	Vinson	112
408	Waddingtons	877
409	Walpole Galleries	53757
410	Watkins Americana	184
411	Waverly Auctions	25805
412	Webbs	546
413	William Allen	13871
414	William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals	2249
415	William Parkinson	505
416	William Salloch	11786
417	William Schab	4827
418	Winner's Auctions Ltd	4956
419	Winter Associates	1653
420	Witten	109
421	Woolley and Wallis	1128
422	Wright Howes	12365
423	Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich	355
424	Zamorano Eighty	80
425	Zisska and Kistner	22702
426	Zisska and Lacher	20171
427	Zisska and Schauer	28797
428	Zwiggelaar Auctions	1695

ALDE, Feb. 26: Leon TOLSTOÏ. Anna Karenina. Moscou, 1878. First and full edition of the Russian novel, in the author’s language. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Mark TWAIN. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade). New York, 1885. First American edition. Est. 5 000 / 6 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Walt WHITMAN. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York, 1856. Second edition gathering 32 poems. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Karen BLIXEN. Out of Africa. Londres, 1937. First edition in the UK, before Danish translation and American release. Est. 1 500 / 2 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Ernest HEMINGWAY. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. First edition with $2.50 on the dust and A on the copyright page. Est. 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: James JOYCE. Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition published by Sylvia Beach. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: James JOYCE. Dubliners. Londres, 1914. First edition. Nice copy in publisher’s cardboard. Est. 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Franz KAFKA. 8 novels in German first edition, published in München, Leipzig and Berlin 1916-1931. Est. from 300 / 400 to 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: David Herbert LAWRENCE. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence, 1928. Privately printed first edition. Est. 4 000 / 5 000 €

John STEINBECK. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. First edition. Nice copy with $2.75 on the cover. Est. 1 000 / 1 200 €
<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana February 20, 2020

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Harriet Tubman Cabinet Card by H.S. Squyer, Auburn, NY, 1892. $10,000 to $15,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Scarce Events of the Tulsa Disaster, First Edition, 1922. $4,000 to $6,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Unpublished CDV of Frederick Douglass by Benjamin F. Smith, 1864. $3,000 to $5,000

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana February 20, 2020

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: California Imprint of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Broadside, 1864. $10,000 to $15,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: John C.H. Grabill Cabinet Card of Buffalo Soldier Wearing Buffalo Coat, ca 1886. $8,000 to $10,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Rare What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, 2nd Cookbook Published by African American. $6,000 to $8,000

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana February 20, 2020

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Frederick Douglass Walking Stick, 1888. $3,000 to $5,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Only Known Slave Narrative Published Independently in California, Life and Adventures of James Williams. $2,000 to $4,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Rare First Edition of History of Black Literature, Abbé Grégoire De La Littérature des Nègres. $2,500 to $3,000

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana February 20, 2020

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: African American Soldier and Medal of Honor Winner Christian A. Fleetwood CDV, PLUS. $8,000 to $10,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries Pennant, 1910 Reno, Nevada. $2,000 to $4,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Joe Gans Photograph at 1906 Goldfield, Nevada Fight by Percy Dana. $600 to $800
Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel, By a Lady, 3 volumes, London, 1811. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens, limited edition, signed by Woolf & Bell, London, 1927. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: [Arabian Nights], Calcutta II version, 4 volumes, Calcutta & London, 1839-1842. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Princess Diana, 6 ALS to Harper’s Bazaar editor, anticipating Christie’s sale of her dresses for charity, 1995-97. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Jane Austen, Emma, first edition, London, 1816. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Hirohito & Nagako, Emperor & Empress of Japan, 2 photographs signed, showing Nagako in kimono & obi bearing the imperial seal. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Princess Diana, 6 autograph letters signed to Harper’s Bazaar editor Elizabeth Tilberis, anticipating Christie’s announcement of a sale of her dresses for charity, 1995-97. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Sarojini Naidu, complete galley proof of The Broken Wing signed with several holograph pages & an autograph letter signed to writer Edmund Gosse, 1916. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem, first edition, presentation copy, signed & inscribed, Lisbon, 1934. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Graham Greene, The Basement Room, first edition, Greene’s personal copy, signed with annotations throughout, London, 1935. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Abraham Lincoln, partly-printed document signed, call for troops issued during America’s first national draft just days before the NYC draft riots, 1863. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Les Chansons de Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs, illustrated by George Barbier & F.L. Schmied, Paris, 1922. $8,000 to $12,000.
Bonhams, Mar. 6: Helvelius. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Francis Aston, Royal Society Secretary, noting his feud with Robert Hooke, 5 pp total, 1685. $70,000 to $100,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Newton, Isaac. Autograph manuscript on God, 4 pp, c.1710, "In the beginning was the Word...."?$100,000 to $150,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. First edition, first issue. Untrimmed copy in contemporary boards. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Lincoln, Abraham. Signed photograph, beardless portrait with Civil War provenance. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: IMPEACHMENT. Original engrossed copy of the first Andrew Johnson impeachment resolution vote. $120,000 to $180,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Mucha, Alphonse. 11 original pencil drawings for?Andelicek z Baroku, "Litte Baroque Angel," Prague, 1929. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Einstein, Albert. Annotated Galley Proofs for The Meaning of Relativity. 1921. $25,000 to $35,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Silverstein, Shel. Original maquette for The Giving Tree, 34 original drawings. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Roth, Philip. Typed Manuscript with substantial autograph corrections for an unpublished sequel to The Breast. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Taupin, Bernie. Autograph Manuscript, the original draft of lyrics for Elton John's "Candle in the Wind," 2 pp, 1973. $100,000 to $150,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: HARVEY, WILLIAM. De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus Anatomica Exercitatio. Padua: 1643. $12,000 to $18,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: CESALPINO, ANDREA. Peripateticarum Quaestionum Libri Quinque. Venice: 1571. $30,000 to $40,000.

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