Book Auctions

Specializes in antiques, art, pottery, gold, sterling, vintage advertising, and collectible books.

Cape Ann Auction, a Gloucester, Massachusetts house, specializes in estate auctions featuring Cape Ann art, estate jewelry, maritime antiques, sterling silver, U.S. coin collections, and pre-1980 sports cards and comic books. Its current headline sale is Auction #6 from the Christina Rafter estate jewelry collection, with coins, sterling silver and antiques also offered, and it lists painters Emile Gruppé, Jon Sarkin and Jeff Weaver among recent results. Bidding opens at $1 with no reserves, and the house notes it cannot process most traditional antique furniture, porcelain, glass and China of moderate value.

Sidcup Auction Rooms is holding a two-day sale on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November, with 900 to 1,200 lots of antiques, collectables and general items that can be viewed beforehand. The sale covers silver, jewellery, pottery, porcelain, glass, prints, paintings, furniture, military items, books and toys, and the auctions run fortnightly from 11am on Fridays and Saturdays.

Specializing in fine estate and consignment auctions, C.H. Livingston Estate Services & Auctioneering offers Fine Furniture, Antiques, Art, Rugs, and Mid Century Modern pieces, alongside specialty sales of Comic Books, Sports Cards, Non-Sports Cards, Toys, Records, Coins & Currency, and Jewelry. The house runs its auction space adjacent to an antique mall, and its next sale is an October online auction with lots still being added daily and a full catalog said to be coming soon.

Caring Transitions of Honolulu is a senior-transition and estate-services firm, offering relocation help, decluttering, clean-out and sorting services, and estate sale and online auction planning, with local estate sale and online auction notices posted on its site. The source names no specific makers, lots, or fine art, so the house's distinctive offering is its end-to-end transition support for families. Its contact page invites visitors to book a free consultation with an individualized approach to meeting their goals.

The source text names an online auction for Toms Music House inventory, with over 600 lots and a first sale of smaller items such as instructional books, instrument accessories, vintage records, and knives, but it gives no complete calendar date for the sale, so no date can be listed. Upcoming auctions include a multi-day Toms Music House liquidation that the host says will run for several days, with a second auction also planned, and live bidding will be available through Hibid.

Specializing in Americana, antiques, fine furnishings, books and fine art, New Hampshire Auctions and Appraisals stands out for its Dunlap-associated lots, including a Major John and Martha (Gilmore) Dunlap painting that sold for $42,500 and a John Dunlap molding plane that brought $15,000. The Southern New Hampshire house also lists works attributed to Emily Carr and Picasso, a Geoffrey Holder oil painting, and a Boston Queen Anne chair set among its recent results, with sales running both online and live.

Berkshire Legacy runs estate sales, online auctions, clean-outs and individual item acquisitions across Berkshire County, with a stated focus on antiques, books and art. The family team, which includes founders with backgrounds in appraisal and marketing, says its strength is valuing and presenting inherited goods for clients settling estates or downsizing. One client review highlights the firm's handling of a parent's household contents, saying the sale brought in more money than expected.

Greek Live Auctions runs live online auctions of art and collectibles, with its largest categories being books (224 listings), photographs (70), prints (36) and textiles (11), alongside folk art, woodcarvings, prints and drawings, and jewelry. Its catalog spans antiques, ceramics, silverware, coins and medals, maps and travel books, and Greek literature and history titles. The house also runs an eshop for direct purchases and offers free appraisals of collectors' items, with a live exhibition photo from the Zappeion in its header.

Winner's Auctions specializes in Judaica, handwritten manuscripts, rare Hebrew books, historical documents, antique maps, coins and banknotes, with Zionist and Bezalel-related material among its categories. Recent named lots include a Vilna-era manuscript-style commentary attributed to the Ben Ish Chai and a silver Kiddush cup from the Pressburg rabbi Mordechai Tossik that sold for $47,500 in the house's catalogue. The house also runs "Unlimited" sales that bring in art, silver and gold, rare books, medals and archaeology beyond Jewish themes.

Upcoming auctions include a live online sale of collectible books listed for Saturday, November 7, though the listing gives only the day and month, so the year is not confirmed in the source. The numismatic catalogue sale dated October 27, 2026 falls before the search window and is excluded.

Online art, antiques and household-contents auctions from Limburg, with recent sales featuring art from a private collection, mixed lots of art, jewellery and household goods, and a 152-lot sale of photo-studio copyshop inventory with home accessories. Its next sale, announced as an upcoming household-contents auction, is slated to include glass art, antique furniture, design pieces, photographs, antiquarian books and art. The house is part of Lunica, a firm offering estate services, art management and insolvency solutions.

Aragón Subastas de Arte auctions fine and decorative arts in Zaragoza, with recent lots listed including Victor Mira, Ignacio Mayayo and Elías González Manso paintings, Kangxi-period Chinese porcelain vases, silver flatware, and Chinese lacquer and carved wood screens. The house's current sale spans art and book sessions, with an exhibition open before the auction and a direct-sale section for unsold lots. The site's tone is a mix of Spanish-language catalogue listings and a historic archive of past auctions, lending it the feel of a regional salesroom with a deep back catalogue.

Martín Saráchaga Subastas is holding its main sale on December 3 and 4, with previews scheduled from November 25 through December 2, from 14:00 to 19:30. Categories on offer include decorative arts, books, Argentine painting, jewelry and watches, and paintings, with online virtual auctions and a private sale also listed.

Auctions Chinese painting and calligraphy alongside porcelain and miscellaneous antiques (古器物, including 瓷器, 玉器 and 文玩), with themed sales built around named artists such as the "Jinling Four Elders" (金陵四老) and Zhu Xinjian (朱新建). Recent and forthcoming headline sales include a 2025 "Jinling Four Elders" calligraphy and painting sale and a Modern Chinese Painting and Calligraphy evening, alongside a Buddhist art sale and a contemporary Asian art evening. The house also accepts consignments, with the site listing categories such as ancient painting and calligraphy, rare books and autograph manuscripts, and contemporary art.

Odalys sells Venezuelan art alongside European and Asian works, with listings ranging from Narciso Debourg at $75,350 to Giovanni Battista Piranesi at $1,750, and a dedicated monograph series on Tito Salas and Iván Petrovszky. Its online shelves list more than 1,800 artworks across painting, sculpture, prints, photography and ceramics, plus over 500 books and 200 collectibles, though the items are priced for direct purchase rather than bidding. The platform says it has 32 years of activity with a presence in Caracas, Madrid and Miami.

Upcoming auctions include the Arts du XXe siècle & Design sale in Quimper on November 17–18, 2026, followed by Regard d'un collectionneur, Part I, in Carantec on December 1, and L' me Bretonne d'Hiver, a Quimper sale of books, Breton folk arts, faience, drawings, paintings and costumes, on December 6. Free expert appraisal sessions are also scheduled in Quimper on November 7 and Brest on November 9.

Specializes in Danish collector and militaria auctions, with current lots including a Danish signal pistol holster marked HTK, a Holmegaard glass vase with horizontal cuts, a Schuberth-Helme B826 German military helmet with leather lining, and a 1950 M.E. Co. Danish pistol holder. Also offered are a Danish M23 helmet emblem with royal arms and crown, a Danish M23 belt, and a book on the Danish Brigade in Sweden by N. M. Schaiffel-Nielsen. The current "309 Samler og Militaria Auktion" lists seven lots, with the most-bid item being the HTK signal pistol holster, which sat at a 25 Dkr current bid.

Specializing in Mecklenburg art of the 19th and 20th centuries, alongside bronze sculpture, porcelain, glass, silver, jewelry, antiquarian books, furniture, coins, postcards and militaria, Auktionshaus Schwerin GmbH runs six auctions a year and sources its lots from complete collections, estates and insolvencies. The house also offers evaluation and valuation, including on-site visits, and runs a fixed-price sales floor alongside its auctions, with online bidding requiring a quick registration through its catalog page.

La Rochelle Enchères and its sister room La Sablaise Enchères in Les Sables-d'Olonne sell specialist lots including jewellery, silverware, paintings, objets d'art, wine, books, stamps and postcards, alongside a monthly "Trésors de greniers" (attic treasures) sale. The Sablaise room also regularly offers paintings by Vendée regionalist artists and religious objects, and hosts judicial sales for Vendée. The houses are run by commissaire-priseur Marie-Charlotte Lagrange, who specialises in gemmology and jewellery and brings in outside experts for wine, contemporary painting and Asian or African art.

Specializing in philately and ephemera, Burak Filateli A.Ş. runs salon and online auctions covering Ottoman and Republican stamps, Old Istanbul engravings by William Henry Bartlett, Amedeo Preziosi and Gaspare Fossati, and Max Fruchtermann postcards. The Istanbul house, operating since 1981, also offers Ottoman share certificates, old maps by Johann Baptist Homann and Willem Janszoon Blaeu, and rare books, with some lots available for immediate purchase by card. Collectors can also find lead soldiers, tobacco tins and opera binoculars among its listings.