The Vergos Rare Books Sale
Vergos Auctions' autumn sale of rare books, manuscripts, documents and engravings is expected in early November 2026 — the two-evening Athens fixture whose 2025 edition brought 500 lots to the Zappeion Megaron, from sixteenth-century printing to the manuscripts of Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis.
The Vergos Rare Books Sale is Vergos Auctions’ annual autumn auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Documents and Engravings. The 2026 edition is expected in early November, following the window of the last edition, held across two evenings at the Zappeion Megaron on 4 and 5 November 2025. It is the autumn half of the house’s twice-yearly book calendar: a spring sale falls each late April — the 2026 edition at the Parnassos Literary Society on 29 and 30 April — and the autumn sale closes the bibliophile year.
The sales have run to 500 lots in 2025 and 615 the autumn before at the Athens Capital Hotel. The catalogues span from printing of the sixteenth century to the working papers of the modern canon — recent editions have carried manuscripts of Cavafy, Seferis, Elytis and Kazantzakis, a letter signed by Napoleon, the 1818 Paris edition of Korais’s Memorandum, and an 1826 letter of victory signed by twenty-five commanders of the War of Independence, Georgios Karaiskakis among them. Founded in 1989, Vergos is the largest and longest-running auction house in Greece. The house confirms the exact dates and venue on its own calendar in the weeks before the sale.