Sales by Author, Title, Subject and Collection

This index is compiled from the sales reports published in every issue of The Book Collector. These reports have themselves been assembled principally from eye-witness accounts by our correspondents. It is therefore a record of context as much as of cost. Who was bidding against whom, what was sold afterwards, the cataloguing errors, extraordinary provenances, rarity considered objectively - so on and suchlike. Some account of this system can be found in The Price of Passion ( 2016-04).

Entries are differentiated between Author, Title, Subject and Collection. It should be noted, however, that in the case of most classical texts and many cartographers, the author is also the title.

When typing an author's name into the Search bar please do so either as Smith, John or as Smith or as John.

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An asterisk (*) against an entry indicates that issue of The Book Collector is no longer available in print.


Title Sales Category Sub Category Sale Price View PDF
L'Aurelian 1794 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1954-03
L'Avare 1669 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2009-01
L'Avare 1669 Book Title Modern morocco Subscribe
to View 		1965-03
L'Ecole des Femmes 1663 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1965-03
L'Education Sentimentale 1870 Book Title Presentation copy to George Sand Subscribe
to View 		1999-01
L'Education Sentimentale 1870 Book Title Manuscript of: a first edition, presentation to George Sand Subscribe
to View 		2016-01
L'Education Sentimentale 1870 Book Title Given to Jeanne de Tourbey Subscribe
to View 		2017-01
L'Egypte Moderne 1869 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2013-03
L'Empire des Légumes: Mémoires de Cucurbitus Ier 1851 Book Title 'An oddity' Subscribe
to View 		2011-01
L'Enchanteur Pourissant 1909 Book Title Kahnweiler's 'first effort' Subscribe
to View 		2006-04
L'Enchanteur Pourrissant 1909 Book Title Destribats copy Subscribe
to View 		2019-04
L'Enchanteur Pourrissant 1909 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1974-03
L'Enchanteur Pourrissant 1909 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2006-04
L'Encyclopédie Méthodique 1782/1832 Book Title 197 quarto volumes Subscribe
to View 		1965-03
L'Encyclopédie Méthodique 1782/1832 Book Title 'Extremely rare complete' Subscribe
to View 		1970-02
L'Enfant Qui Ramassa les Balles [1872] Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2012-01
L'Enfer 1913 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2010-03
L'Esprit du Code Napoleon 1805/07 Book Title With the arms of Napoleon Subscribe
to View 		1977-01
L'Estat Present de la Chine en Figures 1697 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2007-01
L'Eté 1954 Book Title With 'La Chute' and 'L'Exil' Subscribe
to View 		2010-02
L'Etranger 1942 Book Title 2007-03
L'Heptameron 1558 Book Title One leaf in facsimile Subscribe
to View 		1954-02
L'Heptameron 1558 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1980-01
L'Heptameron 1559 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1993-03
L'Hériter de Brutelles Author 'Stirpes Novae' 1784-91 Subscribe
to View 		1997-03
L'Hippophile c. 1840 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2006-02
L'Histoire de la Destruction de Troye 1474 Book Title With 49 miniatures, signed and dated by the scribe Subscribe
to View 		1954-01
L'Histoire de la Destruction de Troye 1490 Book Title With 32 fine woodcuts Subscribe
to View 		1967-04
L'Histoire de la Destruction de Troye early 16th-century Book Title 'This vast, indeed fantastic, bid...' Subscribe
to View 		1954-01
L'Histoire de la Nature des Oyseaux 155 Book Title Coloured, bound by Wotton's Binder C Subscribe
to View 		1995-03
L'Histoire de la Nature des Oyseaux 1555 Book Title De Thou's copy Subscribe
to View 		1987-02
L'Homme qui Rit 1869 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2017-01
L'Homme Revolté Book Title Eleven leaves from it Subscribe
to View 		2013-01
L'Homme Revolté 1948 Book Title Inscribed to de Beauvoir and Sartre Subscribe
to View 		2014-01
L'Homme Revolté 1951 Book Title Corrected proofs Subscribe
to View 		2010-01
L'Homme Revolté 1951 Book Title Inscribed to René Char Subscribe
to View 		2006-04
L'Hydrographie Françoise 1756/61 Book Title Bound for the Duc de Praslin Subscribe
to View 		2005-04
L'Hydrographie Françoise 1756/61 Book Title Wardington copy Subscribe
to View 		2006-01
L'Image 1896/97 Subject Subscribe
to View 		2011-03
L'Immaculée Conception 1930 Book Title 1/100, inscribed by Eluard Subscribe
to View 		2010-02
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