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.

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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 See Also Sale Price View PDF
Dante Alighieri Author The Divine Comedy 1952-01
Abbey, J.R. Collection 1952-01
Shakespeare, William Book Title King Lear, price not shown 1952-01
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Collection 1952-01
Shakespeare, William Book Title Rape of Lucrece: the Rosenbach/ Bodmer sale, price not shown 1952-01
Shakespeare, William Book Title Troilus and Cressida: sale by Rosenbach to Bodmer, price not shown 1952-01
Bodmer, M. Collection 1952-01
Keats, John Author MS of the sonnet on the sale of Keats's love letters Subscribe
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Molière 1734 Book Title Oeuvres, a fine copy in crimson morocco Subscribe
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Bookbinding Subject 1952-02
Saint Bride Technical Library Collection 93 lots 'not in very attractive condition' for - Subscribe
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Author 74 letters Subscribe
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De Civitate Dei 1468 Book Title Sweynheym and Pannartz, 'finely illuminated first page' Subscribe
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French Directory Subject A state sword of one of the Directors Subscribe
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Wilde, Oscar Author Holograph of the sonnet on the sale by auction of Keats's love letters Subscribe
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Stanley, Thomas Book Title 'Poems' 1651 Subscribe
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A Letter to a Friend upon Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend 1690 Book Title Subscribe
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Religio Medici 1643 Book Title The first (authorised) edition Subscribe
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The Works of Mr William Congreve 1761 Book Title Baskerville edition, 3 volumes Subscribe
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Expositio Psalterii not after 1471 Book Title Bound for Hilbrand Brandenburg, with his arms Subscribe
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Decretales of Pope Gregory IX 1479 Book Title 'In a tooled pigskin binding by Blasius Orger' Subscribe
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Bartholemaeus Anglicus 1494 Book Title 'De Proprietatibus Rerum' Toulouse Subscribe
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L'Après-midi d'un Faune 1876 Book Title Subscribe
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Book of Hours Book Title Tournai, `15th-century, provincial Subscribe
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St Bride Technical Library Subject 1952-02
Manon Lescaut 1753 Book Title Subscribe
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King, Henry Author Manuscript collection of 75 poems Subscribe
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Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 1751 Book Title The second edition Subscribe
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Molière 1734 Author Oeuvres, in calf Subscribe
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Wilde, Oscar Author 5 holograph MSS of minor works, 4 letters and one MS in Mrs Wilde's hand Subscribe
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Harmsworth Trust Library Collection 1952-02
Bullrich, E.J. Collection 1952-02
Adonais 1821 Book Title Subscribe
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Poetry Subject 1952-02
Vathek 1787 Book Title 1st Paris edition, Maurice Baring's copy Subscribe
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Book Title 'Poems ' 1870 heavily corrected by Rossetti Subscribe
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Shaw, G.B. Author Long letter about 'The Doctor's Dilemma' Subscribe
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Pre-Raphaelites Subject 1952-02
Shelley, Percy Bysshe Author Letter to Hogg about Keats, 'a young writer of bad taste' Subscribe
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Spiegel des Menschlichen Lebens 1479 Book Title Subscribe
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