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.

Suggestions on how to improve any aspect of this archival information will be welcomed at archive@thebookcollector.co.uk.

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
De Vitis Romanorum Pontificum 1718/35 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2012-02
De Vocis Auditusque Organis Historia 1600/01 Book Title Ferrara printing Subscribe
to View 		1987-02
De Voragine, Jacobus Author 'Sermones' Cologne 1478 Subscribe
to View 		2015-02
De Warrachtighe Fabulen 1567 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2007-01
De Wit, Frederick 1660/77 Author 'Orbis maritimus', Wardington sale Subscribe
to View 		2006-04
De Zee Atlas 1660 Book Title Doncker Subscribe
to View 		2015-03
De Zee Atlas 1668 Book Title Goos, 'fine colour' Subscribe
to View 		2007-02
De Zee-Atlas 1669 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2006-01
De Zee-Atlas 1672 Book Title Goos Subscribe
to View 		2015-03
Dead Souls 1842 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2009-01
Dean's New Gift Book of Nursery Rhymes 1971 Book Title Original artwork Subscribe
to View 		2011-01
Deane, Silas Author A long letter Subscribe
to View 		2010-04
Death Comes for the Archbishop 1927 Book Title Inscribed Subscribe
to View 		2006-01
Death Comes for the Archbishop 1929 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Death in the Afternoon 1932 Book Title With a later presentation inscription Subscribe
to View 		2017-03
Death in the Afternoon 1932 Book Title In 'bright' d.w., inscribed Subscribe
to View 		2009-01
Death in Venice 1930 Book Title Price not given 2008-01
Death of a Naturalist 1966 Book Title Heaney's first book, auctioned for English PEN Subscribe
to View 		2013-03
Débat entre deux dames..Chiens et des Oiseaux Book Title 4 renaissance miniatures Subscribe
to View 		1987-02
Debret, Jean Author 'Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Brésil' 1835, with the prospectus but lacking two maps Subscribe
to View 		2007-03
Debussy, Claude Author MS of an unpublished song Subscribe
to View 		1955-01
Debussy, Claude Author Orchestrations of Satie's 'Gymnopédies' Subscribe
to View 		1972-03
Debussy, Claude Author 5 letters Subscribe
to View 		2014-01
Debussy, Claude Author His annotated score of 'Parsifal' Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
Debussy, Claude Author Autograph of Pelléas et Melisande Subscribe
to View 		1982-03
Debussy, Claude Author Manuscript of 'Jeux' c.1913, annotated by Nijinsky Subscribe
to View 		1984-03
Decennale Book Title A detailed account without prices 1964-02
Declaratio siue Descriptio Mundi 1509 Book Title First book to contain the name 'America' Subscribe
to View 		2010-02
Declaration Against the Pennicooke and Easter Indians 1703 Book Title One of two recorded copies Subscribe
to View 		2020-02
Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme 1789 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2013-01
Declaration of Breda 1660 Book Title Treaty that restored Charles II to the throne Subscribe
to View 		1985-03
Declaration of Independence, Salem Book Title Bill Reese sale Subscribe
to View 		2022-03
Decline and Fall 1928 Book Title The typescript Subscribe
to View 		1996-03
Decline and Fall 1928 Book Title In d.w., inscribed to Connolly Subscribe
to View 		2007-03
Decline and Fall 1928 Book Title Presentation copy to the Talbot Rices Subscribe
to View 		2014-02
Decline and Fall 1928 Book Title Presentation copy Subscribe
to View 		2015-03
Declos, Anne Author 'Histoire d'O' 1954 Subscribe
to View 		2015-02
Decorative Printing 1823 Book Title Syston Park copy Subscribe
to View 		2006-03
Decreta 1493 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2014-02
Decretales 1473 Book Title Illuminated, on vellum: another, partly on vellum Subscribe
to View 		2015-03
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