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.


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Smith's Moral Sentiments London 1790 Book Title Subscribe
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Penzler, Otto Collection 2019-02
Winnie-the-Pooh 1926 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-01
Lorna Doone 1869 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-02
The Time Machine 1895 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-02
Alphabetum Graecum 1543 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-02
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica 1687 Author Subscribe
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2020-01
Livingstone, David - crayon drawing of Subject Subscribe
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2021-02
Lear, Edward, watercolour by May 1858 Author Subscribe
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2021-02
The Cask 1920 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-02
Die Grundlage der Allgemeinem Relativatstheorie 1916 Author Subscribe
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2020-01
Faulkner Sanctuary 1931 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-02
Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! 1936 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-02
A Description of the East 1743-45 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-02
C.S. Forester African Queen Boston 1935 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-02
Golding Lord of the Flies 1954 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-02
Kerouac On the Road 1957 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-02
Selten, Richard, Nobel Prize for Game Theory medal 1994 Subject Subscribe
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2020-01
Nash, John Forbes Jr, Nobel Prize medal for Game Theory 1994 Subject Subscribe
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2020-01
Lolita Olympia Press 1955 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-02
Ritscher, Deutsche Antarktische Expedition 1938/39, 2 vols 1942 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-03
Faust 1834 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-01
Congreve, Sir William Author Subscribe
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2019-01
Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 1499 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-01
Cavafy, C.P. Author Subscribe
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2019-01
Lunardi, An Account of the First Aerial Voyage 1784 (second edition) Book Title Subscribe
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2021-03
Photo album of the first Delhi Durbar, 1877 Subject Subscribe
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2021-03
Robinson Crusoe 1719-20, 3 vols Book Title Subscribe
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2021-04
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 Book Title Subscribe
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2021-04
Edith Sitwell's address book Subject Subscribe
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2022-01
Cedid Atlas Tercumesi Book Title Subscribe
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2022-01
The Temple of Flora 1812 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-02
The Vale-Royall of England 1656 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-04
Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army 1816 Book Title Subscribe
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2022-01
Clockwork Orange 1962 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-01
On the Origin of Species 1859 Book Title Subscribe
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2022-01
Basilikon Doron 1603 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-04
Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique 1558 Book Title Subscribe
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2019-01
Audubon, John James Author Subscribe
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2019-01
Flaubert, Gustave Author Subscribe
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2019-01