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
The Sceptical Chymist 1661 Book Title Evelyn's copy Subscribe
to View 		1977-03
The Sceptical Chymist 1661 Book Title Honeyman copy Subscribe
to View 		1979-02
The Sceptical Chymist 1661 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1998-03
The Sceptical Chymist 1661 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1999-01
The Sceptical Chymist 1661 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2015-02
The Scholemaster 1570 Book Title 'Fine and unpressed' in vellum Subscribe
to View 		1973-01
The Scholemaster 1570 Book Title 'Seemingly bought in at £85' 1976-02
The School for Scandal Book Title Manuscript c. 1780s Subscribe
to View 		2017-04
The School for Scandal 1780 Book Title Dublin edition, 'now accepted as the first' Subscribe
to View 		1954-03
The Schoole of Fair Writing 1591 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2006-01
The Schoole of Horsemanship 1581 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2013-01
The Sculptor Caught Napping c. 1850 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1969-02
The Sea-Atlas c. 1675 [Doncker] Book Title Wardington copy Subscribe
to View 		2006-01
The Sea-Man's Dictionary Book Title Manuscript Subscribe
to View 		1992-03
The Sea-Man's Practice 1637 Book Title In a volume of pamphlets 1955-01
The Sea-Man's Practice 1637 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2008-01
The Seaman's Grammar 1699 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2008-01
The Seaman's Secrets 1626 Book Title Among 6 17th-century pamphlets on navigation, total price - Subscribe
to View 		1955-01
The Search after Claret 1691 Book Title 'With its three sequels', each of them - Subscribe
to View 		1976-02
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry 1779 Book Title Doheny, Part IV Subscribe
to View 		1989-01
The Second Tour of Dr Syntax 1820 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2016-01
The Second World War 1948/53 Book Title Over 400 corrected page-proofs Subscribe
to View 		2015-03
The Secret Agent 1907 Book Title Signed to Elsie Hueffer Subscribe
to View 		1981-02
The Secret Agent 1907 Book Title Inscribed Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
The Secret History of the Free-Masons 1724 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1991-03
The Secrets of Angling 1652 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2012-03
The Seraphim 1838 Book Title Presentation copy Subscribe
to View 		1976-03
The Seraphim and Other Poems 1838 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2011-02
The Seven Deadly Sins 1558 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2014-02
The Shephearde's Calendar 1579 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1980-03
The Shephearde's Calendar 1581 Book Title 2nd edition Subscribe
to View 		1980-03
The Shepheardes Calendar 1579 Book Title ?'the only copy known in private hands' Subscribe
to View 		1990-01
The Shepherd's Calendar [1827] Book Title Inscribed to Derwent Coleridge Subscribe
to View 		2018-01
The Shepherd's Week 1714 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1984-03
The Shipwreck of the Antelope...on the Pelew Islands 1788 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1953-02
The Shunned House 1928 Book Title 'Unbound and unopened' Subscribe
to View 		2005-03
The Sign of Four 1890 Book Title Autograph manuscript Subscribe
to View 		1974-02
The Silurian System 1839 Book Title With 'Synopsis of the Silurian Fossils of Ireland' 1846 Subscribe
to View 		2008-01
The Sin and Danger of Self-love...1621 Book Title Second edition Subscribe
to View 		2019-02
The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield [1964] Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
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