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
Bibles Book Title Authorised Version 1611 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Coverdale 1535, 'ten leaves in facsimile' Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Luther 1535, on vellum, coloured Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title 36-line, fragments of Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Wycliffe, ex-Peckover collection Subscribe
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Bibles Collection Charles Ryrie's collection 2017-01
Bibles Book Title Spanish, 1569, annotated Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title The Clumber (1395); sold later 2017-01
Bibles Book Title A Gutenberg leaf Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Vulgate, with Estienne's notes Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Geneva 1560, with psalms, 1612 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title A Noble Fragment Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title A Noble Fragment Subscribe
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Bibles Subject Servetus 1542 Subscribe
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Bibles Subject Tyndale's New Testament 1534 Subscribe
to View 		2014-01
Bibles Book Title Baskett 1717, 2 volumes, 'spectacularly gilt' Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Oxford 1769 folio, one of twenty survivors Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Baskerville 1763 folio Subscribe
to View 		2006-03
Bibles Book Title Cambridge 1638 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title The N.T. with the portrait of Edward VI ?1553 but not issued until 1561 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title 1862 facsimile of Tyndale Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Great 1539 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Tyndale's 1536 New Testament Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Schöffer 1472 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Koberger 1478 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Massachusetts Psalter 1709 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Basque version in manuscript, Macclesfield sale, c.1700 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Moscow Russian Psalter 1680, Macclesfield copy Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Icelandic 1644, Macclesfield copy Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Irish bible 1685 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Koberger 1483, ex-Harvard Library, bought in 2017-03
Bibles Book Title Geneva 1611 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Paris 1500 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title 1st edition in Low German, c.1478 Subscribe
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Bibles Subject The Burrus Mentelin 1460, Vol. 1 Subscribe
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Bibles Book Title Bug 1549, incomplete Subscribe
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Bibles Subject Renner 1480 Subscribe
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Bibles Subject Froschauer Bible 1543 Subscribe
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Bibles Subject Baskerville Subscribe
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Bibles Subject Matthew 1551, last of the 4 editions and 'noticeably less common': 'seriously imperfect' Subscribe
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