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 Subject Amerbach 1481 Subscribe
to View 		2012-01
Bibles Subject Cambridge 1762, extra-illustrated Subscribe
to View 		2008-03
Bibles Subject Aitken bible 1782, the Park Copy Subscribe
to View 		2009-01
Bibles Subject 'Mole' edition of Tyndale's New Testament, 1536 Subscribe
to View 		2012-01
Bibles Book Title He Subscribe
to View 		2009-03
Bibles Book Title Erasmus's Greek New Testament 1516 Subscribe
to View 		2010-01
Bibles Subject Oxford c.1250 Subscribe
to View 		2010-03
Bibles Book Title Estienne 1544/46 in Hebrew Subscribe
to View 		2011-01
Bibles Subject Italian, c.1250, signed by the scribe Subscribe
to View 		2011-03
Bibles Subject Lyons 1497 Subscribe
to View 		2013-01
Bibles Book Title A Gutenberg leaf Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Bibles Subject Sorg, 1477, the seventh German bible Subscribe
to View 		2012-04
Bibles Subject Estienne 1544/46 in Hebrew Subscribe
to View 		2013-02
Bibles Subject Trussel Bible, 13th century Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Bibles Subject German, the seventh bible 1477 Subscribe
to View 		2013-01
Bibles Subject B36, two vellum fragments, 9000 and - Subscribe
to View 		2013-01
Bibles Book Title Bologna, 13th-century Subscribe
to View 		2013-03
Bibles Subject Plantin Polyglot 1569-72 Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Bibles Book Title Renner, 1476 Subscribe
to View 		2013-03
Bibles Subject Paris, 13th-century Subscribe
to View 		2013-03
Bibles Book Title Paris, 13th-century Subscribe
to View 		2013-03
Bibles Book Title Estienne 1528 folio Subscribe
to View 		2013-03
Bibles Book Title Mainz 1534 Subscribe
to View 		2013-04
Bibles Book Title Lyons 1542 Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
Bibles Subject 42-line, a bifolium Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
Bibles Subject De Colines, 13 vols in 8, 16mo, 1524-40 Subscribe
to View 		2013-03
Bibles Subject Ephemera and letters, a box Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
Bibles Author The mole edition of Tyndale's NT 1536, 228 of 276 leaves Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
Bibles Book Title Matthew Bible 1549 Subscribe
to View 		2018-04
Bibles Book Title Wicked Bible 1631 Subscribe
to View 		2018-04
Bibles Book Title Oxford 1769 'standard', the Wardington copy Subscribe
to View 		2018-04
Bibles Book Title Doves Press Subscribe
to View 		2014-04
Bibles Subject Philadelphia [1782] 1781, 2 volumes in 1 Subscribe
to View 		2018-04
Bibles Book Title Statham's Abridgement c.1489 Subscribe
to View 		2014-02
Bibles Subject Geneva, 1560, lacking the title and map of Exodus Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
Bibles Subject Authorised Version 1613 Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
Bibles Book Title The Chatsworth Eliot Bible 1663 Subscribe
to View 		2014-01
Bibles Subject Baskett Subscribe
to View 		2006-03
Bibles Book Title Psalter in Church Slavonic Subscribe
to View 		1998-03
Bibles Book Title The second Slavonic bible, 1663 Subscribe
to View 		1994-03
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