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
'Gone with the Wind' 1936 Signed by the author Subscribe
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2020-03
Austen, Jane 'Emma' 1816, lacking two half-titles Subscribe
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2018-04
Turing, Alan 'On Computable Numbers' 1936 Subscribe
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2018-04
Historia Real Sagrada, Luz de Principes 1643 First book printed in Puebla Subscribe
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1971-03
The Miscellanies of Politian 1489 Subscribe
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2012-04
Austen, Jane 'Northanger Abbey' and 'Persuasion' 1817, defective Subscribe
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2006-04
Yeats, W.B. 'The Winding Stair' 1933, mint Subscribe
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2019-01
Nostradamus, Michel de, Author 'Les Propheties' 1568 Subscribe
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2012-02
Offenbach, Jacques Author His copy of Berlioz 'Mémoires' 1870 Subscribe
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2012-04
Offenbach, Jacques Author Score for 'Robinson Crusoe' Subscribe
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1982-01
Oersted, Hans Author 'Experimenta' 1820 Subscribe
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2001-02
Oersted, Hans Author 'Experimenta' 1820 Subscribe
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1999-01
Odoevtseva, Irina Author 'Kontrapunkt' 1951 Subscribe
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2014-01
Odell, Noel Author Everest photographs Subscribe
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1999-03
Ockham, William Author 'Summule' 1502 Subscribe
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2012-03
Ockham, William Author 'Dialogus' Lyons 1495 Subscribe
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1986-03
Oakeley, Richard Banner Author 'The Pagoda of Hallibeed' 1859 Subscribe
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2006-04
O'Keeffe, Georgia Author 24 letters to Edith Asbury Subscribe
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2010-01
O'Connor, Fergus Author 25 letters about the Chartists Subscribe
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1967-03
O'Casey, Sean Author 'The Plough and the Stars', the manuscript Subscribe
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1988-03
O'Casey, Sean Author 'Juno and the Paycock' the manuscript Subscribe
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1987-01
O'Casey, Sean Author 'The Drums of Father Ned', revised typescript Subscribe
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1982-03
O'Brian, Patrick Author A complete set of Maturins Subscribe
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2000-01
Núñez, Pedro Author 'Tratado da Sphera' 1537 Subscribe
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1967-01
Novelli, Pietro Author Venetian animal drawings Subscribe
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2002-03
Novalis Author 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen' 1802 Subscribe
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2014-03
Nightingale, Florence Author 'Voluminous correspondence' Subscribe
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1976-03
Newton, Sir Isaac Author Eleven 'early lines' Subscribe
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2015-04
Newton, Sir Isaac Author Notes on Transmutation and Theology Subscribe
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2005-01
Newton, Sir Isaac Author Notes on Chemistry and Alchemy, four lots for - Subscribe
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2005-01
Newton, John Author 2004-04
Nicholson, William Author 'Clever Bill' 1926, presentation copy Subscribe
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2006-03
Nielsen, Kay Author 'Hansel and Gretel' artwork Subscribe
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2013-01
Nielsen, Kay Author 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' 1914 Subscribe
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2016-01
Nieremberg, Juan Author 'Historia Naturae' 1635 Subscribe
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2015-01
Nietzsche, Friedrich Author 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' 1883 Subscribe
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1990-01
Nieuhoff, Johann Author 'An Embassy from the East India Company...' 1673 Subscribe
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2007-02
Nightingale, Florence Author A 'mass' of letters Subscribe
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1969-04
Noris, Matteo Author 'Il Greco in Troia' 1688 with 'unrecorded plates' Subscribe
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1998-03
Nola, Leo de Author 'Opuscula Distinctum' 1514 Subscribe
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1968-04