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
A Book of Nonsense Book Title A rare early version with typeset text Subscribe
to View 		1970-02
A Book of Nonsense ?1846 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1971-03
A Book of Nonsense ?1861 Book Title Manuscript Subscribe
to View 		1986-03
A Book of Nonsense ?1861 Book Title 'The pre-publication manuscript' Subscribe
to View 		1986-03
A Book of the Ancient Constitutions of...Accepted Masons 1729 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1991-03
A Booke of Angling 1606 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2006-03
A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line 1590 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2012-03
A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line 1590 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1969-01
A Booke of Phizicke Sirgery Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
A Boy's Will 1913 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2002-01
A Boy's Will 1913 Book Title Presentation copy Subscribe
to View 		1968-04
A Boy's Will 1913 Book Title Inscribed Subscribe
to View 		1963-03
A Brief Account of Microscopal Observations 1828 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1999-01
A Brief Account of Microscopal Observations 1828 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2001-02
A Brief Description of New York 1670 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1987-03
A Brief Description of New York 1670 Book Title Bound with others Subscribe
to View 		2008-02
A Brief Exposition of the Whole Book of Canticles 1648 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2007-01
A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal...1736 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2005-03
A Brief Treatise of Plaine Waies...1582 Book Title 'Antwerp' [but London] Subscribe
to View 		2015-02
A Briefe Collection...out of the Cosmographie 1581 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2010-01
A Briefe Description of Universal Mappes and Cardes 1589 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2007-03
A Briefe Relation...in the Kingdome of Japonia 1619 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2008-02
A Bugaboo!! Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2010-02
A Burnt-Out Case 1960 Book Title The holograph Subscribe
to View 		1964-03
A Calculation Shewing the Result of an Experiment...1762 Book Title Folio broadside Subscribe
to View 		2012-02
A Caribbean Mystery 1964 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2015-03
A Carol and Other Rhymes 1916 Book Title With Evelyn Waugh's inscription, 1921 Subscribe
to View 		2016-03
A Catalogue of English Printers 1740 Book Title Two copies for - Subscribe
to View 		1970-02
A Catalogue of the Antiquities, Houses, Parks, Plantations...1773 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2009-02
A Catalogue of the Antiquities, Houses, Parks...in England and Wales 1773 Book Title 'Long a celebrated rarity' Subscribe
to View 		2015-01
A Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law Books of the Realm 1671 Book Title The earliest bibliography of law books Subscribe
to View 		2002-01
A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth Collected...Captain Cook 1787 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2006-03
A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth Collected...Captain Cook 1787 Book Title With 56 'tapa' specimens Subscribe
to View 		2014-02
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors 1759 Book Title Walpole's expanded copy Subscribe
to View 		2005-02
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors 1759 Book Title Dr Johnson's copy Subscribe
to View 		1992-03
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors 1806 Book Title Walpole's own copy, heavily annotated Subscribe
to View 		1972-01
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors 1806 Book Title With others Subscribe
to View 		2010-01
A Century of Birds from the Himalayan Mountains 1831 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2022-03
A Century of Birds from the Himalayan Mountains 1832 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2022-03
A Century of Orchidaceous Plants 1849 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
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