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
De Bry, Theodorus Author Four voyages on vellum Subscribe
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De Bry, Theodorus Author A framed 'America' 1596 Subscribe
to View 		2013-04
De Bry, Theodorus Author 'Emblemata Secularia' 1611 Subscribe
to View 		2014-01
De Bry, Theodorus Author 'Petits Voyages' Subscribe
to View 		2014-03
De Bure, Guillaume-François Author 'Bibliographie Instructive' 1763-68 Subscribe
to View 		1972-01
De Bure, Guillaume-François Author 'Bibliographie Instructive' 1763-68, 1782, a 'superb' set Subscribe
to View 		2005-02
De Bure, Guillaume-François Author 'Musaeum Typographicum' 1755 Subscribe
to View 		2005-02
De Caelo et Mundo 1495 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2013-02
De Candolle, Augustin Author 'Plantarum Succulentarum Historia' 1799- [1805] Subscribe
to View 		1975-03
De Canibus Britannicis 1570 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2013-04
De Casibus 1484 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1995-03
De Chirurgia c.1300 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1998-01
De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas 1615 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2016-02
De Civitate Dei Book Title Bought in 2018-02
De Civitate Dei 1468 Book Title Sweynheym and Pannartz, 'finely illuminated first page' Subscribe
to View 		1952-02
De Civitate Dei 1468 Book Title 2nd edition, the Shuckburgh copy Subscribe
to View 		1962-02
De Civitate Dei 1468 Book Title Sweynheym and Pannartz, the Shuckburgh copy Subscribe
to View 		1968-01
De Civitate Dei 1468 Book Title Sweynheym & Pannartz: price not given 2000-03
De Civitate Dei 1470 Book Title The De Spira copy, ('dreadful binding') Subscribe
to View 		1970-04
De Civitate Dei 1470 Book Title Venice, the Chatsworth second copy Subscribe
to View 		1971-01
De Civitate Dei 1470 Book Title Chatsworth copy Subscribe
to View 		1974-03
De Civitate Dei 1470 Book Title Price not given 2002-01
De Civitate Dei 1470 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2012-03
De Civitate Dei 1470 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2017-03
De Civitate Dei 1473 Book Title With presentation inscription from the assassinated Bishop of Liège Subscribe
to View 		1993-03
De Civitate Dei 1473 Book Title Florentine, 'an uncommon text' Subscribe
to View 		1995-03
De Civitate Dei 1473 Book Title With historiated initials Subscribe
to View 		2007-01
De Civitate Dei 1486 Book Title First French edition Subscribe
to View 		1996-01
De Civitate Dei 1490 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2012-02
De Civitate Dei, not after 1468 Book Title Exceptional' copy Subscribe
to View 		2017-03
De Claris Mulieribus 1473 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1955-02
De Claris Mulieribus 1473 Book Title With a Cicero Subscribe
to View 		1983-02
De Claris Mulieribus 1475 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1968-01
De Claris Mulieribus 1475 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		1978-04
De Claris Mulieribus 1487 Book Title Louvain, coloured Subscribe
to View 		2015-02
De Claris Mulieribus 1487 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
De Claris Mulieribus 1494 Book Title First edition in Spanish Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
De Claris Mulieribus 1497 Book Title Ferrara printing, 'rare' Subscribe
to View 		1954-02
De Claris Mulieribus 1497 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2011-03
De Claris Mulieribus 1497 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2013-02
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