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.

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An asterisk (*) against an entry indicates that issue of The Book Collector is no longer available in print.


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Galileo, Galilei Book Title Dialogo 1632 Subscribe
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2007-03
Galileo, Galilei Book Title Discorsi 1638 Subscribe
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1966-02
Galileo, Galilei Book Title Discorsi 1638 Subscribe
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1984-03
Galileo, Galilei Book Title Discorsi 1638 Subscribe
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2004-03
Galileo, Galilei Book Title Opere 1656/58, Adam Smith's copy Subscribe
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1976-01
Galileo, Galilei Author Sidereus Nuncius, price not shown 2016-04
Galileo, Galilei Author Dialogo 1632 Subscribe
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2015-01
Galileo, Galilei Author Dialogo 1632 Subscribe
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2013-01
Galileo, Galilei Book Title Istoria..solari 1613 Subscribe
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2013-01
Galileo, Galilei Book Title Discorse delle Comete 1619 Subscribe
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2013-01
Galileo, Galilei Author Dialogo 1632 Subscribe
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2011-01
Galileo, Galilei Author Discorsi 1638, uncut Subscribe
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2008-03
Galileo, Galilei Book Title Dialogo 1632 Subscribe
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2008-03
Galileo, Galilei Author 'Dialogo' 1632 Subscribe
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2006-03
Galileo, Galilei Author 'Discorsi' 1638 Subscribe
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1966-02
Galileo, Galilei Author Letter about publishing 'Discorsi' Subscribe
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1966-01
Galileo, Galilei Author 'Le Operazioni del Compasso' 1606 Subscribe
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2018-04
Galileo, Galilei Author 'Le Operazioni del Compasso' 1606 Subscribe
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2008-03
Galileo, Galilei Author 'Sidereus Nuncius' 1610 Subscribe
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2008-03
Galileo, Galilei Author 'Difesa...' 1607 Subscribe
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2008-03
Galileo, Galilei Author 'Discorsi delle Comete' 1619 Subscribe
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2008-03
Gallery of Fashion 1794/1803 Book Title 7 volumes only, out of 9 Subscribe
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1955-01
Gallery of Fashion 1794/1803 Book Title Subscribe
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1974-04
Gallesio, Giorgio Author 'Pomona Italiana' 1817 Subscribe
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1967-01
Gallesio, Giorgio Author 'Pomona Italiana' 1817, bought in at £13,000 1983-03
Gallesio, Giorgio Author 'Pomona Italiana' 1817 Subscribe
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1988-02
Galsworthy, John Author 'First editions being sold at less than £1 each' 1965-01
Galsworthy, John Author Galsworthy's copies of Conrad's novels 2013-03
Galton, Samuel Author 'The Natural History of Birds for Children' Subscribe
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1967-02
Galvani, Luigi Author 'De Viribus Electricitatis' 1792 Subscribe
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1956-03
Galvani, Luigi Author 'De Viribus Electricitatis' 1792 Subscribe
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1980-01
Galvani, Luigi Author 'Commentarii' 1748-91 Subscribe
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1982-01
Galvão, Antonio Author 'Discoveries of the World to...1553' 1601 Subscribe
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1954-01
Galvão, Antonio Author 'Discoveries of the World to...1553' 1601, 'a notorious rarity' Subscribe
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2007-03
Gamble, Dr. John Author 'Sketches of History' 1811, with notes by ?Beckford Subscribe
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2015-02
Gamelin, Jacques Author 'Nouveau Recueil d'Osteologie...' 1779: 'one of the masterpieces of the macabre' Subscribe
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1969-03
Gandhi and Mountbatten Subject Photograph, 1 April 1947, signed by both Subscribe
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2020-01
Gandhi, Mahatma Book Title A single framed letter Subscribe
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1988-03
Gandhi, Mahatma Author 260 letters to Herman Kallenbach Subscribe
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1987-01
Gandhi, Mahatma Author Eighty letters to Henry Polak Subscribe
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1988-03