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.

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Title Sales Category Sub Category Sale Price View PDF
Gould The Birds of Australia 1840-69 Book Title Subscribe
to View 		2022-03
Gould The Birds of Australia 1840-69 Subject The suppressed plates 1837-38 Subscribe
to View 		2022-03
Gould, Alfred Author 'The British Angler's Instructor' 1862 Subscribe
to View 		2005-02
Gould, Glenn Author His annotated copy of Bach's Goldberg Variations Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
Gould, Glenn Subject An M4 with Hydra key and the start code Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
Gould, John Book Title Humming-birds [Trochilidae] Subscribe
to View 		2015-03
Gould, John Author A Monograph of the Odontophorinae...1850 Subscribe
to View 		2014-02
Gould, John Author Humming-Birds [Trochilidae] Subscribe
to View 		2014-01
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Europe Subscribe
to View 		2008-01
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Europe Subscribe
to View 		2005-01
Gould, John Book Title Humming-birds [Trochilidae] Subscribe
to View 		1981-01
Gould, John Author Birds of Australia Subscribe
to View 		1977-03
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Europe Subscribe
to View 		1972-04
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Australia,copy from Stoneleigh Abbey Subscribe
to View 		2017-03
Gould, John Book Title Mammals of Australia 1845 Subscribe
to View 		2017-03
Gould, John Author Birds of Great Britain Subscribe
to View 		2017-04
Gould, John Author 'Birds from the Himalaya Mountains' 1831 Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'Birds of Europe' 1837 Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'Ramphastidae or Family of Toucans' 1834 Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'Trogonidae or Family of Trogons' 1838 Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'The Birds of Australia' 1837 in 2 parts Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'Birds of Australia' [1840]-1869, 7 vols with 3 supplements Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'Mammals of Australia' 1863 Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'The Partridges of America' 1850 Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'The Birds of Asia' 1850-83, 7 volumes Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'The Birds of Great Britain' 1873, 5 volumes Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author 'The Birds of New Guinea…' 1875-88, 5 volumes Subscribe
to View 		2018-03
Gould, John Author Humming-birds [Trochilidae] [1849]-1861, 5 volumes Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
Gould, John Author Birds of Great Britain [1862]-1873, 5 volumes Subscribe
to View 		2019-01
Gould, John Author The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes 1862-73, fine set Subscribe
to View 		2020-04
Gould, John Author 1985-03
Gould, John Author A complete set Subscribe
to View 		2008-03
Gould, John Book Title Toucans [Ramphastidae] 1854 Subscribe
to View 		2009-03
Gould, John Book Title A Century of Birds from the Himalayas 1831, with two extra plates and a letter Subscribe
to View 		1999-03
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Asia 1850/83 in parts Subscribe
to View 		1954-01
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Asia Subscribe
to View 		1957-01
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Asia Subscribe
to View 		1966-02
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Asia Subscribe
to View 		1984-02
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Asia Subscribe
to View 		1999-03
Gould, John Book Title Birds of Asia Subscribe
to View 		2004-03
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