Provenance ledger

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Sources, lots, hammer prices and the chain of ownership for each volume.

Filtered total

$22.24M

Entries

15

Years

7

IN

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton · First edition, second issue

AuctionSotheby's London
Lot 33May 9, 2024

£540,000

GBP

Ad

Le Petit Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · First edition, New York

AuctionDrouot — Aristophil dispersal
Vente 13, Lot 76Feb 28, 2024

€28,000

EUR

CB

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire · First edition, with the six condemned poems

AuctionPierre Bergé Auction, Paris
Lot 124Jan 8, 2024

€92,000

EUR

GG

Sidereus Nuncius

Galileo Galilei · First edition, Venice

AuctionChristie's New York
Continental Books, Lot 47Nov 2, 2023

$412,000

USD

AS

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith · First edition, two volumes, London

AuctionForum Auctions, London
Lot 89Jun 22, 2023

£320,000

GBP

JM

Paradise Lost

John Milton · First edition, first issue (with first title-page)

AuctionBonhams London
Sale 28447, Lot 18Feb 12, 2023

£215,000

GBP

CD

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin · First edition, first issue

Private saleQuaritch, London
Oct 30, 2022

£175,000

GBP

AV

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Andreas Vesalius · First edition, Basel

EstateEstate of Dr. M. Lavoisier
Jun 14, 2022

€285,000

EUR

Av

Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland

Alexander von Humboldt · First Paris edition, large paper

AuctionTajan, Paris
Lot 251Mar 9, 2022

€88,000

EUR

JJ

Ulysses

James Joyce · First edition, number 87 of 100 on Dutch handmade paper, signed

AuctionHeritage Auctions Dallas
Lot 1138Aug 4, 2021

$165,000

USD

BB

Hortus Eystettensis

Basilius Besler · First edition, Eichstätt

Private salePrivate collection, Munich
Mar 18, 2021

€198,000

EUR

Md

Don Quijote de la Mancha (Part I)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · First edition, Madrid (Cuesta)

AuctionHeritage Auctions Dallas
Lot 412Sep 21, 2020

$1,200,000

USD

GB

Décaméron

Giovanni Boccaccio · Venetian incunable

DealerCasa Esperança, Lisbon
Jul 7, 2020

€320,000

EUR

JJ

The Birds of America (Folio)

John James Audubon · Double-elephant folio, plates from the Havell edition

Private salePrivate treaty (via Quaritch)
Apr 17, 2019

$9,800,000

USD

WS

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies

William Shakespeare · First Folio

AuctionChristie's New York
Lot 67Dec 4, 2018

$8,400,000

USD