Provenance ledger
Every transaction, line by line
Sources, lots, hammer prices and the chain of ownership for each volume.
Filtered total
$22.24M
Entries
15
Years
7
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton · First edition, second issue
£540,000
GBP
Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · First edition, New York
€28,000
EUR
Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire · First edition, with the six condemned poems
€92,000
EUR
Sidereus Nuncius
Galileo Galilei · First edition, Venice
$412,000
USD
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · First edition, two volumes, London
£320,000
GBP
Paradise Lost
John Milton · First edition, first issue (with first title-page)
£215,000
GBP
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · First edition, first issue
£175,000
GBP
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Andreas Vesalius · First edition, Basel
€285,000
EUR
Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland
Alexander von Humboldt · First Paris edition, large paper
€88,000
EUR
Ulysses
James Joyce · First edition, number 87 of 100 on Dutch handmade paper, signed
$165,000
USD
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · First edition, Eichstätt
€198,000
EUR
Don Quijote de la Mancha (Part I)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · First edition, Madrid (Cuesta)
$1,200,000
USD
Décaméron
Giovanni Boccaccio · Venetian incunable
€320,000
EUR
The Birds of America (Folio)
John James Audubon · Double-elephant folio, plates from the Havell edition
$9,800,000
USD
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
William Shakespeare · First Folio
$8,400,000
USD