Purcell Auctioneers: Auction, Comprising a Portion of the Library of the Late Kenneth Nicholls (Historian and Irish Academic at UCC) From Templemartin, Co. Cork) and Other Clients, 100825, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025

Page Size: 578 items in 24 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
226		Irish Coffee Table Books: Cistercian Abbeys		2002	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
227	Barker, B. A.	The Art of Frank O. Salisbury with a Descriptive Letterpress		1936	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
227A	Henry Sharpe	Michael Kane HIS LIFE AND ART	Dublin	1983	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
228	G. E. Pearse	Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
229		Art and Architecture of Ireland		2014	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
230	Tomas O Carragain	Churches in Early Medieval Ireland. Architecture, Ritual and Memory		2010	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 162.50
231	E Charles Nelson	Wendy Walsh : A Lifetime of Painting Nick Wilkinson	London	2007	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 50.00
232		Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum British Museum		1802	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
233	John McCourt	Irish Coffee Table Books: James Joyce A Passionate Exile			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
234		Irish Coffee Table Books: Abondoned Mansions in Ireland	Tarquin Blake	2010	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
235	edited by Crowley/O Driscoll and Murphy	Irish Coffee Table Books: A collection of 8 titles such as Atlas of the Irish Revolution		2017	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
236	Edited by Bulmer Hobson	The Gate Theatre - Dublin	Dublin		EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 200.00
237		The Moderns. The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s		2011	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 100.00
238		William Orpen: An Onlooker in France		1996	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
239		Large Collection of Various Antique & Vintage Prints and Watercolours etc.			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
240	Senchas Mar.	Facsimile of the Oldest Fragments in the Library of Trinity College with Descriptive			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 175.00
241	Deborah Lambkin	The Virtues of Herbs of Master Jon Gardener E. Charles Nelson		2002	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
242		The Book Of Lecan		1939	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 200.00
243		Fine two-sheet map of Ireland		1665 and 1690	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 237.50
244		A Plan for continuing New Kay of Limerick to point of Abby on North Side of the River and on South Side from the Lock to Mardike		[1764]	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 350.00
245		Cork: Map of the Spanish army under Don Juan del Aguila besieging Kinsale which feature historical illustrations of the 1601 Battle of Kinsale in County Cork, Ireland			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 475.00
246		The Spanish Netherlands commonly called Flanders Senex, John	London	1719	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
247	Willem and Joan Blaeu	Map of Ireland		1662	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 250.00
248	Harper Lee	Go Set A Watchman	London	2015	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
249	edited by W.B. Yeats	A Broadside Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats		1937	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.