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
300	Kilkenny Castle	Index to Volumes I & of the Report of Sir John T Gilbert on the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde		1909	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
301		Wild Geese in Spanish Flanders 1582-1700	Dublin		EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 300.00
302	O ' Donovan, John (ed.)	Miscellany of the Celtic Society	Dublin	1849	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 150.00
303	Beloe (William)	The History of Herodotus	London	1791	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 68.75
304		The Post Chaise Companion: or Traveller's Directory Through Ireland		1803	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
305		A collection of debates in the House of Commons, in the year 1680		1725	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
306		A MEMORIAL, OFFERED TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS SOPHIA BURNET	Gilbert	1815	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
307		The Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs	Dublin	1815	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
308		The State of the Protestants of Ireland Under the late King James's Government King, William	Dublin	1730	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 62.50
309		A Roll Of the Proceedings of the King's Council in Ireland		1877	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
310	Thomas Bourke	Hibernia Dominicana. Sive Historia Provinciae Hiberniae Ordinis Praedicatorum		1762	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
311		Monasticon Anglicanum or the History of the Ancient Abbies and other Monasteries... in England and Wales	Keble London	1693	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
312	Hill, John	A Review Of The Works Of The Royal Society Of London	London	1751	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 100.00
313		The Black Book Of Taymouth With Other Papers From The Breadalbane Charter Room		1986	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
314		Vitae Dunkeldensis Ecclesiae Episcoporum by Alexander Myln	Impressum Edinburgi	1823	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
315	Jamieson, John	An Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona, and of Their Settlements in Scotland, England, and Ireland	Edinburgh	1811	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
316	BURN, Richard	Ecclesiastical Law	London	1763	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
317		The Bank of Ireland 1783-1946	F.G Hall	1969	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
318	Martan Mac Devitt	Irish Banknotes: Irish Government Paper Money from 1926	Whytes of Dublin	1999	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
319	Henry NOEL-FEARN (Henry Christmas)	The Money Market: what it is, what it does, and how it is managed	London	1866	EUR 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
320		The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer Richard I Burn L L		1764	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
321	edited by Henry Berry	Statutes and Ordinances and Acts of Parliament of Ireland King John to Henry V	Dublin	1907	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
322		Ireland in the nineteenth century: A breviate of official		1979	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
323		Origines Parochiales Scotiae the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the Parishes of Scotland	Edinburgh	1851	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
324		Registrum episcopatus Glasguensis: Munimenta ecclesie metropolitane Glasguensis, a sede restaurata seculo ineuente XII., ad reformatam religionem	Edinburgh	1843	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold

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.
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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.