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
325	Douglas Bennett	Irish Georgian Silver			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 137.50
326		Scottish Interest: Charters of the Abbey of Crosraguel Vol 1-2, 1886			EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
327		Irish Archaeological Society: The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society		1846	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
328	Sir John Dalrymple	Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland from the dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II until the Sea-battle off La Hogue		1771	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
329		The London Gazette: Scrap book of Newspaper Articles and Letters concerning Ireland			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
330	George Semple	A Treatise on Building in Water: In Two Parts		1780	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 475.00
331		A View of the Legal Institutions, Honorary Hereditary Offices and Feudal Baronies, established in Ireland during the Reign of Henry the Second	London	1830	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 56.25
332	Nichols, J. G. (Ed.)	A History of Clan Campbell - Three Volumes Campbell of Aird, Alastair, 2000-2004		1846-1858	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 200.00
333	Fraser Sir, William	The Dukes Of Albany And Their Castle Of Doune (1881)			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
334		Guilielmi Herberti Equitis Aurati Croftus Sive De Hibernia Liber	Powis Castle, Wales	1887	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
335		The Irish Rebellion : History of Attempts of Irish Papists to Extirpate the Protestants in the Kingdom of Ireland the Barbarous Cruelities and Bloody Massacres	London	1812	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
336		Registrum prioratus omnium sanctorum juxta Dublin / edited from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College	Dublin	1845	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
337	Joseph Gabbett	A Digested Abridgment and Comparative View of the Statute law of England and Ireland to the Year 1811		1812	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
338	edited by L Bieler	Irish Interest: The Patrician Texts in the Book of Armagh		1979	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 137.50
339	BOWER, Walter	Scotichronicon		1993-1998	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
340		A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock	Edinburgh	1848	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
341		Opera Quae Exstant [= The Works Which Remain] Taciti, C. Cornelii [= Tacitus]	Batavorum	1721	EUR 400.00 - 800.00	EUR 37.50
342	Knox, John	THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF RELIGION WITHIN THE REALM OF SCOTLAND	Glasgow	1761	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 100.00
343	D. Philippo O'Sullevano Bearro	O'Sullivan Beare Historiae Catholicae Iberniae Compendium	Dublin	1850	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
344		The Cambridge History of Ireland			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 212.50
345	George Westropp	The Westropp Family 1250-2000			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 106.25
346		The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine	Dublin	1794	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 62.50
347		The History of Ireland, from its Union with Great Britain, in January 1801, to October 1810	Dublin	1811	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 62.50
348		The Social State of the Southern and Eastern Counties of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century: being the Presentments of the Gentlemen, Commonality, and Citizens of Carlow, Cork, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, and Wexford	London	1870	EUR 100.00 - 180.00	EUR 275.00
349	A. T. Lucas	Furze: a survey and history of its uses in Ireland		1960	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25

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.