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
375	Young, Eugene	Dog And Gun	Waterford	1824	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 375.00
376	Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph	The Fowler In Ireland or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl And Seafowl including Instrructions in the Art of Shooting and Capturing them	London	1882	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
377		Liber cartarum Sancte Crucis		1840	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
378	Liber S.	Marie De Dryburgh: Registrum Cartarum Abbacie Premonstratensis De Dryburgh Spottiswoode	Edinburgh	1847	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
379	Edited by RHYS, John and J. Gwenogvryn EVANS	The Text of the Mabinogion And Other Welsh Tale and the Text of The Brutes From the Red Book of Hergest	Oxford	1887	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 93.75
380	Douglas Bennett	Irish Silver: Irish Georgian Silver		1972	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 118.75
381	M. J. Prevost	L'Irlande		1845	EUR 180.00 - 220.00	EUR 162.50
382	Smith, George	The Cabinet-Maker And Upholsterer's Guide: Being A Complete Drawing Book	London	1826	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
383		The Letters of Ernest Hemingway			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
384	Lawrence, T. E.	Seven Pillars Of Wisdom			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
385	Poynder, McIhael; Poynder, Michael; Trevelyan, George	Pi in the Sky: A Revelation of the Ancient Celtic Wisdom Tradition		1998	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
386	Moore, Thomas	Utopia	London	1903	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
387	A.T. Quiller- Couch	The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales			EUR 220.00 - 280.00	Not Sold
388	edited by Etienne Rynne	Irish Interest: North Munster Studies		1967	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
389	John Feehan	Farming in Ireland. History, Heritage and Environment		2003	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
390	Neal Garnham	Irish Interest: The Courts, Crime and the Criminal Law in Ireland 1692-1760		1996	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 118.75
391		The Works of Spencer, Campion, Hanmer and Marlebvrrovh Vol 1-2		1809	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
392	edited by James Carey	Irish Interest: A Genealogical History of the O'Reillys		1959	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 200.00
393		The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
393A		Gold-Tooled Bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century by McDonnell and Healy		1987	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
394	Mary Cahill & Maeve Sikora editors	Breaking Ground, Finding Graves, reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
395	Samuel Lewis	Atlas Comprising the Counties of Ireland and a General Map of the Kingdom		1995	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
396	Samuel Lewis	A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes, and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions		1995	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 87.50
397		Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis		1837	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
398		A System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical: With the True Art of Blazon (facsimile) Nisbet, Alexander	Edinburgh	1984	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold

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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.