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

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Auction Report
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
449 David R Clarke

Irish Literature: WB Yeats and the Theatre of Desolate Reality

1965 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
450 Roddy Doyle

Irish Literature: The Van

1991 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
451

John B. Keane

1964 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 175.00
452 John B. Keane

Love Bites and other stories

1991 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 125.00
453 John B. Keane

Many Young Men of Twenty

1961 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 100.00
454 John B. Keane

Big Maggie

1969 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 87.50
455 John B. Keane

The Crazy Wall

1974 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 93.75
456 John B Keane

Long Playing Record: Sive- a play

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
457

Long Playing Records: An Evening with Gogarty- The Prince of Wits

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
458

Long Playing Records, James N Healy

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
459

Harry Potter: Six American

1999 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 137.50
460

Set of 5 Harry Potter hardcover collectors Deluxe first editions consisting of: (1) Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

-1999 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 400.00
461 John McGahern

That They May Face The Rising Sun

2002 EUR 140.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
462

John McGahern Memoir

2005 EUR 140.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
463 John McGahern

The Pornographer

1979 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 137.50
464 John McGahern

The Dark

1965 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
465

John McGahern: The Pornographer

London 1979 EUR 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
466

John McGahern: Memoir

2005 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
467 Colm Toibin

Irish Interest: A Guest at the Feast

2022 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
468 Lord Dunsany

The Tents of the Arabs

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
469 Lord Dunsany

If - A Play in Four Acts

1921 EUR 60.00 - 90.00 EUR 62.50
470 Lord Dunsany

Unhappy Far-Off Things

1919 EUR 60.00 - 90.00 EUR 62.50
471

Ted Hughes; Crow

1970 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
472 Lennox Robinson

A Little Anthology of Modern Irish Verse

1927 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 68.75
473 W.B. Yeats

POEMS

1920 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.