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
549	Martin Latham	Collection of titles such as The Bookseler's Tale		2020	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
550		Golf: An extensive collection of Golf related			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
551		(Crime and Historical fiction Interest)			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 81.25
552		A wonderful collection of Eavan Boland related			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 500.00
553		Irish Republicanism: A collection in relation to the 'Troubles' in the North to include Gerry Adams, John Hume and others			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
554		Galway and the west of Ireland			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
555		Irish music interest			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
556		Limerick interest. History of St. Patrick's Paresh			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 93.75
557	Peter Somerville-Large	Irish Interest(Mainly): The Grand Irish Tour		1982	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
558		Collection of Music and Drama Titles: Such as Abbeyonehundred		2007	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
559		Cork Interest: Purcell's Cork Almanac- City, County and Trade Directories for the Years 1924/26/28/29/30/31/32/33			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 187.50
560	Michael Comyns	Poetry: An extensive collection of poetry titles such as Down Loading			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 150.00
561		Poetry: An extensive collection of poetry titles such as Thomas Kinsella The Peppercanister Poems			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 137.50
562		Poetry: An extensive collection of poetry titles such as Tight Rope			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00
563	Gogarty	Collection of Fine Bindings and Others - As I Was Going Down Sackville Street			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
564		Good Box of Fine Bindings - Moore's Life Of Sheridan			EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 75.00
565		Eclectic Box of Irish ephemera, journals and magazine	Dublin	1932	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 125.00
566		Uncorrected Proofs: An early collection of Uncorrected proofs			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
570		Irish/World Interest: Molua- Organ of the Association of S Gregory			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
571		2 Boxes. Over 60 Children's books in hardcover and softcover			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
572		Irish interest. Great selection of circa 60 Books			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
573		Donegal: An extensive collection of Donegal interest books such as 14 Patrick MacGill books			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 118.75
574		Irish language and Irish history interest			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
575		Over 60 first edition books in hardcover and softcover			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 87.50
580		The Irish Sword			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 150.00

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.