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
176	Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett	The Comic History Of England		1847	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
177		Castles Of Athlin and Dunbayne, A Highland Story	Dublin	1794	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 75.00
178		De L'Allemagne Par mme La Baronne De Stael Holstein	Paris; London	1813	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
179	John Cornelius	History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France from the Revolution in Great Britain and Ireland Under James II, to the Revolution in France Under Louis XVI O"CALLAGHAN	London, New York, Sydney	1870	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 137.50
180	Clanricarde	Memoirs of the Rt. Honourable The Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Deputy General of Ireland	Lond.	1722	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 212.50
181		History of the Scottish Church Stephen, W. (William), rector of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church	Edinburgh	1894-96	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
182	edited by Brendan Jennings	Irish Interest: Wadding Papers 1614-38		1953	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 187.50
183	edited by John Francis O'Doherty	De Praesulibus Hiberniae Vol 1 Provinces of Armagh and Dublin		1944	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
184	Smollet, Tobias	The Adventures Of Gil Blas Of Santillane	Dublin	1785	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
185	Lenox-Conyngham, Mrs. George	The Dream And Other Poems	London	1883	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 212.50
186		The Voyage Of Commodore Anson Round The World	Dublin	1825	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
187	edited by Y M Goblet	Irish Interest: A Topographical Index of the Parishes and Townlands of Ireland in Sir William Petty's		1932	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
188	Hutcheson, Gilbert	Treatise on the Offices of Justice of Peace	Edinburgh	1809	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
189	Charles Bouteli	Heraldry, Historical and Popular		1864	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
190	Bishop Thomas	The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy, the Fifth Earl of Northumberland at His Castles of Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire	London	1827	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 37.50
191		Irish Interest: Cathal Brugha le Sean Ua Ceallaig i Sceilg		1942	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
192	P.W. Joyce	A Social History of Ancient Ireland			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
193	Ferraris, Lucius	Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica, necnon ascetica, polemica, rubristica, historica &c.	Rom	1757 - 1762	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
194	Mackenzie, George	The Laws And Customes Of Scotland	Edinburgh	1699	EUR 60.00 - 160.00	EUR 37.50
195	Craig, Thomas & James Baillie (D. Thomae Cragii) (Jacobi Baillie)	JUS FEUDALE Tribus Libris Comprehensum Editio Tertia	Edinburgi	1732	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 50.00
196	Fynes Moryson	An Itinerary containing His Ten Years Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmelland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland & Ireland		1617	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 1,125.00
197		The Baronage of England or an Historical Account of the Lives and most memorable Actions of Our English Nobility in Dugdale	London	1675	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 62.50
198		The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England or a Commentary upon Littleton		1719	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
199		Registrum episcopatus Brechinensis ccue accedunt cartae quamplurimae originales		1856	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
200	George Buchanan, Georgii Buchanani	OPERA OMNIA, HISTORICA, CHRONOLOGICA, JURIDICA, &c		1725	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 50.00

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.