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
201		JUS CANONICUM UNIVERSUM clara methodo juxta titulos quinque Librorum Decretalium		1730	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 62.50
202	Sir William Dugdale	Origines juridiciales, or, Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryal, punishment in cases criminal, law-writers, law-books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, innes of court and chancery		1666	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 62.50
203		Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Vol 5 Correspondence relating to the measures adopted by Her Majesty's Government for the relief of distress arising from the failure of the potato crop			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
204	Sell Cotman, John	Engravings Of Sepulchural Brasses In Norfolk And Suffolk	London	1839	EUR 80.00 - 180.00	EUR 100.00
205		Tractatvs De Officio Et Potestate Episcopi Bartholomaei Vgolini Diocesis Ariminensis Ac Barbiani Archipresbyteri: Ecclesiasticis Personis Omnibvs Per Vtilis	Rome	1617	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
206	Collins, Arthur	Letters And Memorials Of State In The Reigns Of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles The First, Part of the Reign of King Charles The Second, and Oliver's Usurption	London	1746	EUR 80.00 - 180.00	EUR 50.00
207	Bullingbrook, Ed.	The Duty And Authority Of Justices Of The Peace And Parish Officers For Ireland...	Dublin	1738	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 50.00
208	N Robbind	An Exact Abridgment of all the Irish Statutes from the First Section of Parliament in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward II to the end of the Eight Year of his Present Majesty King George II	Dublin	1736	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
209	the Right Honourable Edward Earl Of Clarendon	The History Of The Rebellion And Civil Wars In England, Begun in the Year, 1641	Dublin	1719	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 62.50
210	Sir George Radcliffe	The Earl Of Strafforde's (Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland), Letters And Dispathes, with an Essay towards his Life	London	1739	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
211		An Institute of the Law of Scotland, in four books, in the Order os Sir George Mackenzie`s Institutions of that Law	Edinburgh	1812	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
212	Burnet, Gilbert	The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald	London	1677	EUR 60.00 - 160.00	EUR 37.50
213	Synopsis canonum S.S.	Apostolorum, et conciliorum oecumenicorum & provincialium, ab ecclesia Graeca receptorum : ... Opus fideliter collectum, & cum selectis annotationibus illustratum	London		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
214		Formulare Anglicanum Or A Collection Of Ancient Charters And Instruments Of Divers Kinds, Taken From The Originals, Placed Under Several Heads	London	1702	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
215	Bishop (Gilbert)	Burnet's History of His Own Time	London	1724/1734	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
216	Augustinus Theiner	VETERA MONUMENTA HIBERNORUM ET SCOTORUM HISTORIAM ILLUSTRANTIA: Quae ex Vaticani, Neapolis ac Florentiae Tabulariis Deprompsit et Ordine Chronologico Disposuit	Rome	1864	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
217	Sir Robert Gordon	A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland		1651	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 43.75
218	Parr, Richard	THE LIFE OF THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD JAMES USHER LATE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN OF ALL IRELAND WITH A COLLECTION OF THREE HUNDRED LETTERS ...		1686	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 75.00
219	Fabyan, Robert	The New Chronicles Of England And France			EUR 80.00 - 180.00	EUR 37.50
220	Walter Harris	The Whole Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland		1764	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 150.00
221	Philip Miller & Thomas Martyn	The Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary		1727	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 225.00
222	Robert O'Byrne	Luggala Days. Story of a Guinness House			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 118.75
223	S.B. Kennedy	Paul Henry. Paintings, Drawing and Illustrations		2000	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 125.00
224	Niall McCullough	A Lost Tradition: The Nature of Architecture in Ireland	Dublin	1989	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
225		Great Irish Houses			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25

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.
Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
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.