Purcell Auctioneers: Truly Exceptional Sale Of The Library Of An Irish Gentleman and Other Very Important Clients to include the World Renowned First Edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle (July, 1493) and Other Incunabula , 112625, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025

Page Size: 344 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Christian Art in Ancient Ireland Mahr, Adolf		1932	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 212.50
2	Stow, John	Annales, or, A General Chronicle of England	London, England	1631	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 325.00
3	Henry, Francoise	The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin		1974	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 87.50
4		The Grand Medieval Bestiary: Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts Christian Heck and Remy Cordonnier		2012	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 137.50
5	Wilson, Adrian und Wilson, Joyce Lancaster	The Making Of The Nuremberg Chronicle			EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 325.00
6		The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, And Those which he Design'd for the Press	London	1700	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 125.00
7	Sir John Harrington of Bath Knight	Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse	London	1634	EUR 400.00 - 800.00	EUR 812.50
8		An Itinerary containing His Ten Years Travel through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ireland Moryson, Fynes	London	1617	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,562.50
9	A. Welby Pugin	Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornaments and Costume		1846	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 625.00
10	Hon. R.C. Neville	Saxon Obsequies illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons discovered by Neville in a Cemetery		1852	EUR 180.00 - 220.00	EUR 137.50
11	Dr. J. Fau and M. Leveille	The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man		1849	EUR 180.00 - 250.00	EUR 225.00
12		The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis	London	1693	EUR 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
13		The Works of John Dryden Now first Collected in Eighteen Volumes Dryden, John; Scott, Walter, editor	London	1808	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
14		[The Famine in Ireland]. Report from Committees 1847		1847	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 162.50
15		Baldi De Pervsio Ivrisconsvlti Clarrismi, fuper Sexto Codicis iuftiniami libro commentaria lus culentiffima. Commentary on the sixth book of the Justinian Code, a collection of Roman Laws	Lyon	1532	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 300.00
16	Nowell Charles Smith [editor]	The Poems of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth	London	1908	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 137.50
17		A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes	London	1775	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 475.00
18	Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Maria Edgeworth	Essay on Irish Bulls	London	1802	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
19	Edward Donovan	The Natural History of British Shells 1800/1804			EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
20	WALKER, George	A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry	London	1689	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
21	Percy, Thomas (editor)	Reliques Of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets	London	1765	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 137.50
22	USHER, James	Vox Hiberniae or Rather the voyce of the Lord from Ireland: A Sermon Preached in Saint Peters Church at Westminster	London	1642	EUR 350.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
23		Holinshed's Chronicles. First, Second and Third Volumes of Chronicles compromising in the first two vols. 1 The Desription and Historie of England			EUR 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 9,750.00
24		FINE IRISH BINDING - All The Works Of The Divine And Great Basil, Archbishop Of Caesarea In Cappadocia	(Basel)	-1551	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
25	Robert Johnston	Travels Through part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic			EUR 380.00 - 450.00	Not Sold

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