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

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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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