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
250		Co. Westmeath Interest: A New Method Of Learning With Greater Facility, The Greek Tongue: Containing rules for the Declensions, Conjugations, Resolution of Verbs, Syntax, Quantity, Accents, Dialects and Poetic Licence	Dublin	1747	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 125.00
251		The Works In Verse And Prose Of William Shenstone, Esq, In two volumes, with decorations	London	1773	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
252		Letters Written By The Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq.	Dublin	1775	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
253	E. Barton (pseud. for Smith, William Cusack, Sir, 1766-1836)	Miracles, A Rhapsody	London	1823	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
254	Taylor (Jeremy)	Theologia Eklektike, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying	London	1647	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 175.00
255	Prior, James	Cork/Waterford Interest & Fine Binding: Life Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke	London	1889	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 300.00
256		Fine Maynooth College Bindings: The Life And Letters Of Lord MacAuley	London	1893	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 175.00
257		THE FAIR PENITENT: A TRAGEDY As it is Acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields	London	1703	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
258		[SHORT VIEW] A Short View of The Methods made use of in Ireland For the Subversion and Destruction of the Protestant Religion and Interest in that Kingdom	London	1689	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 300.00
259		Opera Divi Aelredi Rhievallensis Quondam In Anglia Ex Ordine Cisterciensi Abbatis Et D Bernard Contemporalis Omnia R P Richardi Gibboni		1616	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 118.75
260	Fisher (John)	Assertiones Lutheranea Confutatio		1526	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,000.00
261		Romanae Historiae Anthologia ... An English exposition of the Roman Antiquities, wherein many Roman & English offices are parallel'd, and divers obscure phrases explained			EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 137.50
262	Goldsmith, Oliver	An History Of The Earth And Animated Nature: In eight volumes	Dublin		EUR 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
263	USSHER, James	Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin			EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 250.00
264		Very Fine Binding		1547	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,187.50
265		The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen	London	MDCCLVIII. [1758]	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 475.00
266	Moore, Thomas	Travels of and Irish Gentleman and Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion	London		EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 375.00
267		Queen Victoria Association Copy of The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in the year of our Lord 1879	Harrison & Co.		EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 575.00
268		INCUNABULA: Missale published 1494		1500	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 3,250.00
269		The Works of Petronius Arbiter In Prose and Verse Translated from the Original Latin By Mr. Addison. To Which are Prefix's the Life of Petronius, done from the Latin; And a Character of His Writings	London	1736	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
270	Eikon Basilike Deutera	The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II	London	1694	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 125.00
271		Dublin Printing: The Works of Alexander Pope in Nine Volumes, Complete	Dublin	1752	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 525.00
272		[IRELAND'S LAMENTATION] Ireland's Lamentation: being a Short, but Perfect, Full, and True Account of the Situation, Nature, Constitution and Product of Ireland		1689	EUR 350.00 - 500.00	EUR 425.00
273		Titi Livii Patavini Latinae Historiae Principis Decas prima Tito Livio	Apud Seb.	1537	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 237.50
274	Forster, John	Prize Binding: The Life And Times Of Oliver Goldsmith		1879	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 106.25

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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