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
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