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
300	Y. M. Goblet, editor	A Topographical index of the parishes and townlands of Ireland in Sir William Petty's MSS barony maps (c. 1655-9) and Hiberniae Delineatio (c. 1672)		1932	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00
301	Katharine Tynan	The Wild Harp	London	1913	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 187.50
302		Aubrey De Vere of Curragh Chase		Circa 1878	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 112.50
303		WestMeath: The Placenames of WestMeath		1957	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 100.00
304	John P Prendergast	The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland	Dublin	1875	EUR 120.00 - 200.00	EUR 106.25
305	John O'Driscoll	'The History of Ireland'		1827	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 62.50
306		Saorstat Eireann. Irish Free State Official Handbook		1932	EUR 100.00 - 160.00	EUR 125.00
307		As I Was Going Down Sackville Street - A Phantasy in Fact by Oliver St J Gogarty	London	1937	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
308		[original maps] Atlas of Ireland		1837	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 500.00
309	W. B. Yeats	The Celtic Twilight		1902	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 118.75
310	Birmingham, George A.	Irishmen All. Author of "The Lighter sie Of Irish Life"	London & Edinburgh	1913	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 75.00
311		Arthur Young's Tour In Ireland (1776-1779), edited with introduction and notes by Arthur Wollaston Hutton	London	1892	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
312	Joyce, P.W.	The Origin And History Of Irish Names Of Places		1903	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
313		The Clare Elections by Kieran Sheedy		1993	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 237.50
314		The Black Book of Limerick by Rev. James MacCaffrey with introduction and notes	Dublin	1907	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 187.50
315		The Folio Society: A collection such as The Life of Charlemagne		1970	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
316	Canon John Begley	The Diocese of Limerick		1928	EUR 100.00 - 180.00	EUR 150.00
317		The Census of Elphin 1749 Marie-Louise Legg		2004	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
318	James White	Gerard Dillon: An Illustrated Biography	Dublin	1994	EUR 90.00 - 180.00	EUR 175.00
319	T Fisher Unwin	Michael Davitt- Revolutionary, Agitator and Labour Leader by F Sheehy -Skeffington		1908	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
320		Old Galway- The History of a Norman Colony in Ireland by M D O'Sullivan	Cambridge	1942	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 68.75
321		Renowned scholar, P. W. Joyce of Glenosheen. Short Social History of Ancient Ireland		1894	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 200.00
322	Foras Feasa na hEireann	The History of Ireland		1902 to 1914	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 250.00
323		[Definitive Irish Text of the Bible		1981	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 775.00
324	K Waldron, editor	Religious Interest: Archdiocese of Tuam-An Illustrated History		2004	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50

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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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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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.