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
51 Monro, Alexander

A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body, their Structure Explained, and Compared with that of the Capsular Ligaments of the Joints, and of those Sacs which line the Cavities of the Thorax and Abdomen

Edinburgh 1788 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 525.00
52 Edward J. Cooper

Views in Egypt and Nubia. Executed in tinted lithography

1824 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 1,750.00
53 Emile Presuhn

Les Decorations Murales de Pompee

1878 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 375.00
54

Antiquitates Christianae or The History Of The Life And Death Of The Holy Jesus As Also The Lives, Acts And Martyrdoms Of His Apostles by William Cave

London 1675 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 125.00
55

The Poetical Works of Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Archdeacon of Clogher

Foulis 1786 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 162.50
56 John Blackwell

A History of the Spiders of Great Britain & Ireland

1861 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 200.00
57 Stillingfleet, Edward

A Rational Account Of The Grounds Of Protestant Religion: Being A Vindication Of The Lord Archbishop Of Canterbury's Relation Of A Conference, & C.

London 1665 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 125.00
58 ADRICHEM, Christian van

Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et biblicarum historiarum cum tabulis geographicis aere expressis

Coloniae Agrippinae 1590 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 450.00
59 DAVIES, Sir John

Les Reports des Cases & Matters en Ley Resolves & Adjudges en les Courts del Roy en Ireland: Collect and digest per Sir John Davis Chivaler, Atturney Generall del Roy en cest Realm

London 1674 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
60

ONE OF THE SUPREME TEXTS OF THE RENAISSANCE [PLATO] Omnia Divini Platonis Opera Tralatione Marsilii Ficini, Emendatione Et Ad Graecum Codicem Collatione Simonis Grynaei, Summa Diligentia Repur Gata Index quam copiosissimus praefixus est

Lugduni [Lyon] 1548 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 725.00
61

Histoire et Chronique Memorable, de Messire Iehan Froissart, Revue et Corrigee sur Divers Exemplaires. par Denis Sauvage de Fontenailles en Brie

MDLXXIII (1574) EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
62 William Beattie

The Danube

c.1840 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 450.00
63

Omnia Divini Platonis Opera Tralatione Marsilii Ficini, Emendatione Et Ad Graecum Codicem Collatione Simonis Grynaei Nunc Recens Fumma Diligentia Repurgata

MDXXXII, (1532) EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,500.00
64 CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400)

The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer Newly Printed

c 1550 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 9,000.00
65

Outlines of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the collection of the late Sir William Hamilton with engravings drawn by the late Mr. Kirk

1804 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 400.00
66 Johnson, Ben

Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, Acted In The Yeare

1614 EUR 800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,125.00
67 COX, Richard

Hibernia Anglicana: or, The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by the English, to this Present Time

London 1689-1690 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 812.50
68

The Works Of Ben Jonson, which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One. To which is added a Comedy Called the New Inn. With additions never before Published

London MDCXCII (1692) EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 525.00
69 Gratian (or Johannes Gratian)

Decretum Gratiani - Gratian's Laws

c.1513 EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,375.00
70 John Neuhoff and John Ogilby

Master of the Rolls in the Kingdom of Ireland

London 1673 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
71 Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession

1903 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
72 Greville, Fulke Baron Brooke

Certaine Learned And Elegant Workes Of The Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke, Written in his Youth, and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney

London 1633 EUR 350.00 - 550.00 EUR 1,875.00
73

The Poems of Mark Akenside M. D.

London 1722 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 687.50
74

The Odyssey of Homer; The Iliad of Homer Homer (Alexander Pope, translator)

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,875.00
75 CALMET, AUGUSTIN

An Historical, Critical, Geographical, Chronological, and Etymological Dictionary of the Holy Bible

London 1732 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 475.00
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