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

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.