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
101		Rare Dublin Printing: Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books	Dublin	1765	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 150.00
102	John Milton	Paradise Lost	London	1821	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
103	Baker Knight, Sir Richard	a Chronicle Of The Kings Of England, From the time of the Roman Government Unto the Death of King James	London	MDCLXX (1670)	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 187.50
104	Livy, Titus. T.	Livii Patavini Latinae Historiae Principis Decades Tres Cvm Dimidia			EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 325.00
105		A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland		1837	EUR 80.00 - 140.00	EUR 81.25
106		Common Places Of Christian Religion, Gathered By Wolfgangus Mulculus, For The Life Of Suche As Desire The Knowledge Of Godly Truthe	Londini	MDLXIII (1563)	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,437.50
107		A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D. [Thomas Campbell]		1777	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 81.25
108	Francesco Guicciardini	La Historia d'Italia (The History Of Italy)	Venice	1580	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 250.00
109		Excursions through Ireland. Topographical and Historical Delineations; Descriptions of Residences of Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every object of Interest or Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide	Longmans	1820	EUR 70.00 - 140.00	EUR 62.50
110	Emily Lawless	Hurrish		1888	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
111		A Manuscript diary period Jan/March 1856 reputed to be by Charles Blacker Vignoles, Railway consultant, born in Woodbrook, Co.		1793	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 275.00
112		M. TULLII CICERONIS OPERA OMNIA, in sectiones, apparatui latinae locutionis respondentes, distincta. Praeter hactenus vulgatam Dion		1646	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 225.00
113	Lord Dunsany	Lord Adrian - A Play in Three Acts			EUR 150.00 - 160.00	EUR 150.00
114	DONNE, John	Poems on Several Occasions	London	1719	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 812.50
115	W.B. Yeats	Per Amica Silentia Lunae		1918	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 162.50
116	J.G.	Some philosophical considerations touching the being of witches and witchcraft written in a letter to the much honour'd Robert Hunt, Esq.	London	1667	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 8,500.00
117	Johann Simonis	Biblia Hebraica Muaualia		1676	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 275.00
118		A Short Account of the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the VII		1667	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 100.00
119	ASCHAM (ROGER)	The Schoolemaster, or, Playne and Pefite Way of Teaching Children, to Understande, Write, and Speake the Latine Toong, but Specially Purposed for the Private Bringing up of Youth in Gentlemen and Noblemens Houses		(dated 1589)	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,250.00
120		The Petition of Both Houses of Parliament Presented to His Majestie at Yorke		March 26, 1642	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 200.00
121		The Anatomie Of The English Nunnery At Lisbon In Portugal: Dissected and laid open by one that was sometime a younger Brother of the Covent		1630	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 875.00
122		A conspiracy discovered, or, The report of a committee to the House of Commons in Parliament1641"		17, 1641	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 300.00
123	ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)	LETTRE A M. DE BEAUMONT	Amsterdam	1763	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 162.50
124	Anton Koberger	INCUNABULA: The Nuremberg Chronicle		1493	EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	EUR 43,750.00
125	Jacques Lenfant	Histoire Du Concile De Pise (The History Of The Council Of Pisa)	Amsterdam	MDCCXXIV (1724)	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 200.00

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.