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
126	Robert Pinkerton	Russia		1833	EUR 180.00 - 220.00	EUR 225.00
127	Johannes de Verdena	INCUNABULA: Sermones Dormi Secure De Tempore Et De Sanctis	Cologne.	c.1484	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	EUR 3,500.00
128	Mr. And Mrs. S. C. Hall	Ireland: It's Scenery, Character &c.	London	1841	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 450.00
129		The Works Of Mr. Abraham Cowley: consisting of those which were formerly printed: and those which he design'd for the press		1684	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 162.50
130		Bacon, Francis; Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes	London	1640	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,400.00	EUR 1,250.00
131		THE HUTH COPY MESSINGHAM, Thomas	Paris	1624	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 2,750.00
132	Charles I (King Of England)	Reliquae Sacrae Carolinae or The Works Of That Great Monarch And Glorious Martyr	Hague	1650	EUR 150.00 - 350.00	EUR 125.00
133	Fielding, Henry	The History Of The Adventures Of Joseph Andrews And Of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams	London	MDCCXLII (1742)	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,750.00
134	Beatissimum Hieronymi Cardinalis (Blessed Jerome Cardinal	Early Printing: Vitae Patrum (lives Of The Fathers)	Lyon	April 27, 1502	EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 750.00
135		Geneva / Breeches Bible [Bible in English]	London	1608	EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 975.00
136	BROWNE, Peter	The Procedure, Extent, and Limits of Human Understanding	London	1728	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 112.50
137	William Molyneux of Dublin	The Case of Ireland being bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated	Dublin	1773	EUR 250.00 - 500.00	EUR 350.00
138	Seamus Heaney	District and Circle		2006	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 275.00
139	Seamus Heaney	Beowulf		1999	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 250.00
140	Seamus Heaney	Electric Light		1995	EUR 150.00 - 180.00	EUR 187.50
141	Seamus Heaney	Among School Children			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 275.00
142		Rare long 2 page holograph letter from Seamus Heaney		7th April, 1998	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,200.00	EUR 1,500.00
143	Rev. J. Dowd	Limerick and Its Sieges	Limerick	1890	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 137.50
144	J. Anthony Gaughan	The Knights of Glin. A Geraldine Family		1978	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 106.25
145		The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of the Marvayles of Indie with Other Ilands and Countryes	London	1725	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 300.00
146		The Plays Of William Shakespeare	London	1773	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 187.50
147		History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha Motteux, Cervantes	Archibald	1822	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 625.00
148	BOSWELL (JAMES)	The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.	London	1791	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,375.00
149	Edward Gibbon Esq.	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1848	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 775.00
150	Edited by Rev. Daniel McCarthy	Maynooth Bindings: Collections Of Irish Church History From The MSS of the Late V. Rev Laurence F Renehan D.D.		1861	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 162.50

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.
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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