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
151	BUTLER, Samuel	Hudibras. 2 vols (complete set)		1793	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
152		Paris et ses Environs Grand Album 1853		1853	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 375.00
153		1842 Manuscript Document: Persons to Whom Pensions were Granted as Compensation for Offices in Ireland at the Union			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 212.50
154	Michael O'Callaghan. 1879-1921	First Republican Mayor of Limerick 1920, Requiescat		1921	EUR 350.00 - 550.00	EUR 1,000.00
155		The Easter Proclamation of 1916		27th June, 1912	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	EUR 1,562.50
156	De Foe's	De Foe's Works	London	1912	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 450.00
157		Very Early Printing: Book of Hours: Hours for the Use of Rome - Hours of the Conception of Our Lady and the fifteen prayers of Saint Brigid		c.1512	EUR 5,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 5,875.00
158	[Pauline Bewick]	[with original signed and dated watercolour]		1986	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 500.00
159		The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny	London	1895	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 850.00
160	POPE, ALEXANDER	The Dunciad, Variorum		1729	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 325.00
161	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 400.00
162	Rev. F.W. Holland	Sinai and Jerusalem or Scenes from Bible Lands		1870	EUR 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
163		Tales of the Crusaders Sir Walter Scott Published by Archibald Constable	London: London	1825	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 275.00
164		Very Fine Papal Binding	Rome	1772	EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 750.00
165		The History of the Irish Catholics from the Settlement in 1691			EUR 70.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
166	MERVIN, Sir Audley	A Speech made by Captaine Audley Mervin to the Upper House of Parliament in Ireland March 4 1640 [41] ... Unto which is added an humble and just Remonstrance of the Parliament	[London]	1641	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
167		Dublin Printing: Cambrensis Eversus		1848-1852	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 200.00
168		The Aran Islands	Boston	1911	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
169	Allen, William	A Defence And Declaration Of The Catholike Churchies Doctrine	Anno	1565	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 812.50
170	Caracciolo, Roberto	INCUNABULA: Sermones Roberti de Francis		1490	EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 3,250.00
171		Fine Binding: The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford			EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 125.00
172	USSHER, James	Immanuel, or the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God; Unfolded by James, Archbishop of Armagh			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
173	J Macchiavel	Discours de l'Estat de Paix et de Guerre (Discourses on the State of Peace and War)	Paris	1635	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 350.00
174		Dublin Printing: Missale Romanum Ex decreto Sarosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum		1804	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 400.00
175		[MARQUESSE OF ORMOND] A Letter or Declaration of the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland, Concerning the Papers sent to the Marquesse of Ormond in His Majesties Name	London	June 9 1646	EUR 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold

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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