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
176 Thomas Browne

Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or Enquiries into Very many received Tenants and commonly presumed Truths

London 1650 EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
177

The Treble Almanack for the Year 1827

1827 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 100.00
178 Walton, Mr Isaac and Cotton, Charles

The Complete Angler, or Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing

London M.DCC.XCII, 1792 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 150.00
179

Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts

1918 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 118.75
180

Concordia Liberiarbitrii Cum Gratiae Donis, Divina Praescientia, Providentia, Praedestinatione, Et Reprobatione, ad nonnillos primae partis D. Thomae articulos

MDLXXXVIII (1588) EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 325.00
181 St. Thomas Aquinas

INCUNABULA: Beatitudo Eternitatis

EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
182 Thomam Hibernicum

Flores Doctorum (Flowers Of The Doctors), a work

1563 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,025.00
183 Vallancey, General Charles

An Inquiry On The Primitive Inhabitants of Great Britain And Ireland, Proving from History, Language and Mythology, that they were Persians Or Indoscythae, composed of Scythians, Chaldeans and Indians

Dublin 1807 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 137.50
184 Fielding, Henry

Dublin Printing: The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Dublin 1818 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 118.75
185 SYNGE, Edward

The Wisdom of being Religious

Dublin 1703/4 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 375.00
186 Sir William Betham

Irish Antiquarian Researches

1827 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 300.00
187 Chatterton, Thomas

Chatterton, Thomas, Poems

London MDCCLXXVII (1777) EUR 80.00 - 180.00 EUR 112.50
188 [USHER, James]

Strange and Remarkable Prophecies and Predictions of the Holy, Learned, and excellent James Usher giving an Account of his Foretelling I

London 1678 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 325.00
189

Th Works Of Nicholas Rowe, Esq.

LondonL 1756 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 625.00
190 Cudworth, Ralph

A Treatise Concerning Eternal And Immutable Morality

London 1731 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 106.25
191 R.W. D.D. In which I

Annotations Of The New Testament Of Jesus Christ

Anno 1733 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 137.50
192 Baily, N.

an Universal Etymological English Dictionary

London 1764 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 525.00
193 J .M. Synge

The Playboy of the Western World

Dublin 1907 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 425.00
194 [SWIFT, Jonathan]

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

London 1711 EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 525.00
195

[Rare 17th century Irish book] Dei Immortalis in Corpore Mortali Patientis Historia, Moralis Doctrinae Placitis. Guilielmo Stanihursto Societate. [William Stanihurst]

Antverpae 1660 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 EUR 550.00
196

[Irish medical rarity] Novae Raraeque Observationes Circa Variarum Crisium Praedictionem ex Pulsu va Jacobo Nihell, Med. Doct.

Venice 1778 EUR 80.00 - 180.00 EUR 550.00
197 Collier, Jeremy

a Short View OF The Immorality And Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with The Sense of Antiquity upon this Argument

London 1698 EUR 80.00 - 180.00 EUR 106.25
198

Fine Bindings: The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift- Dean of St Patrick's Dublin in twelve volumes, 1768, plus 13 others of Dr Swifts Works

EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 975.00
199 [SWIFT, Jonathan, (attributed author)]

The wonderful Wonder of Wonders: or the Hole-History of the Life and Actions of Mr. Breech, the eighth Wonder of the World

London 1722 EUR 900.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 1,150.00
200 SWIFT, Jonathan

Three Sermons: I. On Mutual Subjection

Dublin 1744 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 375.00
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    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T)]. CLARK. The Military Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: HOMMAIRE DE HELL, Ignace-Xavier. LAURENS, Jules. Voyage en Turquie et en Perse
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: POSTEL, Guillaume. De la République des Turc
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PREZIOSI, Amadeo. Stamboul. Souvenir d’Orient.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES. EMPIRE OTTOMAN.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant T. Emile. L'Art Arabe
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES. Histoire de l'art Egyptie
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: BESANCENOT, Jean. Costumes et types du Maroc.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES OTTOMANS. Suite de figures ottomanes à l’aquarelle
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT, contes arabes
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: SCHLEGEL, Hermann et A. H. VERSTER van WULVERHORST. Traité de Fauconnerie - Planches
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: THEVENOT, Melchisédec. Relation de divers voyages curieux
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