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
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

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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