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
201		A Tale of a Tub: written for the universal improvement of mankind	London	1734	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
202	Swift, Dean	an Essay Upon The Life, Writings, And Character, Of Dr. Jonathan Swift	London	MDCCLV (1755)	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
203	SWIFT, Jonathan	A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind	London	1710	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 187.50
204		A Tale Of A Tub, Written For The Universal Improvement Of Mankind	London	1811	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
205	[SWIFT, Jonathan]	The Life and genuine Character of Doctor Swift. Written by himself	London	1733	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 725.00
206	HANDEL, George Frideric	L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato. In Three parts. Set to Musick by Mr. Handel	Dublin	1741	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 2,750.00
207	[SWIFT, Jonathan]	An Epistle to a Lady, who desired the Author to make Verses on her, in the Heroick Style. Also a poem, occasion'd by reading Dr. Young's satires, called The Universal Passion	London	1734	EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 2,250.00
208	Mason, W.	The Poems Of Mr. Gray. To which are added memoirs of his Life and Writings. In four volumes	London	1778	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
209		Co. Laois Interest: The Works Of The Author (Edward Young) Of The Night-Thoughts	London	1762	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 687.50
210		The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison Esq in Four Volumes	London	1721	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 75.00
211		Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne Montaigne	Paris	1725	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 187.50
212		The Poetical Works Of Erasmus Darwin, containing the Botanic Garden, in two parts, and the Temple of Nature			EUR 400.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,187.50
213		M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera, cum delectu commentariorum		1758	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 375.00
214		Leviathan or The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civill by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury	London	1651	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 2,125.00
215	Senser Edmund	The Faerie Queen		1611	EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,687.50
216		Pseudodoxia Epidemica:; Or, Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents, And commonly Presumed Truths . . .	London	1686	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 100.00
217	PUTTOCK, Roger	Good and True Newes from Ireland	London	1642	EUR 450.00 - 550.00	EUR 600.00
218	Penrhyn Stanley, Arthur	Lectures On The History Of The Jewish Church	London	1865	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 106.25
219	James Hakewill Arch	A A Picturesque Tour of Italy		1820	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 625.00
220		A mirour for magistrates: being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such vnfortunate princes and men of note, as haue happened since the first entrance of Brute into this iland, vntill this our latter age [HIGGINS, John (active 1570-1602)]	London	1610	EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 1,687.50
221		INCUNABULA: Boethius's The Consolation Of Philosophy		1484	EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00	EUR 6,750.00
222		En tibi candide lector. P. Virgilii Maronis Aeneis accuratissime castigata cum commentariis...	Venice	1537	EUR 400.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,125.00
223	Quarles Francis	Emblemes	London	1709	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 425.00
224	HUMPHREYS, H. Noel	Fine Binding: The Book of Ruth, from the Holy Scriptures	London	1850	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 425.00
225		Critica Sacra: Or, Philologicall and Theologicall Observations upon All the Greek Words of the New Testament, In order Alphabeticall	London	1646	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 162.50

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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.

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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.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

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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.

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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.