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
1

Christian Art in Ancient Ireland Mahr, Adolf

 1932 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 212.50
2 Stow, John

Annales, or, A General Chronicle of England

 London, England 1631 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
3 Henry, Francoise

The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin

 1974 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
4

The Grand Medieval Bestiary: Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts Christian Heck and Remy Cordonnier

 2012 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 137.50
5 Wilson, Adrian und Wilson, Joyce Lancaster

The Making Of The Nuremberg Chronicle

 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 325.00
6

The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, And Those which he Design'd for the Press

 London 1700 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 125.00
7 Sir John Harrington of Bath Knight

Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse

 London 1634 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 812.50
8

An Itinerary containing His Ten Years Travel through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland and Ireland Moryson, Fynes

 London 1617 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,562.50
9 A. Welby Pugin

Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornaments and Costume

 1846 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 625.00
10 Hon. R.C. Neville

Saxon Obsequies illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons discovered by Neville in a Cemetery

 1852 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 EUR 137.50
11 Dr. J. Fau and M. Leveille

The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man

 1849 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 EUR 225.00
12

The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

 London 1693 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
13

The Works of John Dryden Now first Collected in Eighteen Volumes Dryden, John; Scott, Walter, editor

 London 1808 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
14

[The Famine in Ireland]. Report from Committees 1847

 1847 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 162.50
15

Baldi De Pervsio Ivrisconsvlti Clarrismi, fuper Sexto Codicis iuftiniami libro commentaria lus culentiffima. Commentary on the sixth book of the Justinian Code, a collection of Roman Laws

 Lyon 1532 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 300.00
16 Nowell Charles Smith [editor]

The Poems of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth

 London 1908 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 137.50
17

A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

 London 1775 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 475.00
18 Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Maria Edgeworth

Essay on Irish Bulls

 London 1802 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
19 Edward Donovan

The Natural History of British Shells 1800/1804

 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
20 WALKER, George

A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry

 London 1689 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
21 Percy, Thomas (editor)

Reliques Of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets

 London 1765 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 137.50
22 USHER, James

Vox Hiberniae or Rather the voyce of the Lord from Ireland: A Sermon Preached in Saint Peters Church at Westminster

 London 1642 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 500.00
23

Holinshed's Chronicles. First, Second and Third Volumes of Chronicles compromising in the first two vols. 1 The Desription and Historie of England

 EUR 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 9,750.00
24

FINE IRISH BINDING - All The Works Of The Divine And Great Basil, Archbishop Of Caesarea In Cappadocia

 (Basel) -1551 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
25 Robert Johnston

Travels Through part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic

 EUR 380.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
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