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 Report
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
275 La Tragedie Di M.

Gio Battista Giraldi Cinthio, Nobile Ferrarese

 Venice MDLXXXIII (1583) EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,000.00
276

The Irish Militia 1793-1816

 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
277 [BUCKLEY, Sir Richard]

Animadversions on the Proposal for Sending Back the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland

 London 1690 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 325.00
278 Hahnemann, Samuel; Devrient Charles H. trans.

The Homoeopathic Medical Doctrine, or, "Organon of the Healing Art"

 Dublin 1833 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 525.00
279

Co. Wicklow Interest: The Works Of Mr. Edmund Spenser In Six Volumes

 London 1715 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
280

Irish Interest: Reminiscences Justin McCarthy

 London 1899 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 137.50
281

The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library

 1808/1811 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 425.00
282

Maynooth Bindings: Essays Chiefly Theological by the Re. Patrick Murray, D.D.

 Dublin 1850 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
283

The Ladies Diary or, the Woman's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1710

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 275.00
284

The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire

 Dublin 1781 EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,062.50
285

Swift's Works

 London 1747 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 250.00
286

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

 Dublin 1796 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 200.00
287

The Folio Society: A collection such as The Canterbury Tales

 1974 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
288 John Turpin

History of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 56.25
289 Ultan Cowley

The Men who built Britain

 2001 EUR 100.00 - 160.00 EUR 175.00
290 P. W. Joyce

A Social History of Ancient Ireland, Treating of Government, Religion, Law, military system, Art, Trade, Manners and Customs

 Dublin 1920 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
291

The Folio Society: A collection such as The Bayeux Tapestry and The Norman Invasion

 1973 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 112.50
292

The Folio Society: A collection such as The Best After-Dinner Stories selected by Tim Heald

 2003 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 93.75
293

The Folio Society: A collection such as Anna Karenia

 1975 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
294

[Ailbhe O'Monachain, illustrator and Irish-language activist] Dublin

 1932 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
295

[famous County Limerick trial and satire] No. III. Or, the Nosegay

 Dublin 1816 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
296 John Montague

A Slow Dance

 DUBLIN 1975 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 81.25
297 Liam O'Flaherty

The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Stories

 1976 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 137.50
298 James Anthony Froude

THE ENGLISH IN IRELAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (THREE VOLUMES COMPLETE)

 London 1882 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 175.00
299

The Folio Society: A collection such as Poems by Thomas Hardy, 1979

 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 93.75
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