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
101

Rare Dublin Printing: Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books

 Dublin 1765 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 150.00
102 John Milton

Paradise Lost

 London 1821 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
103 Baker Knight, Sir Richard

a Chronicle Of The Kings Of England, From the time of the Roman Government Unto the Death of King James

 London MDCLXX (1670) EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 187.50
104 Livy, Titus. T.

Livii Patavini Latinae Historiae Principis Decades Tres Cvm Dimidia

 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
105

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland

 1837 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 81.25
106

Common Places Of Christian Religion, Gathered By Wolfgangus Mulculus, For The Life Of Suche As Desire The Knowledge Of Godly Truthe

 Londini MDLXIII (1563) EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,437.50
107

A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D. [Thomas Campbell]

 1777 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 81.25
108 Francesco Guicciardini

La Historia d'Italia (The History Of Italy)

 Venice 1580 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 250.00
109

Excursions through Ireland. Topographical and Historical Delineations; Descriptions of Residences of Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every object of Interest or Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide

 Longmans 1820 EUR 70.00 - 140.00 EUR 62.50
110 Emily Lawless

Hurrish

 1888 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 62.50
111

A Manuscript diary period Jan/March 1856 reputed to be by Charles Blacker Vignoles, Railway consultant, born in Woodbrook, Co.

 1793 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 275.00
112

M. TULLII CICERONIS OPERA OMNIA, in sectiones, apparatui latinae locutionis respondentes, distincta. Praeter hactenus vulgatam Dion

 1646 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 225.00
113 Lord Dunsany

Lord Adrian - A Play in Three Acts

 EUR 150.00 - 160.00 EUR 150.00
114 DONNE, John

Poems on Several Occasions

 London 1719 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 812.50
115 W.B. Yeats

Per Amica Silentia Lunae

 1918 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 162.50
116 J.G.

Some philosophical considerations touching the being of witches and witchcraft written in a letter to the much honour'd Robert Hunt, Esq.

 London 1667 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 8,500.00
117 Johann Simonis

Biblia Hebraica Muaualia

 1676 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 275.00
118

A Short Account of the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the VII

 1667 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 100.00
119 ASCHAM (ROGER)

The Schoolemaster, or, Playne and Pefite Way of Teaching Children, to Understande, Write, and Speake the Latine Toong, but Specially Purposed for the Private Bringing up of Youth in Gentlemen and Noblemens Houses

 (dated 1589) EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,250.00
120

The Petition of Both Houses of Parliament Presented to His Majestie at Yorke

 March 26, 1642 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 200.00
121

The Anatomie Of The English Nunnery At Lisbon In Portugal: Dissected and laid open by one that was sometime a younger Brother of the Covent

 1630 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 875.00
122

A conspiracy discovered, or, The report of a committee to the House of Commons in Parliament1641"

 17, 1641 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 300.00
123 ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)

LETTRE A M. DE BEAUMONT

 Amsterdam 1763 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 162.50
124 Anton Koberger

INCUNABULA: The Nuremberg Chronicle

 1493 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 43,750.00
125 Jacques Lenfant

Histoire Du Concile De Pise (The History Of The Council Of Pisa)

 Amsterdam MDCCXXIV (1724) EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 200.00
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