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
151 BUTLER, Samuel

Hudibras. 2 vols (complete set)

 1793 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
152

Paris et ses Environs Grand Album 1853

 1853 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 375.00
153

1842 Manuscript Document: Persons to Whom Pensions were Granted as Compensation for Offices in Ireland at the Union

 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 212.50
154 Michael O'Callaghan. 1879-1921

First Republican Mayor of Limerick 1920, Requiescat

 1921 EUR 350.00 - 550.00 EUR 1,000.00
155

The Easter Proclamation of 1916

 27th June, 1912 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,562.50
156 De Foe's

De Foe's Works

 London 1912 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 450.00
157

Very Early Printing: Book of Hours: Hours for the Use of Rome - Hours of the Conception of Our Lady and the fifteen prayers of Saint Brigid

 c.1512 EUR 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 5,875.00
158 [Pauline Bewick]

[with original signed and dated watercolour]

 1986 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 500.00
159

The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny

 London 1895 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 850.00
160 POPE, ALEXANDER

The Dunciad, Variorum

 1729 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
161 Greville, Fulke Baron Brooke

Certaine Learned And Elegant Workes Of The Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke, Written in his Youth, and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney

 London 1633 EUR 350.00 - 550.00 EUR 400.00
162 Rev. F.W. Holland

Sinai and Jerusalem or Scenes from Bible Lands

 1870 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
163

Tales of the Crusaders Sir Walter Scott Published by Archibald Constable

 London: London 1825 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 275.00
164

Very Fine Papal Binding

 Rome 1772 EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 750.00
165

The History of the Irish Catholics from the Settlement in 1691

 EUR 70.00 - 120.00 EUR 150.00
166 MERVIN, Sir Audley

A Speech made by Captaine Audley Mervin to the Upper House of Parliament in Ireland March 4 1640 [41] ... Unto which is added an humble and just Remonstrance of the Parliament

 [London] 1641 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
167

Dublin Printing: Cambrensis Eversus

 1848-1852 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 200.00
168

The Aran Islands

 Boston 1911 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
169 Allen, William

A Defence And Declaration Of The Catholike Churchies Doctrine

 Anno 1565 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 812.50
170 Caracciolo, Roberto

INCUNABULA: Sermones Roberti de Francis

 1490 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 3,250.00
171

Fine Binding: The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford

 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 125.00
172 USSHER, James

Immanuel, or the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God; Unfolded by James, Archbishop of Armagh

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
173 J Macchiavel

Discours de l'Estat de Paix et de Guerre (Discourses on the State of Peace and War)

 Paris 1635 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 350.00
174

Dublin Printing: Missale Romanum Ex decreto Sarosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum

 1804 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 400.00
175

[MARQUESSE OF ORMOND] A Letter or Declaration of the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland, Concerning the Papers sent to the Marquesse of Ormond in His Majesties Name

 London June 9 1646 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
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