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Auction Name
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
Auction Date
11/26/2025 - 11/26/2025
Sale Number
#112625
Total Lots
344
Sold Lots
317.0
Lots Sold
92.15%
Unsold Lots
27
Total Sales (EUR)
256,194.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
125,640.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
215,120.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
136,810.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
232,190.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
110.34%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
124 Anton Koberger

INCUNABULA: The Nuremberg Chronicle

 1493 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 43,750.00
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
64 CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400)

The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer Newly Printed

 c 1550 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 9,000.00
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.

 1667 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 8,500.00
221

INCUNABULA: Boethius's The Consolation Of Philosophy

 1484 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 6,750.00
74

The Odyssey of Homer; The Iliad of Homer Homer (Alexander Pope, translator)

 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,875.00
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
70 John Neuhoff and John Ogilby

Master of the Rolls in the Kingdom of Ireland

 1673 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,500.00
79 Alexander De Hales (Alexander Alensis)

INCUNABULA - Summa Theologica

 Completed August 23rd, 1483 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,125.00
260 Fisher (John)

Assertiones Lutheranea Confutatio

 1526 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,000.00
181 St. Thomas Aquinas

INCUNABULA: Beatitudo Eternitatis

 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
127 Johannes de Verdena

INCUNABULA: Sermones Dormi Secure De Tempore Et De Sanctis

 c.1484 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,500.00
170 Caracciolo, Roberto

INCUNABULA: Sermones Roberti de Francis

 1490 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 3,250.00
268

INCUNABULA: Missale published 1494

 1500 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,250.00
47 Lucio Anneo Seneca

INCUNABULA: Seneca Moralis. Rubrication in red and blue

 October 5, 1490 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 3,250.00
131

THE HUTH COPY MESSINGHAM, Thomas

 1624 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,750.00
206 HANDEL, George Frideric

L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato. In Three parts. Set to Musick by Mr. Handel

 1741 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
41 JAMES I, King of England (1566-1625)

The Workes Of The Most High And Mighty Prince, James

 1616 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,375.00
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

 1734 EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,250.00
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
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