Purcell Auctioneers: c.615 Lot Auction - to include Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions including Siged Seamus Heaney, Early Marvel Comics (Spiderman, Wolverine etc.), Republican Interest, GAA Interest, Antiquarian etc. , 121025, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas McGrath, editor | Carlow, History and Society |
2008 | EUR 100.00 - 160.00 | Unknown | |
| 2 | Carlow: Cnoc Beag Centenary Year Book |
1948 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 3 | Art Kavanagh | Carlow: Battle of 1798 Series |
2003 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 4 | Carlow: The Carlow College Magazine |
1869-1890 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 5 | edited by Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent | Clare: History & Society |
2008 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 6 | Duthaighe Dail gCais | [In Dalcassian Territory] Cameos of Historic Clare [illustrated] |
Circa 1935 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 7 | The Horse in County Clare |
2001/2006 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 8 | County Clare interest |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |||
| 9 | James Frost | Clare: The History and Topography of the County of Clare |
1978 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 10 | Patrick O' Flanagan, editor | Cork Interest: Cork History & Society |
1993 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 11 | Rev W Holland: History of West Cork and the Diocese of Ross |
1949 | EUR 180.00 - 280.00 | Unknown | ||
| 12 | Where Araglen so Gently Flows |
EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |||
| 13 | Kathleen Keyes McDonnell | There is a Bridge at Bandon |
1972 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 14 | Charles Benson | The Dublin Book Trade 1801-1850 |
2021 | EUR 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown | |
| 15 | The Irish Tourists Illustrated Hand Book |
1852 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 16 | Bolton Street Prospectus for 1923-24 & 1928-29 |
1923 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | ||
| 17 | Flora H. Mitchell | Vanishing Dublin |
1966 | EUR 280.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 18 | A Book of Dublin, official handbook |
1929 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | ||
| 19 | William Ridgeway | A Report of the Proceedings in Cases of High Treason at an adjournment of a commission of Oyer and Terminer held in and for the County and City of Dublin in the month of December 1795 |
Dublin | 1796 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 20 | Kevin Bright | Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society 1815-1845 |
2004 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 21 | [Dublin] Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh History of the City of Dublin |
1818 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 22 | James Hardiman | History of the Town & County of the Town of Galway |
1926 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 23 | R. C. Simington | The Transplantation to Connacht 1654-58 |
1970 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 24 | Ethel Mannin | Connemara Journal |
1947 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 25 | William Henry | St. Clerans - The Tale of a Manor House |
1999 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
