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
Page Size: 617 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
225 Alfred P. Graves, editor

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The Poems of J.S.Le Fanu

1896 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
226 Susan L.M. Mitchell

Aids to the Immortality of Certain People in Ireland

1913 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
227 Dr. Peter Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh Country

1978 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
228 Austin Clarke

MNEMOSYNE LAY IN DUST

1966 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
229 Hayes (Maurice)ed.

The Flight Path

1996 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
230 Aidan Carl Mathews, editor

Immediate Man Cuimhni ar Chearbhall O Dalaigh

1983 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Unknown
231

Eavan Boland -- Limitations

New York 2000 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
232

The Whoseday Book in matching black Irish linen slipcase

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
233 John O'Donohue

Divine Beauty- The Invisible Embrace

2003 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
234 Eavan Boland

The War Horse

London 1975 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
235 Eavan Boland

Anna Liffey

1997 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
236

(Eavan Boland Related, Ten First Editions, First Prints) Object Lessons

1996 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
237

(Eavan Boland, 10 First Editions First Prints) New Collected Poems

2008 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
238

(Eavan Boland related, Ten First Editions) An Origin Like Water

1967 -- 1987 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
239 John McGahern

The Leavetaking

1974 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
240 John McGahern

The Leavetaking

1974 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
241 John Banville

The Ark

1996 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 Unknown
242 Banville, John

The Sea

London, UK 2005 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
243 John Banville

Ghosts

1993 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
244 Edna O'Brien

The Country Girls

1960 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
245 Edna O'Brien

Girl

2019 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
246 Edna O Brien

Girls in Their Married Bliss

1964 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
247 Graham Greene

The Lawless Roads

1939 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
248 Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana

1958 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
249

George A Little - Malachi Horan Remembers

Dublin 1943 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: 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.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.