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
325		Krakow Poetry Seminar booklet for Meetings of Poets		2003	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
326	Patrick Pearse	Robert Emmet an address delivered at an Emmet Commemoration in New York City on March 9th,1914			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
327		The Speech of Doctor Dromgoole, a Physician	Belfast	1813	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
328	Dawn and Afterglow	(Limerick Interest) May Morton	Belfast	1936	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
329		Eavan Boland -- EMIGRANT SUITE		2002	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Unknown
330		Eigse Eireann mna na hEorpa women of Europe, a celebration by Irish women poets' patron & guest of honour		1992	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
331		Council of Knight Masons and Degree of Knight Masonry	Dublin	No date, circa 1890	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
332		Irish Theatre: Collection of Irish Theatre Programmes from the Gaiety, Olympia, Abbey, Theatre Royal and Gate Theatre		1956	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
333		Coloured Engravings: 11 coloured engravings (2 in vintage frames)		Early 19th century	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
334	M. McD. Bodkin K.C.	Hunt The Hare - A Humorous Play	Dublin	1926	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	Unknown
335		(Trinity College Interest) The Athanasian creed, PROTESTS of certain of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into it, Rubrics, Orders and directions for regulating the course and conduct of public worship		Grafton Street Dublin	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
336	E. J. Hoare	The Legion of Honor	Dublin	1883	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
337		Irish Newspapers: Dublin Evening News		May 4 1916	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
338	Michael Longley	The Shack		2015	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
339	Michael Hartnett	The Oat Woman		1973	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
340	P Dizzy	Waterboys -- Don't look back		1986	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	Unknown
341		SKID ROW - Alive And Kicking, produced in 1976			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
342	Harry Kernoff	Rare program for a concert titled 'Erin Through the Ages: A Pageant of Irish History' which featured designs			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
343	William Butler Yeats	The Player Queen	London	1922	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
344		Reconstruction Pamphlets: No. 7, June 1919: The Fundamentals of Citizenship	Washington, D.C.	1919	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
345		The Christmas Songs of Luke Wadding	Dublin	1960	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
346	Captain Peadar Cowan	Dungeons Deep		1960	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
347	Francis Sheehy Skeffington	The Prodigal Daughter. A comedy in One Act	Dublin	1915-04-01	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
348		Memoir Of the Lady Freemason, the Memoir of Honourable Elizabeth Aldworth of Newmarket Court, Co. Cork, who was initiated into the Ancient Order of Freemasonry at Doneraile House, Co. Cork			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
349	James Joyce	POMES PENYEACH	Paris	1927	EUR 180.00 - 240.00	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.