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 Report
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 Not Sold
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 Not Sold
327

The Speech of Doctor Dromgoole, a Physician

Belfast 1813 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 93.75
328 Dawn and Afterglow

(Limerick Interest) May Morton

Belfast 1936 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
329

Eavan Boland -- EMIGRANT SUITE

2002 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 250.00
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 Not Sold
331

Council of Knight Masons and Degree of Knight Masonry

Dublin No date, circa 1890 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
332

Irish Theatre: Collection of Irish Theatre Programmes from the Gaiety, Olympia, Abbey, Theatre Royal and Gate Theatre

1956 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 37.50
333

Coloured Engravings: 11 coloured engravings (2 in vintage frames)

Early 19th century EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
334 M. McD. Bodkin K.C.

Hunt The Hare - A Humorous Play

Dublin 1926 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
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 Not Sold
336 E. J. Hoare

The Legion of Honor

Dublin 1883 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
337

Irish Newspapers: Dublin Evening News

May 4 1916 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
338 Michael Longley

The Shack

2015 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
339 Michael Hartnett

The Oat Woman

1973 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
340 P Dizzy

Waterboys -- Don't look back

1986 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
341

SKID ROW - Alive And Kicking, produced in 1976

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
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 EUR 100.00
343 William Butler Yeats

The Player Queen

London 1922 EUR 60.00 - 90.00 EUR 150.00
344

Reconstruction Pamphlets: No. 7, June 1919: The Fundamentals of Citizenship

Washington, D.C. 1919 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
345

The Christmas Songs of Luke Wadding

Dublin 1960 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
346 Captain Peadar Cowan

Dungeons Deep

1960 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
347 Francis Sheehy Skeffington

The Prodigal Daughter. A comedy in One Act

Dublin 1915-04-01 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 93.75
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 EUR 75.00
349 James Joyce

POMES PENYEACH

Paris 1927 EUR 180.00 - 240.00 EUR 225.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000