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
425	Rev. E. A. D'Alton	History of Ireland from Earliest Times to Present Day	London		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
426	J. F. Waller	Moore's Irish Melodies Lalla Rookh, National Airs, Legendary Ballads, Songs etc.		Circa 1880	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
427	Maurice Denham Jephson	An Anglo-Irish Miscellany		1964	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	Unknown
428	Edward O'Reilly	An Irish-English Dictionary with copious quotations, obscure word		1864	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
429	Edited by Smith, Ohlmeyer , Kelly and Thomas Bartlett	Cambridge History of Ireland			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
430	edited by Jacques Chuto etc...	The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan 1832-1912		1996/2002	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
431	Kennedy	The Birds of Ireland; An Account of the Distribution Migration and Habits as Observed in Ireland		1954	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
432	John O'Hanlon, M.R.I.A.	Lives of Irish Saints, with Festivals, Commemorations of Holy Persons from Calendars, Martyrologies, and Various Sources, relating to Ancient Church History of Ireland		[1875]	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
433	Margaret Atwood	(Ten Fiction titles in Hardcover)		1989	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
434	Brendon Deacy	A Life in Relief'			EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
435		The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College		1974	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
436		Atlas of Ireland	Dublin	1979	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
437		Ledger: Ledger sectioned by the alphabet			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
438	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene			EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
439	(Bartlett, William Henry) Willis, N.P, & J. Stirling Coyne	The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland			EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
440		The Image of Irelande with a Discoverie of Woodkarne Derricke, John. Adam and Charles Black		1883	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
441		Pacata Hibernia; or, a History of the Wars in Ireland, During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth	Dublin	1810	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
442		Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield	London	1810	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
443	(Marcus)	The XII Books of Marcus Aurelius Antonius The Emperor Aurelius Antonius	London	1898	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
444		Sketches of Irish character	London	1842	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
445	Dawe	[Clonmel Literary Society]. The Life of George Morland	London	1807	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
446	Lever, Charles, editor	OUR MESS: TOM BURKE OF "OURS"		1844	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
447	Struve, Burckhard Gotthelf, 1671-1738	Antiquitatum Romanarum Syntagma sive de Sacrorum Caeremoniis Systema Absolutius	Ienae (Jena, Germany)	1707	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
448	Moore, John	A Journal During a Residence in France	Dublin	1793	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
449	Temple (Sir John)	The Irish Rebellion or A History of the Beginnings and First Progress of the General Rebellion, raised within the Kingdom of Ireland upon the three and twentieth day of October 1641	Dublin	1713	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	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.