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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 450 | W.B. Yeats | The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats |
1957 | EUR 750.00 - 950.00 | Unknown | |
| 451 | A 1972 edition of 'The History of the Olympic Games in Thirteen Posters' |
Texaco | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | ||
| 452 | Pauline Bewick | Kelly reads Bewick |
2001 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 453 | Wendy Walsh | A Lifetime of Painting |
Dublin | 2007 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 454 | Twelve Irish Artists |
Dublin | 1940 | EUR 150.00 - 180.00 | Unknown | |
| 455 | William Conor | The Irish Scene |
1944 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 456 | The Painters of Ireland c, 1660-1920 |
EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |||
| 457 | Thomas Bodkin | Hugh Lane and his Pictures |
1932 | EUR 300.00 - 320.00 | Unknown | |
| 458 | Richard Lovett | Irish Pictures Drawn by pen and Pencil |
London | 1888 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 459 | The Knights of Glin: Seven Centuries of Change |
2009 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | Unknown | ||
| 460 | White Heat - Marco Pierre White |
London | 1990 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | Unknown | |
| 461 | John Feehan & Grace O'Donovan | The Bogs Of Ireland - an Introduction to the Natural, Cultural and Industrial Heritage of Irish Peatlands |
1996 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 462 | HB, Callaway | Sean & Oisin Scully; Jack the Wolf |
2023 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 463 | Rene Goscinny | Asterix, First Eight English translated Editions and First Prints |
1970 and 1979 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 464 | John Hunt | Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture 1200 to 1600 |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | ||
| 465 | Anne Crookshank | Irish Art: The Painters of Ireland c1660-1920 |
EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 466 | A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland |
1837 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | ||
| 467 | Francis Grose - The antiquities of Ireland |
1982 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 468 | W Henry Bartlett | Ireland: The Scenery and antiquities of Ireland illustrated from drawings |
c1850 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 469 | Jacqueline O'Brien and Peter Harbison | Irish Interest Coffee Table Books: Ancient Ireland- from orehistory to the middle ages |
EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 470 | Sir Edward Sullivan | Irish Interest Coffee Table Books: The Book of Kells described |
1986 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 471 | Snaffles- Two rare first editions |
EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |||
| 472 | Somerville and Ross | A Patrick's Day Hunt |
EUR 120.00 - 240.00 | Unknown | ||
| 473 | Somerville and Ross- seven volumes by and about these authors of the Irish R.M. |
EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |||
| 474 | Edward Fitzgerald | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
London | 1913 | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | 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.")
