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 | EUR 875.00 | |
| 451 | A 1972 edition of 'The History of the Olympic Games in Thirteen Posters' |
Texaco | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 50.00 | ||
| 452 | Pauline Bewick | Kelly reads Bewick |
2001 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 453 | Wendy Walsh | A Lifetime of Painting |
Dublin | 2007 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | EUR 125.00 |
| 454 | Twelve Irish Artists |
Dublin | 1940 | EUR 150.00 - 180.00 | EUR 100.00 | |
| 455 | William Conor | The Irish Scene |
1944 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 62.50 | |
| 456 | The Painters of Ireland c, 1660-1920 |
EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 43.75 | |||
| 457 | Thomas Bodkin | Hugh Lane and his Pictures |
1932 | EUR 300.00 - 320.00 | Not Sold | |
| 458 | Richard Lovett | Irish Pictures Drawn by pen and Pencil |
London | 1888 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | EUR 75.00 |
| 459 | The Knights of Glin: Seven Centuries of Change |
2009 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | EUR 100.00 | ||
| 460 | White Heat - Marco Pierre White |
London | 1990 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | Not Sold | |
| 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 | EUR 200.00 | |
| 462 | HB, Callaway | Sean & Oisin Scully; Jack the Wolf |
2023 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 81.25 | |
| 463 | Rene Goscinny | Asterix, First Eight English translated Editions and First Prints |
1970 and 1979 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | EUR 68.75 | |
| 464 | John Hunt | Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture 1200 to 1600 |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 106.25 | ||
| 465 | Anne Crookshank | Irish Art: The Painters of Ireland c1660-1920 |
EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | EUR 162.50 | ||
| 466 | A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland |
1837 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | EUR 93.75 | ||
| 467 | Francis Grose - The antiquities of Ireland |
1982 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | EUR 125.00 | ||
| 468 | W Henry Bartlett | Ireland: The Scenery and antiquities of Ireland illustrated from drawings |
c1850 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 68.75 | |
| 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 | EUR 50.00 | ||
| 470 | Sir Edward Sullivan | Irish Interest Coffee Table Books: The Book of Kells described |
1986 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 43.75 | |
| 471 | Snaffles- Two rare first editions |
EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | EUR 187.50 | |||
| 472 | Somerville and Ross | A Patrick's Day Hunt |
EUR 120.00 - 240.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 473 | Somerville and Ross- seven volumes by and about these authors of the Irish R.M. |
EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | EUR 87.50 | |||
| 474 | Edward Fitzgerald | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
London | 1913 | EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | EUR 93.75 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9d2762bc-9f26-47ef-96de-1c28070e19f6.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [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.")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df7dd9ac-f0d0-4cb3-a44d-2731758530e4.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/c40bad29-8cb5-4347-a0fd-5361d39e84a5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b7fdee12-4803-4d32-9330-a5729091cb92.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a06cc0dd-7619-45e9-b155-5ad75ed7b2e5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/7f9e9df2-b83a-40aa-a1b7-a535a02705d5.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/1832c377-f148-4e66-ba22-33bef01d81a7.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df958814-0689-4876-8b73-cfe5c0c6ad24.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800")
