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
26	Valerie Barry	Historical, Genealogical, Architectural Notes on Houses of Kerry		1994	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 62.50
27	Tom Fox	Dingle down the Years collection of old photographs			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
28	Norman McCloskey	Parklight: Images of Killarney National Park		-2013	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
29	Foley; Corca Dhuibhne	Irish Traditional Step Dancing in North Kerry an analysis		1986	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
30	J Connelly and S Sourke	Kildare: Kildare Town-Reeling in the Memories DVD		1996	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
31	John Healy	Maynooth College : its centenary history, 1795-1895		1895	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
32	Jeremiah Newman	Maynooth and Georgian Ireland		1979 and 1983	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 137.50
33	Salvador Ryan and John-Paul Sheridan, editors	Kildare: We Remember Maynooth-A College Across Four Centuries		2020	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
34		The Earl of Mayo and W.B. Boulton	London	1913	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
35	Rev Martin Brenan	Kildare: Schools of Kildare & Leighlin AD 1775-1835		1935	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
36		The Marquis of Kildare	Dublin	1858	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 525.00
37	Jeremiah Newman	Kildare: Maynooth and Georgian ireland		1979	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
38	William Nolan, editor	Kilkenny-History and Society		1990	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 68.75
39	Rev P Birch, editor	Kilkenny: Saint Kieran's College Kilkenny		1951	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
40	O'PHELAN, John	Epitaphs on the Tombs in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny ...	Dublin	1813	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
41	Feehan (John) Laois	An Environmental History	Stradbally	1983	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 350.00
42	Kevin V. Mulligan	Ballyfin, The Restoration of an Irish House & Demesne		2011	EUR 120.00 - 200.00	EUR 106.25
43	John Feehan	Laois An Environmental History		1983	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 118.75
44		Kildare: Nas na Riogh-From Poorhouse Road to the Fairy Flax		2001	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
45	J W H Carter	Laois: The Built Curiosities of Laois- Fifteen Tours		2012	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
46	Kevin Byrne	Laois: Just Another Town		2016	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
47	Risteard O Maolain	Laois: Athletics in Laois compiled		1956	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50
48	Ciaran Reilly	Laois: Cappard- An Irish Country House & Estate		1993	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
49	Daniel Mccarthy	Clare: Ireland's Banner County- Clare from the fall of Parnell to the Great War 1890-1918		2002	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
50	Larry O' Loughlain	Laois: A Century of Rosenallis Parish 1900-1999		1999	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50

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
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.