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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 | Edited by Angelique Day | Letters from Georgian Ireland -- The Correspondence of Mary Delaney 1731-1768 |
1991 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 501 | Sir F.J. Aylmer | The Aylmers of Ireland |
1931 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 502 | Jonathan Guinness | Requiem for a Family Business |
1997 | EUR 50.00 - 70.00 | Unknown | |
| 503 | The Voice of the Nation |
Dublin | 1844 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 504 | Katharine Stewart | (Folklore and Irish Music) - Crofts and Crofting |
1980 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 505 | edited by Rev. W. MacIlwaine, D.D., M.R.I.A. | Lyra Hibernica Sacra |
Belfast | Circa 1879 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 506 | Liam Miller | (Print Related) |
1973 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 507 | Proceedings of the Dublin Zoological & Botanical Association |
1859 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | ||
| 508 | Apologia Pro Hibernia Adversus Cambri Calumnias: sive Fabularum et Famosorum Libellorum Silvestri Giraldi Cambrensis sub vocabulis Topographie, sive de Mirabilibus Hibernie, et Historie Vaticinalis, sive Expugnationis Ejusdem Insulie Refutatio |
Dublin | 1849 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 509 | In Memoriam Sir Robert Baird |
Belfast | 1934 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 510 | [Dail Eireann and the War of Independence] |
August 1921 to June 1922 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 511 | Oscar Wilde | Stuart Mason. Art and Morality |
1912 | EUR 60.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 512 | Charles Squire | Celtic Myth and Legend |
EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | Unknown | ||
| 513 | George MacDonald | (Vintage Children's) -- The Princess and the Goblin |
1952 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 514 | Mrs. S. C. Hall | Stories of the Irish Peasantry |
Edinburgh | Circa 1844 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 515 | Louis De Bernieres | (Six Limited Editions, Signed) -- Birds Without Wings |
2004 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 516 | John O'Hart | The Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland |
Dublin | 1884 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 517 | John O'Mahony | The Sunny Side of Ireland |
Circa 1900 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 518 | Alexis Roche | Journeys with Jerry the Jarvey |
London | 1915 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 519 | W. Steuart Trench | Realities of Irish life |
1869 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 520 | Liam S. Gogan | The Ardagh Chalice |
EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 521 | Newport White | Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions 1540-1541 from MSS in PRO London |
1943 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 522 | Murroe and Boher the history of an Irish Country Parish by Dom Mark Tierney and Bruree |
1971 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 523 | Maire MacNeill | The Festival of Lughnasa (A Study of the Survival of the Celtic Festival of the Beginning of Harvest) |
1962 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 524 | Padraic Colum. A Half Day's Ride or Estates in Corsica |
New York | 1922 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | 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.")
