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 Report
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
550 McDonnell and Healy

Gold-Tooled Bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century

1987 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
551 M S Dudley Westropp

Irish Glass

c 1920 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 175.00
552 Myrtle Allen, (Introduction by Len Deighton)

The Ballymaloe Cookbook

Dublin 1977 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 81.25
553

Memoirs of Charley Crofts Containing Numerous Highly Entertaining Anecdotes

1829 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 37.50
554

Ireland, Secret Societies: The Mysteries of Ireland, giving a graphic and faithful account of Irish Secret Societies and their Plots, from the Rebellion of 1798 to the year 1883

[about 1883] EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 118.75
555 Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

New York, USA 1900 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.00
556

The Modern Irish Drama: The Irish Literary Theatre 1899-1901

1975-1984 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 100.00
557 James Stephens

Irish Fairy Tales

London 1920 EUR 1,750.00 - 2,250.00 Not Sold
558 Shane Leslie

The Skull of Swift an Extempore Exhumation

1928 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
559

(Wexford Intertest) Family Prayers for Every Morning and Evening, during a month

London circa 1840 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
560 Ronan Bennett

Irish Interest:The Catastrophist

1998 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
561 Frank Delaney

Irish Authors: Ireland- A Novel

2004 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
562 edited by Richard J Finneran

Irish Interest: Letters of james Stephens

1974 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
563 Noel P Wilkins

(Clare Interest) Humble Works for Humble People: A History of the Fishery Piers of County Galway and North Clare, 1800 -- 1922

2017 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
564 Robert Hogan

Irish Interest: After The Irish Renaissance - a critical history of the Irish drama since " The Plough and the Stars"

1968 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
565 Neal Garnham

Irish Interest: The Courts, Crime and the Criminal Law in Ireland, 1692-1760

1996 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
566 Richard Dawkins

(Four Richard Dawkins First UK Editions, First Prints signed by the author via bookplates]

1996 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
567 Robert Brennan

Allrgiance

1950 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
568 Anne Enright

(Irish Writers Signed First Editions) The Wren The Wren

2023 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
569 Muarice Bourgeois

Irish Interest: John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre

1913 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
570

Irish Interest: Programme and Menu for Garden Party at Aras an Uachtarain on June 2011

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
571 Dennis Gray

(Mountaineering Interest) Rope Boy

1970 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
572 J Mitchell Morse

James Joyce Interest: The Sympathetic Alien- James Joyce and Catholicism

1959 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
573 Marcus Bourke

Irish Interest: John O'Leary A Study in Irish Separatism

1967 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
574 Mary Lavin

(Vintage Children's) The Second-Best Children in the world

1972 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
  • 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.
  • 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