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
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

Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.