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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
575		Thomas McGrath: Religious Renewal and Reform	1999-2004	EUR 40.00 - 81.00	Unknown
576	J.H. Morgan, editor	Irish Interest: The New Irish constitution : an exposition and some arguments		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
577	Tom Paulin	Irish Interest: Writing to the Moment Selected Critical Essays 1980-1996	1996	EUR 50.00 - 81.00	Unknown
578	edited by R Gillespie and Harold O'Sullivan	Irish Interest: The Borderlands- Essays on the History of the Ulster-Leinster Border	1989	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
579	edited by John Crowley etc	Irish Atlases: Atlas of the Irish Revolution	2018	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
580		Irish Art: Treasures From Cardinal Tomas O Fiach Memorial Library & Archive, slipcased	2010	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
581		The Dore Gallery Vol 1-2	c1870	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
582		Art: Raphael Bette Talvacchia	2007	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
583		(Irish Republican, Troubles, Nationalism)		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
584		A Collection of Republican and Irish language interest		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
585		An eclectic mix of Postal History and correspondence	earliest 1841	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
586		The Works of Tobias Smollett	1899/1900	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
587		A Box of Irish and other interests		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
588		Irish Interest: Collection of Varied Irish related titles		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
589		A collection of Modern First Editions		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
590		Reimagining Ireland Editors: Eamon Maher Vol 1-55		EUR 80.00 - 180.00	Unknown
591		A collection of Irish Language, mostly vintage hardcover		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
592		Clergy of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
593		Irish Republicanism: Collection of Republican Titles		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
594		Irish Republicanism: Collection of Republican Titles		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
595		Tipperary: Roscrea People 12 issues		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
596	Guy St. John	Horse Racing: The Cheltenham Gold Cup Immortals Williams		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
597	Francis P M Hyland	Horse Racing: History of Galway Races	2008	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
598	W. H. Jeffrey	Wexford collection. The Castles of Co. Wexford		EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
599	edited by William Laffan	An eclectic selection of Irish related titles such as Painting Ireland	2006	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.