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
126		Laois GAA: Ninety Years of GAA in Laois-Insight into Laois GAA affairs 1884-1974		1975	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
127		Clare GAA: History of Shannon Gaels 1887-1990 in the Parish of Kilmurry McMahon/ Labasheeda		2001	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
128	John Clarke	Offaly GAA: The Glorious Hundred- History of the Tullamore GAA 1888-1988		1988	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
129	Brid Griffin	Sand In Our Boots- Origins and History of Beale GAA 1898-2014			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
130	Gabriel M Brock	Fermanagh: The Gaelic Athletic Association in County Fermanagh		1984	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
131	Tom Mongey/Mick Mongey and Damien McBride	Meath GAA: Rathkenny GAA A History			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
132	Jim McGovern	GAA Wexford: Coming of Age in Wexford GAA 1983-2004		2005	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
133	Ryall, Tom Kilkenny	The GAA Story 1884-1984	Kilkenny	1984	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
134		Louth: The GAA in Louth- An Historical Record		1984	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
135		Longford GAA: The Story of Saint Patrick's GAA Club Ardagh 1889-1984			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
136	larry Meegan	Monaghan GAA: The Inniskeen Story- A History 1888-1955		1988	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
137		GAA: 2 Volume set of History of the GAA in Skryne		2012	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
138	Joe O Muircheartaigh and T J Flynn	Princes of Pigskin- A Century of Kerry Footballers		2007	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
139		A Lifetime in Hurling	London	1955	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
140		Munster GAA Story [ 1887-194]		1984	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
141	Liam P. O Caithnia	Sceal Na hIomana. O Thosach Ama Go 1884	Dublin	1980	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
142		Offaly GAA: Edenderry		1997	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
143	Timmy O'Neill	[signed by Michel O'Muircheartaigh and eminent players] Up the Well		[1984]	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
144	Willie D White	GAA Carlow: Kildavin GAA Club		2013	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
145	Senan Cooke	A History of the GAA in Kilmacow 1884-2010		2010	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
146	Eddie Keher	GAA: The Rower-Inistioge			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
147	Michael Kelly and John Kenneally	The Shamrocks Story- History of the GAA in the parish of Ballyhale 1872-2022		2022	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
148	Ultan Macken	Eddie Keher's Hurling Story-a biography of the famous Kilkenny hurler		1978	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
149		Kellie -- Kellie Harrington & Roddy Doyle		2022	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
150	Ryall, Tom	SIGNED Kilkenny. The GAA Story 1884-1984	Kilkenny	1984	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown

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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.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: 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.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
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.