Purcell Auctioneers: Timed Book Auction - Antiquarian, Modern Literary, Signed Editions etc. etc.., 601579, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 05, 2026 - January 05, 2026

Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Maraini, Fosco.	Secret Tibet.	London	1952	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 46.33
2	Unsworth, Walt	Savage Snows: The Story of Mont Blanc		1987	EUR 15.00 - 30.00	EUR 32.17
3		Dublin: Corporation of Dublin- Dublin City Development Plan		1971	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
4		Irish Interest: In Search of Peaks, Passes and Glaciers-Irish Alpine Pioneers,		2013	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 39.89
5	Gherardo Priuli.	Mont Blanc, Chamonix, Courmayeur in the Old Prints, second edition revised and enlarged		1987	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 25.74
6	Hodges, Rev. Richard J Edited by W. T. Pike.	Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies		1911	EUR 250.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
7		Collection of Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley, Half Calf (10) Collection of Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley, Half Calf (11)			EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 38.61
8		Irish Independent Eucharistic Congress Souvenir and Record		1932	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 64.35
9	Lewis, Samuel (-1865)	A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland	London	1837	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 64.35
10	Lilly, John	Modern Entries: being a Collection of Select Pleadings. Savoy [ie. London]:		1741	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 25.74
11	Hall, Edward	Hall's Chronicle. Containing The History Of England During The Reign Of Henry The Fourth, And The Succeeding Monarchs, To The End Of The Reign Of Henry The Eighth		1809	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
12	Sir Robert Ker Porter.	A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia during the year		1812. c.1815.	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 59.20
13	T M Healy	Irish Related: Letters and Leaders of my Day		1929	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 25.74
14	William Wilde	The Boyne and Blackwater			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 39.89
15	Edited by K M Lanigan	Kilkenny/Carlow/Kildare: Kilkenny Its Architecture & History		1977	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 52.76
16	Edited by John Crowley.	Atlas Of The Irish Revolution			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
17	Edited by Robert Devoy, Val Cummins, Barry Brunt, Darius Bartlett and Sarah Kandrot.	The Coastal Atlas of Ireland.		2021	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 66.92
18	Edited by Crowley Smyth and Murphy.	Atlas of the Great Irish Famine			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
19		Female Authors: Deirdre Purcell. That Childhood Country		1992	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
20		Dublin Related: County Borough Of Dublin and Neighbourhood, Town Planning Report Sketch Development Plan		1941	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 28.31
21		Signed Poetry Books. John Liddy (Co. Cork) The Well, Lorna Shaughnessy (Belfast) Torching the Brown River, Joan McBreen (Dublin)...			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 25.74
22		100 Years of the Meath Chronicle Newspaper			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 33.46
23		British Liberties or the Free-born Subject's Inheritance			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 25.74
24		Irish Language: Mearcair		1996	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 32.17
25		Irish Interest: A Secret History of the IRA		2002	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 33.46

Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.
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.