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

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Auction Report
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
301 Duffy, Charles Gavan Sir (1816-1903)

My Life In Two Hemispheres - complete in 2 volumes

1969 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 46.33
302 Sebastian Barry.

[Sebastian Barry rarity] Time out of Mind and Strappado Square

1983 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 129.98
303 Mairead Dunlevy

Irish Republicanism: Dublin Barracks- A Brief History of Collins Barracks, Dublin

2002 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
304 Lapide, Cornelius A:

Commentarius In Quatuor Evangelia.

Lugduni (Lyon). 1680 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 51.48
305 Arthur Champneys.

Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture.

1910 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 52.76
306

The Lost Distilleries of Ireland

1997 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 105.53
307

Lickmolassy the Shannon. A History of Gortanumera and surrounding parishes.

1998 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
308

Limerick Music Throughout the Decades. Paddy Brennan.

Limerick. 2018 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
309

Early Victorian album with numerous lithographs, some topographical. Decorative gilt pictorial cover

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 51.48
310 Andrew Lambirth.

W.B. Yeats -A Biography with Selected Poems.

1991 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
311

An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, From The First Introduction of Christianity Among The Irish To The Beginning of The Thirteenth Century Vol I-4 Lanigan, John

Dublin 1822 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
312

Dublin: Viking Settlement to Medieval Dublin, Daily Life 840-1540

1978 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
313 Sir Michael O'Dwyer,

The History of the O'Dwyers

2000 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 64.35
314

A Fanatic Heart. SIGNED, Edna O'brien

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania 1984 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 64.35
315 Daire Keogh.

The French Disease- in Ireland 1798-1800. Illustrated.

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 27.02
316 Paleologue, Maurice

Alfred Dreyfus: My secret diary of the Dreyfus Case 1894-1899

1957 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
317 Mary John Knott,

Two Months at Kilkee, a Watering Place

Reprint of 1836 edition EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 64.35
318 C Ernest Pain

Fishing Interest: A collection of Fishing related titles such as Fifty Years on the Test

1934 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 55.34
319 Roddy Doyle

Irish Literature: The Van

1991 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 38.61
320 D'Alton (John)

The History of Drogheda, with its Environs

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 78.50
321 Edited by Paul Duncan and Bengt Wanselius. Contributing editors Birgitta Steene, Peter Cowie, Bengt Forslund, and Ulla Aberg.

The Ingmar Bergman archives.

Hong Kong, 2008 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
322

HOK Fine Art catalogue re sale of contents of Mourne Park, Kilkel, Co. Down on the

2003 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
323 K. Milne

A History of the Royal Bank of Ireland.

1964 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
324 J. Walker.

Hide & Seek - The Irish Priest in the Vatican who defied the Nazi Command.

2001 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
325 Edited by Eamon de Buitlear

Irish Rivers

1985 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 27.02
  • Kestenbaum & Company Sale 115:
    The Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul of St. John’s, Newfoundland
    Featuring: Travel, Atlases, Natural History, Science, Medicine and Fine Color-Plate Books
    Thursday, 5th March, 2026
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (AMERICA). COLLOT, GEORGES H. VICTOR. Voyage dans l'Amérique Septentrionale…, Paris, 1826 (but printed 1804/5). $60,000 to $90,000.
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (INCUNABLE). SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ENTOMOLOGY). MERIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA. Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium, Amsterdam, 1719. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Kestenbaum & Company Sale 115:
    The Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul of St. John’s, Newfoundland
    Featuring: Travel, Atlases, Natural History, Science, Medicine and Fine Color-Plate Books
    Thursday, 5th March, 2026
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ATLAS). BLAEU, WILLEM JANZOON. <>Le Flambeau de la Navigation…, Amsterdam, 1620. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ATLAS). MERCATOR, GERARD. L'Atlas ou Méditations Cosmographiques de la fabrique du monde et Figure diceluy, Amsterdam, 1613. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ORNITHOLOGY). GOULD, JOHN. The Birds of Great Britain, London, (1862-)73. First edition. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Kestenbaum & Company Sale 115:
    The Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul of St. John’s, Newfoundland
    Featuring: Travel, Atlases, Natural History, Science, Medicine and Fine Color-Plate Books
    Thursday, 5th March, 2026
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ATLAS). BLAEU, WILLEM & JOHANNES. Appendix Theatri A. Ortelii et Atlantis G. Mercatoris…, Amsterdam, 1631. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ASTRONOMY). DOPPELMAYR, JOHANN GABRIEL. Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis, Nuremberg, 1742. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (BOTANY). WEINNMANN, JOHANN WILHELM. Duidelyke Vertoning, Eeniger Duizend in alle vier waerelds deelen wassende…, Amsterdam, 1739-48. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Kestenbaum & Company Sale 115:
    The Library of the late Dr. Michael D. Paul of St. John’s, Newfoundland
    Featuring: Travel, Atlases, Natural History, Science, Medicine and Fine Color-Plate Books
    Thursday, 5th March, 2026
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ENGLAND). KIP, JOHANNES. Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne, London, 1714-16. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ASTRONOMY). DOPPELMAYR, JOHANN GABRIEL. Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis, Nuremberg, 1742. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Kestenbaum, Mar. 5: (ARCHITECTURE). PIRANESI, GIOVANNI. (Miscellaneous). Prima parte di architetture e prospettive, (Paris, circa 1800). $12,000 to $18,000.
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000