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

Auction Details

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
  • University Archives
    Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
    January 7, 2026
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    Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
    January 7, 2026
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Isaac Newton Highly Important Religious Manuscript With 85+ Words In His Hand, Ex-Bonhams
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    Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
    January 7, 2026
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    January 7, 2026
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  • Case Antiques
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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  • Sotheby’s
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