Purcell Auctioneers: C.600 Lot Auction to include Antiquarian Books, Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions, Maps, Irish Literature & Poetry, Local Histories, Fine Bindings, Republican Interest,GAA Programmes & Books , 12126, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 21, 2026 - January 21, 2026

Page Size: 601 items in 25 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
251	Padraig O'Farrell.	Who's who in the Irish war of Independence 1916-1921		1980	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
252	Gerry Adams	Irish Nationalism: Gerry Adams- Before The dawn		1996	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
253	Le Roux, Louis N.	Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement.		1936	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
254		(Eamon de Valera. related). Commemorating Eamon Da Valera 1882 -- 1982, de Valera and Bruree. DEV his life & times -- Padraig O'Cleirigh, DEV -- G.P.Gallivan. ...			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
255	Thomas Cloney	Wexford Interest: A Personal Narrative of 1798		1832	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	Unknown
256	The Earl of Longford and Thomas P O' Neill,	Eamon De Valera: Eamon De Valera		1970	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Unknown
257	Alice L. Milligan,	Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone	Belfast	1898	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
258		The Spirit of Freedom: Bobby Sands Commemoration School Prize Essay by the Bobby Sands Commemoration		1983	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
259		(Republican Ephemera) Victory to the IRA, published circa 1971. Remember Bloody Sunday, published 1974.			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
260	Seamus Heaney and Barry Flanagan.	The Names of The Hares.			EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
261		A collection of Swiss topographical engravings		1820	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
262	Irish Artist W.C. Mills. Walter Charles Mills)	POPE PIUS X	Dublin and London		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
263	Pablo Picasso	Pablo Picasso Adam International Review No. 322-23-24		1967	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
264		IRISHWOMEN CHAINS OR CHANGE, (Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM)) Group's manifesto.	Dublin	1971	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
265		[Christmas in Maiden Street, Early Work Michael Hartnett] The Annual Observer 1979.		1979	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
266	Jim Fitzpatrick	Jim Fitzpatrick Celtic Art Calendar 1998. Real Ireland, Jim Fitzpatrick		1998	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
267	Mairtin O Direain	Clochadoir,		1974	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
268	James McKenna --	SONG. Produced in 1972		1972	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
269		Diarmuid O Donnabain Rosa 1831-1915. Souvenir Booklet		2015	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
270		Muintir Wolfe Tone - Fo -cloiste na Gaeilge - A press release and other items of ephemera relating to the drive to provide free school books for Irish schools , May 1968.		1968	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
271		Austin Stack: Archive of letters including one written in Kilmainham Gaol dated 19th June 1916.		1916	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	Unknown
272	Michael & Sarah Longley.	Dragonfly. Limited Edition No.28 of 75 Numbered Copies, A six line poem		2021	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
273	Armitage, Simon.	In Memory of Water. 2022. A set of broadsheets together with a title sheet SIGNED			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
274		Christies catalogue of the contents of Birr Castle 7/8 October 1981. Illustrated. Scarce and Christies catalogue of Lisnacran, Dun Laoghaire. 2nd May		1987	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	Unknown
275		McCormack Fine Art. Auction catalogue re contents of 24 Wellington Rd., Ballsbridge on 28th May 1991			EUR 40.00 - 50.00	Unknown

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.