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
301	J.R.R.Tolkien -	Smith of Wootton Major,	London	1967	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
302	Michael Wm. Selby Bruce	Songs from the Saddle: A Collection of Rhymes and Songs	Dublin	1917	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
303	Mr. John Levy, Barrister,	Important and admirable pamphlet consisting of a series of letters to the Irish Times,	Dublin,	1867	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
304	James Joyce -	POMES PENYEACH, Published	Paris	1927	EUR 120.00 - 240.00	Unknown
305	Lord Byron --	English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire,		1809	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
306	Julius Vindex -	Antidotes to cure the catholicophobia and ienephobia: efficacious to eradicate the horrors against Catholics and Irishmen, early instilled prejudices,	Dublin	1804	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
307		Dublin and South Eastern Railway Pocket Time Table. October 1917 and until further notice.		1917	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
308	Seamus Heaney.	Seamus Heaney. Illustrated photograph of "The Tollund Man". 1994 with letter from Seamus Heaney on reverse		1994	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
309		Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann- Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann Ennis May 1956, Souvenir Programme; Ceol- A Journal of Irish Music, April 1968; Welsh Rugby Union, Wales V Ireland Match Programme April 1987 (3)			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
310	Seumas O'Sullivan.	[Harry Clarke] Editor's Choice. Little Anthology of Poems Selected from Dublin Magazine		1944	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
311	Darrell Figgis	The Gaelic State in the Past & Future.		1917	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
312	Thomas MacDonagh.	Pagans: A Modern Play in two Conversations	Dublin,	1920	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
313	Darrell M. Figgis.	A Short Plot - A Sidelight on Political Expediency		1918	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
314	Rev. Richard S. Devane S. J.	The Imported Press a National Menace -- some Remedies		1950	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
315	Caitia ni Chormaic,	[Early Candles Press]. Here Beginneth the Wisdom of the World: a Book of Wonder Tales told by An Philibin illustrated		1919	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
316		The book of constitutions comprising the laws and regulations of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland, To which are appended the old charges, prayers and forms to be used in lodges, and the book of clothing and insignia. Published by aut	Dublin,	1910	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
317		1798 Rebellion: The History of the Irish Rebellion in the year 1798 ...		1808	EUR 120.00 - 180.00	Unknown
318	Thomas Lacy	Assorted Bundle (7) of Irish interest books: Home Sketches on Both Sides of the Channel		1852	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
319	Rev. James Gordon,	1798 Rebellion: History of the Rebellion in Ireland in the year 1798 containing an impartial account of the proceedings of the Irish revolutionists, from the year 1782 till the suppression of the Rebellion.	Dublin	1801	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
320	Charles Hamilton Teeling,	1798 Rebellion: History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 -- A Personal Narrative		n.d.	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
321	Sir Richard Musgrave,	Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland from the arrival of the English	Dublin	1801	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	Unknown
322	Edmund Borlase,	The History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion Traced from many Preceding Acts to the Grand Eruptions the 23 of October 1641 and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement MDCLXII [1662].	London	1680	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
323	Francis Plowden	An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, 3 vols.		1803	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
324	Eugene O'Curry	Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 3 vols		1873	EUR 180.00 - 240.00	Unknown
325	Richard Blackmore	Association Copy. Prince Arthur -- An Heroic Poem in Ten Books		1696	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	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.