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
351	William Allingham.	Songs, Ballads and Stories.		1877	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
352		1798 Rebellion: a) Some Notes of an Irish Exile of 1798 (Miles Byrne, Maunsel and Co., n.d.); b) Memoirs of Miles Byrne, edited by his widow. (Irish University Press 1972 -- First published Paris 1863)			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
353		Wexford Interest: Three anthologies by Wexford woman W.M. Letts: Songs from Leinster		1923	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
354	N Bailey.	Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a more CompleatUniversal Etymological English Dictionary Than any Extant	London	1736	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
355	Thomas Wrigh7	The History of Ireland, From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time			EUR 70.00 - 150.00	Unknown
356		Lepper and Crosbie; History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in Ireland with volumes 2, History of the Grand Lodge of Ireland			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
357	Alex Williams.	My Ireland of Dreams.		1985	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
358	Crowley, Smyth and Murphy eds,	Irish Great Famine: Atlas of the Great Irish Famine		2012	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
359		Major-General Colby. Principal Lines of Spirit Levelling in Ireland.		1853	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
360	DR Claude Costecalde & Jack Gallagher,	Hunting in Ireland, A Noble Irish Tradition --	Dublin	2004	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
361	W. Beckford.	Thoughts on Hunting.		1809	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
362	J. Fairfax-Blakeborough.	30 Years a Hunt Servant being the Memories of Jack Molyneux.		1933	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
363	Wilde, William.	Lough Corrib: Its Shores and Islands; With Notices of Lough Mask	Dublin.	1867	EUR 350.00 - 450.00	Unknown
364	Izaak Walton and C. Cotton.	The Complete Angler.		1870	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
365	Philip Geen.	What I Have Seen While Fishing.		1924	EUR 70.00 - 90.00	Unknown
366		The Spectator -- A New Edition -- published 1808. Ten volumes, issues No. 1 (March 1		1710-1714	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
367	G.H. Orpen, ed.,	Song of Dermot and the Earl		1892	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
368	Justin McCarthy,	A History Of Our Own Times. 7 Volumes	London	1910	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
369		Report of the Poor Law Commissioners or The Medical Charities in Ireland.	Dublin.	1841	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	Unknown
370	W.E.H. Lecky	History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century -- 5 vols COMPLETE		1892	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
371	R.R. Madden,	The United Irishmen -- Their Lives and Times	London	1842	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
372	Patrick Heffernan.	[scarce family History] The Heffernans and their Times. A Study in Irish History	London,	[1940]	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
373	George Westropp.	[Privately Printed Limited edition family history] . The Westropp Family 1250-2000.		2000	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
374	J.C. Walsh,	100 x J.C. Walsh, The Lament For John Mac Walter with notes on the history of the family of Walsh from 1170 to 1600.		1936	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
375		Onomatology: The Surnames of Ireland		1969	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	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.