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
376	McCarthy, Samuel Trant.	The MacCarthys of Munster: The Story of a Great Irish Sept. 1st Edition. A Facsimile Edition.		1997	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
377	John O'Hart with intro by Edward MacLysaght.	The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry		1969	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
378	Patrick O'Connor	People Make Places Story of the Irish Palatines			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
379	P. W. Joyce. Intro by R. L. Thomson.	The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places		1972	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
380	P. J. McCall	Four works: The Fenian Nights' Entertainments (1897 -- First Series); In the Shadow of St Patrick's (1894 1st ed); Pulse of the Bards (1904,...			EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
381	James Godkin.	The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times.	London.	1870	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
382	P.W. Joyce.	Irish Names of Places Three Volumes -- Vols I and II		1883	EUR 80.00 - 140.00	Unknown
383	W. S. Trench.	Realities of Irish Life.		c.1875	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	Unknown
384		Curragh Chase Library. Pensees de Blaise Pascal.	Paris.	1823	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
385	W H Bartlett	The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland'			EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
386	John Tyndall (Carlow scientist)	The Forms of Water.		1889	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
387	P.W. Joyce --	A Social History of Ancient Ireland VOL II,			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
388	Terence O'Hanlon. Foreword by Late Father Pat Walshe.	The Minstrel of Erin a selection of national poetry arranged with notes		1930	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
389	Painted by Alex Williams RHA, Described by Stephen Gwynn-	Beautiful Ireland. Painted by Alex Williams RHA, Described by Stephen Gwynn-			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
390		Report of the Irish Boundary Commission first publication of the 1925 document with an introduction.		1969	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
391	Eoin O'Kelly.	The Old Private Banks and Bankers of Munster. Bankers of Cork and Limerick Cities		1959	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
392	Frederick O'Dwyer.	The Architecture of Deane and Woodward.		1997	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
393	Edited with Introduction by Patrick F. Moran. Bishop of Ossory -- David Rothe,	The Analecta of David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory.	Dublin	1884	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
394		Irish Interest: County Tipperary Old I R A Commemorative Millennium Calender			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
395		The Viking Period in Europe. Bundle of four books: Land, Sea and Home -- Settlement in the Viking Period		2004	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
396	Captain Robert Monteith,	Author Inscribed: Casement's Last Adventure	Chicago	1932	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
397		The impact of the Reformation. A seventeenth-century tract: The Difference of the Case between the separation of Protestants from the Church of Rome, and the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England.	London	1683	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
398		Three works by poet and songwriter P.J. McCall: Irish Noinins (1894 1st ed); In the Shadow of St Patrick's (1894 1st ed); Songs of Erin (1899 1st ed); Biography...			EUR 70.00 - 90.00	Unknown
399	P.J. McCall	Two anthologies by Dublin-born, but with strong Wexford ancestry, P.J. McCall -- Irish Noinins (1894) and Irish Fire-side Songs (1911).		1894, 1911	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
400	Capt W F Lyons -	Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher,		1869	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	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.