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
401	L. Fogarty.	Father John Kenyon: a Patriot Priest of Forty-Eight [Templederry]		1921	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
402	Reeves.	Irish Form of Consecration of Churches		1893	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
403		Speech of Earl of Clare, Lord Chancellor of Ireland [John Fitzgibbon, Mountshannon House, Limerick].	Dublin.	1800	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
404	Roderic O'Flaherty; James Hely, Vol 1-2	Ogygia : or, a Chronological Account of Irish events: collected from very ancient documents, faithfully compared with each other, and supported by the Genealogical and Chronological Aid of the sacred and prophane writings of the first nations of the globe		1793	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
405	Richard Mant, Bishop of Down,	Biographical notices of the apostles, evangelists, and other saints, with reflexions and collects, adapted to the minor festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland -		1828	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
406	Jean Racine -	Oeuvres de Jean Racine, four volumes complete,	Paris	1813	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
407	David Ramsay	American Interest: Life of George Washington		1807	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	Unknown
408	Chris Lawlor --	The massacre on Dunlavin Green. Ronan Coughlan -- Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend. Maura Murphy Gibson --...			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
408A	John B. Keane.	The Buds of Ballybunion		1979	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
409	J M Barrie.	Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.		1906	EUR 150.00 - 350.00	Unknown
410	William Carlton Jack B. Yeats) --	The Black Prophet,	London.	1899	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
411	Francis Stuart -	GLORY,	New York	1933	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
412	Eavan Boland,	A Poet's Dublin, published 2016. In a Time of Violence, published 1994. Against Love Poetry, published 2001.			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
413	Patrick Kavanagh	NIGHT UNSTARRED, edited, with introduction and epilogue			EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Unknown
414	Peter Kavanagh, [Foreword Patrick Kavanagh]	Patrick Kavanagh Country -- Peter Kavanagh,	Curragh, Co Kildare, Ireland	1978	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	Unknown
415		The Tain -- Thomas Kinsella, Louis le Brocquay, published 1970. Jesus Break His Fall -- Paul Durcan, published 1980. The Spirit Level -- Seamus Heaney, published 1996. ...			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
416	James Joyce	ULYSSES,	London	1949	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
417	O'Donnell, Peadar.	Wrack, A Play In Six Scenes. Jonathan Cape, London, dj		1933	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
418	John O'The North.	The Dancing man and Other Verses		1950	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
419	Kazuo Ishiguro -	Never Let Me Go,		2005	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Unknown
420	J.K. Rowling -	Harry Potter agus an Orchloch (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone),	London	2004	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
421	Seamus Heaney.	The Burial at Thebes.		2004	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
422	Seamus Heaney.	The Haw Lantern.		1987	EUR 250.00 - 400.00	Unknown
423	Seamus Heaney.	District and Circle.		2006	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	Unknown
424	Seamus Heaney.	Sweeney Astray. A Version from The Irish.	New York.	1984	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	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.