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
450 Lord Dunsany.

The Year.

1946 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
451 Lord Dunsany.

The Sirens Wake

1940 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
452 Boland, Eavan,

In Her Own Image,

1980 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 Unknown
453 Barry, Sebastian;

Time out of Mind and Strappado Square.

1983 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
454 Yeats, W. B.

Sories Of Red Hanrahan And The Secret Rose.

 1927 EUR 80.00 - 180.00 Unknown
455 Yeats, W. B..

The Winding Stair and Other Poems.

 101 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 Unknown
456 Yeats, W. B..

The Tower.

 New York - 1928 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
457 Yeats, W. B..

The Cutting of an Agate.

 London: 1919 EUR 180.00 - 280.00 Unknown
458 Adams, Douglas.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

 1979 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 Unknown
459 Danny Sugerman -

WONDERLAND AVENUE, Tales of Glamour and Excess,

 London 1989 EUR 400.00 - 450.00 Unknown
460 Dennis Wheatley -

The Prisoner in the Mask,

 London 1947 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
461 Bayley, D. and Furze-Morrish,

The Birth of a Nation and its Destiny -

 London, United Kingdom 1932 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 Unknown
462

Irish Authors: Collected Poems

 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
463 John McGahern

The Pornographer

 1979 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
464 McGahern, John

The Dark

New York 1966 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
465

Irirh Authors ALL SIGNED: SongDogs

 1995 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
466 John McGahern:

John McGahern: A wonderful collection of titles some of which are First Editions, such as The Pornographer; Getting Through; Memoir and others

 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
467

The Catholic Scout Volume 2 March 1938 - February 1934.

 Dublin 1934 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
468

A Byron Library A Catalogue of Printed Books Manuscripts and Autograph Letters - George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron, Thomas James Wise, Ethel Colburn Mayne (introduction),

London 1928 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 Unknown
469

ALL SIGNED Titles: Ghost Light Joseph O'Connor 2010; The Factory Facts Luc Sante 1998; Two Moons Jennifer Johnston 1998 plus 6 others (9)6 HB

 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
470

Chamber's Memoranda for 1899, containing handwritten entries from a unnamed Irish Civil Servant, possibly attached to the department of Agriculture/Finance.

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
471 Monk Gibbon

Monk Gibbon: Seventeen Sonnets.

 London 1932 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
472 P.J.McCall -

Selected Ballads and Poems,

Wexford 1955 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
473

The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton - The Hakluyt Society other travel and early English texts (13)

 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
474 Sir R. F. Burton.)

Rare Erotica) The Perfumed Garden, For the soul's Delectation, Translated from the Arabic of THE SHAYKH NAFZAWI (XV Saec.). The First of Three Volumes. "This is no baby's book."

PARIS and BENARES, 1907 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
  • <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>29th January 2026</b></center> <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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 <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>29th January 2026</b></center> <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Shakespeare (William). <i>The Dramatic Works,</i> 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Joyce (James). <i>Ulysses,</i> first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000 <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>29th January 2026</b></center> <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Chaucer (Geoffrey). <i>Troilus and Criseyde,</i> one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Borges (Jorge Luis). <i>Luna de Enfrente,</i> first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Nolli (Giovanni Battista). <i>Nuova Pianta di Roma,</i> Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000 <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>29th January 2026</b></center> <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Roberts (David). <i>The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia,</i> 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Blacker (William). <i>Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing,</i> Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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
    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
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana<br>27 January 2026</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000. <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana<br>27 January 2026</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> (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. <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> 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. <b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [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.
    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.