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
76		Maps: County Tipperary, North Riding. Recorded Monuments- Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Sheet 1-54.		1901-05/1953	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
77		Maps: County Tipperary, South Riding. Recorded Monuments- Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Sheet 1-91.		map 1905-07/ SMR 1997	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
78	Denis Marnane.	Land and Violence. A History of West Tipperary from 1660		1985	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
79	Peter Harbison/Homan Potterson and Jeanne Sheehy	Irish Interest: Irish Art and Architecture		1978	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
80	Nolan and Power eds	Waterford History and Society		1992	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
81	Rev. R. H. Ryland,	Waterford Interest: The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford with an account of the present state of the peasantry of that part of the south of Ireland.	London	1824	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
82		Waterford Remembers		1916	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
83	Compiled by Edmund Downey.	Waterford. An illustrated guide and tourists' handbook.		1926	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
84	Donal O'Brien	The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath		2015	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
85		Westmeath: Ordnance Survey Letters- Westmeath, in 1837. Reproduced 1931; Westmeath as others saw it by Jeremiah Sheehan			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
86		Houses of Wexford (Rowe and Scallan,		2004	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
87	Christiaan Corlett editor),	Beneath the Poulaphuca reservoir: the 1939 Poulaphuca survey of the lands flooded by the Liffey reservoir scheme -	Dublin	2008	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
88	William Laffan & Kevin V. Mulligan.	Russborough, a Great Irish House, Its Families and Collections.		2014	EUR 120.00 - 200.00	Unknown
89	Hannigan and Nolan eds	Wicklow History and Society.		1994	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
90		Kilkenny edited by John Kirwan; Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow edited by P Sweetman		1993	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
91	Rev Owen Devaney;	Ardagh & Clommacnois - Footprints of Mel and Ciaran			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
92	Norah J. Henderson.	Memories of Cushendall [County Antrim]	Belfast.	1935	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
93	Hughes and Nolan eds	Armagh History and Society		2001	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
94	edited by E M Boyle, facsimile copy	Ulster: St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh, hand stitched publication c 1940's; Boyle's Records of Limavady 1609-1808		1989	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
95	edited by W C Kerr	Ulster: ordnance Survey Memoir of the Parish of Derryaghy 1837		1983	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
96	Gerard O'Brien ed	Derry-Londonderry History and Society		1999	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
97	Alan Gailey	Ulster: Rural Houses of the North of Ireland		1984	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
98	Brian Bonner	Derry: Derry- an Outline History of Derry		1982	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
99	Lindsay Proudfoot ed	Down History and Society		1997	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
100	Lady Mabel Annsley.	Richard Rowley. County Down Songs. 1924. Illustrated with attractive woodcuts.		1924	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	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.