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	Not Sold
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	EUR 37.50
78	Denis Marnane.	Land and Violence. A History of West Tipperary from 1660		1985	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 200.00
79	Peter Harbison/Homan Potterson and Jeanne Sheehy	Irish Interest: Irish Art and Architecture		1978	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
80	Nolan and Power eds	Waterford History and Society		1992	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 150.00
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	Not Sold
82		Waterford Remembers		1916	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 93.75
83	Compiled by Edmund Downey.	Waterford. An illustrated guide and tourists' handbook.		1926	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
84	Donal O'Brien	The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath		2015	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
85		Westmeath: Ordnance Survey Letters- Westmeath, in 1837. Reproduced 1931; Westmeath as others saw it by Jeremiah Sheehan			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
86		Houses of Wexford (Rowe and Scallan,		2004	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 162.50
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	EUR 37.50
88	William Laffan & Kevin V. Mulligan.	Russborough, a Great Irish House, Its Families and Collections.		2014	EUR 120.00 - 200.00	EUR 112.50
89	Hannigan and Nolan eds	Wicklow History and Society.		1994	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
90		Kilkenny edited by John Kirwan; Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow edited by P Sweetman		1993	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
91	Rev Owen Devaney;	Ardagh & Clommacnois - Footprints of Mel and Ciaran			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
92	Norah J. Henderson.	Memories of Cushendall [County Antrim]	Belfast.	1935	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
93	Hughes and Nolan eds	Armagh History and Society		2001	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
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	EUR 93.75
95	edited by W C Kerr	Ulster: ordnance Survey Memoir of the Parish of Derryaghy 1837		1983	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
96	Gerard O'Brien ed	Derry-Londonderry History and Society		1999	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
97	Alan Gailey	Ulster: Rural Houses of the North of Ireland		1984	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
98	Brian Bonner	Derry: Derry- an Outline History of Derry		1982	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
99	Lindsay Proudfoot ed	Down History and Society		1997	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
100	Lady Mabel Annsley.	Richard Rowley. County Down Songs. 1924. Illustrated with attractive woodcuts.		1924	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 75.00

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.