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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	John Cummins	GAA Kildare: A History of Cadbury Gaelic Football Club		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
127	Eamonn Coleman	GAA Derry: The Boys of '93. Derry's All-Ireland Kings	2018	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
128	Joseph Martin	GAA Tyrone; The GAA in Tyrone-The Long Road to Glory	2003	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
129	Martin Ryan	GAA Cork: 3 by the Lee-the making of the Cork hurler's 3 in a row 1976-78	2006	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
130	Paul Rouse	GAA: The Hurlers-The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling	2018	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
131	Jerome Quinn	GAA Ulster: Ulster Football & Hurling Champions	1993	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
132	Edited by Paddy Madden .	Early and scarce Hurling Club History. History of Gaelic Games in Whitegate and Mountshannon 1825-1984 [County Clare].	1984	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
133		(Clare Interest) Pat McNamara & Kathleen McNamara - Skirts Hurlin' The Story of Camogie in Killanena,	2004	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
134	Alan Rogers	GAA Tyrone: Forever young on the Fields of Moy-100 year history of An Mhaigh Tir na nOg GAC	2008	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
135	Alan Aherne	GAA Wexford: Go On The Butters- Sarsfields GAA Club History 1907-2010		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
136		GAA: Collection of GAA Magazines: Ulster Games Annual (7) Michael O'Heirs World of Gaelic Games (2) plus 30 others (39)		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
137		GAA: Collection of GAA magazines including GAA-The Official Croke Park Annual (15); Greats of Gaelic Games (5) Gaelsport (6) (26)		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
138	Tom Humphries	GAA: Green Fields, Gaelic Sport in Ireland	1996	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
139	Seamus O'Reilly SIGNED	GAA Clare: A proud Past -Highlights of the Newmarket on Fergus Hurling & Football Story 1885-1973; Clare GAA The Club Scene 1887-2010	2010	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
140		GAA Leitrim: Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada Souvenir programme May 1964; Kiltubrid GAA; The Gortletteragh GAA Story 1889-1991; Sceal CLG Liatroma 1984-2009 plus 5 others (9)		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
141	edited by Lorcan O'Rourke and Willie Crowley;	Kildare: Moorefield GAA Newbridge- Our Club, Our Town 1884-2014		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
142	David McCann	Galway: For The Pride of The Parish. a History of Gaelic Games in New Inn and Bullaun compiled	2003	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
143	Michael Moynihan	GAA Cork: Rebels Cork GAA Since 1950	2010	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
144		GAA Tipperary: The Brennans of Borrisokene c1730 to 2010		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
145	edited by Sean Murphy	GAA: A History of Handball in Munster 1884-1984		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
146	compiled by D Campbell, D Dowds and D Mullan	GAA Donegal: Against The Grain-A History of Burt, Its People and The GAA	2000	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
147	Anthony McMullan and Mary McMullan	GAA Antrim: Down The Lane-history of Gaelic Games in the parish of Rasharkin 1909-2013		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
148	Brendan McArdles	GAA Louth: Footbal Feats of Faughart 1884-1997, Roche Emmets GFC		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
149	edited by Tom Cullen	GAA Fermanagh: A Gaelic Graduation-A History of the GAA in Fermanagh		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
150		GAA Kerry:The GAA in Kerry- Centenary Exhibation, Muckross House; Rathmore GAA Club 3 June 1984 Kerry Senior Trial; The Sportsmen of East Kerry and Western Duhallow		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	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.