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
151	Seamas O'Beara	GAA Wexford\|: St Anne's GAA Club-History of Rathengan Gaelic Games		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
152	Donal A Murphy/PJ Maxwell/Nancy Murphy	GAA Tipperary: A Central Culture Gaelic Sport in Nenagh Vol 1-3	2014-2021	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
153		Munster Hurling Championship 28th July 1940. Team Sheet from programme and images of both teams	1940	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
154		All-Ireland Hurling Final 1963, GAA Programme. Kilkenny V Waterford, 8vo	1963	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Unknown
155		GAA: Leinster Senior Football Semi Final 1957, Wicklow V Dublin. Played at St Conleths Park, Newbridge	1957	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
156		All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final 1952. Cork V Galway.	1952	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Unknown
157		GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1951 Cork V Tipperary Match Programme.	1951	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
158		GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1952 Cork V Tipperary Match Programme.	1952	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
159		GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1954 Cork V Tipperary Match Programme.	1954	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
160		GAA: All Ireland Hurling Final 1969 Kilkenny V Cork.Match Programme	1969	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
161		GAA: All Ireland Hurling Final 1970 Cork V Wexford. Also Meath V Offaly Leinster Football Final July 1970 (2)	1970	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
162		GAA: All Ireland Football Final 1969 Match Programme, Cork V Derry; Kerry v Offaly	1969	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
163		All-Ireland Football Final 1964, GAA Programme. Kerry V Galway	1964	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
164		GAA: All Ireland Hurling Final Match Programme 1953, Cork V Galway	1953	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
165		GAA: All Ireland Hurling Final Match Programme 1959, Kilkenny V Waterford with match ticket for corner stand	1959	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
166		GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1965, Match programme, Cork V Tipperary	1965	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
167		GAA: All Ireland Football Final 1953, Armagh V Kerry, Match Programme	1953	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Unknown
168		GAA: All Ireland Football Final 1970, Match Programme Kerry V Meath	1970	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
169		GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1953 Cork V Tipperary Match Programme.	1953	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
170		GAA: Munster Hurling Championshio Semi Final 1955, Match Programme, Clare V Tipperary	1955	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Unknown
171		Birr Hurling Club. Concert programme held 26th November 1955 in the Marian Hall. Condition poor	1955	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
172		Club Hurling Programmes: Tipperary Senior Hurling Final	1959	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
173		GAA: Inter Co Club Senior Hurling Tournament and Massed Band Parade May 1959. Glen Rover-Cork County Champs V Sarsfield- Tipperary County Champs. Match programme		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
174		National Hurling League Quarter-Final at Semple Stadium, Clare V Kilkenny, March 1985; Limerick V Kilkenny c1974		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
175	Bill O'Brien,	Kilcommon My Home - Mountainy People At Play - Hurling, Football, Athletics, Handball, Music, Song & Dance.		EUR 80.00 - 160.00	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.