Purcell Auctioneers: c.600 Lot Auction to include Antiquarian Books, Irish Histories, Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions, County & Parsh Histories, Fine Bindings, Republican Interest, Classic Marvel Comics etc., 21826, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 18, 2026 - February 18, 2026
Page Size: 584 items in 24 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Joseph Power

A History of Clare Castle and Its Environs

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Unknown
2 T. Clare

The History and Topography of The County of Clare from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the 18th Century

circa 1910 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
3 Michael Brennan

The War in Clare 1911-1921

1917 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
4

Archaeological Inventory of County Cork

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
5 F H Tuckey

Cork: The County and City of Cork Remembrancer

1837 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Unknown
6 Francis H. Tuckey

The County and City of Cork Remembrancer

1998 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
7 Townsend Rev Horatio

Statistical Survey of the County of Cork

Dublin 1810 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
8

Guy's Cork Almanac and Directory 1925

1925 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
9 Sean Pettit

The Streets of Cork

1982 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
10

Gobnait Naomhtha Bhaile Mhuirne. St. Gobnait of Ballyvourney. Michael J. O'Kelly & Francoise Henry

1952 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Unknown
11 Sean Sheehan

Cork: Jack's World-Farming on the Sheep's Head Peninsula 1920-2003

2007 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
12 Ronan O'Rahilly

Cork: A History of the Cork Medical Schoo,1849-1949

1949 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
13

Dublin -- 1641 Depositions Vol IV

-2017 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
14 Christiaan Corlett

Dublin: Antiquities of Old Rathdown

1999 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
15

Dublin University Football Club 1854-1954, the rugby union club of Trinity College Dublin

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
16 V S Pritchett

Dublin Interest: Dublin A Portrait

1967 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
17

Dublin: Dublin Castle Exhumed : a Unionist regime and a coercion policy

July, 1916 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
18 Douglas Bennett

Dublin: The Encyclopaedia of Dublin

2005 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
19 W E Vaughan, editor

Trinity College Dublin: The Old Library-Trinity College 1712-2012

2013 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
20 E R McC Dix

Dublin: Irish Bibliography

1910 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
21 edited by Conleth Manning

Dublin: Dublin and Beyond the Pale- Studies in honour of Patrick Healy

1998 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
22 J Fahey

The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Kilmacduagh

1986 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
23 Kathleen Villers-Tuthill

Galway: History of Clifden 1810-1860

1938 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
24 Hardiman, James

The History of the Town & County of Galway from the earliest period to the present time, Embellished with several engravings (many folding)

Galway 1975 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
25 Ethel Mannin

Connemara Journal

1947 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 Unknown
  • Forum Auctions
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    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000
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    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
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    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.