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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
326

Writer Stan Lee, Artist Jack Kirby. 3rd Cameo Appearance of Him & Origin, later known as Adam Warlock

1989 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
327

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 FCBD Edition 2009 25th Anniversary edition

2009 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
328 Jack B. Yeats

The Treasure of The Garden

1902 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
329 Paddy Brennan, editor

The Golden Era of Irish showbands

[1994] EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
330

Album of Irish Interest Autographs - Dr. Patrick J Hillery (with C.V.), Garret Fitzgerald, Jack Lynch, Liam Cosgrove, John Bruton, Micheal MacLiammoir and Brian Keenan

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
331

16 page brochure re Sale of Cregg House, Carrick-On-Suir County Tipperary, including 540 acres and Demesne in various lots on the 7th December 1920 and the following day

7th December 1920 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
332

Horses Are My Life, The Story of Ned Cash, King of the Horse Dealers by Des Maguire. Agri Books

1985 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Unknown
333

Griffith's Valuations: Clare, Union of Ballyvaghan and the Union of Corrofin, both 1855

1855 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
334

Griffith's Valuations: Kilkenny, City of Kilkenny and the barony of crannagh, both 1850

1850 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
335

1825: First and Second Report on the State of Ireland: Appointed to inquire into circumstances that led to Disturbances

23rd February-11th March 1825 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
336 Terence Philip Flanagan

S.B. Kennedy (foreword by Seamus Heaney)

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
337

(50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising) Ireland of the Welcomes Volume 16 Number 1 March-April 1966 -- Michael Gorman

Dublin 1966 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
338 Thomas Cook, after Paul Sandby

Old Castle and John's Bridge at Limerick

July 2nd, 1780 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
339

S. Rosamund Praeger. The Old Irish Rimes of Brian O'Linn

1901 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
340

S. Rosamund Praeger. The Tale of the Little Twin Dragons

1900 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Unknown
341 Sean P. O Riordain

ANTIQUITIES OF THE IRISH COUNTRYSIDE

1942 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
342

Horticulture and Bee-Keeping

Dublin circa 1952 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
343 (James Joyce)

James Joyce on "James Clarence Mangan. 1902. St. Stephen's Anthology: Poetry and Short Stories

[Dublin] 1965 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
344

The Shannon Scheme and the Teaching of Science

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
345

Industry and Self-Culture: Lecture delivered by His Eminence Most Rev Patrick P Moran-Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, in the reading rooms of the Kilkenny Catholic Young Men's Society, 1885

1885 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
346

Four Felons in Chinese Communist Jails. John Casey, Parick Ronan, Owen O'Kane, Patrick Reilly, Columban Missionaries

1958 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
347

O'Malleys, Minors. Thomas O'Hagan, Esq. Q. C. on Behalf of William O'Malley, in Court of Chancery, November, 1858, in Matter of the O'Malleys, Minors...

November, 1858 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
348 H. Neville Roberts

Early Three Candles Press. Gauntlet being a series of open letters challenging certain eminent persons to mortal combat with realities

1934 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
349

Manual of Bugle Calls and Salutes 1956

Dublin 1974 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
350 Philip Dixon Hardy, M.R.I.A

The Holy Wells of Ireland an Account of Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Still Annually Visited by the Roman Catholic Peasantry with a Minute Description of Patterns and Stations

Dublin 1836 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    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
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    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
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    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