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
26		Account of Ruins of Queen's County & Kildare' (1899-1902)		(1899-1902)	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
27		Maynooth Monographs 6 -- The Celebrated Antiquary Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c. 1600-1671) His Lineage, Life and Learning		-1996	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
28		Maynooth College: Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to Inquire into the Management and Governmeny of the College of manooth, Part 1 , 1855		1855	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
29	Rev John Healy	Maynooth College: The Visit of Pope John Paul II to Maynooth College, booklet contining A Vigil of Prayer and Adoration and the Celebration of the Eucharist with his Holiness		1895	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
30		St Kiernans College Kilkenny: Manuscript Book		1782-1936	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 650.00
31		Kilkenny: Kilkenny: History and Society (Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county)	Templeogue	1990	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 75.00
32		County Kilkenny Interest: Statistical Observations Relative to the County of Kilkenny, Made in the years 1800 & 1801		1998)	EUR 100.00 - 140.00	EUR 75.00
33		Kilkenny Interest: Saint Kieran's College, Kilkenny by Birch		1951	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
34		Castlecomer Connections, Exploring History Geography and Social Evolution in North Kilkenny Environs, - Tom Lyng	Kilkenny	1984	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 100.00
35	P. M. Egan	The Illustrated Guide to the City & County of Kilkenny		1885	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
36		Hunting in County Kilkenny by Corballis		1998	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 100.00
37	edited by Whelan & Nolan	Kilkenny: History & Society		1990	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
38	edited by Thomas O'Loughlin	Offaly: Offaly Tombstone Inscriptions issue 1/3/4		2001	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
39	Laois (Queen's County) & Offaly (King's County)	1641 Depositions Vol VI		-2020	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 56.25
40		Kerry Interest. Ciarraighe 1941 [history of the county in Gaelic]	Edinburgh	1886	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 100.00
41	Pierce Leslie Pielou	The Leslies Of Tarbert County Kerry And Their Forebears		1935	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 106.25
42		Laois/Offaly Interest: The Landscape of Clonmacnoise	(Feehan)	-2014	EUR 100.00 - 140.00	EUR 68.75
43		The Old Limerick Journal		March, 1980	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
44	Rev. John Fleming	Reflections, historical and Topographical of Ardpatrick, County Limerick		1978	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
45	Gerard Curtin	West Limerick. Crime, Popular Protest and Society 1820-1845		circa 2000	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 125.00
46	Thomas Toomey and Greensmyth	An antique and storied land: history of Parish of Donoughmore, Knockea, Roxborough and environs in County Limerick		1991	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
47	John Archdeacon Begley	Limerick: The Diocese of Limerick, from 1691 to the Present Time		1938	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
48		Limerick Clothing Factory: The Story of LCF 1850-1950		1950	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
49	Mainchin Seoighe	Dromin Athlacca the Story of a Rural Parish in County Limerick		1978	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
50	D. Stewart	Kilmurry Church Limerick	Ballysimon	1955	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.