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
476	Sean P O'Riordain	Irish Interest: Antiquities of the Irish Countryside		1942	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
477	John Bowman, editor	Irish Interest: Ireland -The Autobiography		2016	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
478	Taylor, Jeremy	Eniautos. A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays of the year... With a supplement of ten Sermons preached since his Majesties Restauration...		1668	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
479	Sir Charles Gavan Duffy	Irish Interest: Young Ireland- A Fragment of Irish History 1840-1845 and Young Ireland Part II 1845-1849		18841887	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
480	M O'C Bianconi and S J Watson	Irish Interest: Bianconi -King of the Irish Roads		1962	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
481	Thomas MacDonagh	Irish Interest: Literature in Ireland		1916	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
482	Rev Dr Healy	Irish Interest: The Life and Writings of St Patrick		1905	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
483	James McConnell	A large beautiful Oblong folio dedicated album to Assheton Biddulph and his wife dated 23rd June, 1898 designed and illuminated by James McConnell, 41 Lower Sackville St., Dublin	Dublin	23rd June, 1898	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 937.50
484	Seumas MacManus	Irish History: The Story of the Irish Race		1990	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
485	Henry F Berry	Irish Interest: A History of the Royal Dublin Society		1915	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
486	Donald Harman Akenson	Irish Interest: The Church of Ireland -Ecclesiastical Reform and Revolution 1800-1885		1971	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
487	P W Joyce	Atlas and History of Ireland-a comprehensive description of each county with coloured maps		1867	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 50.00
488	Onomasticon Goedelicum	Locorum et Tribuum Hiberniae	Dublin	1910	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
489		Irish Interest: The Nun of Kenmare -An Autobiography, 1888		1888	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
490		Paul Cullen and His Contemporaries with Their Letters from 1820-1902		1820-1902	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
491	John J O'Meara	Irish Interest: The Voyage of Saint Brendan translated from the Latin		1978	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
492	Nancy E Metzgar	Thesis: The History and Devolpment of the Irish Crosier with Five Examples		1996	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
493	Henry Martin	Stories of Irish life	London	1878	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
494		IMC, S.Pender, A Census of Ireland c1659 with supplementary mterial from the Poll, Money Ordinances (1660-1661)		1939	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
495	Dermot Keogh	Irish Interest: The Vatican, The Bishops and The Irish Politics 1919-39		1986	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
496	Phillips, W. A.	History of the Church of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day		1933-1934	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
497		Maynooth Bindings]. De Synodo Diocesana		1823	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 250.00
498		Report on Salmon Fisheries (Ireland)		1885	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
499	Archbishop Patrick F. Moran	Historical Sketch of the Persecution in Ireland Suffered by the Catholics under Cromwell and the Puritans		1907	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
500	M.F. Cusack	Women's Work in Modern Society	Kenmare	1874	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 118.75

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.