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
526	Elizabeth Malcolm	The Irish Policeman, 1822-1922: A Life		2006	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
527	[dedication from the author, Francoise Henry]	Irish Art in the Early Christian Period to AD 800		1534-1641	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
528	James Fraser	Guide through Ireland: scenery, towns, seats, antiquities, etc. statistical tables ; its mineral structure, and botany		1838	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 175.00
529	Estyn Evans	Ireland in the Medieval World 400-1000		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
530	J. H. Andrews	Shapes of Ireland. Maps and their Makers 1564-1939		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 225.00
531	Samuel Trant McCarthy	The MacCarthys of Munster - The Story of a Great Irish Sept		1997	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 106.25
532	Jeremiah Newman	Irish Interest: Maynooth and Georgian Ireland		1979	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
533	Norah McGuinness	A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy illustrated		1926	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
534	T. D. Sullivan	Blanaid: and other Irish historical and legendary poems from the Gaelic	Dublin	1891	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
535	Francis Grose	[266 original 18th century plates of Irish interest]. The Antiquities of Ireland	London	1791	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 225.00
536	Robert Herbert	Limerick Printers and Printing		[1941]	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
537		The Post Chaise Companion: Or, Traveller's Directory through Ireland		1786	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 325.00
538		Butcher's Dozen by Kinsella and Essau my kingdom by Liddy both Dolmen Press; Munster Song of Love and War by Liddy		1962	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
539		The Dawn. A Community Chronicle of Bruff, Grange and Meanus		1974-2000	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
540	Turpin	John Hogan Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome		1982	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
541	Editor John Bradley	[famous publishers Boethius Press of Kilkenny]. Settlement and Society in Medieval Ireland. Studies presented to F. X. Martin	Kilkenny	1988	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
542	(HB)	Saorstat Eireann Official Handbook		1932	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 106.25
543		19th Century Diary: Manuscript Diary		1868	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
544	Richard Baxter	The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints...		1654	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
545	O Connor Dermod	The General History of Ireland Collected by the Learned Geoffrey Keating D. D. Translated by Dermot O Connor		1841	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 187.50
546	O.J. Bergin, R.I. Best, Kuno Meyer, J.G. O'Keeffe, editors	Anecdota from Irish Manuscripts	Halle	1907	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 62.50
547	Henry D Inglis	A Journey Throughout Ireland during the Spring, Summer and Autumn of 1834		1838	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
548	Kohl, J. G.	Travels in Ireland, 1844		1844	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 375.00
549	John O Donovan	Leabhar na gCeart, the Book of Rights		1847	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 50.00
550	Robert Dunlop	Ireland under the Commonwealth		1913	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold

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.