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
101		Kildare & Meath -- 1641 Depositions Vol V		-2019	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 56.25
102		Mayo and Galway: The History of the County of Mayo		(1908, facsimile reprint -- 2001)	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	EUR 125.00
103		A Record of Flora in Three Irish Counties: Flora of County Limerick		-2013	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 93.75
104	L.M. McCraith	The Suir from its source to the sea		1912	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
105		Clare Interest: The Origin and History of the O'Brien Clan		2001	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
106	J. O'Callaghan	The O'Callaghan family. History		1995	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 87.50
107		The Diocese of Killaloe -- complete in 3 vols		-1992	EUR 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
108	Ignatius Murphy	The Diocese Of Killaloe		1962	EUR 120.00 - 200.00	EUR 62.50
109		The Naomh Mhuire Story: 1946-1994 - Richard Gerrard and Patsy Faulkner	Drogheda	2004	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
110	edited by Sean Murphy	GAA: A History of Handball in Munster 1884-1984		N/A	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 112.50
111		Padraig Harrington -- Journey to the open		2007	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
112	Macken	Eddie Keher's hurling Life		1885-2020	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
113		GAA Interest) Marcus de Burca -- THE GAA		1980	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
114	Seamus O'Ceallaigh and Sean Murphy	Mick Mackey. The Mackey Story		1982	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 112.50
115	Tom Ahearne	Ahearne Brothers Athea. Olympic and World Champions		2008	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
116	Harry Greensmyth	John Flanagan. His Life and Times		2001	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
117		Michael Collins Biography: Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland		-1926	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
118		Northern 'Troubles': Lost Lives -- The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles		(2000 -- reprint of 1999)	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 200.00
119		War of Independence: The War of Independence in Limerick 1912-1921		-2010	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
120	Pierre-Leon Rivard	Revolutionary Ireland - Story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood'		-1976	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
121		Frank O'Connor. Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution		1966	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 118.75
122	G F H Berkeley	The Irish Ballalion in the Papal Army of 1860		1929	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00
123		Eleven Galway martyrs: the story of the republican soldiers of the Second Western Division, I.R.A., executed at Tuam and Athlone in 1923		1985	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
124	Michael Flannery	Accepting the Challenge		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
125	Timothy Donovan	In the Shadow of Shanid. Life of Captain Timothy Madigan		2009	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 137.50

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.