Purcell Auctioneers: c.600 Lot Auction to include Antiquarian Books incl. Books from the Library of the Late Kenneth Nicholls, Rare - Signed - Limited Editions, Local Histories, Republican Interest, Irish Literature etc., 40826, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 08, 2026 - April 08, 2026

Page Size: 120 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
44		Kilkenny: William Tighe’s Statistical Observations,. Co Kilkenny, 1800-1801.		1998	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
45		Canon William Carrigan – History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory (4 vols, 1905) and the 2005 Index to this work.		1905	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
46		Kilkenny: The Kilkenny City Charter of 1609 by John Bradley, 2009,HB DJ; Kilkenny-An Urban History 1391-1843 by W G Neely, 1989,…		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
47		Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 1874 - 1886. 3 vols - all published.		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
48		The Story of Woodstock in Inistioge [Kilkenny]. Thomas J. Whyte. Capapgh press.		2007	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
49		Kilkenny Archaeological Society- Bound editions		N/A	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Unknown
50	Seoirse O’Dochartaigh.	[dedication from author]. Inis Eoghain. The Island of Eoghan. The Place-names of Inishowen		2011	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
51	Colm O’Baoill.	Contributions to a Comparative Study of Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic		1978	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
52		Bundle of five books of Kilkenny interest: Kilkenny through the Centuries (Bradley and O'Dwyer), Shopping in Kilkenny (O'Dwyer), Treasures of Kilkenny (Brett), and two similar.		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
53		Kilkenny Interest: Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny (Robertson,		1983	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
54		Kerry: Historical Genealogical Architectural Notes on some Houses of Kerry Bary, Valerie	Whitegate, County Clare,	1994	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
55	Judith Cuppage.	Kerry: Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey		1986	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
56		Writers' Week Listowel Winners 2000-2005 (6 issues )		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
57		Kerry: Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society,		earliest 1971	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
58		Ballyfin - The restoration of an Irish House & Demesne (Kevin V. Mulligan,		2011	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
59		Ossory, Laois and Leinster Six Volumes 2004-2015. Padraig O Machain (Editor), Various Contributors		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
60		Laois. History and Society. Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County.	Dublin:	1999	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Unknown
61		Three books on Quakers: History of the Quakers of Limerick		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
62	Robert Herbert.	Worthies of Thomond. lives of most famous Clare and Limerick	Limerick.	1944-46	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
63		Memorial Record of Limerick Casualties of World War II; Memorial Record of Limerick Men and Women in the Great War; …		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
64	Noel Fitzgerald.	Portrait of Limerick	Limerick	Circa 1980	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
65		Pigtown – A History of Limerick’s Bacon Industry by Ruth Guiry four main bacon factories unique history,…		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
66	Pauraic Ua Dubhthaigh.	The Book of Dundalk		1946	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
67		County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal.		earliest 1935	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Unknown
68	Compiled by Harry G. Tempest.	[Cuchulainn] Dun Dealgan Cuchulain's Home Fort. A Short Sketch of Its History [Issued in Aid of Dun Dealgan Purchase Fund].		1910	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown

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.