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
69		The Irish of Achill by G. Stockman. A miscellaneous collection of linguistic material from the parish of Achill with a phonetic description of the dialect.	Belfast.	N/A	EUR 80.00 - 140.00	Unknown
70	Hubert Thomas Knox.	Mayo: The History of County Mayo, to the close of the Sixteenth century		1982	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
71		The County of Mayo Map		undated circa 1830	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
72	John Healy	History of the Diocese of Meath'		1908	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
73	by William Wilde.	The Beauties of the Boyne and the Blackwater		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
74		Ardagh & Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society Journal		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
75	Brendan Ryan.	A Land by the River of God. History of Ferbane.		1994	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
76		Offaly interest - four books: Printing and Bookselling in Offaly in the Nineteenth Century	Byrne,	20	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
77	John Feehan and Alison Rosse,	An Atlas of Birr, An Atlas of Birr		2022	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
78	Fiona Gallagher	The Streets of Sligo: Urban Evolution Over the Course of Seven Centuries -	Sligo	2008	EUR 140.00 - 180.00	Unknown
79	edited by Brid McGrath	Tipperary: The Minute Book of The Corporation of Clonmel 1608-1649		2006	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
80	edited By James Maher.	Romantic Slievenamon in History, Folklore and Song a Tipperary Anthology		1955	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
81	by Denis Marnane.	Land and Settlement. A History of West Tipperary to 1660		2003	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	Unknown
82		Irish Historic Towns Atlas series - 6 issues: Limerick, Tuam, Fethard, Dundalk, Armagh, Galway.		N/A	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
83		Tipperary: Siege of Clonmel Commemoration Tercentenary Souvenir Record- 1650- 1950.		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
84		Waterford: The History, Topography And Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford	London	1824	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
85	Patrick Power,	Waterford Interest. Waterford and Lismore – A Compendious History of the United Dioceses		1937	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Unknown
86	by Butler.	A Parish and its People. Carrig-on-Bannow		1980	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
87		The Liam Price Notebooks - The placenames, antiquities and topography of County Wicklow 2 vols		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
87A		A Guide to the County of Wicklow with a large map of the county and twenty one wood engravings by James Fraser.		1851	EUR 80.00 - 140.00	Unknown
88		This is Donegal Tweed. Inver, Donegal. 1987; Derry thru the Lens by Carson.		1976	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
89		Knocknagow or the Homes of Tipperary (Charles J. Kickham, 2nd edition) and The Valley Near Slievenamon – A Kickham Anthology (James Maher editor, 1941).		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
90	by Millin. Baird.	Sidelights on Belfast History		1932	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
91		Browne and Nolan publishers, Nassau Street, Dublin, Ledger.		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
92		Genealogy: O'Conor Don (Rt. Hon. C.O.) The O'Connors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir, 4to	Dublin	1891	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	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.