Purcell Auctioneers: Book Auction of c. 580 Lots to include Antiquarian Books incl. Books from Three Private Libraries, Rare - Signed - Limited Editions, Local Histories, Republican Interest Books, GAA etc, 51326, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 225 | Edmund Hogan | The Description of Ireland in 1598 |
1878 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 200.00 | |
| 226 | R R Madden | Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1824, 1825, 1826 and 1827 |
London | 1829 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 225.00 |
| 227 | A. E. (George William Russell); Count Cavour | Some Irish Essays; Thoughts on Ireland: Its present and its future |
London | 1906; 1868 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 228 | John Dunton; Edward MacLysaght | Teague land, or A merry ramble to the wild Irish: letters from Ireland, 1698 |
Blackrock, Dublin | 1982 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 175.00 |
| 229 | John Mitchel | The History Of Ireland, From The Treaty Of Limerick To The Present Time: Being A Continuation Of The History Of The Abbe MacGeoghegan |
Glasgow; London | 1869 | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 37.50 |
| 230 | J M Callwell; Lord Dunsany; J B Hall; Sir Thos H Grattan Esmonde; William Harvey | N Books, including: Old Irish Life |
Dublin | 1912; 1950 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 150.00 |
| 231 | Baratariana A Select Collection of Fugitive Polotical Pieces |
Dublin | 1777 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 93.75 | |
| 232 | Douglas Hyde; Chamberlain; Spenser, Davies, Moryson; O’Neill Daunt | N Books, including: Legends of Saints and Sinners |
Dublin | c. 1920; 1932; 1890; 1867 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 |
| 233 | Watsons Treble Almanac |
1796 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 250.00 | ||
| 234 | The Capuchin Annual |
1961; 1962; 1965; 1966; 1968; 1973; 1975 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 62.50 | ||
| 235 | Peter Somerville-Large; Harry Percival; Donal MacCarron | N Books, including: Irish Eccentrics |
1975; 1969; 2008 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 236 | Evidence taken in the sessions of 1824 and 1825, to inquire into the State of Ireland |
1825 | GBP 60.00 - 90.00 | GBP 150.00 | ||
| 237 | Thomas Lacy | Sights and Scenes of Our Fatherland |
London | 1863 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 300.00 |
| 238 | Thomas Wood | An Inquiry concerning the Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland corrected by the aid of Bardic History |
London | 1821 | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 100.00 |
| 239 | George Nicholls | Poor Laws Ireland |
London | 1838 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 100.00 |
| 240 | William Molyneux; John Edward Walsh; T G F Paterson | The Case of Ireland Stated; Ireland One Hundred and Twenty Years Ago; Country Cracks- Old Tales From The County of Armagh |
1897; 1911; 1943 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 241 | Tim Pat Coogan; Anne O'Dowd; Brian Walker; Art O Broin; Sean McMahon | De Valera- Long Fellow, Long Shadow; Spalpeens and Tattie Hookers; Faces of Ireland-1875-1925 |
1993; 1991; 1980 | GBP 50.00 - 81.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 242 | G M Goulding; Teddy Fennelly; John Coolahan; Patrick F O'Donovan | George Gavan Duffy 1882-1951; Fitz and the Famous Flight; A History of Ireland's School Inspectorate 1831-2008 |
1982; 1997; 2009 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 243 | Ignatius Murphy; Patricia Jalland; Terence O' Neill | The Diocese of Killaloe in the Eighteenth Century; The Liberals and Ireland; The Autobiography of Terence O' Neill |
1991; 1980; 1972 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 244 | John Banville; Maurice Healy; Benedict Kiely | Mefisto; The Old Munster Circuit; All the Way to Bantry Bay |
1986; 1948; 1978 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 245 | Patrick McCabe | CARN |
London | 1989 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 106.25 |
| 246 | George Pellew; Rev. William Burke | In Castle and Cabin or Talks in Ireland in 1887; Irish Priests in Penal Times 1660-1760 |
Waterford | 1888; 1914 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 50.00 |
| 247 | W.G. Wood-Martin | Pagan Ireland- An Archaeological Sketch |
1895 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.00 | |
| 248 | Desmond Guinness | The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Ireland |
1909; 1969 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 81.25 | |
| 249 | Desmond Guinness | The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Ireland |
1910; 1969 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 75.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000