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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 402 | Robert Lloyd Praeger | The Way That I Went |
1937 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 403 | Patrick Kavanagh; Peter Kavanagh | By Night Unstarred. An Autobiographical Novel; The Green Fool |
1977; 1973 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 404 | Eilis Dillon; Anthony Cronin | Across the Bitter Sea : a novel; The Life of Riley |
1973; 1964 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 405 | Hugh Leonard; Anne Enright | N Books, including: Home Before Night |
1979; 1989; 1992; 2002; 2007 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 406 | Pat Mullen | Irish Tales |
London, United Kingdom | 1938 | GBP 100.00 - 140.00 | GBP 175.00 |
| 407 | Lord Dunsany; William Rothenstein; Hugh Findlay | A Night at the Inn; The Year; Twenty-Four Portraits; Isle of Destiny |
1920; 1946; 1920; 1941 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 50.00 | |
| 408 | John O’Donohue | Anam Cara |
1997 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 409 | William Trevor; Jamie O'Neill | Night at the Alexandra; Disturbance- A Novel |
1987; 1989 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 410 | George Moore; S K Hutton | Confessions of a Young Man; Celibate Lives; By Eskimo Dog-Sled and Kayak |
1933; 1927; 1919 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 411 | Roddy Doyle; Ciaran Carson | The Van; The Star Factory |
1991; 1997 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 412 | James Plunkett; Jamie O'Neill; John Peck | Strumpet City; At Swim, Two Boys; Dublin from Downing St. |
1969; 2001; 1978 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 413 | Paul Durcan | A School Geometry Parts I-IV; French Grammer; The Ideal Temperance Reciter |
1955 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 414 | Claire Keegan; Frederic Mullally | Walk The Blue Fields; The Silver Salver-The Story of the Guinness Family |
2007; 1981 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 415 | Flavius Josephus; William Whiston; Mrs L T Meade; J H Mortimer; John Forbes; William S Braithwaite | The Works of Flavius Josephus; A Sister of the Red Cross- A Tale of the South African War; Confessions of a Book agent or Twenty years by Statge and Rail; Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest; The Book of Elizabethan Verse |
1844; 1906; 1829; 1908 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 416 | Jacob Poole; William Barnes | A Glossary With Some Pieces Of Verse Of The Old Dialect Of The English Colony In The Forth And Bargy County Of Wexford Ireland Formerly Collected By Jacob Poole |
London | 1867 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 350.00 |
| 417 | T Ryle Dwyer; John Horgan; Alex Findlater | Short Fellow-a biography of Charles J Haughey; Sean Lemass- The Enigmatic Patriot; Findlater- The Story of a Dublin Merchant Family 1774-2001 |
1999; 1997; 2001 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 418 | Peter Stanford; T Ryle Dwyer; Kazuo Ishiguro | Lord Longford- an authorised life; Nice Fellow-a biography of Jack Lynch; The Remains of the Day; The Unconsoled |
1994; 2001; 1989; 1995 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 419 | Lady Gregory; Lennox Robinson | Lady Gregory's Journal |
1946 | GBP 80.00 - 160.00 | GBP 225.00 | |
| 420 | Brendan Kennelly | The Florentines |
1967 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.00 | |
| 421 | Evelyn Waugh; Graham Greene | Officers and Gentlemen; The Honorary Consul; A Burnt Out Case |
1955; 1973; 1961 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 56.25 | |
| 422 | Maxine Jones; Robert Munter | Successful Irish Business Women; A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775 |
1992; 1988 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 423 | Brian Moore; Mary O'Rouke | Lies of Silence; Letters of my Life |
1990; 2016 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 424 | W.B. Yeats | Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil |
New York | 1927 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 |
| 425 | W B Yeats | The Wild Swans at Coole |
London | 1919 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 412.50 |
| 426 | William Butler Yeats | Selected Poems |
New York | N/A | GBP 250.00 - 300.00 | GBP 312.50 |
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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
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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
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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 -
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