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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 454 | Seaoamh MacCathmhaoil; Ada M Wentworth Shields | Seaoamh MacCathmhaoil: The Gilly of Christ; The Man-Child; The Mountainy Singer |
1907; 1907; 1909 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 81.25 | |
| 455 | Liam Miller; Maurice Harmon | Dolmen XXV; The Dolmen Press: A Celebration |
2001 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 43.75 | |
| 456 | Padraig Colum; Father Matthew Russell; MacManus; Denis McCarthy; Mackay; Richard Rowley; John Ingram | Poems; A Soggarth's Last Verses; Ballads of a Country Boy; Voices from Erin; Under Green Leaves; The Other Gods; Sonnets and Other Poems |
1932; 1911; 1905; 1910; 1857; 1925; 1900 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 457 | Thomas MacDonagh | The Poetical Works of Thomas MacDonagh |
Baile Atha Cliath [Dublin] | 1919 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 50.00 |
| 458 | Conleth Ellis; Desmond Egan; Paul Hoare; Edwin McCloughan; Brendan Kennelly | Poetry: Tain; Siege!; Combo; Music; Poetry My Arse |
1983; 1976; 2000 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 68.75 | |
| 459 | John Keegan; J. Canon O'hanlon; D. J. O’Donoghue | Legends and Poems by John Keegan |
Middle Abbey Street, Dublin | 1907 | GBP 300.00 - 360.00 | GBP 375.00 |
| 460 | Joseph Mary Plunkett; Patrick MacGill; James Stephens; Colum; Mervyn Wall; Anthony Allen | The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett; Songs of the Dead End; The Adventures of Seumas Beg; Wild Earth; Leaves for the Burning; First Songs |
1916; 1916; 1915; 1916; 1952; 1918 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 43.75 | |
| 461 | Rev. Matthew Russell | Idyls of Killowen |
1900 | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 100.00 | |
| 462 | J. M. Synge; Harry Clarke; Nicola Gordon Bowe | Queens |
Dublin | 1986 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 37.50 |
| 463 | Francis Ledwidge | The Collected Poems of Francis Ledwidge |
London, United Kingdom | 1919 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 |
| 464 | Joseph Mary Plunkett; H. Neville Roberts; Peter Fallon; Maurice Wilkins | The Circle and the Sword; sonnets sombre but serene; A Garland for Robert McGlynn; The Seeker |
1911; 1963; 1984; 1960 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 300.00 | |
| 465 | Richard Kelly; McDonald; Sadlier; Griffin; Rev. Thomas Burke | Popular and Patriotic Poetry; Poems of Ossian; Some Ethical Questions of Peace and War with reference to Ireland; The Hermit of the Rock a Tale of Cashel; The Munster Festivals; Lectures on faith and Fatherland |
London | 1914-19; 1866; 1919; c. 1880; 1857; c. 1880 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 466 | J. M. Synge; Harry Clarke | J. M. Synge. Queens |
1986 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 467 | Gerald Griffin | The Collegians; The Rivals, Poems and Plays, Card drawing, the Alymers |
Dublin | N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 68.75 |
| 468 | John Boyle O'Reilly | The Poetry and Song of Ireland |
New York | 1889; 1887 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 225.00 |
| 469 | James Duffy; James Clarence Mangan; M J Brown; Maigread Ni Annagain; Seamus De Clanndioluin | The Poets and Poetry of Munster; Historical Ballad Poetry of Ireland; Londub an Cairn Being Songs of the Iriah Gaels |
1925; 1912 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 93.75 | |
| 470 | Agnes O’Farrelly; Thomas Crofton Croker; E.Estyn Evans; Haldane MacFall | Leabhar an Athar Eoghan, The O'Growney memorial Volume; Popular Songs of Ireland; Waltons Treasury of Irish Ballads; Irish Folk Ways; Ireland and her Fairy Godmother; Songs of the Immortals |
Dublin | 1904; 1885; c. 1950; 1979; 1909; 1927 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 68.75 |
| 471 | Bernard Duffy; The Earl of Longford; Anthony Cronin; Richard Henebry | Four Comedies; More Poems From The Irish; Dead as Doornails- A Memoir; A Handbook of Irish Music |
1916; 1945; 1976; 1928 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 68.75 | |
| 473 | Guillaume Apollinaire; Samuel Beckett; Liam Miller | ZONE; Dolmen XXV, an illustrated Bibliography of The Dolmen Press 1951 – 1976 |
1972; 1976 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 50.00 | |
| 474 | Arthur Conan Doyle; George Hutchinson | A Study in Scarlet |
London | 1892 | GBP 260.00 - 320.00 | Not Sold |
| 475 | Flannery O'Connor | Wise Blood |
London | 1955 | GBP 200.00 - 240.00 | GBP 175.00 |
| 476 | Bernard Harris; Grattan Freyer; Douglas Hyde; Breandan Breathnach; Fred Woods; Dr. John Cullinane | The Achievement of Sean O Riada; Religious Songs of Connacht; Folklore and Dances of Ireland; Folk Revival, the rediscovery of a national music; Aspects of the history of Irish Dancing in North America; Pipes and Piping; Early Gaelic Erin; Ballads of Iris |
1981; 1971; 1979; 1997 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 43.75 | |
| 477 | S. Rosamund Praeger | The Child's Picture Grammar |
1900 | GBP 120.00 - 150.00 | GBP 125.00 | |
| 478 | S. Rosamund Praeger | The Adventures of the Three Bold Babes |
London | 1897 | GBP 120.00 - 150.00 | GBP 162.50 |
| 479 | Roddy Doyle | THE SNAPPER |
1990 | GBP 70.00 - 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