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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Geoffrey Green | THE HISTORY OF THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION |
London, United Kingdom | 1953 | GBP 100.00 - 140.00 | GBP 68.75 |
| 101 | Art O Maolfabhail; Joe Lennon; Con Houlihan | N Books, including: Caman – 2000 Years of Hurling in Ireland |
1973; 1997; 2003 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 81.25 | |
| 102 | Tom McElligot | Handball: The Game, The Players, The History |
1984 | GBP 80.00 - 160.00 | Not Sold | |
| 103 | Jim Fogarty; Ralph Riegel; Tom Williams | N Books, including: The Dan Breen Cup |
2012; 2008; 2006 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 56.25 | |
| 104 | Marcus de Burca; Padraig Puirseal; Martin Breheny | N Books, including: The Story of the GAA to 1990 |
1990; 1984; 2007 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 105 | Meda Ryan; Joyce Marlow; Lord Longford | N Books, including: Tom Barry- IRA Freedom Fighter |
2003; 1975; 1972 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 43.75 | |
| 106 | John Mathews | N Books, including: Drogheda Board of Guardians Election pamphlet |
1925 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | GBP 475.00 | |
| 107 | Micheline Kerney Walsh; F S L Lyons; John P Predergast | N Books, including: Destruction By Peace- Hugh O'Neill after Kinsale |
1986; 1977; 1960; 1996 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 108 | Tom Barry; Joe Tiernan | N Books, including: The Capuchin Annual 1966 |
1966; 1963; 1971; 2004 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 50.00 | |
| 109 | John Mitchell; Terence MacSweeney | N Books, including: Jail Journal |
1913; 1921 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 110 | Alice L Milligan | The Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone |
Belfast | 1898 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 68.75 |
| 111 | Arthur Edward Mainwaring | Crown and Company: the historical records of the 2nd Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, formerly the 1st Bombay European Regiment |
London | 1911 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 112 | Mark Ryan; Lord Ernest Hamilton | Fenian Memories |
1946; 1920 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 113 | Thomas MacDonagh | Literature in Ireland |
1919; c. 1925 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 114 | W.J. Brennan-Whitmore; Charles Dalton | With The Irish in Frongoch |
1917; 1929 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 93.75 | |
| 115 | Thomas Kabdebo | The Hungarian-Irish "Parallel" and Arthur Griffith's use of his sources |
Maynooth, St Patrick's College | 1988 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 |
| 116 | O’Malley & Dolan; Peter Hart; Sinead McCoole | N Books, including: The Civil War Papers of Ernie O’Malley |
2007; 2005; 2003 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 117 | Brian O'Higgins | Wolfe Tone annuals |
1945; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1957 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 118 | Arthur Griffith; Terence McSwiney | The Resurrection of Hungary- A Parallel for Ireland |
1918; 1921 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 50.00 | |
| 119 | In the Prison of His Days for Nelson Mandela |
Dublin | 1990 | GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 250.00 | |
| 120 | Faul & Murray; Murray; McEvoy | 4 Books, including: The Hooded Men – British Torture in Ireland, August – October, 1971 |
2015; 1990; 2001; 1998 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 68.75 | |
| 121 | Eamon De Valera | Ireland’s Stand being a selection of the Speeches of Eamon De Valera during the war [1939-1945] |
Dublin | 1946 | GBP 80.00 - 140.00 | GBP 187.50 |
| 122 | Mac Eoin; Augusteijn; McAuliffe & O’Shea | The IRA in the Twilight Years; From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare; Kerry 1916 – Historical Legacies of the Easter Rising |
1997; 1996; 2016 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 123 | Eamonn Mccann; Anthony Coughlan; Frank Aiken | 20 Books, including: The British Press |
1970; 1971; 1957 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 124 | Coogan; Darrell Figgis; P. S. O’Hegarty; Louis Walsh | 5 Books, including: Official Report on Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland |
1921; 1918; 1914; 1921 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
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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. -
Forum Auctions
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