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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | Notes of a Journey in the North of Ireland, in the summer of 1827 : to which is added, a brief account of the siege of Londonderry, in 1689 |
1828 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 175.00 | ||
| 201 | John Morly | Oliver Cromwell |
1901 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 137.50 | |
| 202 | Thomas Wright | The History of Ireland from the earliest period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time |
ND (1853) | GBP 120.00 - 240.00 | GBP 200.00 | |
| 203 | Wright G. N. | Scenes in Ireland with Historical Illustrations, Legends, and Biographical Notices |
London; Dublin | 1834 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 106.25 |
| 204 | Kiberd; Foster; Larkin | 5 Books, including: Inventing Ireland the literature of Modern Ireland |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 205 | Michael J F McCarthy; Eoin Mac Neill | 5 Books, including: Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin established for the investigation and revival of Ancient Irish Literature , Vol 1 |
Dublin | 1808; 1901; 1921 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 206 | John McGahern; Neil Kevin; Moirin Cheavasa | 11 Books, including: The Leavetaking |
1976; 1944; 1940 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 207 | Robert Parker | Memoirs of the Most Remarkable Military Transactions from the Year 1683, to 1718. Containing a More Particular Account, ... of the Several Battles, ... and Flanders, ...Published by His Son. |
1747 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 200.00 | |
| 208 | Katharine Tynan; W M Letts; Harold Speakman | 8 Books, including: Peeps At Many Lands Ireland |
1927; 1947; 1925 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 209 | Poor Law Commissioner's Report 1847 |
1847 | GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | GBP 2,750.00 | ||
| 210 | Isabel Grubb; Spenser; Davies; Moryson; Morley; Hull; De Blacam | 6 Books, including: My Irish Journal 1669-1670 |
1952; 1890; 1905; 1903; 1938; 1881 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 211 | T. F. O’Sullivan; Hayden; Noonan; A. M. Sullivan; Montgomery Hitchcock | 4 Books, including: The Young Irelanders |
Tralee | 1945; 1921; 1909; c. 1890 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 |
| 212 | T S Eliot; Charles Villiers Stanford; Ceil Forsyth; Denis Johnston; Mary Lavin; Thomas Bodkin | 8 Books, including: Murder in the Cathedral |
1935; 1950; 1935; 1971; 1920 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 213 | J W Seigne; W P O'Brien; Sir James Perrott; George Sigerson | 7 Books, including: Irish Bogs- Sport and Country Life in the Irish Free State |
1928; 1896; 1933; 1897 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 137.50 | |
| 214 | Cecil Woodham-Smith; Robert Kee | 9 Books, including: The Gresat Hunger |
1962; 1980 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 215 | T. O. Russell; Paul-Dubois; Dunlop; Lockington; de Blacam | 5 Books, including: Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland, beautiful scenery and an archaeologists’ manual |
London; Cambridge | 1897; 1908; 1905; 1905; 1935 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 216 | Colin Williams; Martin Bourke | 4 Books, including: Limerick Grand Prix. The Limerick "Round the Houses" Races of 1935, 1936 & 1938 |
2011 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 217 | The Catholic Bulletin |
1916; 1937 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 50.00 | ||
| 218 | Richard Stanyhurst; Liam Miller | Holingshed’s Irish Chronicle of 1579 |
1979 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 275.00 | |
| 219 | Tim Healy | Stolen Waters - A Page in the Conquest of Ulster |
1913 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 220 | W. Steuart Trench | Realities of Irish Life |
1866 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 221 | William McGrath; T S F Battersby; John J O'Meara; John William Carleton | N Books, including: The Law of Parliamentary Elections in Ireland |
1918; 1892; 1890; 1856; 1930; 1923 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 81.25 | |
| 222 | Post Office Guide- Eolai an Phoist-1950 |
1950; 1960; 955 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 43.75 | ||
| 223 | W A Maguire; Desmond Bowen; Micheal O Siochru; Aidan Clarke | N Books, including: Kings in Conflict- The Revolutionary War in Ireland 1689-1750 |
1990; 1970; 1999; 1966 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 68.75 | |
| 224 | Horace Reynolds | A Providence Episode in the Irish Literary Renaissance |
Providence | 1929 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 |
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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